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me olymplan came at 81. Louis.

Six years ago the Olympian
games were restored as an inter-
national event. The first celebration
was held at Athens, and four years
later the second, at Paris. The place
selected for the next celebration was
Chicago, but a. il will occur the year
Of the fair, st. Louis has asked to
have the event celebrated in con-
nection with the great exposition.
1t is peculiarly fitting that this
should be done. Hardly any lnstitu.
tion Of ancient times was Of such
powerful, widespread, AND b%enedcent
influence as the 0lympian games, and
certainly no Institution OF modern
times so accurately registers and SO
strongly promotes the distinctive
activities of our age, When the
Olympic games we're celebrated wars
ceased and all the Hellenic races met
aud fraternized, while the achieve
ments Of the Greeks In floe arts and
physical culture we're compared ant
rewarded. The influence OF thes,
games 10 promoting the peace anc
adherence Of The races Of Hellenei
everywhere cannot be oyerestimated
In modern times no other agency II
promotion or The peace and friend
ship o. nations is to be at all com
pared with international industrial
oxpositons. Nations are quite a
likable,as Individuals, and nothing S
surely relieves prejudice, personal Q
national, as closer acquaintance.
The celebration Of the OLYMPIC
gaines n connection with Ne expt
s.llon would serve many desirabl
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The Industries Of Missouri.


The state labor commissioners FORTH
coming annual report for Missouri
contains the following, which was given
ont from the office this week. The
report is compiled from 1866 mercantile
establements, including eight firms at
the stat penitentiary;
The aggregate value Of the manufac-
tured products by the said firms OF es-
adjustments during the year 1901 is
S25S, III, 500, being an increase over the
amount reported for 1900 of 1908,
96S The total average number of males
employed doring each month was S0,6l0
females 20, 1928. The total Is lO1,4SS, an
increase over the previous yearof 81, 800
The total amount of wages paid all
classes of wage earners in 1901 by the
firms reporting for that year was s46SQ9-
729. an increase over the amount report
ed the previous year Of SIS, 74S, 1893.
The average monthly salary paid to
clerical help during 1901 all industries
considered collectively was as follows :
Managers, males, $3.50; females, s44
foremen, males s7y females, $40; sales
men, males, 500; females, s35; book
keepers, males, $40; females, s4S
clerks, males, $50; females, sss; stem
ographers, males, $44; females, $40.
Sixteen hundred and sixty six manu-.
featuring concerns reported in 1901 as
against l 1858 in 1900 and 1887 in 1899.
The increase in amount paid IN wage.
for 1901 over 1900 is nearly IA million
dollars. The year 1901 was the year o.
an unprecedented drought in the state.
only seven OF the thirty.four canning
establishments running, and yet the
state made much progress in materia.
prosperity.
The report shows manufacturing es
Establishments classified as follows: Agri
cultural implements, fifteen; awnings
twelve; bakeries, $50; bags, six; badges
two; bar fixtures, ETC., fourteen; boot
and shoes, thirty; boilers and tanks
eleven; boxes, paper, twelve, boxes
wood, twenty-six; brick and tile, fifty
brooms and brushes, thirteen; candy.
twenty-one; wagons and carriages
eighty; cigars, sixty-four clothing
(men's) ifty-nine; clothing women's
thirty-six; canning, seven; car works
four; cotton, two; collins aud caskets
six; cooperage, t~hirty-six; copper
twenty e;drugs, sixiy-three;electric
five, flour mills, 1863; foundries, 103
furnaces, fifty eight; grocers' sundries
thirty-seyen; harness, nineteen; glass
twelve; hats, eight; ice, seventeen
corn, twenty; leather, five; cement
thirteen; liquors DISTILLED, five; llq
uors (mal) twenty-seven lumber, for.
ty-two; oils, eight; pipes, six; packing
houses, fifteen; paints, nineteen; plan
ing mills, ifty-two; printing, 1879; roll
Ter mills, two.
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to vistt the Fair.

Loubet to Visit the Fair.
The announcement that President
Loubet may visit the Worlds Fair
10 1904 has been received in this
country with great enthusiasm And
this suggests that the friendship aud
sympathy which has ever existed
between the United States ard France
is a. subject OF interesting and puz-
cling inquiry. 1t would be quite as
easy to enumerate causes for reciprocal
feelings of the opposite kind. The
French people have never in nigratcd
to this country in any considerable
numbers, nor have they even visited
here. Their trade relations with us
have been neither specially pleasant
nor specially profitable. Our total
export and import trade with Ger
many as compared with France was,
last year, 10 the ratio Of 300 to ia,
and the average trade balance against
France in the past ten years has been
in the ratio of "A to 10. With the
exception Of the splendid service rem
dered Us in the war Of the revolution
it would be hard to point to anything
in the relation OF these two countries
which would seem to support a warm
national friendship. Even the SER
vices OF France in the revolutionary
war must be attributed in large
measure to hatred Of England, while
our conduct toward France in the
two succeeding decades was cold and
selfish and was dictated by a spirit
of calculating prudence. We have
given neither help nor sympathy
in the wars which have 50 sorely
tried the French people in the past
century, and in u own recent
Spanish war the French were clamor-
GUS for a European combination
against us. Yet in spite Of the fire.
quently strained relations between US
and France-more frequent than in
the case Of any other nation, not
even excepting Eogland-there is
ever ready to burst forth a fame Of
mutual regard. We are much more
Teutonic than Gallo 10 blood, and it
can hardly be urged that sameuess
Of political organization sufficiently
accounts for it. Switzerland and
and Mexico are republics and all the
South American states. The truth
seems to be that nations Of widely
different racial origin are sometimes
Of very similar temperament. France
and the United States are nationally
both Of the feminine temperament.
The fusion OF Norman and Saxon 10
the dreary climate Of England made a
race essentially Teutonic emotionallY.
The same race transplanted in
America has retained for the most
part its Teutonlc morals and manners,
but has rapidly developed the Norman
emotional temperament.
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Didn't Touch I'm.

There are some Disadvantages about
publicity. While Mr.. Cleveland has
added to his laurels as a sportsman,
Mr.. Roosevelt twice lately has had to
go home empty handed. Mr.. Roose-
velt is too noisy to be either hunter
or fisherman. He tramped all over
the Dismal Swamp Of Virginia
recently and did not sight a turkey
Yesterday he got back from a i've
days camp in the cane brakes Of Mis-
sissippi, utterly bearless. And bears
have been his forte, too. To the
meantime Mr.. Cleveland killed eighty
ducks one afternoon, and his exploits
as a fisherman won't do to tell. But
then the case is different, In spite Of
his four hundred pounds a%voirdupois,
Mr. Cleveland has a little way OF maxi
ing himself very small, and of keeping
very, very still. Since 1896, it is said,
he has not made enough noise to
brighten a wild turkey; while Mr..
Roosevelt has gone ramping around
the country, yelling like a Comman-
chez bareback on a pony until every
wild beast from Bafi rs Bay 10 Death
Valley is ''onto'' him. If Mr.. Roose-
welt will just retire within himself, If
he win just practice for a little while
the modest virtue Of self.effacement
until the bears have time to forget
one fame Of his@exploits 10 Colorado,
he may yet bag game.
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MKIN1EY's PET R
without Doubt It Il the Most Accom-
piished Talksr in Washington.

Without Doubt II u the Most Accom-.
piished Talker in Washington.
Loretta" the famous talking
parrot, TO which the late President
Mckinley took such a fancy and lik-
ing, has returned to her old home ina
bird store OH Twelfth street, says the
Washington Post. Loretta is with
out doubt the most accomplished
talker in the city, and one among
several Of the best talking birds in
America. She is 9 Mexican parrot Of
the common, yellow-headed, green
with a patch of red running along
the border Of each wing) variety
found throughout the seacoast belt
Of our sister republic, which is the
more remarkable by reason of the
fact that these birds arenot, as a rule,
noted for their talking qualities,
their chief point Of excellence and
desirability being their strong, hardy
nature and ability to stand cold and
changes Of temperature without fall
ing i'll, as is the case with the majority
of parrots. The African gray parrot
enjoys the reputation Of being the
best known talking bird, and
Loretta appears to be an exception to
the general run Of Mexican parrots,
for she is really a much more accom-
plished talker than any of the five
African gray parrots owned by par
ties in this city. The words uttered
by most parrots are rather indistinet
and squawky, but this is not the case
with Loretta, whose remarks are as
clear and distinct as one could well
desire.
This bird came to Washington
some two years ago from Mexico. At
that time she spoke a little Spanish,
which she soen forgot or abandoned,
and, without any teaching, pickedu up
the English tongue in a way that took
the dealer quite by surprise, as he
had never in his life owned a bird
having the clear and distinct vocal
powers Of this one. For something
in the neighborhood Of six months
Loretta was at the white house,
where she improved her English,
doubtless by listening to those who
came and went from the executive
mansion. When, for the first time,
President Mckinley heard Loretta
talk, he declared that she was the
most wonderful bird he had ever lis
tened to. In fact, she became quite
q fayorite at the white house. Pres
ident and Mrs. Mckinley listening
to and enjoying her vocal perform
ance sometimes by the hour, and
especially during periods of relaxa-
ton from the duties and cares of the
nation. After the death Of the pres
ident Loretta was sold to parties liv-
ing in a western city, and after
changing owners several times re-
turned to her old home in this city,
arriving last Monday.
Loretta not only speaks good Eng
lish, but sings different songs as well,
and can swear a little when occasion
demands. While at the white house
she used to amuse the president by
singing "All Coons Look Alike to
Me" whenever a colored person,
coachman or domestic, appeared
about her cage. She also has a won
derful faculty for initiating the notes
Of other birds and animals, but for
all her good qualities she has never
learned to be gentle, biting ferocious-
" at anyone who attempts to lay
hands upOn her.
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Kansas q yhawkers and Missouri Tigers
on the gridiron at Kansas City, Thanks
given Day. 1t is for this one game that
a squad of determined young man spend
two months in training. Every other
game OF the year is but a preliminary
contest for this final battle for suPre-
macy and both elevens would rather
win this last game than every other
played throughout the season.
There will be aHother big game here
Turkey Day to attract the out-ot-town
visitor. In the morning at Exposition
Park The Haskell Indians will play
Benny Ovens strong LindsbOrg team.
This should be one Of the greatest foot
ball games e in the west this season.
The Indians have a record and their
strength is known. The Swedes are
practically unknown IN the greater part
Of the two states but the cor Of 70 to
0 made against Washburn shows that
the eleven is one Of the strongest in
the west and worthy Of the efforts of
any team. 1t will be a great battle;
second only to the game of the
afternoon.
Beyond all doubt the meeting of the
four teams next Thursday will be the
greatest In the history of the annual
game both in point of playing and
crowd. For the Erst time in years the
great day is almost at hand and no
critics are attempting to pick the
winner. Kansas and Missouri are so
evenly matched and have played such
an even game that it Is a toss-up as to
whether the old gold and black or the
blue and red will wave triumphant
Thanksgiving Day. A muddy field
will favor Missouri as the Kansans are
much lighter and will depend solely
upon their speed to down their rivals.
AT last reports the Tigers will average
10 while the men from Lawrence will
be ten pounds to a mar below this.
But the JayLawkers' determination anc
grit are always factors in the game ant
must be counted upon.
On psper the record OF Missouri il
much the better. Where the Colum
bians have mel decisive defeat IN year,
past, this season they have walked owe
these same opponents aud, exoeptin!
the beating administered by Haskell
the M%issourlans shine.
The Tiger growled in victory las
year and nothing could have happened
which would have benefited the gam
more. 1t has aroused new interes
and it is the general opinion that th
crowd in Kansas City next Thursda.
will be the greatest which has eve
attended the foot ball game here.
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j. Plerpont Morgan on his European
tours always buys some expensive art
treasures or some rare first editions
One Of his latest purchases, which
seems TO amuse the the newspapers
most, is a first edition Of Ruskln IS
"stones OF. Venice. Mr. Morgan
probably has only a vague idea Of who
Ruskin was and what he stood for
II he had ever read "Munera
Pnlyerisn or Grown Of Wild olive
his hankeeipg for Ruskin collections
would probably equal a south sea
-anniaal's burning Thirst for The
Westminster Confession Of Faith.
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Voting Machines.


In many Of the large cities Of the
East votingmachines have been in use
for several years. Their Introduction
is being advocated in many places
where they have not been used
hitherto. They e~ffectually prevent
the casting of more than n vote for
any one candidate, preserve the
secrecy of the ballot, and show the
total footings at any time without
the labor Of counting. The last is
perhaps the best feature aud the
strongest argument to be urged in
favor of their adoption. To many
cities it is difficult to get desirable
men to serve as judges and clerks Of
election on account of the labor of
counting the ballots after the polls
close.
All of the devices to protect the
ballot from the Australian system to
the voting machine are confessions
more or less yelled Of the failure,
partial failure at least, OF universal
suffrage, The rising power of the
political boss aud the growing i'm
portance OF the police force as an ally
of political machines point to the
same thing. In many cities and in
some states the purchasable and ire
sponsible vote is large enough to
constitute a balance of power, and
the temptation to the leading political
parties Of acquiring or retaining
supremacy by corrupt practices be-
comes almost irresistible. An elabo-
rate and expensive system Of regis
tration is only partially effective in
preventing fraudulent voting. The
laws of many states providing for the
disfranchisement Of those who per-
petrate frauds upon the ballot are not
enforced and from the very nature OF
the case never will be.
The difficulties of restricting the
suffrage upon any just basis are very
great. Neither the old freehold
suffrage nor the more recent house.
hold suffrage OF England and Canada
are without valid objections, while
the color line restrictions of some Of
the southern states, possibly necessary
there for the present, would afford
no relief in states and cities to the
north where the evils incident tC
elections are more threatening anC
d%emoralizIng than they ever we're in
the south. 1t has been repeatedly
shown that In certain wards Of oul
large cities more voters are registered
sometimes from certain building
than could be piled in them like
cordwood.
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The Allotment of Indian Lands.

The Dawes commission is Fastening
the allotment OF the lands Of the
Indian territory. According to the
terms OF the treaty with the tribes, a
part Of the land can be sold at once
and the remainder in three and five
years This insures the passing OF an
interesting race. In a short time the
Indians will find themselves 10 COM
potion with a superior race, or at
least one in which the economic mind
has been developed through centuries
of training. 1t is but . little while
since the Indians were sayages. They
are harmless nov, but as incapable of
sustaining themselves side by side
with white men as antelopes with
mules.
While the course persued by our
government toward the Indian is
i~ndefenslble, il has not been without
strong %provocation. The territory
early became a place of refuge for
criminals. The government had to
police it against its own vices. The
importation Of liquor had to be pro-
hiblted. Without the presence Of the
white man the Indian seemed to be
unable to make a living. and the gov
erDment fell into the bad habit Of
feeding him. In the hope Of soon
qualifying him for citizenship, the
government undertook to educate
him, and met with greater success 10
the effort than might reasonably have
been expected. Railroads sought to
be allowed to pass through the terri
tory to avoid the long way around.
And finally cupidlty and WEAKNESS Of
its charge has led the government to
parcel out the land and leave the
Indian TO his own devices.
We have expected too much Of the
Indian. Savages cannot be civilized
10 a day. We have no right to grow
weary Of q charge out OF which we
have proited SO largely. We have
decreed that the Indian shall win
according to our methods and
standards or lose altogether. Ages
OF tribal. government and public own
ership rendered him thriftless and
i%mprovident. We expect five years
of private ownership TO counteract
twenty centuries Of heredity. In a
fev years the Indian, broken in spirit,
viii sink into the vices Of savages
and corrupt and curse, in a measure,
the whites among whom they live.
PROFESSIONALLY We should have ia EN-
more time with the Indian. We
might have preserved for the present
his tribal organization, but enforced
allodial land tenure with right OF sale
and reversion at the end Of specified
periods. Such a plan might have
taught him in time to hold his own
among US and might have qualified
him for citizenship. Such a plan once
converted three millions Of hand-to-
mouth Jewish slaves into the
thriftiest OF nations.
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COAL IN AN ASH PILE.
Man of Enterprise Makes Big Dividends
on Small Investment.

Man of Enterprise Makes Big Dividends
on Small Investment.
BY the purchase Of what was
thought to be merely a pile Of ashes
from the Vineland Window Glass
company, Walter D. Wilson, tax coll
lector Of Lands township, N. j., not
only graded his lot, but secured
enough anthracite coal to stock him
self for the winter and supply many
neighbors, clearing mere than 500.
on a fve-dollar transaction. The af-
fair is the talk Of the town. The
glass company thought it was receiy
ing a good price for the ashes, and it
was not until Mr.. Wilson had discoy-
cred the presence Of much unburned
coal in the pile that the companys
loss was realized. Then the direc-
tors Of the company refused IA all
low The removal Of what remained on
the ground, claiming they had sold
ASHES and not a Coal mine" Viii
son has consulted a lawyer and may
carry the matter to the courts, ask
ing an Injunction restraining the
glass company from touching the
ashes he was not allowed to take
away.-Philadelphia Public Ledger.
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Transfer az OlYmnlan Games.


At a meeting of the board of Diroc-
tors of the International Olympian
games, held recently a committee was
appointed, consisting OF Henry J.. Flu,
Der, Jr; William r. Harper, president
of University of Chicago; John Barton
Payne and Henry G. Selfridge, to enter
into communication with St. Lious re-
garding the invitation OF the latter city
for the transfer of the games of 1904,
and with Comite International Olmypi-
que, with headquarters al Paris, which
latter organization alone has the power
to decide as to the time and place Of
quadriennial contests. The committee
Will meet tomorrow or next day.
MIR. Fuber says: "If pursuant to the
entTeaty of St. Lious, we advise a course
of magnanimity, we at least shall have
the satisfaction Of feeling shat we have
placed national interests before ambl-
ton, whether personal or local.p
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ends. Each would contribute to the
interest and success Of the other.
The n stands for ancient and the
other for modern national ideals.
The one represents the achievements
Of man 10 the aspect OF play and the
other, in the aspect Of work. And
who will deny that in this work-a-day
age a little devotion 20 the ancient
ideal might be worth whiley
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A SoapIsss Country.

In spite Of British rule India is vir-
tualy a scapless country Through
out the villages Of Hindustan soapi is,
indeed, regarded as a natural curios-
ity, and i is rarely if ever, kept in
stock by the native s%hopkeeper,
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The Christmas Delineator.

To do justice to this number, which
for beauty and utility touches the higbts
marx, it would be necessary to print the
entire list Of contents. 1t is sufficient to
stale that in it the best modern writer's
aud artists are generously represented.
The book contains over $50 pages, With
"a fullPage Illustrations, of which 20.
are IN two or more colors. The magni-
tude Of this December number, for
which 72S tons OF paper and six tons Of
INK have been used, may be understood
from the fact that 81 presses running IA
hours a day, have been required TO print
II; the binding alone of the edition Of
$4,000 copies Representing over 2O,.
600, 600 sections whlch had to be
gathered individually by human hands.
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for the December Term Circuit Court:
Clay township-James Geraughty,
j. L. Trammel, Geo. Hackley.
Davis township-Jas T. Jennings,
". w. Prlgmore, Sam Schooling.
Dover township-William Walker,
Wilson Malone, =. v. Ridgeway.
Freeaom townihip-John P. Greer,
Geo Gray, John Kroneske.
Lexington townships. P. Silver,
Frank Stewarl, II. D Smith
Washington tovnship-Jas Bartoo,
Albsit Tyree, s. P. Adams.
Middleton township-B.F Feagaus,
Bailey Vanmeter, Albert Jordan.
Sui-a Bar township--H. w. Brown.
r. E Martin, S P Shore.
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McJimsey can save his Kansas ban-
Quet speech for another occasion.
The same sentiments will bear repe-
tition with a few intensive adjectiyes.
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Miss Sophie Tunstall returned from
a visit to friends at Kansas City
Thursday evening
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How often you scold without
cause Aichison Globe.
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Miss Eugenia La Rus ChaInn went
to Kansas City Eriday morning To
spend the dsy.