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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-28

The farmer on sandy soil is think
ing some of following the bended-knee
practice. Year after year less water
falls to make it yield a harvest
The continued dry spell is making him
pious. His lot is becoming so serious
and his face so attenuated that even
the lightning-rod man passes him by
Time was when he looked across at
his neighbours low, wet ground where
the frogs were playing tag and strain
ing their obligato aff1utus singing fav-
orite sonatas, and thanked the Lord
his ground was high and sandy. His
crops f1ourished like fair lobbyist in
a senatorial ante-room while those of
mis- neighbors were sickly and Sunken
in the swamp like the center of a new
wife's sponge cake. He bought pat
ent churns, windmills and separators
and had a hired man to teach the
calves how to drink milk out of a pail.
The neighbor wore campaign patches
on the concentric of his trousers and
looked like Weary Waggles on his itin-
erary for work. Indeed, one was the
representative of success, the other
the agent of disappointment The sand
bank man had money in the town
bank, the middleton farmer didn't
know a check from a sheepskin land
patent.
Lo, All is changed. The two men
have changed places, the sand man is
talking out of the other corner of his
mouth while the low land fellow is
feeling the pride the jingle of the
guinea makes. The calf is bunting his
hired man now and he is thinking of
buying an automobile by which to mar
1.et his $1.25 potatoes, his SO cent oats,
his so cent corn and his $8S veget-
abIes. He no longer demands protec-
ton against calves and railroads; he
is looking through roseate eyegIass
and effecting fashions heretofore for
eign to his humble mode of living. His
low, wet land has redeemed itself.
True, most of his frogs are dead, but
he can buy a piano instead and be-
sides frog music is not au fait with
him any more. His daughter has
thrown over the neighbours SilaS and
is talking of giving an ice cream func
.iCn with lady fingers and dancing.
The wife has several new gowns and
the son gets his clothes tailor made.
The scarcity of his neighbor's crops
makes his all the more valuable and
dollars have grown on his liquid
soaked soil as thick as surgeons
eggs on a caviar sandwich. Truly
The low land farmer is king this fall
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
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GRAVE OF A KINGS DAUGHTER
Child Ct Joseph Eonpar Once Monarch Of Sp Rests Ia Lonely
New Jersey Chur,hyard

age Of verse and expression Of eighty
years ago-lies the daughter OF king
"a princess who had the blood Of an
emperor In her veins. This is the
story:
When Joseph 3onaparte, ex-king Of
Spain, under stress OF European poll.
tics, settled in this state and became
Jerseyman. his gracious manner and
royal bearing were the magnets for
scores Of beautiful eyes. He fell
under the charm of one pair whose.
no one now knows. for the years have
wiped out the stain and obliterated
the name.
Anyhow. a child. a girl, was born,
an American princess who with the
mother was left behind when Joseph
went back to Europe. The child died
and under the name OF liolton was
buried sevcntynine years ago In the
churchyard of St. Michaels. then the
oldest church in New Jersey.
Ever since the grave and the monu-
ment have been kept in perfect re-
pair. An enigmatical clause In the
will of Joseph, leaving certain sum
for certain secret specific purpose.
is supposed to have applied to the
support of the American mother OF his
child the "bereft mother" OF the
monument.
No one has ever succeeded in un-
raveling this mystery, says the
Philadelphia Press. The monument Is
an enigma. The only solution Is the
one given above, which has come
down through eight decades as the
rue story of the romance of king OF
Spain.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28

CLEAN THROUGH GLOOM.
Remarkable Commons Debate Press.
ages Peace for ireland.


London, England. Although John
Redmond failed to draw the chief sec
retary for Ireland. Mr. Wyndham, in
to revelation of the contents of the
coming Irish land bill, his amendment
provoked quite remarkable debate
Seldom in the history OF the Irish
question has such conciliatory spirit
been displayed on all sides.
The only disappointing aspect from
the piont of view of the Nationalists
was the ominous silence of the mem
bers OF the unionist party, who seemed
apprehensive regarding the heavy de-
mands on the nations purse when the
bill is introduced fortnight hence.
John Morley, the former chief secre-
tary for Ireland, rose to speak during
the hurricane Of cheers which marked
the close OF Mr.. Wyndham's speech.
Mr.. Morley began by declaring that
nothing like the present situation had
happened since Strongbow landed in
Ireland.
The demand was no longer to get
rid Of the landlords. but that provision
should be made to enable them to re-
main on their estates. He was greatly
pleased with the tone and temper now
prevailing in Ireland, and with the
speech of the chief secretary for Ire
land.
He said that the difficulty of the
question lies in its financial aspects
and he estimated that the Dunraven
land purchase scheme would involve
a free grant of $4,000, 900 and a loan
of $500,0O0 900, but II the matter was
proceeded with In cautious manner
it would not be necessary to spend the
whole sum at once.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
Admitted Wife Murder,

Indianapolis, Ind.-Albert A. Knapp
Of Hamilton, O., former citizen of
Indianapolis, was arrested here and
taken to Hamilton on charge of wife
murder. He was living with his bride
Of two weeks. who was Miss May
Gamble of this city. Knapp admitted
that he choked his wife to death on
the evening Of Dec. 22. but says he
does not know why he did it. He says
he then stuffed the body into the box,
being obliged to double it to get the
lid down. after which he dumped the
box into the Miami river. Knapp,
though only 40 years old, has had four
wives, and the Hamilton police believe
that he murdered at least two of them,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
STRIKERS SLAUGHTERED.
Riotous Miners Resist Sherit's Posse
and Are Shot Down.

Stamford, w. Va.-The joint posses
of Deputy United States Marshal Gun
ningham and Sheriff Cook fought a
battle with rioting miners at day
break. Three miners were killed, two
others mortally wounded. and a num-
Der OF others on both sides more or
less seriously hurt.
The trouble grew out of the attempt
to arrest "a miners for violation OF the
blanket injunction issued by Federal
Judge Keller last August. Marshal
Cunningham went last Saturday to AT
kinsville. mining town in Raleigh
county, to arrest men charged with
violating the injunction. He was sur
rounded by large party Of miners,
armed with Winchester rifles, who or.
dered him to leave the place, an order
which he quickly obeyed.
Cunningham returned to Charleston
and the rioters crossed New river, go.
ing into camp 500 strong, near the Big
Q mine on the north side.
The rioters had recrossed the river
on Tuesday and were parading up and
down before the various coal works,
from $50 to 200 men, armed with Win.
chester rifles. They intimidated min
ers at work drove away the guards
and even went so far as to disarm and
guard and force him 10 march at the
head of their procession. Embold.
ened by their success, they attempted
to burn down bridge of the Chesa.
peake & Ohio railroad over Piney
gulch and threatened the destruction
OF other property.
The miners went into camp near
this city. About daybreak the officers
and their combined forces surprised
the rioters in their camp and called
on them to surrender. The reply was
shot. This was answered by a shot,
and Immediately furious battle be-
gan. When the firing ceased. three of
the rioters lay dead and many others
were wounded, two fatally.
Seventy-three arrests were made.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
Cold Storage for Furs.

Gold storage for furs," said q fur.
rier, lis the latest and the best idea
that has arisen in my business in ten
years. Keep your furs in cold storage
and moths can't harm them. For
moths can't live-they are frozen to
death-in the low temperature of the
cold storage chamber.
Come this way" the furrier went
on.
He walked to the rear of the shop,
and opened an oaken door about eight
inches thick. A blackness like in a
tunnel filled the interior, and out of
this blackness came a horrible and
intense cold. He turned an electrical
switch, and flood of hard light re-
vealed a cold storage chamber 25 feet
square, filled with many thousands of
dollars worth Of furs.
I'VE keep the temperature here at 20
degrees" the furrier said. THAT is a
cold great enough to freeze the warm
est.blooded moth and to prevent any
egg from Matching. Cold storage has
many uses, but this Is its latest and
it's best. imagine that furriers the
country over will adopt the idea as
soon as they hear of it. for there is no
better way than this to keep furs alb
solutely safe from moths attacks
Philadelphia Record.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
Civil Service Frauds.

Boston, Mass.-James M. Curley, a
member of the Massachusetts house of
representatives; Thomas F. Curley,
who was for short time recently a
deputy collector of the city of Boston,
and James j. Hughes, an employe of
the Boston Elevated Railway com.
pany, have been arrested on charges
Of conspiracy against the laws of the
United States in reference to civil SER
vice examinations. These arrests,
which have long been looked for, were
the outcome of complaints preferred
early last December by men who were
taking civil service examinations for
the position Of carrier in the Boston
DOStOffice.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
GIFTS OF THE MIGHTY WEST.
Enormous Share She Has Had II
BUILDING Up the Nation.

Enormous Share She Has Had in
Building Up the Nation.
She gave us Andrew Jackson, that
fierce Tennessee spirit who broke
down the traditions of conservative
rule, swept away the privacies and
privileges of officialdom, and, like a
Gothic leader, opened the temple of
the nation to the populace. She gave
us Abraham Lincoln, whose gaunt
frontier form and gnarled, massive
hand told of the conflict with the for
est, whose grasp on the AK handle of
the pioneer was no firmer than his
grasp of the helm of the ship of state
as it breasted the seas of civil war.
She gave us the tragedy of the pio-
neer farmer as he marched daringly
on to the conquest of the arid lands,
and met his first defeat by forces too
strong to be dealt with under the old
conditions. She has furnished to this
new democracy her stores of mineral
wealth, that dwarf those Of the old
world, and her provinces that in them.
selves are vaster and more productive
than most Of the nations of Europe.
Out of her bounty has come a nation
whose industrial competition alarms
the old world and the matters Of those
resources WELD wealth and power
vaster than the wealth and power of
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28

New York, N. with one avowed
Anarchist prisoner, and detectives
securing the city for others with
whom he has associated, extraordi-
nary police precautions for safeguard
ing President Roosevelt when he WIS.,
its this city have been completed
While the prisoner at police head
quarters is a youth, saying he Is only
l6 years old, although he looks two
years older, he has been a frequenter
for months of the resorts that bred
BresCi. who murdered King Humbert
in 1900, and Czolgosz, who assassinat-
ed President Mckinley in 1901.
Through newspaper, which eX-
posed an arrangement of five Anar-
chists to sail for Paris to attend II
conclave on March %, and laid it's in
formation before Inspector Brooks, the
youth was arrested. and ne made a
prompt acknowledgment that he had
imbiOed and believed in the teachings
of Emma Goldman. had known Pres-
dent McKinley's slayer. and had at
tended meetings of Anarchists in this
city ana PATERSON, N. j.
This prisoner is Francois Hirtsel.
For a year, and until last SATURDAY,
he had served as porter in Peter
Hartmann's hotel in whitehall street.
Hirtsel while in his menial position
had discussed the subject of anarchy.
In which he was a profeased believer
When he resigned his position with
Hartmann he said he was TO sail for
Paris with four others as representa-
lives OF the Anarchists.
When asked how he was able to
make his contemplated trip, Hirtsel
shrugged his shoulders and replied,
"Oh, my club is going to send me-"
What club it was Hirtsel refused to
say
When searched. Hirtsel was found
to have stuffed in the finger tip of one
Of his kid gloves newspaper clipping
Of last Saturday, which referred to a
bill introduced in congress the day be-
fore, which would make it capital
offence to asSaSsinate or attempt to
assassnate the president or any one
in line of succession to that Office, an
ambassador or a foreign minister.
In reply to police questioning the
youth said: my name is Francois
Hirtsel, although | have been going
under the name of Rudolph Luprc.
am 16 years old and was born in Neuf-
chatel, Switzerland. am an orphan,
my parents having died when l was
an infant I have been in this country
20 months"
Hirtsel had in his pocket a copy OF
Pedro Estere's paper. La Question So
ciale, published in Paterson by the
Anarchists. Inspectors Brooks and
Capt. Iangan concluded, after their
examination, that Hirtsel ought to be
detained, especially as president
Roosevelt is expected in the city, and
will speak in Carnegie hall at the bi.
centennial celebration of the birth OF
John Wesley.
FIirtsel was arraigned in the Jeffer-
son Market police court late in the af-
iernoon and remanled to police head
quarters.
Capt Langan will have large force
OF detectives meet President Roose-
welt when he arrives and Inspector
Brooks has ordered that, in addition
to this, the president be met by five
mounted policemen.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
TUESDAY,,
Feb. "a, 1908.

Mrs. John l.. Gardner's Venetian pal
ace, in Boston. opened to the public.
United States supreme court atfirms
the judgment of the Massachusetts, su.
preme court in the Westminster cham.
bers (BostoD building case, and the
six extra feet of the structure must
come down.
Executive committee of street rail-
way mems union ignore new scale Of
fered by electric roads and will de-
mand fiat scale and recognition Of
the union.
Alfred Payson Gage, for SO years
teacher in Boston, dead at his home In
Arlington.
Children of the Perkins institution
for the bl.ad of Boston present plays.
Sultan aArees to accept the reforms
demanded by Austria and Russia.
Nineteenth annual dog show Of the
New England kennel Glib opens at
Mechanics building, Boston. with big
attendance and unusually large num-
ber of entries.
Lieut.. Col. Paul r. Hawkins OF
Springfield, chosen commanderln.
chief of Legion of Spanish War Veter-
ans.
Rev. Mr.. Hutchins, as monthly
meeting of the federation OF churches,
held yesterday in New Haven, startled
his hearers by saying polygamy exists
In Connecticut, that the morals Of the
hack country ropmiInitiac ara m tha
downward grade.
Gov. Bates, of Massachusetts,, holds
very successful reception at the state
house in honor Of Washington's birth.
day.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28

Harrison, N. J.-Twelve persons
were injured this afternoon by an ex-
plosion in the torpedo mandatory Of
Max A. Meyer in Railroad avenue.
Fire followed the explosion, and the
wrecked factory was destroyed. Mr.
Meyer disappeared shortly after the
explosion, and the police were unable
to find him. Two stories high and Of
wood. the factory building was occu-
pied on the first floor by between 25
and 80 women. who filled toy torpe-
does. Mr.. Meyer had gone into the
storeroom on the second floor when
the explosion occurred.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
He Got II.

The Judge, the sheriff, the coroner
and the chief of police of Red Gulch
were enjoying little game of poker.
The pot was large and there was con.
siderable excitement The judge
called the sheriff, who casually re-
marked:
Il hold four aces. What do you
hold?"
Il hold bowie knife" promptly re.
turned the judge, as he perceived q
fifth ace in his own hand.
And hold a gun!" exclaimed tho
chief of police, as he realized that he
was not entirely destitute of aces him.
self.
The coroner quickly dived under the
table and waited. Presently, when the
smoke Of battle had been cleared
away, he crawled out.
Il hold an inquest" he commented,
"and guess that takes the pot"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
Hypnotist Jailed for Child Deserton,

East BrOokfeld, Mass.-"More
sinned against than SHINING" said
Judge Curtis in the district court,
when Della Wrenn Lubin was ar.
raigned for abandoning her 2-months-
old baby boy. A few minutes before
David c. Lubin. father of the child,
was sentenced On the same charge to
two years in the house OF correction.
1t developed that Lubin is a profes.
sional hyDnotist. ana formerly was an
actor Miss Wrenn was the most
beautiful girl of Hardwicll. and had
many suitors. but all were cast aside
when she met the actor. The child
was left on the piazza of the house of
Michael Burke and the result was the
arrest Of Lubin and his alleged wife,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28

The Supreme Court OF Ohio, in the
& case of the State VS.. Shaw, lays down
Ethe doctrine that to acquire property
right In animals ferae naturae so that
Hthey may be the subject Of larceny,
Hthe pursuer must bring them into his
$power and control, so that he may sub.
E3ect them to his own use at his pleas.
Spre, and must maintain his possession
%And control, so rs to indicate that he
docs not intend to abandon them again
Ito the world at large, but in cases
where larceny is charged the law does
not require absolute security against
the possibility of escape. 1t is accord.
hgly held that when fish are inclosed
y net, or in any other inclosed place
which is private property, from which
they may he taken at any time at the
! pleasure of the owner of the net or
enclosure, the taking of them there
ffrom with felonious intent will be lar.
fccny. The court says in part: Fish
fare ferGe naturae. yet. where the ami.
mails OF other creatures are not domes-
atc, but are ferae naturae, larceny may
Notwithstanding he committed Of them.
{if they are fit for food of man. and
zdead, reclaimed land known to be sol
pr confined. Thus fish in
StahS or net. or, as 1t seems. in any
o'her ineioSed place which is private
properly and where they may be taken
nj any time ut the pleasure of the own.
er the taking Of them with felo.
NOUS intent will be larceny. Fish
confihed in a tank or net are sufficient
ly secured"
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28

The romance Of king lies hidden
In Trenton, N. j., under the decaying
marbles Of an unobtrusive cemetery
monument.
In the little graveyard attached to
ST. Michael's Protestant Episcopal
church Is well.preserved square
marble monument surmounted by n
dove. 1t is conspicuous only by the
fact that it is carefully rallied off with
tall iron pa!inas, set in brownstone
base, from the rest Of the sleepers in
this little Gods acre. Though eighty
years have passed the monument is
still in an admirable state of preserva-
tion, and the inscriptions are clearly
iegible. The principal one reads:
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
DR.. Ames a Very Sick Man.

Nashua, N. HE. r. McQuesten Of
this city, who has been retained as
medical adviser for the defence in the
extradtion proceedings against DR.. A.
A. Ames, ex-mayor of Minneapolis, Wis.,
tied Hancock and made an examina-
tion OF DR.. Ames physical condition.
While DR.. McQuesten Is under strict
instructions from Dist. ATTY Hamblett
not to reveal anything in connection
with the case, 1t is reported that he
found his patients condition even
more critical than when he was ar
rested and that he does not believe
the ex-mayor's health will permit his
removal 10 Minneapolis March 5.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
Mexican Plague Tragedy.

City Of Mexico, Mex.-Another trag-
edy has been added to the long list
due to the plague epidemic at Mazat-
Ian Ricardo Zorrero y Topic, an em-
ploye OF the custom house, shot and
killed his son, who was afflicted, when
the sanitary officers came to take the
boy to the hospital, and then commit
ted suicide. Mrs. Zorrero has lost her
mind as a result. Four soldiers of the
1lth infantry were sent to the obser.
vation station Monday. Two others
are isolated in the military hospital,
There were only one death and four
new cases In the city Monday.
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
General "Bob's' Sword.

the Dewey sword is a beauty"
says returned European traveller.
put lcr something downright gor.
seous give NE the weapon of honor
that Portsmouth presented to Lord
Roberts. |, is undoubtedly the cost.
liest sword in the world. saw it a
few weeks ago at the United Service
club. where ii is exhibited. 1t is made
o. lS-carat gold, and set with dia.
monds. lubies. sapphires and emer.
aids The grip is of gold ani carved
ivory. with the figures of Justice and
Fame. The guard is of solid gold,
Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1903-02-28
Governor Yates Threatens Editor.

Chicago lll.-An extraordinary
took leading part. was made public
1t was nothing less than threat to
kill an editor and publisher Of week.
ly society newspaper of this city If
Mrs. Yates name ever again appeared
in their publication. Accompanied by
Col. ]. Fl. Strong, Gov. Yates, it is
said, paid visit to the Office Of the
Club Fellow in the Auditorium build
ing and threatened to kill the editor,
named Hardin. Both were armed but
no shooting was done.