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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
British Free Trade a Failure.

Last year the British government
spent $35, 600, 900 more than it's rev.
enue. The foremost question at this
time in the foremost free trade nation
is a proposed return to protection.
The battle may be a long one, with
varying fortunes, but the fact re-
mains that the system of free trade
has been weighed and found wanting
by the nation, best prepared to sus-
tain it. The United States had a
treasury surplus last year and the
balance will again be on the right
side for the fiscal year ending with
June.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
ESs1T.paEPRE
EGH 40 N1IQUEI TON
Especial Correspondence,

the cutter look like a seiner, scores
of which were cruising about the
North Bay, and stood back to East
Point. Along in the afternoon two
pinks appeared coming down from the
northeast, but when about five miles
to windward on the cutter, they hove
to and started to fish
THAT green fellow is the lad we're
looking for,'' declared the captain.
jubilantly 1.-The other-the black lad
lis the one that was in Souris when
we left this morning. Under the i'm
preston that we were going through
the Gut, he's met the smuggler up to
windward and told him the coast was
clear
The cutter began to make leisurely
tacks towards the pinks, but presently
the green lad crowded on sail and
stood away close-hauled to the north
east. The cutter gave chase, and in
an hour or so overhauled and boarded
her-only to find an inoffensive fisher
man. Then the captain bethought him
of the black pink, and looking to lee
ward, saw her bear away and run
down the coast, evidently intent on
getting in among the islands above
Georgetown by dark.
wild goose chase" said the captain.
They've transshipped the stuff. Up
helm and wing her out. Well catch
the rascals yet"
The cutter stood after the flying
black pink, and while before sun
down came in hail of her. The pink
paid no attention to the order to
heave to.
iii run you down." declared the
captain, IF you don't. l want to
board you
The cutter swooped down upon the
| little jink, but still she paid no heed
| And when at last the cutter swerved
| aside to pass her. The pink waved the
| same way, and next moment the cut
| ter's big main boom swept the pink s
! spars out of her as if they had been
pipe stems. The cutter sends boat
/ aboard of her, but the pink carried
| no contraband goods, so the cutter,
| having dismasted the chase, had to
| take her in tow and beat back to
| Souris. And you may imagine the
| captains feelings weren't improved by
| what the crew of the pink said about
| his seamanship and the action for
| damages they proposed to take against
| him. AS the cutter. with her tow,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
No Service Pension Law.

Those men who served in the civil
war and who were even slightly dis
abled. in consequence should, and do,
receive liberal penEions. That is
plain justice.
Those who served and who are
now impoverished-even though their
poverty is in no way the result Of
their service-should, and do, receive
liberal pensions. That is plain graft
tude.
But it would be an error to extend
the already generous limits which
now mark the pension laws and to
pay pensions not merely to those who
are in want or who were disabled but
also to those who are at once sound,
healthy and in comfortable circum-
stances.
The service pension law proposes
to bestow pensions of $12 a month
on every man who wore the union
uniform for ninety days, whether or
not he was at the front and whether
or not he needs a pension. Unless
Uncle Sam has Fortunatus' purse
this is unwise and wasteful 1egisla-
ton.
Ample provision was made long
ago for the pensioning of men suffer
ing from disabilities due to service in
the Mexican war. In 1887 congress
passed an i'll advised act giving all
survivors above the age of 81 years
a service pension of So month. The
advocates of service pension 1egisla-
ton ask congress to do on a grand
scale what it did on small scale
seventeen years ago and to force pen
sions on something like 10000 men
who are not pensionable under exist
| ing liberal laws.
A service pension law will be a
| costly affair, and congress should be
| slow to saddle new, heavy expenses
upon the taxpayers. Since 1866 the
disbursements for pensions have been
$2,942, 100000, and while the country
will not be ruined if heavy payment
on account of pensions continue for
several years, there ought to be some
regard for economy. 1t is not because
| OIL the amount of money involved that
| the Tribune chiefly objects to service
| pension legislation, but because OF
the vicious principles underlying it.
This paper protested when service
| pensions were given the compare
lively small rumber of Mexican war
soldiers, and it protests now when it
is proposed to copy that evil prece-
dent-Chicago Tr1oune-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09

At dawn we saw the highlands of
Miquelon rising out of the sea before
US, and presently we raised the little
Island of ST. Pierre. Then, running
before a brisk easterly breeze. we
swung by He aux Chiens, swept up
the road-stead, where a couple OF
stately men of war lay at their moor
ings, and entering a snug harbor,
rounded to and came to anchor
amongst a crowd of miscellaneous
craft from various quarters of the
old barks, ancient
briggs, dapper little tern-schooners.
trim, smart looking fore-and-afters
from Gloucester and Lunenburg, and
scores of smaller fishing boats
The town of ST. Pierre is situated on
an Island of the same name. having
an area of only nine square miles It's
settled population is less than 1000,
but being the base of the French fish
cries. it's population during the sum-
mer is augmented by about 5000 fish
ermen from France. Its harbor is
accessible to the largest ships, but is
not very well sheltered from northeast
storms. The Islands of St Pierre
and Miquelon have united area OF
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09

employment with Bryce & Co., firm
of American merchants. In two years
he was admitted to partnership, which
he found so profitable that in 1865 he
returned to New York with the inten-
ton of retiring from business. He
changed his mind, however, and estab-
lished his big shipping concern, also
taking up financial ventures and be-
coming interested in politics. He was
elected mayor in 1881 and again in
1885, and in 1890 his firm effected the
settlement of the 100000 900 debt of
the Peruvian government. Mr.. Grace
was a director in several large corpo-
rations, including the Lincoln Nation
al bank and the New York Life In
surance company. He was a Roman
Catholic and contributed largely to
church funds. 1t is estimated that the
fortune left by Mr.. Grace amounts to
SIC, 000, 900 or more
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Panama Canal Commission.

The Panama canal commission is
composed of experts who will work
tremendously together and be a most
efficient whole. In selecting the men
who are to have charge of the greatest
work any nation has yet undertaken,
President Roosevelt was uninfuenced
by political, personal or sectional con-
siderations. He was properly deaf to
appeals that he recognize" a particu-
lar state by appointing one of its citi-
zens a member. There are senators
who are displeased because there is no
patronage for them in connection with
the canal. The public will not SYM
pathize with them in their aff1iction.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09

poses. They would gladly accept
Bryan's issue for the same reason.
but they know that free silver can
no longer frighten the business men
of the country. 1t is no longer a
dangerous issue, except to the Demo-
cratic party
Let them stir up the tariff question
If they can find nothing else. It too,
is a settled question, from the Re
publican standpoint, though oy no
means a dead one" The emporium
list Democracy will revive it in this
campaign at their peril. 1t is not
only settled, but it will stay settled
Dayton (Ohio) journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Something to Fall Back On.

''The Democracy still has the tariff
to fall back upon, and may be able to
do something along that line
Springfield Republican.
The Democracy will, of course, fall
back on the tariff. 1t must do so. 1t
has no other issue on which to base
an appeal to the people. Take from
the Democratic mind it's seated grudge
against protection and you remove
the last remaining reason why any
man should continue to be q Demo-
crat. The Presidential election of 1904
will be determined almost exclusively
on tariff lines.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Mamma the New Book.

One of the pesterings to which BUSH
ness men are subjected is the persist
ence with which lady canvassers with
new books urge the purchase of their
works One. of these, having over
taxed the patience of a gentleman,
was disposed of in the following man
ner:
Madame, the partnership of which
1 am a member has lately been so i'm
prudent as to issue a new work of
their own, which in consequence of
the enormous expense attending it's
illustrations, embellishments, ETC., has
completely crippled u.s."
Then, perhaps replied the lady
canvasser, I'VE could procure you
some subscribers. What do you call
your work."
well, we have not yet determined:
but 1 guess I'll let my wife have her
own way and call it after mechanics
Henry"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Why They Hate the Tariff.

There is not a Democrat who does
not believe in tearing down the tariff
walls that limit commerce and breed
Charles A. Towne. former United
States Senator from Minnesota, deliv-
cred at the Democratic club in New
York, Feb II, 1904.
That is exactly the position of the
Democratic party regarding the pro-
tective. system. Here and there may
be found Democrat who is a protec-
zionist at bottom or who is anxious
to preserve protection for some in
dustry or interest in his state or dis
trict, but when it comes to voting in
Congress every one of them votes
with his party to tear down the tariff
walls Not because the tariff walls
limit commerce, for they have won
derfully increased commerce Not
because the tariff breeds corruption,
for it does nothing of the sort; it
breeds industry, breeds employment,
breeds wages, breeds deposits in the
savings banks, breeds plenty and COM
fort in the homes of many millions
of people. 1t is not for these things
that Democrats hate the tariff. 1t is
because the tariff walls have for more
than forty years stood between the
Democratic party and the control of
national affairs; because the tariff
walls have all in all these years kept
a million or more of Democrats ont of
Office. That is the chief reason whv
all Democrats hate the tariff
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Loss a Billion a Year.

Although the population of Great
Britain has increased largely in the
last thirty years, yet she sells about
S110, 100000 worth of goods a year
less to foreign countries than she did
thirty years ago, while her imports
have increased in the same period
more than $500, 900. 900 year, which
is nearly a net loss of billion dol
lars a year, or $165 for each adult
male in England, Ireland, Scotland
and Wales. No wonder they are think
ing seriously about adopting protec-
ton as a national policy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09

about ninety-three square miles. Mi
quelon consists of Greater and Lesser
Miquelon separate islands,
but now united by a sandbar. All
these islands are mere rugged masses
of granite, and at several points are
over 500 feet high. A thin covering
of soil is found in some places, but
agriculture does not extend beyond
vegetable gardens. In 1898, the set
tied population of all the islands was
400, of whom 1,611 were men, /, 494
women, and 1896 children.
The great resources of the people of
St. Pierre are fishing and smuggling.
In 1900 the exports of ST. Pierre
amounted to 81, 46O, 900, consisting of
fish, fresh and dried, $1,940,OO0, cod
oil, $206, 900, Holsters $4,000. The fish
cries are largely in the hands Of fish
ermen from Old France, who land
their catches in ST. Pierre during the
summer to be cured.
To France, her ST. Pierre posses
sions, situated as they are in great
trade highway, have immense strate-
gic Importance as possible basis for
commerce destroying operations, as
well as being valuable as fishing de-
pot, and a nursery for her navy; and
if she parts with I'm at all, it will
only be for valuable considerations.
ST. Pierre has in the past, however,
changed hands many times. In 1713
it was ceded to Britain, but on the
British conquest of Canada was as
signed to France as a fishing depot
In 177S it was seized by the British,
and in 1888 again coded to France. In
1893 it was depopulated by the British
and in 1902 recovered by France
Again in 1903 the British captured it,
but it was again ceded to France in
1916, since which time the island has
remained a French possession.
ST. Pierre has long been the center
Of a we'll organized smuggling traffic,
and though the vigilance of the Gus
toms authorities of Canada and the
| United States has done much to check
| it of late years, a large contraband
| business is still carried on.
The following story told by a sea
captain, who was a few years ago in
command of a Canadian revenue and
| fishery protection cutter, illustrates
the audacity and resource Of these
contrabandists. The cutter, a smart
sailing schooner, was then stationed
at Souris, port at the eastern end OF
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Dangerous to Democracy.

Republicans naturally oppose the
agitation of the tariff issue. for the
soundest of reasons They hold pri-
marily that the tariff is to-day in the
hands of the party of protection:
that it has been adjusted to suit the
economic policy of the nation; that
an agitation of the issue at this time
would naturally tend to unsettIe
business, as it did in 1892. They be-
lieve in tariff revision by its friends.
The Democratic motive in clamor-
ing Tor renewal of the tariff discus
sion in the coming campaign is little
less than an indecent exposure of
their unscrupulousness in politics
First, they do it with a view of nm
settling business for partisan pur-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
REMEMBERED HIS ALMA MATER.
South Americans Gratitude Couched
in Practical Ierms


One South American family will al
ways have a member in the University
of Pennsylvania medical school, ac-
cording to will which was made
some years ago by DR.. Francisco j.
Martinez of Guayaquil, Ecuador. DR..
Martinez graduated from the univer-
sity in 1882 and went back to his ma
tive city to practice. He became very
rich and in his will provided that from
generation to generation some mem
Der of the family should study medi-
cine at Pennsylvania. In pursuance
of this bequest DR.. Francisco J. Mar
tineZ graduated in 1871 and is now
dean of the medical school of the
University of Guayaquil and surgeon
in chief of the army. His son, Julio
Martinez, has since graduated from
the dental department and now there
is another Francisco ]. Martinez in the
medical school.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
is YOUTHFUL AT SEVENTY.
Lessons in Life of President Eliot Of
Harvard.


President Eliot of Harvard, who has
just turned 20, is a fine example of
what wholesome observance of laws
of health will do for the physical man.
He walks from six to ten miles every
day and whenever possible takes a
long bicycle ride before breakfast. To
this, with regularity in eating and
sleeping. he attributes his splendid
physical and mental condition. DR..
Eliot is the oldest college president in
America, having been at the head of
Harvard for thirty-fve years. 1t is
due chiefly to his eXertions that the
university has been brought from
small collection of struggling build
ings to stupendous college of impos-
ing structures; from narrowminded,
dogmatic school to one of the most
liberal and broad-minded institutions
of learning in the world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Women Becoming Sensible.

nent physician. when women by the
construction of their. attire will have
an equal opportunity with men to
breathe the breath OF life. 1 know
that this is SO by the marked change
in the character of my patients. Ten
years ago the average sick woman
would take offense at any suggestion
of tight lacing. Now she listens with
respect and often asks eagerly for
breathing directions and where to go
for advice upon all these SUBJECTS"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
KING EIGHT YEARS OLD.
Youthful African Potentate Under the
Sway of EnQIand.

Sway OF England.
The youngest king in the world is
Daudi Chua, king of Uganda, who is
now about 8. He hold his court seated
on a scarlet throne, with a leopard
skin mat under his feet, and bearing
in his hand toy gun. The British
exercise protectorate over the young
king and his kingdom and have estab-
lished for him a sort of parliament.
which he opens regularly with much
pomp. Little Daudi Chua speaks Eng
1ish and gives state dinners, at which
there is curious mixture of African
and European foods and customs
though the royal table is supplied with
fine linen, cut glass and silver brought
from London.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
FORMER NEW YORK MAYOR DEAD
Pneumonia Carries Off William Rus
sell Grace, at Age of r.

William Russell Grace, former mayor
of New York, died of pneumonia
March 81, at the age of u. He was
taken ill a week ago with a violent
cold, which rapidly developed into the
malady that carried him off. Mr..
Grace was prominent in the financial
and business world, having been the
founder of the shipping and CONNER
cial firm of w. R. Grace & Co He
also founded Grace Institute, which
gives women a practical education in
stenography, dressmaking, millinery
and domestic science.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Brothers Meet After Long Separation.

Brothers Meet After Long Separation.
Richard Jessmer and his brother
Frank have been visiting with each
other at the home of the former in
Appleton, Wis, after a separation of
forty-eight years. They left their
home in New York when mere boys
and came west, losing sight of each
other until a few weeks ago. Each
had made every effort to find the
other, frequently advertising in news
papers all over the country. They
were reunited by accident quite re-
Gently. Frank has been all over the
far west as gold hunter and finally
settled in Habing, Mimi. Richard has
passed most of his life in Wisconsin.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09

1.-THE Canadian fishing boat lands it at
a proper time and place near the
home port
came to anchor in Souris, the green
pink came round the breakwater and
passed in to her whalf. Hello, Cap.
got a prize, hey? Smuggler, eh?"
hailed her skipper. .'If 1 come aboard
by-and-by will you give me a drink OF
gimp
At that moment the green pink had
a first-class cargo of ST. Pierre liquor
in her hold. While the cutter had
been following her second wildgoose
chase, she had kept on to windward,
met the smuggler from ST. Pierre.
thrown out her ballast, and taken In
liquors in it's stead. OF course the
cutter, having searched her once that
day, was not suspicious. And that
night the audacious pink discharged
her contraband cargo within two hum
dred yards of where the cutter lay,
without trouble. A few years after
the captain heard how he had been
duped, but he wasn't interested in
suppressing the smuggling traffic
then.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
DISTINGUISHES Masons to Gather.

Admiral Schley will be one of a dele
CATION of distinguished Masons to at
tend a gathering in Guthrie, Ok, May
"a and 25- James d. Richardson,
grand commander of the Scottish Rite
for the southern jurisdiction. will head
the party. He desires that representa-
tive members of the craft see Masonry
as exemplified by the fraternity in
Guthrie, the work there being, in his
opinion, a model worthy of imitation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09

William r. Grace was born at
Queenstown, Ireland, May 10, 1882,
and at the age of IA left home and
worked his passage to New York on
sailing vessel. He toiled theoretically
in various capacities, and in 1850 went
to Ca1lao, Peru, where he obtained
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
French Workman Rose to Fame.

Henry Perrotin, the eminent French
astronomer and director of the Nice
observatory, who died at Paris recent
ly, at the age of So, began as a simple
workman in the employ of the Tou-
louise observatory.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
The ReaI POPULAR NoveIIst.

Maxine Gorky, that strange, dra-
matte passionate writer of realism,
was So years old last week. His real
name is Aiicksei Maximcvitch Piesh-
kov. but the reading world knows him
only as "Gorky."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
A Lobster Fisherman of MiqueIon.

Prince Edward Island. One day the
captain received word from a secret
agent in St Pierre that notorious
smuggler had openly boosted that he
would land cargo of liquor in Souris
the following night, despite all the
cutters in Canada The captain gave
out that he had been ordered to the
south shore of Nova Scotia. and next
morning. bright and early, got under
way and stood over towards the Gut
of Canso> till he had run the island
out of sight behind him. Then, after
making a traverse towards Cape Bre-
ton. he put out his long boat. to make
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Just a Suggestion.

For the Democratic vice presidential
nomination we take the liberty of sug-
costing Gov. .Jeff Davis of Arkansas.
He is the only man in sight who would
have what might be called a fighting
chance OF being elected.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Hard on shoulder STRAPS.

What was the 1oss?' Willie Collier
asks in his new play, THE Dictator"
when told of a battle with South
American revolutionists.
"Oh, twenty-three officers and one
man wounded" is the answer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09

Chicago is to have another strictly
up-to-date hospital memorial to
victims of the Iroquois theater fire. 1t
is to be built on the west side at
cost of 100000. 1t will be construct
ed at the northwest corner of Hermi-
tage avenue and York street in con-
nection with the Chicago Homeopathic
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-09
Irosuois Memoria-New Chicago Ho meopathic Hospital.

college. 1t is to have all of the most
modern appliances and accommoda-
lions for the care of the sick and is to
be managed by a board of trustees
composed of ten leading citizens in
business and professional circles. This
plan is distinct from the one recently
urged for an emergency hospital in
the downtown district
Little Falls herald. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1889-1950, 1904-05-27
UPSALA

May 24.-There have been two ball
games here this season, one with Grey
Eagle and one with Swanville. Botk
visiting teams have been badly. de.
feated.
Mrs. G. J. Lunden gave leap year
party Sunday evening. A good time is
reported.
MI. and Mrs. Larson were at the
Falls Saturday.
Fred Lunden was to Royalton
Monday.
Mr.. Bergstrom took live stock to
Burtrum.
We now have one dry goods store,
one grocery store and one hardware
store,
Miss Ella Meyers of st. Paul is here
on visit with her sister, Mrs. G.
E. johnson.
Mr.. Martinson Is doing mason work
for Emil Carlson.