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culty in restraining the Tartars from cruel and bloody reprisals.
 The Armenians understood the situa- ton, and, aware of their danger, armed themselves. The Baku rnassacres showed how well they could defend themselves This was evidenced again by the large number of Tartars killed in the riotings. The Tartars however, seem to be bent on exterminating the Armenians by Kill ing them and destroying their villages homes and churches
 The Armenians have the upper hand in commerce and industry in Caucasus This superiority gals the Tartars, and increases their hatred.
 The government continues to be severe ly criticised there for its incapacity in dealing with the situation The absence of intelligent and energetic administra- tors i'm the. Caucasus is said to be re- sponsible for many outbreaks.
 A well known writer says;
 "The simple truth is the Russian peas ant, 1O0.000,g00 of him, is, under present conditions, slowly starving to death. His average earnings in the central provinces are seventeen and eighteen copecks (eight to nine cents) a day throughout the year. during the busiest harvest time they rise to an average of twenty-seven to thirtv-sx copeeks Ghirteen to sixteen cents) a day; during the whole winter he and his family earn nothing. His diet consists of meal flour and erits, cab bage and potatoes; no meat except three times year. His diet is insufficient, and less than any civilized country. The hovel he lives in is two and half yards long and one and one-half yards high, harboring the whole family and what ever. cattle he possesses. These data are taken from official sources Some of the monetary burdens borne by the people of Russia are:
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queen and privileged officials taking enor- have gone 10 alleviate the sufferngs Of the poor As in Russia. the deadweight Of the nobility, the priesthood, the sov- ereign and his court constituted a bur den which at length drove the people to frenzy and brought about the terrible political upheava1 which swept before 1t almost every institution that then existed in France, and resulted in new govern ment and a new nation.
 It was such q condition as this which resulted in first the parliamentary battle in France and then in the reign of ter TOT and rule of violence which brought forth eventually a new government of and by the people.
 The ignorance of the French peasant class was almost unequalled, but travel CTS who have studied the conditions of the masses in Russia believe that the ig- norance of the Russian peasant of to- day is fully as great Immortality waste fulness. extravaganza and tyranny of the noble class in France has perhaps never been paralleled except by the Russian aristocracy. The element of immortality and the fact that the institutions of the family and the home had lost their in- violability were among the most import ant causes of the downfall of the ancient institutions and political structure in France.
 Beginning with the futile appeals to the sovereign for aid and for the amel- oraton of their condition, the people of France quickly progressed to open de- hance of king and government. The army like that of the Tsar, early showed un- mlstakable signs of siding with the peo- ple and in the end the old institutions of France were swept away and Louis
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Tempered Poultry.

From Country Life in America.
 At the National Stock Yards, at East St. Louis, chickens lead a life of lux ury. It Is not for them to scratch in the dirt for worms and run eagerly after corn. They are placed, as it were. under the Weir Mitchell treat ment. They live chiefly on milk diet. and are carefully excluded from any undue excitement. Two meals are given them daily. and after each meal the house is darkened, that noth- ing may interfere with their after dinner nap The food given Is a care ful combination of buttermilk. ground cereals and ground meat. To insure impartiality large quantities are pre- pared at a time To each bird is al lotted a certain amount. Attached to the feeding stand Is a rubber tube, which is pushed through the coop; next. chicken after chicken is taken out and fed by inserting rubber tube into each beak. When the chickens become accustomed to this they open their mouths easily for the nursing bottle as the feeder passes from one to Inc other. After twenty-four days of this diet the pampered fowls are usually ready to go down the elevator to the killing. department It is as- serted that chickens which have been fattened for this process are equally tender all over when they reach the table-that the drumstick is as tooth some as the breast This elaborate plant has the capacity of 12,000 birds at d time.
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Burdens of People.

As showing the conditions out of which grew the French revolution and illus trating the poverty of the peasant class in France, it is said that the Abbey of St. German des Pres alone owned about 9O0,000 acres. One-ffth of all the land of France belonged to the clergy, one-fifth to the nobllity'to the communes and the king.
 Making up the third estate were 6O00,- 0O0 of people whose only importance lay in the fact that they supported the no- bilty and the king and furnished the clergy with material
 Just as in Russia today the vast bulk of valuable land is entirely in the hands of the noble and arstocratic classes. so in France three-ffths of the real estate of the Kingdom was held by privileged orders, and. furthermore, these three hfths were by far the richest and most valuable of all.
 The masses of the people were treated not like human being. but like animals by the wealthy nobility. The court of Louis XVI was one of the most luxurious and extravagant that the world has ever seen. The burden Of this court was borne by the people from whom, in taxes and tithes. were wrung vast sums of money to pay for the gaiety and pleas ure at court of the nobles.
 Corruption and graft were prevalent throughout France. faYorites of the
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Failing in the effort to induce foreign capital to forward the industrial ad- vaneement of the nation. the government attempted the task under the wise and capable administration of Sergius Witte, whose profound Knowledge of economies and of Russian conditions made him the man needed for such a gigantic under taking, Wtte raised enormous sums or money in foreign countries. The railroads throughout the collossal Russian empire were enlarged and new ones were built this work necessitating the production of supplies. which necessity. in turn, caused the founding of factories everywhere The iron industry. one of the few native to the country received additional inn petus. The mineral interests in Russia rich in coal and ores, began 10 be ade- quately worked.
 In five years, from 1894 to 1899, the Rus sian government chartered almost one thousand stock companies with capital estimated at over $1 400 o00,000. Industrial production increased by 50 per cent. The steady advancement of values went on until by 1897 it amounted to some $1,Si6, O0O,00O The new born industry of the nation was largely dependent on these government railroads. In time prices were depressed through a new policy. the government contracts being reduced in the prices paid for building supplies. The factories which had grown up in a night at Minister Witte's bidding to sup ply these materials, ceased to be paying ventures. In buying supplies the govern ment gave preference to high priced na- tive manufactures, rather than buying more cheaply in England and Germany, thus adding to the financial confusion of values which was steadily increasing.
 The exports of the country did not keep pace with it's productiveness, the former
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, the land did not yield enough profit to
 pay the taxes imposed by the govern
 ment and also support the farmer and his family At the same time this land was burden of which the peasant could
 not be rid in order to devote himself to becoming skilled in some trade. Bound
 to the soi the peasant met the heavy financial obligation imposed by the gov ernment by emigrating to the cities dur ing the lengthy winter months when the farms were necessarily unproductive and there hiring out as a driver. servant,
 messenger or at any unslSilled employ
 ment which he could gain.
 At this time Russia was completely
 lacking in skilled workmen.
 The year 1895 witnessed the beginning of new industrial era. At this time in Russia there were some small factories for weaving cloth in the larger cities;
 also scattered efforts at the manufac-
 ture of iron. On the coast were unim-
 portant industrial cities whose trade was
 carried on mainly under the leadership
 of German and English firms. Neither
 the capital nor the skilled mechanics of these enterprises were Russian, and this served as an excuse for the refusal of these foreign interests to move inland when pressed to do so by the Russian government.
 The foreign captains of industry re-
 fused to move too far from the base of
 supplies, true to the tactics of all war fare. An inland factory might be closed down for weeks for lack of skilled ma chinist to patch some temporary break age of the boilers or other similar mis- chance. The interior of Russia continued as a vast farming community the farm ing being carried on not as means of gain and advancement, but .merely to
 wiring from the soil the barest necessities J 5f living.
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 haps a republic, lies in the longing for real freedom and a voice in the govern ment with which all mankind is endowed
 Like the fight for Magma Charta in England and the titanic struggle which disrupted the French monarchy more than a century ago and ultimately re- suited in a republic, Russia's battle or the people springs from the unquencha- ble love of liberty.
 As the more immediate cause of politi- cal chaos in the empire of the Tsar, the war with Japan looms large. It taught the Russian peasant. that the power of the Tsar was not supreme, that athe Elm peror's armies could be beaten, that the cruel burden of war rested on the peas ants and that the struggle itself was made a medium for graft and stealing by that inner circle of the nobility and grand dukes known as the bureaucracy.
 Like French Revolution.
 The herculean efforts of the masses in Russia to overthrow an ancient sys- tenn. replete with all the horrors of des- potism and tyranny, has been compared by some careful observers of events not only to the French revolution but to the present economic struggle in America be- tween the people and the corporate in terests which have become so powerful a factor in the national life
 Expressed in different terms, say these observers, but nevertheless similar, is the effort of the Russian people to ob- tain real freedom and the fight waged by the masses in this country to make the will of the people and not that of corporate interests supreme
 The nutnona of the struggle in Russia
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of continues France during period Just as in France the the position of loyalty king the pend on whether with the douma collision between general predicted entirely upon attitude the standing 12
 
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 crowd and the killed Wheeupon into revolt ly government
 the described the time revolt a revolution
 the time precisely similar The
 
 sembe well be this ives of the of despotsm Il
 Whether the whether France liberty human life and treasure remains
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the government concerning the griey- ances of soldiers who have mutinied and are still unsubdued.
 Such defiant championship apparently can hardly fail to enlist the sympathies of the rank and file on the side of the popular assembly,, and it remains to be seen whether the government will dare to discipline that body. For the last week news concerning the temper of the rank and file in many Russian regiments has been of an ominous character. On June Il a telegram from odessa. where have been landed 152000 troops that had taken part fin the far eastern war, including many who had been prisoners in Japan. said that the strictest precautions had to be taken to prevent them from be- coming into contact with the civilian population, for the reason that they were known to be largely disaffected.
 As regiment after regiment arrived it was broken up and distributed in small attachments among various towns, but the sole result seems to have been the diffusion of the seeds of instruction. It appears that the repatriated officers make no secret of their belief that if the douma can hold its own for awhile it can count on the support of large part of the army.
 Mutiny Is Rife.
 In Kursk and Poltava provinces mu- tinies have begun. At Kursk an infan- try regiment made certain demands, on the refusal of which the soldiers beat their colonel and received with ridcule his order to lay down their arms. The artillery. and even the Cossacks, who formed a part of the same garrison. dis oheved an order to attack the mutineers.
 At Poltava on he day named an in fantry regiment. at the failure of the military authorities to keep their prom
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averaging BPS, ,OO0, GOO yearly. while the lat ter aggregated $1, ,SO0 O00O00. The appall- ing poverty of 12500O,00O out of the 130,- 000,000 of Russians prevented their pur- chasing the native manufactures. The great industries were either directly con trolled by the government or were fed by it's patronage
 Industrial Crisis.
 The first serious industrial crisis came in 1899, when many large failures took place owing to a scarcity of capital com ing from outside sources. At this time there were 146 foreign corporations In Russia, the capital coming from France Belgium Germany and England greater financial crisis followed hard upon the first in 1900. Political complica- tions, connected with the Boxer troubles in China. combined to embarrass the ministry of finance. and, owing to the pa- ,ernalism of the Russian industrial sys- tenn, the private banks of the empire be- came involved in the difficulties of the government.
 The artificial imitation of Russian in- dustrial values fell like pricked balloon. A terrible financial panic ensued. In 1901 the loss to Belgium Investors alone ap- proximated to s3G. 100000 Twelve million dollars were lost by the ministry of fin- nance by the stoppage of building oper- ations for which the government had no further use Interests to the amount of Sl COG, 100000 Approximately were closed out Factories were closed, mines ceased to be worked. blast furnaces shut down. Men were thrown out of work by the thousands and the distress multiplied from day 10 day.
 The efforts of the government to re- t,ieye this situation were, in the main, unavairns. Millions of dollars have been lost, and the countrys industrial ad-
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1 ises regarding severe conditions. left their
 barracks armed with rifles and held a
 meeting in a public square, at which del 1 egates from another regiment of infan-
 try and from an artillery brigade pledged
 their support to the mutineers. In other
 words, these two important provincial i cities have become centers of army in
 surrection.
 Still more alarming from the viewpoint
 of the Tsar and his reactionist advisers
 is the growing doubt as to whether even
 the troops stationed in the capital can ] be relied upon. On June II several non l commissioned officers and thirty troopers
 of the Horse Guards. together with some
 on-commissioned officers of the Preob- rajensky guard regiment, were marched | to prison and the sentinels have been 1 trebled around the fortress in which they | are confined.
 | Both regiments have been shut up in 1 their barracks, while the Novocherkaslxy has been broken up and apportioned
 among places outside of the capital in
 consequence of the discovery of revolu- 1 tionary literature In it's quarters. | In view of such signs of far reaching | disaffection in the army the douma de- mand for redress of the soldiers grlev-
 ances seems calculated to provoke a formidable insurrection
 | Race Hatred Factor. One of the important factors in the
 Russian struggle is race hatred. Mosen
 hatred of the Armenians is bitter. This feeling is of long standing, and is never
 absent The Armenians have been de- tested as parasites and exploters of Mo- hammedan and other populations in the | Caucasus, and for several years the Rus sian authorities have had much dffi-
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vaneement set back at least fifteen years. The present political situation in Russia is partly the outcome of these Russian versions of "frenzied finance,
 The present situation Is not so much a struggle between the emperor and his subjects as the first manifestation of the spirit of the new Russia.
 Great Figures Crisis.
 Great figures that stand out in the present crisis are the premier. Goremy- kin General Trepoff, famous reactionary leader, the president of the donna, and, of course, the Emperor himself.
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 Napoleon swept in on the tide of re- volt and posing as the champion of the people eventually attained supreme pow CT in France, and by his superlative mil- tary genius made himself not only ruler of the French, but seemed for q time 10 be destined to extend his sway through out Europe,
 Will the destiny of France be that of Russia. and will the ultimate result m the land of the Tsar be the complete overthrow of the government and the es tablishment of a republic such as that which followed the downfall of the an- clent institutions in France?
 Time alone will show whether the course of events in Russia will continue to run parallel to those which occurred century ago in France. Thus far the similarity between conditions seems to have been proved beyond doubt and there are many careful observers of events who believe that the final result will also be similar.
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National debt. $S,5OO,ooo,OOO.
 Annual interest on debt, Ss0.0o0O00.
 Expended on Siberian and Manchurlan roads, s1.50O, ,O00, eco.
 Taxes unpaid by peasants d9O0. $60 O000OO.
 Loss by industrial depression in three years $30O, 0OO,OO0
 Loss by famine in five years preceding 1902, $500, ,00O, 900.
 Eight famines. five since 1902, loss 800. GOO OOO
 Loss to toilers by 15Q to TO holidays each year, $1O0.000,00O
 War loss, $10o0,0O0'Oo0..
 Expenses of holy synod annually, $fs,- 5o0,0OO.
 From these and other causes the rev. olutionary spirit has grown, partly un- observed in Russia for decade or more. It has been a quiet, steady develop ment along industrial lines, whose prog ress has been unnoted by the general public as it's national, rather than finan- eial, importance has been not under but unestimated by the world.
 Land unprofitabe.
 Until some nine or ten years ago the industries of Russia were confined prac- tieally to the cultivation of the soil even this being carried on in a haphazard fashion Agriculture was the only possi- ble industry under the political and na- tional conditions which then held. Each of the serfs, at the time of his emanci- patton, in 1S61 received from the govern ment a strip of land to serve as a means of support, the land to be paid for in in stallments.
 These men, then lately set free, had little initiative toward the acquisition of modern methods of agriculture and un- der the primitive attempts at cultivation
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RUSSIA.

Back of riotings, slaughter, race feuds and the5poverty and misery of the peas ant population. the primary cause of the great political upheaval in Russia which seems likely to overthrow the empire and result in new form of government, per-
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seems to hinge on the actions and tenn, per of the army The douma has already done what the states general in France did not attempt to do during the first two months of it's existence. It has not only protested against the reign of mar tial law and the summary executions of arrested persons, but 1t has interpellated
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Power of Napoleon.

| XVI and Marie Antolnette, his queen'
 gave their lives
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-03-03
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Lent has come for a six weeks
stay until Easter, April 18th.

Lent has come for a six weeks
stay until Easter, April 18th.
We treat our readers to 3 pages,
or IA columns, of extra & choice
reading matter this week.
Mrs. Cowan entertained the
Presbyterian Ladies AID society
on Thursday afternoon.
Soft finished White Goods,
suitable for drawn work waists &
suits for sale at zeigler's store.
Thursday brought US a shower,
followed by a cold wave, snow
and biting wind.
MISS Ida Behan entertained a
few lady friends at tea in comph-
ment to Mrs Freda Trinkle.
Atty Hollnquist was in Ellis on
Saturday on legal business return
iRg first of the week.
W. A. Smith has secured a pas
ture east of town and Will take
some of the town herd to pasture.
Spring shoes! Just in!
We have received the latest fads
in Shoes, something fine, and Just
the thing. Come see them at the
Zeigler store.
Judge Atberton, attorney Hol-
land and Beardsley were in Ellis
Wednesday and visited friends in
our town that evening.
j. D. Bailey and wife, Evange-
lists, will oegln a series of meet
lngs in the Baptist church Sunday
March 11th.
Last Saturday afternoon fire
broke out in the back building o.
Sisters college, the fire department
were soon on hand and fire out,
water beng plenty. Caught from
emptying ashes against the build
ing and Kansas wind.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-03-03

Have your Horse notes printed
at this Office.
Now 1t is top time with the kids
who are having lots of fun.
Caves moved to their new home
on east Junlata this week.
Ask to see those Pongee En-
broidered Shirt Waist Patterns
at ZeIgler's store.
Landlord Field and Cox's eleva-
tor put in new FIRE proof safes
this week.
A heavy wind and dust clouded
the sky in this section on Wed
nesday making it very unpleasant.
Don't fail to read Barteldes & Co
adver. They are a Kansas house
and handle only the best Of seed
~ Get your shoes Repaired
at the GAssMAN shoe shop. All
work quickly and neatly done.
City Marshal Wing has gone
west to his claim and Charlie Rupp
is marshal and street commissioner
and makes a good one.
SEED CORN FOR SALE.
/ have u variety of seed corn
especially adapted to upland.
Other standard seed in stock.
w. A. SMITH, HAYS.
ZeigIer 6 Son are starting then
house cleaning before fly time by
having the inside of their store
re-painted and handsome papereC
ceiling. Go see.
With the wind and dust blow
ing Wednesday Harry FELTON, go
out his sprinkling cart and sprir
kled the main business streets anC
settled the dust nicely.
Mrs. II. G Williams of St Louis
Mo-, returned Missionary, vii
speak at the Presbyterian church
on Wednesday evening, Feb. 7tE
at 1880. Come out and hear her.
The Ladies Aid Society of tn,
Baptist church will meet and serv'
a 15~ccnt lunch at Miss Hopper
next Thursday Afternoon, Marcel
9Th, to which all are invited.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1906-03-03

The Saturday. Afternoon Club
have taken UP the work of decora-
ting the walls, and grounds of our
Public School building. They have
already placed one fine picture in
the High school room, and intend
to furnish all the rooms with one
or more copies from famous pic
lures. In order to raise means for
the same, they will give a series
of entertainments in the near fu-
ture, consisting of the best talent
along literary and musical lines
in Our midst.
The first on the list will prob
ably be a repetition of the Musi-
cal, given at the home of Mrs. Jas
Reeder, on the occasion of the
organization of the Club.
Mrs. GeOa5 Philip. Sec. =