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the few who were at the top of the list of Rs.
At last, Mr. Senator Ross" and the vener-
able voice shook trif1e, do you find Andrew
Johnson, President of the United States, guilty
or not guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors?
How say you, MIR. Senator Ross!
Every eye among the thousands flew over
to the extreme left of the chamber and the
slight movement of Ross chair could be heard
as the junior Senator from Kansas soberly
drew himself to his full height. The telegraph
instruments in the newspaper lobby relapsed
into quietude Their operators were waiting
to send one word. The cadence of the Judges
question had not yet died out. and it seemed to
the intent multitude that stretches of time had
already elapsed and Senator Ross lips were
still closed The telegraph keys fell with
unanimous click and distant cities were re-
peating the stunned relief of the Senate gale
ries: for "Not guilty!" was Senator Ross
in the White House, still President of the
United States
Selecting the Capital
THAT these memorable contests were decided
in the beautiful city by the Potomac and
not at some spot near the headWaters of the
Delaware the Susquehanna, itself due
to single vote. The first struggle that shook
the national capital Upon the respective
charms of the Pennsylvania and Virginia rivers
the houses deadlocked. and the Government
had been organized for over twelvemonth
without beng a bic to persuade the antagon1St1c
chambers to give it permanent home.
But when Secretary Alexander Hamilton
asked Secretary Thomas Jefferson to dinner,
forces capable of creating empires had laid their
hands on this geographical puzzle, and with
the second bottle of port compact was rati-
fed, by which the author of the Declaration Of
Independence was to secure Southern votes
for the great finance minister's all embracing
revenue plans, and in return the financier was
to turn some Northerners to capital city
south of Chesapeake Bay. The bargain was
performed In the House of Representatives,
several Virginians. to the CONSERVATION of their
colleagues, receded from hitherto vigorous
opposition to the hated refundng bill. and,
Joining New England and the Hudson, speeded
that concealed engine of monarchy across to
the Senate, where the pay for it was without
delay counted down. No sooner had the two
Pennsylvania Senators beheld that coveted
financial measure safe within the doors of the
upper chamber than they awakened to sense
of Pennsylvania inadequacy as the site for a
Shareholders in a loud insistence upon the
felicity of the Potomac's northern bank.
The transfer of these two votes broke the
Susquehanna preponderance IN the Senate.
and, as the Cabinet ministers had planned
round their historic dinner table, without a
vote to spare bill sent up to the Presi-
dent. establishing forever the seat of American
Government within ten miles of the Presidents
home town of Alexandria, in a city to be called
after his own name.
The Treaty of Paris
rYNI 6
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SOME RECEIPTS WORTH WHILE

thousand dollars. In the begin
ming of this cordial. the receipt
for making it was written on
single fragment of parchment. six
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-01

THAT most insidious and vic
i ious of drinks. absinthe, was
first concocted by a French
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The Treaty of Paris

THAT much of North America would one
day look up to their city may have proudly
passed through its founders minds; but even
the large visioned Hamilton could hardly have
foreseen Governors riding forth from its gates
to rule in distant continent. Yet thus far
its sway to be extended, by single vote.
A hundred years elapsed, and to the village
near Mount Vernon, now grown into brilliant
capital, came the tidings of the Republic S
victory among the spice islands of the East.
An oriental empire, secure in the hands of the
Spanish Kings since the days of Magellan,
bowed before the young men of Annapolis,
and at Paris, amid lamentations that walled
through Europe, the Ambassadors of his
Castilian Majesty obtained peace by treaty
which handed to Washington the ownership
of these Asiatic lands.
But to persuade the Senate of the United
States was task less easy. Luzon and the
VlZcayans were words that sounded strange
in American ears, and viceroy at Manila
seemed to move anonymously within the
clauses of the Constitution. third of the
Senators remained undazzled by possessions
on the neither side of the earth, and when the
doors were locked for the final vote, all the
chancelleries from Berlin to Toxic watched to
see the Philippines waved d1sda1nfully away.
But even among the Democrats the White
House had showered army commissions and
posts in the diplomatic corps; SO that sud-
denly Mark Hanna's burly figure burst into
the lobby, and, swinging his arms exultngly
to the group of expectant reporters, he shouted,
We've won, we've won't!
The cables underneath the Atlantic and the
Pacific instantly echoed this triumphant shout
of the administration, and told distant peoples
how by just the necessary two-thirds ayes |"
the Senate had planted the American flag per-
manently over the hundred islands washed by
the oriental sea.
The Flipinos and the Constitution
A FEW years later, and the fate of the Philip
= pines was again dealt out by single hand.
The Filipinos. vexed with tariff schedules and
the despotic jurisdiction of youths fresh from
West Point, fled to the august tribunal that
guards the Constitution, and held up in their
beseeching hands that fundamental text. But
the Supreme Court drew away its silken skirts
from the Asiatics. Four of the Justices. did in
though they differed from the others as to why
it should be so, were agreed that the benign
h Of he Constitution, slammed NJ he
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Life Among the Papuans.

Only ten miles from Port Moresby,
in Papua, or New Guinea, the head
quarters of British administration, a
white planter was murdered. The
crime was traced to a Papuan who
had built new house and wanted to
paint it with a mixture of red clay
and cocoanut oil. According to tri-
bal custom he was not entitled to
paint his house in that style until he
had killed at least one man. So he
killed him. A Papuan living near one
of the stations of the London Mission
airy Society was brought before the
local magistrate charged with having
kicked his wife in the face. His de-
tense was that he was in a hurry
to go to school and his wife was
slow in bringing him his reading
bock.-Chicago News.
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SIeenine in Tents

Since it became generally known
that sleeping in the open air is good
remedy for tuberculosis many people
have adopted the practice of sleeping
in tents in the summer. But sleeping
in a tent is far different from sleeping
in the open air. In fact, many people
who sleep in houses come nearer be-
ing in the open air than do those who
occupy tents. A canvas room by 10
feet, with sides close to the ground
and the front closed, is not as airy
a place as an ordinary bedroom IL or
Is feet square, and with doors and
windows open. 1t may be all right to
sleep in closed tent. but don't de-
ceive yourself into believing that you
are sleeping in the open air when you
do it.-Portland Oregonian.
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RAILROAD NEWS.
Some Facts and Figures Con-
corning Missouri Pacific.
Main Stem of This System
Shows Up Fairly Well.
IRON MOUNTAIN LOSER
This Line Responsible for Big
gest Decrease in Earrings.
Other Items of Interest in Rail-
way Circles.

Detailed reports of the Missouri Pa
cific railway proper, as furnished the
Interstate Commerce Commission, set
ting forth the result of operations for
the fiscal year ended on June 80 lastg
show that the parent stem of the sys--
tenn suffered a less serious decrease in
gross and net earnings than its pro rata
share. The returns show that the
Missouri Pacific railway furnished Al
per cent of the total business tran
Bacted by the system. whereas it orig
mated only SO per cent of the entire
decrease in gross earnings and 40 per
cent of the entire decrease in net. The
st. Louis Iron Mountain and Southern
was responsible for the larger part of
the traffic losses of the system
Freight earnings of the Missouri Pa
cific amounted to $14.S3S,579, as COM
pared with $16,695,777 for the previous
year, a decrease of 1857 1913. Passen-
ger earnings were $4,12S,771, compar-
ed with $4,637,S09, a decrease of $685.
OBS. A great deal of this loss in pas
senger earnings is to be attributed di-
rcctly to the legislation in the various
states through which the line runs, re-
ducing rates to a 2-cent basis
Gross earnings of the road amounted
to $50, 946,611, as cmopared with $22,-
541,602. a decrease of $1,594.991. To
offset this loss it was found possible
$16.369.645 to $15,681,OO2, a decrease
of S6SS,643.
OF these gross operating expenses
for last year $3,13O,726 was charge
able to expenditures for maintenance
of way, as compared with $2.92O,361
spent for the same purpose in 1907, an
in increase of $21O,365. Maintenance
of equipment aggregated $2.66O,115. as
Ncompared with $3.363,SS3, a decrease
N2f $70S,76s. Conducting transportation
cost SS.700.155 last year. while S.
639,629 was spent in the previous year,
an increase of $60.526. due in large
part to the increased cost of labor, and
the relative smaller volume of pay
ing traffic which was moved.
on the system as a whole gross
earnings for the year were S44,23S,7OS.
a decrease of $4.464639, or 81 per
cent. Net earnings amounted to ST.
592.015, a decrease of $3,595,S57, or
II per cent.
These figures do not in any way in
dictate that the experience of the Mis-
souri, Pacific differed essentially from
thar of the other roads or that
its losses in revenue were proper
tionally greater.
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EXPECT a REHEARING.
Railroad Attorneys Confident of Sue
cess in Missouri River Case.

Chicago, Sept 16.-Attorneys for
railroads which are threatened with
a loss of millions of dollars in
revenues as a result of the famous
Missouri river rate case decision are
confident that a rehearing of the
case will be granted by the Interstate
Commerce commission.
A conference of the attorneys was
held today at which the preparation
of a petition to the commission for a
rehearing was begun. The petition,
which will recite the serious effects
which it is believed will result to the
railroads and to Chicago and ST
Louis commercial interests will be
presented to the commerce board
within a few days.
Il am firmly of the opinion that
the commission can hardly refuse to
give a rehearing in view of the ire
mendous Importance of the case and
the great number of interests in
volved," said one of the interested
attorneys. "The decision is regarded
as the gravest blow that has yet
been struck at the railroads.
1.-THE attorneys feel that inasmuch
as a number of railroads that will
have their revenues cut by the com
missions order were not parties to
suit. il would be unfair not to give
these roads a chance to be heard"
In it's decision the commission or
dered that through rates from the
seaboard to Missouri river points be
reduced to less than the sums of the
locals, thus Introducing new principle
in rate making. The commission s
order becomes effective September %
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of the building is devoted entirely to
gymnasium purposes divided into the
mems and women's physical training
rooms each 60x90 feet. Provision is
made so as to throw these two rooms
into one room, 12Ox90 feet to be used
for all intercollegiate events; this room
is unobstructed by pillars and is COW
cred by self supporting dome roof 80
feet high: these rooms are equipped
with the best modern gymnasuc ap-
paratus. .
The mems gymnasium basement IS
we'll lighted and ventilated, having
ia foot ceiling. and contains a locker
room 5,4O0 square feet, having 3S9 IN
dividuaI ventilated steel lockers Tx
15x6O inches, also hot and cold snow
ers and rooms for hand ball, wrestling
fencing, etc.
feet is unusually we'll lighted and VEN
tilated. IA foot ceiling, 2SS ind1vlduai
ventilated steel lockers 12xl5xOU IN
| ches (provision for adding ABOUT 1VV
more:O six locker rooms, eacn con,
tanning two private baths TOT not am
cold showers; a girls study room ana
| q 1arpe rest room. In the general
basement provision is mace LOT d
| swimming pool 45x2O feet.
But this great building IS mucIl
more than a gymnasium Inc We
portion will be, with the paseIIieIll'
four stories high. It has two impress
sive entrances under massive towers,
contains private and public oflces Tor
the gymnasium directors, trophy
rooms, recitation rooms nteTary
cfetv halls, Y. M. c. A. and \. W. =; =.
| rooms art rooms and several other
beautiful recitation rooms. 1t will be
the raliying center for the social; ut
! ererv and religious life of the unlver-
sity. ,,,15 he
a,a,+ioned that of Mr.. ]. Luther Tay-
inr class of 'e5, $4,000; the Baker
Students stu, and the town of Baldwin win
80 ooO. other subscriptions make the
total about $50, 900 while $4,000 is yet
needed; but the actual VaIue OIL ING
| hui1din1 will be over $1OO ,OOO.
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LECOMPTON'S BIG DAY.
All Arrangements Completed for the
Harvest Home Picnic Sent. Is.

Lecompton, Sept. 16.-AII arrange
ments have been completed for the
annual harvest home picnic which will
be held on the Lecompton campus
Friday, September 18th, and the affair
promises to be the banner affair of
its kind as far as this little city is con-
cerned. The event as in the past will
partake of many of the features of an
old fashioned county fair, premiums
being offered for the prettiest young
woman in attendance at the picnic.
Prizes galore for exhibits from the
farm and dairy, more prizes for fancy
work and vegetables with a long list
of prizes under the miscellaneous
heading.
In the afternoon Professor J. H.
Miller of the State Agricultural col
lege will deliver an address. followed
in the evening by Congressman Chas.
F. Scott, and Barney Sheridan, who
will crate. There will be a short in
Permission between the afternoon and
evening talks when the Yarnold and
Prairie Hill ball teams will contend
for supremacy. Only a few of the at
fractions have been mentioned and
while the big show is on the Perry
band will dispense music.
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a decrease of 3O.371 since the last
report of this decrease 21.723 are
box cars and 1858 coal and gondola.
The decrease in box cars is the
largest since the maximum surplus,
413,605, was reached.
An increased activity in repairing
cars is shown by a reduction of 1862
in the number of bad order cars.
Small shortages are reported on a
few railroads, the shortage totaling
1,41S. Regarding this condition,
Arthur Hale, chairman of the COM
mittee, says:
whenever these shortages are of
such a nature and extent as to justify
action by the committee the con-
ditions are brought to the attention
of the roads reporting a surplus and
arrangements are made to transfer
equipment to the road having use for
it. During the past week the com
mittee has been called upon in sew
eral instances for assistance in pre-
venting local shortages"
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If the railroads are unable to stave off
its enforcement through an appeal to
the commission, an injunction will be
sought in the federal courts.
SHORT LINE TO PANHANDLE.
First Spike on Altus, Roswell & f.
PaSo, to Be Driven Soon.

Guthrie. Okla, Sept. 16.-The sum
of 100000 in bonuses has been
raised for the Altus, Roswell & Ell
Paso railroad. and the first spike will
be driven within the next fifty days,
according to Edward Kennedy of
Houston, Tex, president.
He maintains his road will shorten
of Texas, st. Louis and Kansas by
146 miles. The road will be 246
miles long. connecting at Altus with
the Orient and the Frisco. The
bonus money is being used for grad
ing purposes. The stretch between
Altus and Hollis, distance of thirty
six miles, has already been graded
and actual building will be COM
menced Immediately after the en-
bridging that has been found neces-
sary in places. The Dalhoff Construc-
ton company of Little Rock, Ark,
has the contract. H. H. Fielder is
chief engineer.
The line will make direct connec-
ton in Oklahoma with Duke, Gibson,
Hollis Arley, Rowe and Silverton and
ping southwest Oklahoma and the
richest section of the Texas Pan
handle. According to President Ken
needy, the new road will be tributary
to the Fort Worth and Denver, fifty
miles south of the Santa Fe and sixty
miles north of the Texas and Pacific,
thus splitting in two the south plains
country. The road will also make
connection with Mexico Santa Fe at
Roswell for points In Mexico. About
eighteen townsites are to be opened up
along the route. The road will cost
$4,000 per mile to complete and is
incorporated for 100000.
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DAVID j. BREWER TO SPEAK.
The Supreme Justice Will Attend the
Semi Centennial of His Church.

Leavenworth. Sept. 16.-Sunday the
First regationalists will observe
the fiftieth anniversary of the found
ing of the congregation.
The congregation was organized
March G. 1889 but the Rev. C. P.
Connolly thought it best to defer the
semi-centennial celebration until the
church was put in repair. The repairs
VIII not be completed until the latter
part of this week
David ]. Brewer, deacon of the Con-
gregation church over forty years ago
who is now justice in the United
states supreme court, will speak at the
church Sunday morning. The Justice
has not informed the minister, the
Rev. c. p. Connolly. as to the subject
OF his remarks. Justice Brewer Joined
the local Congregational church in
1853, one year after its foundation,
and later became Sunday school
teacher, and still later a deacon.
Miss Sarah Wilder, sister-in-law OF
the Rev. c. P. Connolly, will sing at
both morning and evening services
Miss Wilder has recently completed
course in voice culture in Paris
France.
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.w e. T. U. MEETING.
T1xenty-Third Annual Convention OF
tho Fourth Congressional District

Burlingame, Sept. 16.-The twenty
third annual convention OF the Wo.
r;s Cbrietian Temperance union of
The Fourth congressional district Will
he in session in the Baptist church Of
This city today, Thursday and Friday
nth about forty delegates present.
Mrs. S. c. South of Burlington is the
district president. Wednesday night
will be welcome night, with actresses
~ welcome from representatives OF
tbe churches. schools and all the civic
and social organizations of the city, re.
snonded to by Mrs. E. B. Krenz OF
WaverIy. A children's hour Will De
held in schuyler school building at
o'clock Thursday, conducted by MISS
Ada Ha11er. a primary teacher with
tioi,.+1, yaars' experience in the Burlin-
ra,,e Schools. Thursday evening VIII
be held a gold medal contest.
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THIRTY-FIvE SEEK DIVORCE.
A Heavy Docket Along This Line in
the Bourbon Co. Court.

Fort Scott, Sept. 16.-The October
term of district court, will convene
Monday. October 5th. There will be
thirty-five divorce cases tried at this
session. This number may be Slight
ly in excess of the number usually
docketed but Bourbon county some
way or other has a heavy grist at di-
vorces and in the past fifteen years
there have been nearly two thousand
divorce litigations launched in this
court,
There will be seventy-nine jury
cases, besides the criminal docket
There will be thirteen criminal cases.
There are sixty-two court cases in
which juries will not be used.
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NoRToN's BIG REVIVAL.
DIR. Slough of Illinois, in Charge With
a Chorus of 200 Voices.

Norton, Sept 16.-This town having
progressed in building and business
prosperity way out of sight of many
sister towns in the Sixth COMPRESSION
al district it thought it proper to en-
gage in a revival and religious awak-
ening. One hundred of her repre-
sentative citizens and business men
guaranteed to pay SO each to defray
the expenses. A tabernacle, S0x96 feet,
with a seating capacity for 1000 peo-
pie, has been erected. There is a
chorus of about 200 voices, with Mrs.
Eva Wheeler, of this city, the organ
list Upont entering the tabernacle
there os this motto Immediately
above the heads of the chorus: Nor
ton for Christ" The revival meetings
opened Sunday last, and if the first
crowds are any criterion to go by,
Norton will enjoy such great revival
of religion as she never has had before
The meetings which will continue four
weeks are under the direction of Rev
Henry W. Slough, the noted evangel-
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A NEW BUILDING FOR THEM.
Salvation Army Home at Junction
City Is Being RemodeIed.

junction City, Sept. 16.-Work has
commenced here on the remodelling
OF the Salvation Army building on
East Seventh street. The west adj
dition of the building will be torn
down to make room for a large 65x30
foot hall which will be used for the
meetings.
There will be six rooms in this por-
ton of the building to be used as
quarters for officers of the army. They
will be complete with heat and bath,
etc
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list of Wheaton, ILL.,. and D. Lansing
Spooner, chorus leader and soloist, as
sisted by the local ministers of Norton.
DR.. Slough is an Ohio man by birth,
and is about 35 years of age. He has
been in the ministry for number of
years, and since 1893 has actively
been engaged in church work. He has
successfully conducted evangelistic
work in many of the eastern and
southern states. For some time he
will remain in Kansas.
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HONOR To BAKER.
The New Gymnasium at Bald.
win to Cost 100000.
Largest on the Campus, Cover.
ing 40 Square Feet.
! is FOUR STORIES HIGH
Two Physical Training Rooms
Can Be Thrown in One.
Will Be Rallying Center for
Schools Social Life.
is FOUR STORIES HIGH

Baldwin, Kan, Sept 16.-The new
gymnasium in process of erection at
Baker university. Baldwin, Kan, to
take the place of the one destroyed by
fire over a year ago, is the largest
building on the campus, covering an
area 140 square feet. The east part
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eee BEST TREATMENT
90. FOR CKTARRH

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tender in a joint on Cherokee street,
shot and seriously injured William
Harvey, a young farmer, Tuesday af
ternoon. Harvey was beating a boy
when Pemberton tried to stop him and
a fight followed. Pemberton secured
a revolver and shot Harvey in the
left shoulder near the neck
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DECREAsE IN IDLE CARS.
Improved Conditions Reported by
American Association.

boost toward prosperity is indicated
in the biweekly report of the car
efficiency committee of the American
Railway association, which was is
sued today. The total surplus cars on
the railroads of the United States and
Canada has been reduced to 222,632,
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roc Registration at K. Q.

Lawrence. Kan. Sept. 16.-The reg
is+ration at the University of Kansas
has reached the nine hundred marx;
There has been continual string OF
students enrolling. Today is the reg
Mar day for registration.
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A Shooting at Leavenworth.

I,eavenworth, Kan. Sept 16.-
Eugene Pemberton said to be bar