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The Rich Hill tribune., 1909-06-10
Local News.
Personals Telling the Doings
Of People Yol Know.

Atty w o jackson. 81 Butler
was a Rich hin visitor Friday.
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Ed McMahon was Ne,ada
visitor Friday
Mrs. } N. Utterson, Of Webb
City, visited her daughter, Mrs.
Dr. Olseu last week
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Report from Springfield, where
a number OF young people from
here are attending school, state
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and are getting along first rate.
Alr. and Mrs } J. Warren
have gone to Girard, Kansas to
spend the summer with their
children fred and Ben and their
families.
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Louis C. Hulett was a Kansas
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Jake Larson has again become
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plants, vice Lewis Vodry resign
ed.
Marshal Benefited has been
rounding MP stock running at
large in the city and has made
number Of catches. TIA violation
of law to allOw stock TO run at
large and the offers propose TO
stop it.
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A new pond is being built by
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ia their engines. The water
from the city S wells is not suit
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boilers
The results Of Wash Clean"
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science.
Frank Euoutz was in town Fri
day and ordered his Tribune
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that he expects sometime to
move back 70 Rich Hill. as this is
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Henry Sheppard. Jose Flam-
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Leslie Reavley, ot Pittsburg,
Kansas, Is here on a visit 20 his
grandparents Mr. and Mrs. I
Peter Pearson.
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Mrs. W. c. Stonebrealyer WAS
in Montrose, Mo-, last week
where she organized a Royal
NeighQors lodge.
Y. S Beasley was a Kansas
City visitor Thursday.
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real traitors who made him scapegoat for their
acts. There a secret trial Toulon. as in the
Dreyfus affair. The prosecutor of Ullmo however.
Jewish officer. UlmO said be much
disspated and opium eater. Dreyfus's charac-
ter also attacked. The scene Of ILLINOIS deg
radiation at Toulon, when the buttons were torn
from his uniform and his sword broken in two
and he exhibited with tears in his eyes before
1eerng thousands, parallels the public disgrace OF
Captain Dreyfus.
Despite the similarity OF the two cases UImo may
be abundantly guilty OF the crime OF which he was
convicted and NAV amply deserve almost any
punishment. except. perhaps, entombment in the
terrestrial hell of DEVILS Island 1t has been naive
" stated that the climate of the Hes du Salut is
healthy. The burning tropical heat of nearby
gions cannot be borne by Europeans. provided with
comforts. for more than two years at a time with
out physical deterioration Except for a few palms
the islands practically deserts Disease is far
from unknown among the wretcEed exiIes. crowd
ed together and sweltering under the killing rays
OF the Madness and suicide the lot OF
many convicts. Within recent weeks it has been
reported that a few prisoners have managed to
escape from the place of torment by getting small
boats and reaching the coast of British Guiana.
there alright respectable folk with nsistent de-
mands for food and water. 1t is hardly credible
that the wardens of the islands. which the Devil
is said 10 envy extension to his dominion.
will let any escaped convict enjoy liberty for long.
To embark j OF molten brass to endure the
sufferings of shtpwrecked to glimpse freedom
and then be returned To the plutonic islands-such
fate might well appeal to the minds OF the Tor
quemadas who agonized Dreyfus
Dreyfus DEVILS Island had the alternative OF
sufocating in a little cell of being .sunstruck in
a tiny courtyard. When he could not endure the
cell he ventured into the courtyard. Then the rays
of the felled him earth If he had been
struck with club, His jaiers would grab him by
head and heels. 1t is charged. him inside and
fling his insensible body the cell cot. With
each sunstroke they thought his life finished.
The merciful jailers wanted to leave him In
A. gFa ffIrr
stroke came malignant tropical fever. combat
which required almost deadly doses OF quinne. Az
temporary maniac. with boiling blood and burning
brain. then q wasted skeleton. slowly starving to
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W1LKING PARTIES.
H Nezc Form of Entertainment an
Canada.

did you hear Of walking party?'' asked
a young woman who had just returned from a long
stay in Canada. NO. I don't mean little walking
trips across country in which group of persons
engage, but q form OF evenings entertainment.
Those Canadian girls seem to be taking exercise
continually. and any social affair is all the more
enjoyable across the border IL it includes what
seems some of lot of hard work.
Invitations to walking party sent out with
Just as much ceremony if the affair TO be
dance or theatre party 1t is essential for per-
feet walking party that there shall be equal
number of young men and young women. Those
invited meet at the home of the hostess at the
usual time for evening affair The guests
paired off and the route of the walk is announced
1T isn't any walk around the block by any
means. Five miles the least. One acts as
a master OF ceremonies. and he and his partner
lead the procession from the house When the
parade has moved certain specified distance the
leader calls a halt and turns his partner over TO
the OF the next leading couple. Then each
man moves up one. the leader taking the girl at
the foot OF the line.
THE march is resumed until the next stage is
reached. and then another change Of partners goes
into effect. BY the time the party returns to tho
house there has been usually complete change Of
partners all around
This isn't any summer amusement. In fact.
tramp through the snow with the Thermometer
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death through deprivation OF milk ard other nour-
shing food. Dreyfus refused die. His jailers fell
ill., left the island or died. DreyfUs stayed and
lived for he believed it his destiny to prove him
self innocent before the world. He put in
irons when disease had made him unable to walk.
Owing to the pressure Of the irons. his ankles
swelled and were Iacerated. Soon they COW
cred. with suppurative wounds penetrating to the
bone. Every morning The irons stained with bloody
rust removed. and the wounds were dressed,
so that they might begin to heal, and every sht
the irons were riveted on the raw flesh anew
For two months this cruel ordeal lasted Unable
to break his will with physical fortunes, the aiers
tried TO poison Dreyfus's mind. They allowed him
to only copies of his wifes letters, and these
contained cruel interpretations. They next withheld
all letters, and said, Your family has abandoned
you" To that the half-crazed martyr OF DevlFs
Island shrieked answer. Monsters, you he!'' but
some OF the lies ranked in the bosom OF the
fortunate until he was removed to France
from the hellsh Isle du Diable.
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TAILOR TOOK SENATOR'S SEAT.
Walked Into August Chamber and Occupied
Vacant Desk

The American people once elected tailor TO tho
Presidency. and doubtless many manipuators OF thu
shears and goose have sat in the seats OF tina
mighty by election. but only once, according 10
"reminiscences and anecdOte. did tailor mako HIM
self az home the floor OF the United States Sem
ate when he had no constituency to represent
The tailor was Hermann NORTH Fsedef. OF Phila-
deiphia. who came to Washington In April 1858, to
attend the exciting scenes during the Impeachment
craftsman. And this IS the account OF Now he witt
messed these proceedings q published Ia This
Washington Republican" OF that day:
"A good looking Teutonic friend OF ours a day
or two since made earnest appeal 70 our Mug
gins for ticket 10 the Senate listen to whac
was going forward at the Impeachment trial
soul, consented 10 furnish Teuton with the tails
manic pastebOard which effects the open sesame
10 the Senate chamber. and also assured our friend
that he would accompany him to the gallery and
find him eligible seat Muggins and Teuton
started to work their way in, but Muggtns
detained outside OF the door for few moments
and German friend went and passed tho
rectly 10 the entrance OF the Senate chamber and
was admitted by the geutiemanly ushers under
the belief, probably, that he a member OF
Congress, and passed through the vestibule and
took his seat in the first chair, and there
remained during the entire session in the confident
belief that he was entitled 20 the seat"
The descendants Of Hermann Redel living
notcher'' his trade. according To all accounts.
died in 1877. having declined pension after gal
LIANT service as marine during the Civil War
Washington Post.
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LIKE CASE OF DREYFUS
ULLMO SENT By FRANCE
TO DEVIL'S ISLAND.
NaUal Officer Conricted of Treason
able Correspondence 7cith Ger
many Mast Suffer.

In a shipload OF 74o convicts recently taken to
Devils Island and the other two islands compris-
ing the group of lies du Salut. lying off the coast
of French Guiana, constituting the great French
penal settlement. man whose case is strik
ingly similar TO the Dreyfus case. Doomed to a
lifetime OF the sufferings which Dreyfus endured
for five years, this man. Jew like Dreyfus but
officer OF the French navy instead of the army.
convicted. like Dreyfus. OF reasonable CORE
spondence with Germany. The man, Charles B.
Ullmo lieutenant In the French navy. was ar
rested in Toulon in the fall OF 1907 charged with
trying TO sell secret official documents to German
spies. These documents said to reveal the
channels to five great naval ports Of France. \
naval cipher code was missing. In consequence OF
the leak French naval tactics and code books were
revised. 1t is said that Ulmo confessed his crime
Dreyfus also, was said TO have confessed by the
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EVERY BOLIVIAN PATRIOTIC.

The new state Will surely be Bolivia still-nOt
TItcaca OF africa Cuzco; for a nation that has
fought obstinately TO maintain itself despite IN
Vulnerable misfortuues crowded into half century
Of experience gains one thing which offsets It's
losses namely, ndestTuctible sense OF national
ity. That is Bovia's important possession. which
certainly has Increased her other possessions
have diminished and patriotism Is II seems 10 me.
the very best characteristic Of these mountaneers
/ have seen in this La Paz and Lake Titicaca re-
gion many strang5 pitiful or revolving things.
For example. there - savery-one of the institu-
tons that will disappear completely until long
after a modern republic shall have arisen.
and until good people realize that the Imitation
OF Christ to-day for us means the limitation or
Him who worked IN the interest of sinners, % in
ferior beings. And so we should do what we can
10 help the most necessitous people In Latin
America
! have in the region many strange
types Of character, many natives who far more
stupid than their not very well bred dogs or
horses. distressngly long list / have assembled
OF unfortunate classes, unfortunate individuals.
But nave never in Bolivia Ii man without
a country.
The foregoing statement in regard to the
istence Of slavery in South America will certainly
be disputed have, therefore. searched AIMING
unpublished notes for the records | made on the
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the hollow between the dashboard and the front
seat. You become conscious now and again that
there is a mead. i'm a manta. in the line OF
vision when you look at the dusty backs and long
of the animals hitched our comfortless
vehicle; l seriously that the little
creature seated the floor OF the coach at the
drivers knee between his knees. could enghten
in regard to the relations between the Indian
and white A German fellow traveller is
speaking about what he calls the slave trade" in
South America, saying that $40 is the usual price
paid for young girl, the purchasers being in
many citizens of such large towns Are
quipa, La Pac. etc. The Indian mothers, he adds
are glad TO have offspring, because each child may
be sold a native lawyer whom L consulted at
Sicuani contented himself with replying that the
constitution of his country prohibits slavery I
consider the truth to be follows: Practices
sembling the peculiar institution" which 1 have
observed this particular trip not features OF
true slavery, but rather of the oh-fashioned APP
premiership, including the payment Of an English
pound TO the parents when they bind out
their child for long period of service. And yet
both in Peru and Bolivia, any one may see that
Indian domestic servants treated with such
consideration people generally extend TO their
own property (when such property costs little and
can be replaced without serious difficulty whereas
the other domestic animals too commonly
treated as though they had been merely hired.
The Indians themselves. and only they can tell
whether they slaves or freemen whether
the prosperous white people slave owners or
merely employers But IL talk with these har-
vesters in purple. scarlet and blue garments we
shall soon find that we must begin by explaining
that there Is state OF freedom and that freedom
is desirable condition AS they get a gmmering
of our meaning they may rejoin: An Indian who
has plenty OF chicha TO drink and drinking IT, is
free. An Indian who had chicha, but has drunk IT
all, is anybody's slave" They will tell you that a
child who enters family in La Paz rs a servant
without wages may home sometime-if the dis
tance is not too great and the master consents,
The mental limitations OF the natives might be
expressed mathematicaly somewhat as follows:
The aborigines, having undeveloped brains cannot
think. The halfbreed persons. including in this
class many who are called white, can. OF course
only half think-cannot think to the end-and so
quite naturally their painting and architecture are
not than One-half thought out. Yet block
heads who vanly try to think, or 70 express
half formed thoughts In Keshua and AyInara are
not really misplaced and without Significance In
some unguessed providential scheme They should
prove be excellent workmen for two days in each
week II properly handled. Ply scaIy this is not a
race Of weddings. The Indians go about patiently
with bare feet frozen ground; patiently carry
on their backs heavier loads than European work
men are often willing To lit
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spot which are instantaneous impresslons-so TO
speak-of things actually observed by myself and
not Of things reported by others 1t will be
said by overzealous advocates and advertisers of
the West Coast republics that / have erred in
garding true slavery a form of apprenticeship,
which is quite different matter. l shall there
fore. read to you a note dated in June 1906, which
relates to apprenticeship, to true slavery. and
years ago
The adobe huts the highway are decorated.
some with white flags signifying "pisco for SALE
and others with lunches of flowers poles. TO
show that the residents have enough and TO spare
OF the less fiery beverage called chcha (here made
from maize; though in Chill it is made from
grapes) And what sort of people these natives?
You might ask the little slave girl" who sits
the floor Of our COACH her dolls in her lap-all OF
her but the head and shoulders swallowed UP in
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somewhere down near zero is considered awfuIN
good sport. But he It summer winter the par
Elephants in a walking party return ready 10 enjoy
the supper which winds up the evening.
"One thing against these walking parties. TO my
mind, is the continual changing of partners You
no sooner get interested in your companion than
you have TO turn him another girl Maybe
you draw good partner the and few
minutes later get stick or course. 1t IL emf
nently fair To every girl and to every man. bur
some girls. you know. delight in being unfair when
there is a man In the AS aid 70 Irritation
these walking parties aren't worth OF those big
canadian cents You times. but
exercser they all to the good. And. after all.
the exercise is what these Canadians are looking
for.''-WashinFton Post
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CHILIS SELFISH PLAN.


-sseston which includes the offer OF her powerful
support II is 10 the following effect:
p heA4Si. You and ] viii stand together against
- ana Argentina As FOR the Argentine troops,
80 can hold your own against them IN the in
~ 'haiks 10 your forests and mountains. II
ventures 10 attack you ! shall gladly send my
s"lis 10 lombard every Peruvian coast town
- Mo-endo 10 Callao and beyond. Don't Try
1'ahA me. Rn only too anxious TO do il.
Do-Dl my sincerity? No you cannot doubt il:
- you succumb 10 Peru my railway between
v 'eSSOsst and your country viii be worthless.
country would IN that event become an
s country on the other hand, II you and 1
- 'oeeu.et the railway Aforesaid will be very
NoNiAole 10 both q is"
60 -'o-'laIs know very wei that Chiis un-
l.,s 'OuFe II laud-hUngeT and that Bolivian
e,s,l.eiA particularly desirable. But the un-
siin - NoCfe of Bolivian statesmen is deeper
Ts-y ~ maze been watching the growth of
Oar, -, ing separatist tendency in the northern
SAL. mn They know that the government at
% n, although receiving 50 large a percentage
sssst., '''ues from The north Uhe nitrate region)
al i,. e'i''ls scarcely amy benefits ia return
80 le winch led 10 threats OF revolution in
b. - lot plain. therefore? Bolivia hopes
porsry ne 'hli's support gain al least a
.n6t - '@h tage. and Il seems TO her possible TO
les >, | Ahioisgasta and Tacna- RIGA commune
hsh ~ ARE ineir Independence ia order 10 estab-
ior E,f, Nei new republic That would mean
LOST mr. mol only tie recovery OF bit OF her
tesiors,to-Y and % her waterfront but also the
bs+1 'h OF her lost prestige
AZ si,, eieireo 10 the possibility OF a general
On liz, ooeh hold most conservative opinions
We DO not increase the danger
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OF such catastrophe-on the contrary we dlmin-
ish it-by looking steadily at the facts the real
tendencies. Fortunately. Brazil and Argentina have
SO much more TO gain by peace than by war!
Through years of peace, it is plain. the develop
ment OF Argentina's vast agricultural resources
will give her the leadership she covets Argen-
tina is so confident of her superiority in this
spect that of her learned pubIicists has writ
ten THE Transandine Railway. which should
unite Chilli with Argentina, will remain paralyzed
for many years at Las Cuevas. the Argentine
side The statesmen OF Chill oppose its realization,
fearing. it appears, that this railway would
depopulate Chill by favOring the transfer of Chill
ian laborers 10 Argentina, where they would OBJ
tain higher wages; and the population of Chill
increases very little, either by Vegetatlve increase
or by immigration, in a very short time she would
see ii diminished Before long Chill VIII act in
the way in the South. by preventing the
South Argentine Railway from crossing her from
tier by way Of Las Lajas. and the world Will
template with establishment strange proceed
ing"
Through years OF peace and wise foreign policy,
Brazil, it is plain succeed in controlling all
the eastern territory Of the Andean states simply
because she controls that great system Of
ways by which the products of those regions must
pass reach the ocean. And / think that Brazil.
through years Of peace, can secure in the United
States much capital for the development Of
transportation facilities as Argentina has obtained
from Great Britain.
Nevertheless II Bolivia, desparing OF her
future, finally goes TO pieces in the fashion
that has long been expected; il the weak polit-
cal bonds uniting the Sucre district to La Paz
snapped. Brazil and Argentina will tnfallibly be
drawn into the scramble for the valuable
fragments. Paraguay. is well known. regards
herself as the rightful OF wild lands in the
Gran Chaco region which Bolivia also claims.
There is another element of danger And, finally.
Uruguay. which only two years ago nearly sue
ceeded In making notorious certain grievances
against the Argentine Republic, will not remain
inactive if Brazil and Argentine fall out.
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RIVALS FOR LEADERSHIP.

In oroer 70 understand the situation We must nfSt
realize that Argentina and Chilli both aspire 10
leadership IN South America, and are keen. in
trgulng rivals The latter, successful IN the war
wiki Peru and Bolivia uhe War Of the Pacific
already mentioned. increased her territory on the
north al the expense OF the allies. The provinces
thus transferred were and exceedingly valuable.
In fact il is customary say that even the enor-
nous Indemnity paid 10y France 10 Germany was
moderate in comparison with the indemnity eX-
acted BY victorious chilli
Prom that time the policy Of Argentina was
clearly defined Size that she must illustrate
by every means I'm her power Chili's efforts to
stretch her long, thin line st further toward the
north, in other words, PerUs intense hatred Of the
nation which had conquered and brutaly OPP
pressed her must Re used a kind Of Great Wall
of China. Pergs strength must be built up. OF
course Argentina and Peru became firm allies by
obvious identity OF interest and by secret agree
nent analogous % that secret treaty which proved
60 disastrous Bolivia and Peru ia 1879. Accord
ngly when Bolivia and Peru, both claiming that
portion q the Acre district which Brazil had not
secured by the treaty Of Petropos, agreed TO sub
MT their claims 70 Argentina for arbitration there
was really not particle Of doubt in regard TO the
outcome But Bolivia failed TO realize this until
100 late. having received in 1907 encouraging re-
ports assurances, promises from political leaders
in Buenos Ayres
Meanwhile Chilli. bafaed by that great wall Of
Feru, rushed the arrangements for the completion
OF chii-Bolvia railway. The construction OF this
mountain climbing railway connecting Tacna-Arica
With the Bolivian mines and towns, has an i'm
portAnt bearing upon the whole matter. as shall
Now lei us fancy in La Paz, the noun
SA Dull chief city OF Bolivia when the decision OF
me boundary dispute becomes known. II is a
Nho4y unfavorsble decision. contrary 10 the prom
ses OF assurances upon which the citizens sur
FUNDING Us had been relying; and the natives
uolr out OF FIVE being Indians or half-oreeds) are
psn'cslrlcken. They cry: Acceptance of such
'ernS by nation would be The nations scidet'