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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27

A quarrel, growlng our OF the strains
cd relations between Ed. Fair and his
wife took place, as a result of which
Al Fair was shot to death by his
brother, Edward. Ed Fair was beat
MS sister Minnie and her husband;
and Tom Posey was very badly wound
ed as 1t Is supposed by his brother
in-law. Allen, AS Lucy Fair ana old
Mrs. FAR ran away as soon as the
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03

Lost:
A fancy Hat Pin, set with amber
topaz. A reward will be paid for its
return to this office.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03

For Sale.
Three teams of Craft horses, three
miles west of Fairport- See or VIZ, e
JOHN JANTZEN. Fairport.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03

Your Party or Sunday Dinner
isn't orIy lsIf otnIltte. You've for
gotten abOnt those
Plum Puddings. fellows. nuts.
raisins, figs and fruit.
Phone or Zee US ard let US jot them
down while you Think about it. Yes,
it's often true in the excite ment incl
dent to these occasions that you forget
a few tb;rgs. AT our store you'll
ways find choice"
Full stock choicest Groceries
a nd Fruit. See or phone
]. B. BASCALL. HAYS.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03
Pages 3 & 4, Sept.
Notice of Delinquent
Tax.

Hays City, Kansas. July 10, 1910
Office of County Treasurer OF Ellis
County Kansas.
Notice is hereby given that the
taxes for the year 1909 on the follow
Ing tracts Of landand town lots stu
Rted in the county of Ellis and state
OF Kansas are now due and unpaid
and unless the same are paid on or
before the first Tuesday in Septem-
Der, TO wit:
Tuesday, September 8, 1910.
will on that day and the next
succeeding days until all of said
tracts OF land and town lots are
seld, proceed to sell at public sale at
my office in Hays City, Kansas, so
much of each tract of land and town
lots as is necessary to pay the taxes
II the year 1909 and the penalties
Iud costs thereon.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03
Threshing Outfit for sale.

offer for sale Peerless outfit COM
plete, Is horsepower engine. 36X56
Separator. stacker, weigher and feed
er, new set of belts, cook shack, water
wagon ard all in good running order,
for sale at bargain. Can be seen at
the Will Philip rancho on Big Creek
south of Munjor. Inquire of
w. D. Philip. Agent.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03
Eye and Ear Sureeon

Dr.. N. Jay Brown. the salina eve
and ear specialist viii he at the Bruins
wick Hotel. MONDAY. SEPT. 5th:
At WAKEENEY. Tuesday. SEPT. 6;
At ELLIS Wednesday SEPT. 7th;
At Russell September 9Th.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03

In witness whereof I have here
unto set my hand and affixed my Of
fetal seal this 18th day of July A. D.
1910 B. M. BREILING
County Treasurer of Ellis County KS.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03
Col. H. H.Meserve. auctioneer

conducts your sales with the
bt st possible results. VIII also
furnish clerk free and handle your
paper on a business basis.
See or phone Free Press Office.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03
Farm to Rent.

We have an 80-acre farm for rent
few miles from town. 1t has some
wheat land. the rest feed and pasture
ground. Small house. See FREESE.
The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1910-09-03

Hard or Soft coal burner for
sale cheap. Good as new Burn either
kind. See HOLLENBECK Livery barn
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29

one, say He has genius. Nothing is
more fatally wrong than this express
sion. 1t should be transposed and
instead of saying He has genius, 1"
we should rather say, Genius has
him." For the man of genius is that
man who is completely in the posses
sion of an idea the idea has him
bound hand and foot; it is his con-
slant companion by day and the dis
turber of his dreams by night. An
inward something irresistibly impels
him, possesses him, dominates him,
and strive as he may, he can't get
away from 1t. An idea travelling
about, lodges in his brain and absorbs
his every faculty, his every energy
1t pushes him; 1t pulls him; he is in
it's grasp. The demon within is a
live wire and he can't resist. 1t
makes him overcome every obstacle.
1t forces HON against the nagging of
friends, the jeers and the jibes of en-
6Ill6S, W puISuC lhS OOulSS Nhat
thing which enslaves him prescribes.
1t forces him over mountains of diff
hculties, and to cross oceans of OBJ
stacles, to arrive at the consumma-
ton the idea has laid by for him and
when all his trials and tribulations
are in the past, men awake to the
that a genius has lived
with them. and too often, alas! the
man who was possessed and obsessed
by an idea has died before the great
ness of the idea was recognized. The
world is full of men who have never
come in contact with an overmaster-
ing idea. The world is full
of ideas waiting to grasp
whit the hooks of steel
the right man; to gain possession of
waiting to grasp the hooks of steel
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29

.n'ils' oler something OF help, was
upon me- but fo't it's futility. What
could l do, with bound hands?
bowed to her and moved on tn
my further office. At the door how.
ever / turned to look after her, and
was astonished to see her pause before
Ahkonys office. Then I understood.
She was going to intercede for Dan
AS the comprehension swept over me.
! called to her. | would not have her
humiliate herself uselessly. But She
GA not hear me, and passed in. and 7
'oid myself that perhaps. after all,
she might move him; certainly anv
man--but Ankony was a monster NOT
man. His pride was always keener
than his emotion, and his pride was
smarting.
ieit my door open to be ready IL
there should be anything l could do
Tor her, but when she came down the
nall Ankony was with her. He was
all Difference and attention, radiatine
satisfaction and triumph Yet Bar.
para was smiling-not the old smile
TO be sure, but as if in tremendous re-
lef-and the despair had faded from
her eyes, while her head was lifted
with the old proud poise, and her step
was not leaden as it had been when
she passed down the hall.
Perhaps your brother might ike
to go to join my brother Jack Tor a
while Ankony was saying. as they
passed my door The company rath.
er needs him out there, and he might
ind the change pleasant"
So she had gained Dams freedom
his one more chance!
| went out to tramp and settle nv
nerves. | needed to readjust myself
to the situation. When l came back
l found my resignation, which | had
sent to Ankony several hours earlier.
lying on my desk. 1t had been re-
turned to me with a note froul him
saying the company refused TO con.
slider 1t, as the reason for my urgin
II mad been removed, and it was tneI,
tore hoped that our former relation
might continue.
tore the note and the resignation
across.
So much for the charm and th,
persuasive powers of a Won an"
mGttcred. NO man is ada, ant"
Ito be Continued,)
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29

save Dan, But all my determination
and eagerness went for nothing. There
was absolutely nothing ! could lay
hands upon, Ankony was inexorab'e
and vlndlctiye. And no help could
come outside of Ankony. There was
no further appeal to be made to him.
| knew OF nothing with which to
threaten or brighten him. He was i'm.
pregnable in his own past discretion
and was In frenzy of helplessness.
As | was leaving the Office on a
further search, which. | admitted even
as undertook 1t. promised nothing, |
ran face to face with Barbara in the
hallway. A glance at her showed
me that she knew. She had smiled
through losses and bereavement and
pain, but she was not smiling now.
The Hemingrays knew how to meet
vicissitude but not dishonor. Shame
had burned the brightness from her
eyes and scared dry that deeper well
of cheer in her brave heart.
She looked at me dimly. as If in
that acute moment did not enter in,
and she could not concentrate her
half.paralyzed faculties upon me. 1t
was startling to see her so. Her face,
without a smile, smote me. An agony
of longing to do somsthinS SsV '""'~
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29

him that it might place him upon a
pedestal of eminence, to lead him to
to do a great work, and elevate him
to greatness. When in the course Of
time or to carry out the designs Of
Providence the idea and the man col
Tide and the idea Overcomes the man,
genius is born, and the memory Of
that man and the greatness of the
work wrought in him is written on
the tables of mans memory for an
age. Genius can't be generated; it
cant be cultivated. 1t justs grasps
the man and he can't struggle away
from it. Men have defined it to be
hard work, and an infinite capacity
for taking pains, and many Others
labored hard daily, many have given
lavishly of their time to details, and
genius has passed by to settle in tle
soul of some lazy loafer and by its
enkindling and insistent fire forced
him to arduous, incessant, painstak-
ing labor and, in after ages, men look
ing upon the work it has made him
do have mistaken the effects for the
cause. Genius is not another name
for hard work. Rather, it is a soul
possessed by an idea, enslaved by an
idea, and the idea leading the man to
arduous, unremitting labor. We are
all potential geniuses, only with many
of us the lightning never strikes.
G. ]. SHORE.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29
COUNCIL PROCEEDINGS

Monday, April rs, 1910. Council
met in regular session pursuant to
adjournment with Mayor Gowen
presiding and Councilmen Clark,
DeVers, Farrar, Gartin, Harris, Payn-
ter, present, Shorb, Clerk.
The Caldwell Fire Department
through its officers, reported the cleo
ton of G. M. Allen chief and John
Hollr1ch, assistant chief for the en-
suing year, and on motion of Clark
the election was ratified and an
proved.
Protest of F. M. Breshears ct al
against curbing of Albany street "for
the reason that the same is an unnec.
essary expense at the present time.
and one that we do not feel able to
BEAR" was read.
Curblng Resolution No. As, by Dew
ers, providing for the construction of
a curb along certain streets and ave-
nues and in front of certain lots and
blocks in the city of Caldwell. Idaho
and providing for the payment of
such construction by an assessment
levied and assessed against the prom
erty fronting and abutting on said
curb" was read The roll being
called on the resolution, the vote re-
suited:
Ayes-Clark, Devers, Farrar, Gar
tin, Paynter-5.
Nays-Harris. Absent. So
the resolution passed.
Petition of j. B. Gowen, ct al.
property owners within the propos-
ed paving district, below set forth
hnnnhU
to pave said district as soon as pos
slble and your petitioners will ever
pray. On Main street from the
east side of Ninth Avenue to the east
side of Tenth Avenue; on Arthur
Street, from the east side of Ninth
Avenue to the east side of Tenth
Abenue; on Tenth Avenue, from
Main street to Arthur Street, and on
the alley between Main and Arthur
streets, from Ninth Avenue to Tenth
Avenue" was read and on motion
of Clark, the same was referred to
Street Committee, City Engineer and
City Attorney to report at the next
regular meeting.
c. S. Doan asked permission to
so change the curbing and sidewalk
before Block "a as to enable teams
to load and unload at the warehouses
on that block. Whereupon protest
of ]. II. Gipson. ct al, against the
construction of the curb and side
walk In front of Block u of said
city. In manner different from that
In front OF the other property In
said paving district" was read.
Mr. Doan, in behalf OF himself
and Mr.. Munk asked that n crossing
be ordered across the Boise & Inter
urban where the Galveston street
crosses said track. Voted, on motion
OF Clark, that the request of Messrs.
Doan and Munk be granted and the
crossing ordered In.
The matter of vacating the alley
north of the Oregon Short Line right
of.way to the Oregon Short Line
Railway Co. for trackage purposes
was referred to Farrar to confer with
the railway officials to find out what
is the least the railroad would ask
In the way of concessions and give
the people the track asked for, and
report at the next meeting.
Voted, on motion of Farrar, that
the council adjourn.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29
GOVERNMENT BY COMMISSION.

1t may seem a long cry from relig-
ion to politics to the unthinking,
but to the wise and considerable such
things are found pretty close togeth-
err. Wherever there is an office to
give, there you find the offlce-seeker,
and the more petty the Office usually,
the more stirring, the more vicious
the game of politics. The prophets
and priests of the Old Testament
times were past masters in the gen.
tie art OF politics and the pages of
the prophets are redolent with the
keenest and ripest of political wis
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29

Don't go any further. IL vo,, n,.-
shall send in my restgnatton '' *.
once" sndtlon at
"Oh, better think twice If tha4 ~,
Twining." 'ii"t' MT.
went out and shut the door DIT
halfway down the hall I turned da
lIperately, hesitated only momont
ana went back. What pride 7 had fnr
myself ana Tor Dan and Barbara wos
gone. Matters must be amicablv ID
justed If possible. '''' 'o,
"Ankony," I said, going in - b,,,
lor Gods sake think of Miss Heminq,
ray II you won't think of the how
IL she had accepted you last nigbt
you would not have followed tbis
course You wouldn't have copoid
ered 1t. You would have been fulI of
other plans this morning. Surely wo
can hold women to blame for not
caring for us when we ask then, ~
III not fair Love isn't to no con,.
PEELED; you know that as well ~
10 mink better of this. Won't you?
you know what an honored nIace
theirs has always been in the com.
munlty. You know what luck THEY'VE
had ever since their fathers death
and how they've met it. You have
Deen guest in their house a friepd
OF them both. You must have ad.
mlred their courage, their smiles and
the Incompatible way in which thew
have both set themselves To moko
things come right. The boy has been
weak"
He stole the money" he broke in
Yes, l know he did. I'm not exon.
Grating him; I'm not trying to. It was
a crime, and l recognize it, of course
and your right to prosecute if Won are
so determined. But put yourself in
his place If you can. He is simpIv
prodigal in his kindness. There are
more people in town to-day who have
been buoyed up and frightened nv
nlm than by any other man, old or
young. Maybe he did take your mon,,
to help do it. But as much as he ever
expected to do anything he expected
to pay 1t all back. He stinted himself:
1t was only with others he was gen.
erous. And then his sister-he wanted
to make things easy for her if he
could. He was ashamed to admit that
he couldn't keep it up. Foolish? OF
course 1t was foolish. But you ad.
mire him a little for trying to carry
his end of the Hemingway string as it
had always been kept up, don't you?
You see what it has already cost him.
Don't make it cost him everything
he's got. Give him another chance.
He'll redeem himself. You'll see Try
him"
You ask too much"
Too much! l only ask what you've
done Tor fellows that were rascals and
deep-dyed culprits. Surely you can
give him the leniency you gave them.
As for the bad influence, there won't
be any, as you must admit, since no
one knows of it, nor will know of it
If you do as l ask. Let the boy. go,
Ankony."
You plead well. l don't wonder
you want the Hemingway escutch on
kept Clean, and I'm sorry | can t ac-
commodate you"
You wont?"
Il can't"
Rubbish. VIII your"
Il will not, Mr.. Twining. l must rro-
coed with the prosecution"
l pulled myself in hand v. a
strong effort.
IF did what | want to do, I'd throt.
tie you, Ankony," l said, and | went
out and shut the door between him
and my rage, which was beconnl,, an
governable.
l spent the rest of the morning in
a determined effort to find something
to change the course of cvc03 and
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29
A DEFINITION OF GENIUS.

In the course of our passage thru
this short life of intense Joy and sub
lime happiness, we are made the vic
tim of many definitions, some of
which too often are erroneous. One
of the wrong definitions is that
placed on the term genius. We usu-
ally define genius as a superior excel
cellence in some line of art, labor or
pursuit and we, speaking of such an
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29

dom. But this is aside from the sub
ject upon which we are about to
write. We are about to discuss the
commission form of municipal gov
eminent. Apologists for this system
say that it will do away with graft.
The commission form of government
reduces the number of councilmen to
the minimum. Some cities under this
system have five councilmen, some
three, one of whom is usually desig-
mated the mayor or president. We
believe that the idea of reducing the
legislative and executive branches of
the city government to three or five
members to be good one, but we
certainly do not think that it will
have any effect on the matter of
graft. Graft is a business parasite.
We find it in the lodge, in the church,
in our business institutions, among
our professional men, as vel as in
the halls of legislatures and in public
offices. 1t comes from the self-love
that is embosomed in each of US
that self-love that desires our own
financial welfare-and from the kim
dred fact that we like some people
better than others. If there is an
Office to be bestowed we want to see
it filled by a friend of ours. This
obtains whether we are a member
of public or private corporation.
This is the basal idea in all graft
the desire for our own or our friends
ations any the less, but that we love
ourselves or our friends more. Now,
then, If this is true-if this is an in
stinct of humanity-the body that is
composed of three men will have the
parasite about each of their persons
the same as the body of five or fifty,
The only difference being that three
persons will have fewer friends,
probably, than five, and certainly not
so many friends as fifty persons.
Again, three may be satisfied with a
smaller amount of unearned mere
ment that five or fifty. But the peo-
pie ars just as likely to elect three
or five grafters to conduct the az
fairs of the government as they are
to elect three or five honest, consci-
entious men. And the smaller body
could hide it's crookedness more cas-
hon hndu Tho
number three or five has no charm
no power to disinfect against graft
parasites, nor has 1t any antiseptic
qualities to burn away corruption
that the evil of graft may be kept
away from the body polite.
Modern reformers-like their an
cient brothers-are fertile In devices
to protect the body polite and they
have invented wonderful contrivances
to protect the foolish, the ignorant
and the blind. But they all fail of
their purpose because they provide
only remedies to heal the surface ami
leave the canker and rot at the core.
The only cure for public corruption
Is disinterestcd patriotism. The only
antiseptic is vigilance The only dis
infectant is a -eturn to righteous
Aess. The public service is only al
mirror of the body polite. A govern-l
ment of the people can neither be
ahead or behind the people-because
the people frame and execute the
laws. And the common standard Of
honesty obtains in public and private
life. 1t isn't the machinery so much
as the motive power of government
that needs overhauling and changing.
c. ]. SHORE.
The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1910-04-29

The annual literary contest between
the Lowell and Columbian societies
of the College of Idaho will take
place this evening at the Assembly
Hall. The public is cordially invit-
ed to attend.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-12-14
more.


The number of persons in military
and naval services of the United States
stationed abroad and OH naval vessels
is 556OS
The population Of the four states.
which appear blank in the table, an
nounccment of which was withheld
until the countrys total population
was announced. follow:
Georgia. 2,6O9.12l; an increase of
,790, or III per cent over 2,2l6,33l
in 1900
Montana, 376,053; an Increase of
132.724, or 54.5 per cent over 243,329
in 1900
Washington, 1,14l.990; an increase
of 623,887, or 1904 per cent over 5lS,-
1O3 in 1900.
Wisconsin, 2,333.S60 an increase of
264,S1S or l2.7 per cent over 2,O69 ,O42
in 1900.
The states in their respective ranks
according to population are.
New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois,
Ohio. Texas, Massachusetts, Kentucky.
Iowa, North Carolina, Tennessee, Ala
bama, Minnesota, Virginia. Mississippi,
Kansas, Oklahoma, louisiana, Arkan-
sas. South Carolina, Maryland, West
Virginia. Nebraska. Washington, Porto
Rico, Connecticut. Colorado, Florida,
Maine. Oregon, South Dakota North
Dakota, Rhode Island New Hampshire,
Montana, Utah Vermont. District of
Columbia, New Mexico. Hawaii, Wyo-
ming, Nevada and Alaska
Correcter figures issued by the cen
sus Office today give the state of New
York population as 9,l13.6l4. increase
1,S44,T20 or 25.4 per cent; Florida
752,6l9, increase 24,OT7, or 42.4 per
cent, and Maryland 1926 SAG. Increase
10T,302, or 8 per cent,
Unquestionably it will be necessary
to alter the basis of representation
in Congress. At the present ratio
of 1000 people to each member of
the House of Representatives, the
House would contain about 4Ti mem
bers as against 392 at present 1t is
the general belief that this number
would be unwieldly. Even at the rate
of 100000 as "A basis the public as
sembly would contain AIS members, an
increase of 81.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1910-12-14
OLD TIME SLAVE
TRADE DUPLICATED
Chinese Girls Struggled Into Frisco
Tell Horrible Tales.


Seven Chinese girls captured on
Sunday when an attempt was being
made to smuggle them ashore from
the steamer Manchuria told story last
Tuesday that for brutality comedies
nothing to the workings of the earlier
African slave trade. immigration Of
| ficials say there is no doubt the girls
were brought here TO be sold in the
slave trade. Their ages range from
| IA to 10 years. All but one of them de-
clare they were Kidnapped in Hong
Kong. This one had previously been
in America and had been deported
The narrative was obtained from
the girls by chief assistant immigra-
tion commissioner, Harry Edsell, who
spoke to them in their own tongue.
They said they had made the jour
ney from China in a locker fourteen
feet square, below deck--a place with
out ventilation. Not ray of light
natural or artificial, did they see on
the voyage over. The eight Chinese
men who We're captlred at the same
time as the girls, were with them in
the room, but no one else visited them
until they reached port. Their only
food and drink was some dried fruit
and cold tea, of which a supply had
been left for them before the depart
ure Of the boat
One of the girls. the youngest of
the party, says she had come from
her country home on visit to Hong
Kong. A smooth -tongued country
man told her great pageant was
being held OH board the big American
vessel and she thought he might he
able to gain admission for her. She
fell into the trap. Another says she
was drugged by her kidnappers.
Edsell says a thorough investiga-
tion is to be made of the operations
of the smuggling ring that is supposed
to be at work and every effort will be
made to discover whether any govern
ment officials are involved.