The Rantoul Citizen du lieu suivant : Rantoul, Kansas • 4

DISfcASE OF OCCUPATION. Cbe IRantoul GM3en. Saturday, November 28, 1896. Jersey being the most heavily mortgaged state in the Two and one-half million farms of 80 acres each have been given away by Uncle Sam since 1866 under the homestead and timber culture laws. May not this have something to do with the decline of land values in the older states? Over two millions of wage earners on farms and in shops arc engaged in producing articles that are exported.

What will those men do if we cut loose from the rest of the world? "Wages on the farms of the United States are fifty per cent to one hundred per cent higher and in the shops twenty-five per cent to one hundred per cent higher than in those countries with which we compete. Agricultural exports last year amounted to 070 million dollars, an increase of 17 millions over the preceding year The frequent claims that the farmers are almost universally in and suffering he declares "to be without foundation, a belittlement and indignity to our intelligent farmers." "The farmers are not mendicants or wards of the government. Legislation can neither plow nor plant. The intelligent, practical farmer needs no aid from the government; the ignorant, impractical and indolent deserves none. Lawmakers cannot erase natural nor efface nor restrict economic laws." The largest market for the farmer is the home market, but the export market is the regulator and must be so long as we produce a surplus.

up the trail and followed it into Franklin county. In passing the house of a Mr. Alexander, in Harrison township, Thompson recognized one of the men they were looking for, in the barnyard. They returned to Ottawa and procuring the assistance of local officers returned to the Alexander farm only to find that the boys, who were brothers named McKelvy, and brothers-in-law of Mr. Alexander, had left a few minutes before and had passed vhem on the road.

Returning to town they watched the outgoing trains and "bagged their game" at the Burlington junction just as they were about to board the train. They were taken to the city jail for the night and brought to Osawatomie the next day where they waived a preliminary hearing and were bound over to the February term of court, They are now reflecting on the way of the transgressors in the county jail at Paola. Tuesday Orrin Thompson and -Marshal Christie went to the Alexander farm to look for the stolen property and after some search found it all in a trunk hid between a hay stack and the barn. Until the stolen property was found Mr. Alexander and Mrs.

Alexander who is a sister of the McKelvy boys, refused to believe that the boys were guilty. The McKelvy boys are young and not bad looking fellows and when they got off the train handcuffed together, their nerve was given a test by a crowd of men and boys who gathered around them and made various threats against their life and person, Dan Taylor even picking up a rope with some remark about hanging. It was not meant seriously, but all the same the prisoners took longer breaths when they were safely on their way to Paola. They refused to say anything about the stealing of the clothes, but the evidence against them is positive and they will probably receive, a personal introduction to thr; superintendent of the coal mines at Lansing. similar the world over.

The trouble is with yourself instead of your neighbors. A suspicious mind will never find a people satisfactory to its liking. Do not forget it, your neighbors are as good as you will find any where. You are built to whine, and location and environments make no difference, you will whine any way. The ladies of the Christian church at Marion raised money for the church debt by planting, tending and husking forty bushels of corn.

The yield was, 1,200 bushels which they will have ground into meal. They sold the stalks for $80 and have contracted to sell the cobs at $1 a load. So far they have not been to one cents expense, doing all the work themselves. Rules By a Horse. AVhen a man drops from sheer exhaustion or illness, promptly sieze an end board or a cart st ake and pound him on the head and on the ribs.

If this does not recuperate him, kick him violently in the belly. This treatment will restore him if persistently administered. If a man finds his load too heavy and feels that it will seriously strain him to proceed, kick off a fence board and knock him down and hammer him thoroughly with the board. This will give him renewed energy, and he will make no more fuss. But do not on any account reduce the load.

That will look too much like common sense or humanity, and he will be likely to balk again when overloaded. It a man refuses to drink when you offer him water, don't give him any for two days. "That will teach him" to be thirsty at any time you find it convenient to attend to him. It is a good plan to ply the whip frequently on a man who is at work. No matter if he is doing his best, hit him now and then on "general principles" and to prevent him taking any comfort.

If his load is not heavy oblige him to go enough faster to bring down the average life one-half, as is done with horses. If no whip is handy, use a club. Tie your man's head back in an unnatural position with his eyes toward the sun. This will give him a "fine appearance" and "prevent stumbling." Of course, he will not be able to do as much work in this fix, but it makes him wretched, so it is all right. In winter remove his clothing "to prevent his taking cold." He will also "dry quicker" when you overwork him.

You must hang a (blanket on his back, (but leave his neck and limbs exposed) when he is not at work. Men thus treated are "much healthier" than when allowed winter clothing. If not perfectly convenient to feed a man who is working for you at noon, let him go without, and by active use of the whip secure as much work as the food would have secured. Of course, it wears out his vitality and distresses him, but that is no matter. Put tight shoes on your man and keep them there until he is very lame with corns.

To change his shoes costs money, not much, but some, and lameness and misery are of no account if you can save a dollar on shoes a year. When you hire a man do not be hampered by any humane notions. Get all you can out of him. True nobility consists in getting money, not in decency or kindness, or what some noodles term "character." Get money, even if it is all blood-stained. These are correct principles.

I am sure, for I learned them when a colt from my master, who treated all his horses on this plan and dont he know what's what? N. B. Stainer went to Osawatomie Monday morning. Mrs. E.

R. Beeson went to Paola Wednesday for a short visit with friends. Guy Shackelton writes from Douglas City, Alaska, that he has steady employment at good wages. Mrs. Frank Pyle and son, Harry, of Osawatomie, spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives in Lane.

Mrs. II. B. Garrett who lias been in Kansas City for the past two months, came home last Saturday. H.

T. Walier and E. T. Waller, who live near this place, visited G. F.

Glen-denning and family, at Louisburg. Miss Ada Smith returned to her position at the asylum Sunday, having almost regained her usual health in the few days spent at home. Ottawa. Henry Kramer got his hand badly mashed in the mcahinery at the cob pipe factory the last of th week. The foundry was shut down a few days this week to make 'necessary repairs.

The charity concert Monday night was a success. Buz Howard is building a hansome residence on north main street. L. C. Stine purchased the Lyman Reid residense property on south main street, Saturday.

Mrs. John Chenoweth returned from a visit to St Louis, the last of last week. The county offices were all closed thanksgiving. The Newton livery stable was sold under foreclosure of a morgage Saturday. A lady of Great Bend, who had been dumb for three years, regained her voice last week, and her husband, who voted for Bryan, blames Mark Hanna for it, Saturday evening a pleasant party of friends gathered at the home of John Rodgers, in response to invitations issued by his wife, to celebrate the thirtieth birthday of her husband and his brother James.

Springer and Divens furnished excellent music, to which the guests tripped the light fantastic until all were ready for the elegant supper that had been prepared for them and to this they did full justice. The following were prasens Mr. and Mrs. Will Cox, Mr. and Mrs.

Battie, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Holmes, Mr. and Mrs Ed. Burney, Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Rogers, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Seymour, Miss Dollie Curtis, Miss Lizzie Messrs Ross, Emmet Burney, Earl Smith and Carles Stith. A gossip is the most disagreeable person imaginable to people who are not of that turn of mind.

No lady or gentleman will gossip. Some people seem to have a faculty of running other people's business better than they can their own, and make fools of themselves, by constantly poking their noses into other people's affairs, not only making themselves disagreeable, but losing the respect and confidonce of all those whose unfortune it is to be of their acquaintance, Some people are liars by force of habit and others are born that way. A gossip is a running sore on the face of humanity. Every time he or she gossips about other people they are simply pouring oil on a toboggan slide to hell. YOUNG CLOTHING THIEVES.

They Got the Clothes, but It Didn't Turn Out the Way It Did With "Dandy Dave, the Mysterious Highwayman. Saturday evening just after supper a couple of young fellows, evidently farmers, entered the clothing store, of George Thompson of Osawatomie, and asked to see some clothing, After they each had got inside of a good suit of clothes, overcoat, shoes, stockings, etc, they went to the front to "see how they a large mirror but they didn't stop at the looking-glass. Passing out the front door they ran up the street to the Joi-rxat, office corner, turned north a block, then west across the tracks and to the Dunaway property on West Main street, where their horses were tied. them they rode west out of town. From Thompson's door to the horses it was an exciting chase.

Oliver Thompson dashed after thorn as soon as they went out but they had the length of the store the start of they kept It, Two ileeing men pursued by another one, hatless and cootless, and hollowing at the top of his voice for help, at tracted a crowd of men and boys ho quickly joined in the race, but the theives were good sprinters, and once on their horses, made good their escape. Oliver and Clarence Thompson nnd Ira Brown then procured horses and started in pursuit, but the darknqss of night aided the strangers ondby morning they were practically out of sight. At Rantoul the pursuers made en! quiry, about ten o'clock at night, and being satisfied their game was headed for Ottawa they returned homo and reported, The next morning Orrin Thompson anil Marshal Christie took Medical Men Have Discovered the Ex-' tstence of the Golf Arm. Medical authorities have decided that "golf arm" is a disease likely to come upon a golf player at any moment. Whether the experienced player or the rank amateur is the most likely ioi come tinder its influence has not been; decided.

The one thing- that all agrea in is that the disease is a reality, and one that is not to be lightly considered. One may be afflicted by the disease without knowing that it exists, and, though temporary re lief may have been had, it is a question, yet to be determined whether im' proper treatment of what may be thought to be merely a sprain will not render a player a chronic sufferer from! the new disease. "Golf arm" is an affliction of the-musculo-spiral nerve, the functions of: which are interfered with under, certain, conditions which have been: found to occur more frequently in the playing- of golf than in any other game of physical exertion. The attention of physicians was first called to the new, diesase by the complaints of professional golf players. These players told of acute pains along the upper part of the arm.

Similar pains had often been noticed, but were thought to be the natural result of unusual exercise. Members of the British Medical society first called attention to it, with the result that a series of experiments was begun on the golf links and carried on to considerable extent. The arms-of scores of p-olf nlavers under various contuwons were exanuneu aau iue re- suits of these examinations were carefully compared. The disease is an interruption of the direct current of the musculo-spiral nerve, which is brought under conditions where it really works against itself, and in doing so is urged to greater limits than nature intended it should, thus producing pain. The styles of play most likely to produce "golf arm" have been found to be the vigorous "pressing and forcing," which, when employed, often produces a painful sensation more quickly than any-other action in the game.

AVhile American physicians have not carried on a plan of investigation and experiment they have taken an interest in the new disease. The main idea that has been developed in America is that "golf arm" is more liable to attack an experienced than an inexperienced player. Pains in the arm of the beginner at golf come, it is believed, merely from the unusual exercise. But when the pains strike the old timer it is more serious. Just what the remedy will be for the new disease has not yet been determined.

The idea seems to be that the medical authorities will soon be able to fix on which of the golf strokes interfere most directly on the spiral nerve, and will suggest the elimination--of such hurtful strokes from the game. N. Y. Journal. CYCLONE-PROOF BUILDINGS.

Architects Must Take Account of the Wind in Drawing Their Flans. A very large area of the United States is exposed to the danger of cyclones, and it is accordingly worth while for both public authorities and private investigators to study closely all the phenomena presented by the recent fearf ul visitation at St. Louis. With the increase of population in the exposed territory it is certain that there must be an increase of danger, and the lesson of each cyclone is how to diminish that danger as far as possible. Ibis a truism to say that only increased care and expense in building will do this, but it is essential to- insist on it.

No frame house will withstand any cyclone. The settler who builds the ordinary frame house on the prairie must dig his cyclone pit and take his chances. Next to the frame house the big brick wall built as a shell around a factory or power-house, or as a church wall; with a heavy roof resting- on it, is the weakest in its resistance to the wind. Every factory, warehouse, church, schoolhouse or elevator destroyed by the St. Louis cyclone was structurally; weak in resistance to wind.

Most of them were mere shells with long; stretches of brick wall wholly unbraced. A third source of danger is a structural condition which permits the wind to get a leverage on an exposed surface. This, it got in St. Louis in the unfinished steel trusses of the Liggett Meyers tobacco factory and in unroofing the eastern approach to the Eads bridge and overturning the cars, or in stripping the trees of their branches. Insufficiently protected openings are also a source of danger.

The reports from St. Louis render it reasonable to believe that a great deal of the destruction of dwelling-houses would not have happened if the windows on the exposed side had been protected by solid shutters. And, finally, it is demonstrated that, while square or oblong structures are easily crushed by the furious winds, the round tower resists them perfectly. The lesson of the cyclone is that the west must build more solidly and substantially and make larger use of the round-tower idea. It costs more in the beginning, but it is cheaper when the cyclone comes around.

N. Y. AYorld, All About Love. "Say, I'm in love," confided the faro-dealer to the lookout duringalull in the play. "Why, you don't know what love is," laughed the lookout.

"Don't you believe it," retorted the dealer. "Love is a game that Cupid deals. He has a crooked layout, and the bank wins every bet. If you copper a case in this game it's sure to win; if you play a case open it loses, and you're in big luck if you don't get whipsawed in everj- turn. If man calls the turn it's a one to ten shot he drops dead.

N. O. Times-Democrat. The duchess of Mccklinburg-Stre--lltz, on the strength of her connection with the royal family, receives 3,000 per year. Subscription-, Pkb Year, $1.00 By J.

Fred Whiting. Published Every Saturday. Entered as 2ud class mail matter at he post-office at Rantoul, Kansas. Stand up for Kansas. Were you duly thankful? Harry Landis, of Barber county, has a lead pipe cinch on the wardenship of the penitentiary.

Governor-elect Loedy has named Ed Xittle, of Abilene, as his private, secretary. This is his first appointment. A cablegram from over the big pond brings the startling information that close confinement has made Oscar, Wild. New York is hooting at "Bleeding Kansas," but still continues to send their orphans out here to get a square meal thrice a day. While Mr Leedy is distributing official pie he should not.

forget Marsh Murdock of the Wichita Eagle, who "dealt sledge hammer blows" in defense of free silver. AVe want to know who the dickens Ewing Herbert's "our silent partner" is. He edited the Newspaper West last month and we must say it dropped way below the usual standard. The Kansas state officers-elect will be inaugurated January 12. The legislature convenes January 11.

The time designated by law for the election of a United States senator is January 19. Ain't it about time for Will White to call off his dogs and say something nice about Kansas? People who don't like this state have the consent of everybody else to get out of it if they can. DeWitt Talmage in a revint sermon expressed this sound sense sentiment "1 know of no sadder sight than to see a great, big, full blooded woman dragging around a dirty little poodle dog, hugging it and talking baby talk to it." General Weyler made a bluff at the Cubans, but it was only a bluff, and he is now again in Havana. Weyler is a licked man and Spain will acknowledge it by recalling him. Hurrah for the brave Cubans in their struggle for independence wish we were with Fred Funston.

TopekaMail and Breeze The drafted recruits that go from Spain this year to Cuba to help crush the rebellion are all boys under twenty. All over that age went before. There is nothing since the drafting of boys by Napoleon in France to equal this ruthless conscription in Spain. Governor-elect Leedy last week said "I wish you newspaper men would say for me that I invite advice, suggestions and applications for office. Everybody who thinks he would fit an office is welcome to come and ask for it, and his claim will receive consideration." Mr.

Leedy is a brave man, and if he is alive after the crowd gets through with him, he will be entitled to the admiration of every man in Kansas. We have nothing against the little homeless children that New York is shipping into Kansas this winter, but we want to say a word concerning our own homeless waifs. At Topeka there is a "home" for friendless children sustained entirely by charity and the managers of the institution desire good homes for each of the unfortunate little ones placed in their care in fact it is their business to find homes for them When a child from the Topeka "home" is adopted, a record of the child's life, as near as it is possible to give, is given to its foster parents. The record gives its name, age, parentage and all particulars concerning it that it ii possible to learn. If a child does not suit the family that takes it, it may be returned and the "home" will find another place for it and if, on the other hand, the parties taking a child from the "home" do not treat' it properly it will be taken from them.

We believe that the people of Kansas should first take care of its own poor children and respectfully invite New York to do the same. FARMINd DOGS PAY. From Secretary Morton's last annual report we get some facts that are not quite in line with the assertions of some people. For instance seventy-two per centof the farms of the United States are absolutely free from incumbrance. The south and west are not the most heavily mortgaged sections, as that ire-eminence is held by the east New All Over Kansas.

Garnet is to have a new bank. Dr. Furst of Peabody keeps ahead of the procession. He is one of the first doctors in the state. The wheels of industry have been started at Holton.

A new flouring mill is running on full time. The Linn County Republic is threatened with a libel suit and is the envy of half the papers in the state. A Baldwin youth contemplates a "sale" of the mittens the girls have given him and the season has hardly commenced. Five hundred tulip bulbs have been planted in the city park of Marion to furnish the two-lip ointment for the young people that will bloom in the spring, tra, la. Etiquette item from the Burns Cit- izen "A young man who Will sit in a buggy like a hump on a log and allow his girl to climb in and not even offer to assist, her, surely grew up in the bazle Grant Shaw says his idea of a congressman is the one who knows where the garden seed does the most good.

Does the bachelor editor of the Florence Bulletin contemplate matrimony and garden sass? Mr. Humbuger, of Salina, married an unusually pretty girl last week, and the paper states that she is old enough and smart enough to know what she was doing. Perhaps he didn't humbug 'er after all time will tell. The principal pusher on the Mound City Torch of Liberty wears dresses and we have been watching for some neighboring contemporary who wanted to make up "now that the election is over" to refer to her as the Goddess of Liberty. Smith County Pioneer: Mrs.

Ollie'I. Royce is now associate editor of the Phillipsburg Dispatch. This will give John an opportunity to tell the fellow who wants to know "who writ that piece," that it was the associate editor. Mrs. Royce is one of the best newspaper women in the state.

The Hoisington Dispatch is clamoring for a fire engine. The Dispatch should not be alone in this matter and the citizens of that place have recently had a practical illustration of the need of one. The people out there must all be from Missouri have to be shown. Horace Grant, the bloated landholder of the Greeley Graphic, advertises that he has 480 acres of land to sell or he will divide it into smaller tracts. If he will divide it into smaller tracks with the toes pointed toward this office, we'll take a few, and welcome.

The compositor was yelling for "copy" and in desperation the editor of the Dighton Herald took up the slack in his belt, and dashed off the following pathetic pome: "Hope and joy have disappeared All our skies are murky, Faint and fainter seems the show For thanksgiving turkey." The editor of the Augusta Journal raises the question "whats the matter with Eldorado girls that so many of their young men come to Augusta for their brides?" The question is respectfully submitted to Marsh Murdock who is a great man to stay at home and should be posted on nil of these nice points. Florence Bulletin It seems, Cyrus, that we have heard you complain a good deal about your neighbors. You think they are a bad lot, and you would like a change of pasture, bo far as neighbors go. Neighbors are very Try It and See. Whatever may be said about the publications of Rev.

Irl R. Hicks by those who do not fully understand the facts, there is no denying the truth that his paper and Almanac have come to stay. His splendid journal, Word axd Works, is now entering its tenth year, largely increased in circulation and in every way improved, until it deserves the national reputation it has attained. His 1897 Almanac is now ready and is by far the finest and most beautiful he has yet issued. It contains 108 pages, including cover artistically printed in colors, and is filled from back to back with just what is wanted in every shop, office and home in America, One feature of the Almanac for 1897 is a series of 12 original, beautifully engraved star maps, with explanatory chapters, which could not be bought for less than five dollars in any work on astronomy.

As Mr. Hicks has so correctly and faithfully wanned the public of coming droughts, floods, cold waves, blizzards, tornadoes and cyclones, in the years passed, aside from the other varied and splendid features of his paper and Almanac, these considerations alone should prompt every family to subscribe at once for 1897. The Almanac is only 25cts. a copy. Word axd Works is one dollar a year, and a copy of the fine Almanac goes as a premium with every yearly subscription.

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of 98 Pine street, New York City. Confident that he has discovered an absolute cure for consumption and all pulmonary complaints, and to make its great merits known, he will send, free, three bottles (the Slocum new system of medicine) to any reader who is suffering- from chest, throat and lung troubles or consumption. He invites those desirous of obtaining the remedies to simply send him their express and postoffiee address, and receive in return the three free bottles. Already this "new scientific course of medicine" has permanently cured thousands of apparently hopeless cases. He considers it his religious duty a duty which he owes humanity to donate his infallible cure.

Offered freely, apart from its inherent strength, is enough to commend it, and more so is the perfect confidence of tke great chemist making the offer. He has proved consumption to be a curable disease beyond any doubt. There will be no mistake in sending the mistake will be in overlooking the Docter's generous invitation. He has has on life in his American and Kurope-ean labortories thosumls of testimonials of experience from those cured, in nil parts of the world. Delays ore dangerous: mail your address to T.

A. Slocum, M. 98 Pine stret, New York, and when writing the Doctor, please mention reading this article in this paper, Correspondence. Stanton. Items are scarce this week.

A fine rain fell last Monday. The meeting was well attended last Sunday. Mrs. Charlie Ruff is on the r.ick list this week. Protracted meeting at Spring Ridge has closed.

Ora Bloom, of Independence, is visiting relatives here. Mrs. Rouse spent last Sunday with Mrs. Dr. Prentice.

Taylor Ricketts delivered corn to Mr. Stoner last week. Mr. Baker, of Lane, was in Stanton on business last Monday. Mrs.

Stanbro, of California, is visiting relatives with a view of locating here, Miss Daisy and Walter Grauel, of Rantoul, attended church. in Stanton Sunday, Stamnn and John Groan returned from Lyndon last Saturday where, they had been feeding cattle. John Williams, teacher of the Stanton school, was so sick he could not tench school Wednesday. Lane. Joe Mills drove to Richmond Wednesday.

Mrs. J. W. Steele, was in Garnett Tuesday. E.

II. Faust has gone to lines to work at logging..