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PORT SCOTT SEMI-WEEKLY TRIBUNE- MONITOR, FRIDAY, MARCH 16, 1017. THE CAME OF GOLD. UNIVERSAL TRAINING. MONEY' RAISING SHEEP Fort cott Tribune IISOCIETYI i 1 1 1 IS i 4 AKO IU Fcrt Scott Monitor 15? T.5IP?F!,?2N",OB Pabllshers KO. W.

MARBLK, Editor and Muuw BOBT. B. BARK, Associate Edltof m-lS tenth Mala Street. ITER KVBNING BXCKPT SUNDAY IKHI-WEEBtY, TUESDAY AND FRIDAY Entered at PostoftVe, Fort Scott. Kansas, Second Class Mall Matter.

BUBSCltlPTIOX TERMS per by carrier BO DAILY, per year, by carrier 16.00 Mall in Bourbon or Adjoining- Coontlon DAILY, one uiontli .40 DAILY, three months Ji.no DAILY, six mouths 11.75 DAILX, one year $3.00 uuiae Aojoininf nun ties. DAILY, one month 00 ..11.25 -OO DAILY, one year SEMI-WEEKLY, one year CIRCULATION CLAIMS C. F. Scott makes the following In-vidious comparison between the clreu-. lation of his lola Register and the circulation of the Wichita Eagle: Victor Murdock could talk to a nun fired thousand people or more every day through the Wichita Ergle In stead of which he prefers to spend the hot summers talking every dav to a tew hundred Dtople from a chau'tauqua platform.

Strange what a fascination th nmH nf iron's mvn vnto hna fnr that man. I We have an idea that some of thoe 'fellows who Vc ro.Sn?w that Sr. Bryan was Invited to deliver the com mencement address at Kansas Univer- sity are sore that they were not invit ed to do It. And the others are sore because Uryan won't die. OLD CENTRAL SCHOOL Twenty years or so ago there np- nmnba Ir, fho 1 H.r, the Central school building.

Since then more than half the people of the town1 have believed that building unsafe, During high winds the building seemed to rock some, but when the cupalo was removed the occupants didn't get seasick any more during a windstorm. Nevertheless so strong is the conviction or the tradition today that the building is unsafe that should it happen to collapse more than half the town would insist on sending the board of education to the penitentiary for per- I ON ffmL BEL I 1 1 i I After listening to Victrola records played on a genuine Victor Victrola you'll be convinced that it's the only real reproducer of music. Remember also that you can get a genuine Victrola as low as $15.00 that will play any Victor record. For those who like and appreciate real music there is nothing that will satisfy like a Victrola. We show all styles from $15.00 up to We carry over 4,000 selections in music and will gladly play any for you when you come in.

Victrolas sold on very convenient terms. There are traveling through Kansas several employed representatives of a private organization of some Kind Paca east, who are gent to Kansas to create sentiment for universal military training. One of--these representative spent two days in Fort Scott ami suc nniJ In flndinc nn mnn Who WHM i willing to be publicly quoted as favor lne- universal mllitarv training. This private organization, spending private money In the promotion of a public policy, naturally arouses uh-piclon. When we Inquired Into Its purpose and the source of Its funds thf representative handed us a piece of literature bearing a score or mow of names of men who we were annum! were great public-spirited inte-n of the east, who had Riven of their netnx atul their names for the cause, It has evidently been found ndvlttuVIc-to enlighten the Kansas public on I he merits of universal mllitarv training Evidently the idea is not popular la this state.

We haven't grnsiped the H- uatlon as they have had Hut 'Ininrpsses im na misslnir strange that ft nlu.lni,,, llttlllk nent necessity should have to be ttkU up and promotod bv private lutoroM, However unselfish the motives of the gentlemen who are flnancln" It, one'a thoughts instantly turn to the Hudson Slnxlm preparedness propaganda, Hnt there mnv be some virtue In this movement. It. contemplates taMntf every boy of 18 Into a federal milium' training camp lor six months to tn him for wnr, and making of him a reservist upon whom the government may call In time of wnr tor years alter- wards. He would become a part ot our 1 Inndstrum. as It were.

It Is argued tor this method thnt It would, bv associating our bovs from fine homes and rich fain- 'Hies with the bovs from modest homes and poor estates, make us demo- cratle: that it would tend to discourage military aristocracy by detracting from the power and excluslvcness of tho regular army; that it would be a great. advantage to the young men of the cnuntrv bv giving them a physical training that would straighten up their physiques and start them into business in robust health. All this, sounds plausible. And we are not denying sucn universal u.ui h.b not only a proper precaution ior mmon- ni cnfi'tv lint have a holofiil social and physical influence on our young men. I The thing we do not understand is why, if it is a suggestion of such merit, it is necessary for private capital to promote It, and if it will tend to de-cimv thn social arlstocracv of tho, fti Diiph nifin na nonnrnt tV.

OP1v stml fr 'lt wo tr.1.1 the e-entlemnn who came here in the interest of this movement that Ceneral Wood's advocacy of it that our policy was' to iisuallv' regard as very bad and harmful anything ne advocated. THE MAN WITH THE HOE. who are so situated as to tie auie to render a very great and patriotic serv- lce in this year of crisis: Practically every observer of international conditions-, concedes that the United States will probably go to war with Germany within a few days or a few weeks at most. Everybody knows what war does to the prices of foodstuffs. The demand for things to eat is doubled and usually the supply-is curtailed.

This is planting season. Every mouthful of vegetables or grain or meat or milk a person Is able to produce will find a ready market if we go to war, as well as provide the grower relief from almost prohibitive prices for the necessities of his own home. Now is the time for farmers and town people to not only take precautions but to plan to have some stuff to sell to meet the demands of those who cannot raise provisions for themselves. There ought not be a vacant lot in Fort Scott nor an unfilled acre in 15ourbon county this year. Yet there are more farms for rent around here right now than ever before, this late in the season.

The "small croup of willful men" who blocked President Wilson's plan In the senate are anathema with certain newspapers who are praising the small group of willful men who tried to block it in the house but failed. GOVERNMENT MUST INTERVENE The present prices of beans, potatoes and most foodstuffs are unmistakably the result of a manipulation of the market. Not by the retailer. Goodness knows he is having grief enough frvlna- to trot his living out of his busi ft juiLliiiK si a iiuiiureu ur Hcven nuiiuieu in case ui wnr ii.w nc. x-nnui 3 children to enter the building evervjmany wave the flag and also that school day.

We would Insist that the i many flourish the hoe. members of the board knew the build- Let us again call attention to a cop- ing- was unsafe, or that, if they didn't I dition that seems to lack appreciation know it, they should have known it. by those in this immediate community Wichita, Husle: While Germany's defensive rlnH' of steel contracts, yet holds, and the British blockade tighten but fulls to throttle, and the sub-marine cuthluindy preya upun commerce, but tinea not tup It, the silent Bittue Of obi on, the one certain arbiter of war, the utuntpnteut dictator of pemdea, Maun, KeueialM and nrinles, Uealh, thtitmh It vtait the lust family In imA'ite, nut mt command peace, De-Btt'ucltou, tumult it lav ward the last vlllntse, cn tud still the contest. Famine ihmh it tbtve Uh population to petvutv, van ety no prutem which enn be btve thu tumult of a world mad with the padn of conflict, Hut lltdd Held will, Paper can inas- itnewde sold only to a certain point. Hexvnd Ihut point tun muk loin off, (he nUhin of Kuropn Imvn put out IvitHhiuit nud Kninee have mrtncnbl but died their limues with Bhl Uennanv Imn not, Her uncovered I'rtpef etittiiuiy has Increased five fvM, The tnteiKrtl on her war debt is Mttv a year.

The principal will never be paid. The Indemnities which Ihe chancellor once believed tier-munv would collect from the coniiiier-ed, will never he realized, Kiutlitnd, for eenttrie tho richest country on the stete, Ith colonies which produce two- thirds of the numml Bold output of the world Is Manacling under the flnnn- clal burdens of the war. She has coin- nmndcored the American bonds of her subjects to use as security lor credit. She Is dumping In on America tons of the yellow metal lo keep that credit afloat. Since last January 1, America has received $231,000,000 gold from abroad, most of It from England.

There was last night In the treasury of the Vnltcd States two billion three hundred million dollars In gold coin and bullion Less than thirty years ago, the lack of one hundred and nity 'minion goia there threw this nation into a disns- trous panto. Now America Is -athor- lug in the available gold of the world, The she gathers, the weaker 11- nancially the rest ot the world be- comes. It is the process of exhaustion. It is the road to European bankruptcy. It Ih the looming threat of financial col-.

lapse, not. guns, nor men nor armored ships, which will soon force peace upon I Europe is down to ner last, trump. We suppose the duties of the new state flood commission will consist of arranging for the new flood lights on the dme of the capltol. 1.11 jl I II ICtt I1M CAJJI with 1 'resident Wilson's new tariff board liecause only, one protectionist; was named on that board. How could: the Republicans have seriously expect- e(J present Wilson to have named a board imade up of protectionists? A debt of fiftv-one years' standing; was paid off in Fort Scott yesterday.

Itj was originally a $a00 loan. Let some scnooi ooy ngure up now mucn inter- ti A fht fimp est was paid on tills debt In that time at six per cent, and what it would have amounted to if compounded. Four and a half millions of men have been killed in the European war and about six millions have been wounded or otherwise Incapacitated. This loss is out of a total population of people. It seems comparatively small, but when it is recalled that the ten millions killed or incapacitated' are from the most physically able of the men of that population it will be real ized that the productiveness of Europe has been very ereatly impaired and its dependence verygreatly increased.

Not at lpast, in fifty to a hundred years will any European nation be in any sort of a position to attack a great power across the sea and all the great super- dreadnaughts we are building today will be in the scrap heap long before that time. FORTY YEARS AGO. T. A. hands with his was around old friends.

shaking W. N. Emmert sold, a few days ago, the Oscar Hurst farm, situated three miles south of the city to some Illinois parties. Eldon Lowe, with C. W.

Graere. and A. F. Keller, with I. Stadden, have returned from a business trip through Southeastern Missouri and Southeastern Kansas.

Miss Ella E. Goodlander returned llllnols Pursue the study of music! SECURE BEST COW POSSIBLE If One Cannot Get Good Animal, Then Take an Ordinary One Get a Start Somehow. Get a good dairy cow if possible, If one cannot get a good cow, then get an ordinary cow, one that Is healthy, one that will breed, and then try to get her mated to a good bull. If one cannot buy a cow giving milk, then buy a heifer. If a heifer cannot be purchased, then buy a heifer calf.

Get a start somehow. DISEASE OF LITTLE CALVES Keep Youngsters Away From Cold Drafts and Protect Them In Dry, Well-Bedded Place. Pneumonia is a common disease of little calves. The cold nights that come on suddenly and unexpectedly are the chief causes. the little calves away from those cold drnfts and protect them in a dry, well-bedded place during tho cold wet nights.

Prevention is better than cure. Only a few recover. While nothing could be learned the railr(md mPn ln rPKal.d to strike orders that was authority, it was common report among tho men that the brotherhoods are to go out on tne "ncs here Monday evening at six 'clocl. but the passenger trains are to for flve days Mrs. L.

E. Thomas returned yester- .1,,., I nuni jucniirus, wncie ne iihh iiren visiting since Saturday with rel- tttives, to is of in for wil thef Ted in the GROWING APPETITE FOR MUTTON INCREASES THE DEMAND. KANSAS CLIMATE FAVORABLE A. M. Patterson of Kansas Agricultural College, Advises Farmers to Increase Sheep Production It 13 unfortunate that a state so well adapted to the production of mutton and wool as Kansas has so few sheep within Its botdei'3 and that tho average Kansas stockman has so persis tontly neglected this important and profitable industry.

During recent years people are rap idly learning to appreciate the fact that lamb and mutton are the most delicious, nutritious and healthful of all nieats. This growing appreciation is creating an insistent demand, which, coupled with a decrease In pro duction, has made very high and has opened new opportunities for profitable sheep husbandry on the averagre Kansas farm Formerly sheep production was largely a range indus try but since the ranges have been so materially reduced sheep production Is becoming a farm proposition and in the future will become more and more a part of the activities of the general farm. Many people have the idea that sheep are hard to care for and handle, and while It Is very true ehat sheep have their peculiarities, there are no secrets nor anything difficult in the care and management of a flocH of sheep. All that Is needed Is an exercise of patience, perseverance and good Judgment. Kansas with her dry, open winters abundance of roughage and splendid markets, has a decided advantnge In this business and the average farm would be much benefited by a flock of sheep which could turn waste prod.

ucts Into cash, thus saving feeds of commercial value and at the same time increasing the fertility of the soil. Sheep produce two crops annually, wool in the soring and Iambs in the if animal la Dronerlv cared for the mcome from the wooi wj1 aImogt pay for the ewes keep Th1r vamB n. iln nf fh should not be overlooked and a great many farms that have been cropped year aftet; year are rapidly losing their productiveness and there Is no class of live stock so well adapted to building up of the soil as sheep. Their droppings are extremely richu and are scattered over the fields in a manner which neither man or machine can Sheep are noted as scavengers; as week exterminators they have no equal. In this section of the country there are nearly 600 kinds of weeds, and sheep will eat about 575, while cattle and horses will eat only about 75.

Not only will sheep rid the fields of these pests but will turn them into a marketable product and return the fertility of the soil to the land in the form of manure. Most faring have feed lots and yards which annually grow up to weeds which are very un sightly. Ky sowing rape in these places and pasturing sheep on It, the appearance of the farm will be much improved and it will be the means of making good meat which means a larger bank account. Road-cidcs, lanes and fence corners may also be kept clean jnd tidy by the uao a tlock or sheep. The belief that sheep cannot be pastured with other live stock is a mis take; where grass Is abundant they will graze together very nicely and sheep will oat the plants that the other stock leave which tends to give the picture a cleaner appearance.

When a man Is thinking of going into the sheep business ho should take an Inventory of himself and find out What he knows about1 sheep and begin gathering all the information possible. -The next thing is to determine how many to get; this will depend entirely upon his business condition and the amount of material wasted annually that could be utilized by sheep. Whether grade or purebred sheep is be raised should depend upon the knowledge the person has of the sheep business. For one who has had no experience, it is best to buy good grade western ewes and a purebred ram. After obtaining some experience and he finds he likes the sheep business, the purebreds may be purchased.

When planning to raise purebreds it well to make a study of the different breeds; their origin and environment and select the breed best adapted to your conditions. Careful study market conditions should be made order to realize the greatest profit. ST. PATRICK'S PARTY. Feature of Entertainment at Y.

M. C. A. Tomorrow Night for Young People to Be Irish Stunts. (From Thursday's Dally.) Arrangements have been completed the big St.

Patrick's party for young people tomorrow night at 8 o'clock at the M. C. and It was announced this morning that there be a most entertaining program, eaturo of which will be a Beries of very amusing stunts with an Irish flavor. These have been arranged by Atkins, Mary Reynolds, Bessie Cleland and Albert Zook, the committee in charge of arrangements, with a dozen assistants. Also refreshments will be served and they will be1 of such a nature as to bo keeping with tho Irish atmosphere which will pervade evervthinc.

Tio party is for all young people of city and they are all invited to be present and have a good time. (From Thursday's Daily.) Paper Campaign for the Schools. All who are willing to assist the schools in their paper gathering campaign to raise a music fund, are requested to place their papers on their front porches by noon tomorrow, as automobiles will be sent around to gather them up. It is requested that the paper be tied in neat bundles so they will be easily handled. The city federation of women's clubs took a 'stand at their last meeting in favor of doing all in their power to assist the schools.

Each district is under the supervision of the principal of Its ward and everybody's assistance is solicited as all the schools are to be benefitted. The fund is to be used to place vic-trolas and records in every school building and where the need Is greatest the money will be 'spent first. There are still some of our city schools without good and the object of the committee is to relieve the siuation. So dont' forget to put your papers out by noon tomorrow. Presbyterian Missionary Society.

The Woman's Missionary Society of tho First Presbyterian church will meet tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with Mrs. F. E. Hawthorne, at 114 South Lowman street. The assisting hostesses will be Mesdames A.

L. Tester, Jessie Beadell and D. R. Keith. The program will be as follows: Devotionals Mrs.

Elizabeth Mead. "The Church in Japan" -Mrs. Wil-lard Templar. Vocal Solo Mrs. J.

B. French. "Newest Americans" Mrs. J. A.

Devlin. Business and social hour. Baptist Missionary Society, The Baptist Ladies' Missionary Society will hold a special meeting tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock in the church parlors to observe the day of prayer for missions. A special program has been prepared and a very interesting meeting Is planned. All liuptist ladies will please take notice.

Mrs. Simonton to Entertain S. S. Class Mrs. Ladie Simonton will entertain the members of her Sunday Schoo class of the First Methodist church Fri day evening at 7:30 o'clock at her home at 750 South Judson All the members of the C.

O. U. T. boys club are expected to be present as well as the Sunday School class. Mother's Club to Meet.

Tho Mothers Club will meet tomor row afternoon at the home of Mrs. G. F. Linster at 111 South Crawford street. Mrs.

L. E. Thomas will give a paper on "Child Hygiene." During the business period plans for next year will be discussed. Mrs. Streeter Blair returned this morning from Junction City where she took part In the Spring musical festi val of that city.

She was accompanied home by her friend Mrs. Thomas I Mogan. The ladies motored from Junc tion City to Topeka, to Kansas City and then home. They made the trip alone and without any mishaps, havin enjoyed it very much. Mrs.

John Parker and children of 1018 West Fifth street will leave to morrow for Commerce, where they will make their future homo. Mr. Parker is already there, having gone into the plumbing business. Mrs. W.

M. Crow of Lockwood, Mo. Is visiting her daughter Mrs. Mary J- Nesmith of 110 1-2 North National ave nue. Miss Louella Draper of Iowa Falls, Iowa, is here for a two weeks business visit.

Birth Announcement. Mr. and Mrs. E. Snow of Wichita announce the birth of a little daughter recently.

They were formerly of this city, Mrs. Snow being the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. F.

Mrs. C. H. Runyon of Stanbury, is visiting Mrs. R.

C. Taylor of 1604 South National avenue. Mrs. Runyon is on her way home from Springfield, where she attended the W. O.

W. convention. Rev. nnd Mrs. J.

W. Scott of 110 South Eddy street have rented the property at the corner of Eighteenth and Crawford and will move about April 1. CLAIMS DAMAGE TO STOCK. A. G.

Gaston Files Suit Against Katy For Alleged Damage to Stock Asks $2,075.00 (From Thursday's Dally.) Alleging that the Katy railroad is re sponsible for damages to some stock which he bought in this city a year ago this month, and shipped to Beaumont, A. G. Gaston, of tho latter city, this morning, filed suit ln the district court here against the railroad com pany for a total of $2,075.00 damages. The plaintiff claims that on March 2, 1916, he bought five horses and 16 mules ln this city, and that he procured a Katy car in which It was understood they were to be shipped directly, and without delay, to Beaumont. Hut, in stead, he claims after the stock were oaded Into.

the car, the car was held here 11 hours, that It was then taken to itrsons, where it was held for 24 hours that it then went to Joplln, and was held there for four or five hours, thnt it was then taken to Neosho, and was held there from 18 to 20 hours, before finally going on direct to Beau mont, the result being that a week was cquired to make the trip. It Is claimed by the plaintiff that as the result of this long and arduous journey, the stock, which had been In the best of condition when loaded. were In a very bad condition when they reached Beaumont. In fact, it Is that one of tho horses, valued at $200, died en route, and that the re- 3m Thm Instrument illusrratc.4 ia Vic trvU XV i 20Q mixed, 1.07 1.08; No. 3 mixed, No.

2 white, $1.08 1.08; No. 3 white, $1.071.08. Close, jMay, July, September, $1.021.02. Oats Market steady. No.

2 white, 6162; No. 2 mixed, BSeBg. Rye Firmor, $1.52 1.53. Hay Market steady, choice timothy, choice prairie, $14.00. Kansas City Live Stock.

Kansas City, March 15. Cattle: Receipts, market steady. Prime fed steers, cows and heifers, stoekers and feeders, bulls, calves, $7.00 11.50. Hogs Receipts, the "market was 510c up. Heavies, 14.75; packers and butchers, $14.40 14.75; lights, 14.60.

Kansas City Butter and Eggs. Kansas City, March 15. Butter: Kansas City, March 14. Butter: Creamery, 42c; firsts, 40c; seconds, 38c; packing stock, 28c. Eggs Firsts, 28c.

Chicago Grain. Chicago, March 15. Wheat: Closing prices: May, $1.80 1.80 July, $1.55 calves, $9.7513.50. Hogs Receipts, the market was strong. Lights, mixed, heavies, $14.25 14.90; pigs, Chicago Provisions'! Chicago, March 15.

Pork: May, July, $32.12. Lard May, July, $18.97. prices: May, July, 1.56; September, $1,44145. Corn May, $1.07 1.08: July, September, $1.05. Oats May, 5757c; July, 55 56c Chicago Live Stock.

Chicago, March 15. Cattle: Receipts, market firm. Beeves, $9.00 12.65; cows and heifers, Cof fee Fresh Cans and Labels Advancing every day. It is now costing 6 cents per pound to pack cofl'ee. You, Mr.

Consumer, will pay the 6 cents for tin and labels! THAT'S WHY we save you more than 5 cents' per pound on your coffee ROASTED IN FORT SCOTT and delivered to your door. Price 15c to 45c per pound. Two Profit Sharing Checks with each pound of 30c, 35c, 40c and 45c Coffee. American Tacific "Tea Company 5 N. Main St.

Tel. 118 Louderback's Tea Coffee Store. Daily vveu, tne memners ot tne Hoard ot education have decided that the Cen- tral building is inadequate, unsanitary and beyond repair. They have decided to put it up to the people of the town to say what they want done in the matter of discarding it and building a new, modern school on the Central school square. They have figured it out that to build a suitable building thmeTtrifh n.llau at the same time provide for an auditorium and gymnasium for the Margrave school, making that a social center for East Fort Scott, would cost the tax-payers about 75c on each $1,000 of taxable property.

This amount of taxes paid into the treasurey year will retire the bonds and pay the interest until thev are retired. The school board isn't asking any favors from the people. The members of the board serve without pay. They find the schools crowded all over town, and the buildings the poorest to be found In any city of this size In Kansas. Their only interest is the interest of Fort Scott and the 'children' whom Fort Scott is obligated to educate.

They recommend these Improvements as a tneans or relieving me congestion in all the schools and of providing adequate and sanitary schools making possible more efficient school management. It's for the people of the town to say what they want. The Central school building Is more than forty years old. The editor of this paper started to school In room No, 1 of this building about forty years ago. The same pew he occupied on that first day is still In service there.

Hardly a thing except the faces of the teachers and scholars is changed. Saturday the newspapers all carried Mack headlines about Villa capturing Durango. Monday a few of them had an Isolated little story about the Saturday dispatch erroneous. So don't believe all you read in the dispatches from Mexico or from Europe. Yester- day you read-under great headlines of Tne Americans or me iHrrowuaie crew having been beaten by the brutal fists' of German guards and about their having been starved.

A denial of that sensation would not be nearly as big news. We almost part company with Governor Capper when he vetoes the bill fixing the minimum penalty for chicken- stealing at three years. Surely had the Govemor ever had the peculiarly try- ing experience of trying to keep chick- ens away from thieves he would not ness under such conditions. It Is the ednesday night from attending Baker fellows wholbuy the provisions In lm-. University at Baldwin City.

She will mense quantities, put them in cold stor- a Bnort timo at home, after atre or in the warerooms and then jtv tiimi.vt malnder. of the stock had to be nursed and cared for carefully for three months after making the trip in order to restore them to even fair condition, making necessary the employment of a veterinary whose charges totaled $250. It is claimed that another one of the horses, valued at $200, was ruined and that the remaining 19 were reduced in value $25 a head. Mr. Caston has itemized his alleged losses as follows: Loss of two horses $400 Pay for veterinary $250 Depreciation of value on 19 head at $25 a head $475 Medicine 50 Extra Feed and care for 20 head for 3 months, $15 each $900 Total $2075 They Came Out, All Right.

Mrs. Bensonhurst Where have you been, dear? Mr. Bensonhurst Oh, I spent tht afternoon hunting. "Any luck?" "Oh, my, yes. My experience today remind me of that shaving-brush you me for my birthday." "How so?" "Oh, the liures came out bunches." In "Premonition.

The Colonel So the bank refused to cash that check I gave you, Kastus. Rastus Yessah. Dot cashier man dun hav' pos'tively de most seeable mind Ah obah saw, sail. The Colonel How's that? Rastus Yessah. Jes' ns soon as Ah dun tell hiin whose check Ah had he said lt wus no good eben bt'fo' he dun look at It, sah.

New York Globe. LOCAL MARKET rtEPORT. Produce. Potatoes $2.50 Butter 3032c Poultry. Hens 17c Springs 12c Roosters 8c Ducks Turkeys 19c Geese 10c Live Stock.

Fat heifers $7.508.00 Cows $6.507.00 Cutters Hogs $1. Lambs $6.607.00 Grain. Hay and Fuel. Corn, bushel Oats, bushel 75a Prairie Hay Clover Hay Timothy $14.0015.00 Alfalfa, baled $18.00020.00 Coal, bushel 15 PI 6c Straw $5.00 6.00 Hide, Na 1 Horse $8.00 No. 1 Cow, Bait cured, lb 20c Cow, green, lb ....190 TELEGRAPHIC MARKET REPORTS, Kansas City Grain.

Kansas' City, March 15. Wheat: Re- celpts, 9Gc cars; market unchanged to 2c up. Cash: No. 2 hard, 1.90; No. hard, No.

2 red, $1.83 fH.SX; No. 3 red, Close: Mw, $1.77: July, September; 1.40. Corn Market up. No, 2 have held the penalty to be out of pro- Annl.t hut that It Is sss a-a sIsStkL-HS" IfltlfTrZt of chi rker feed and thristricou-rtTay thafif some-jtbe tut r.r,mo nnri steal his nne would lust come anu sieai uia the more immense quantities nrtl'Le'iscre D- ated. True, this does not account tor the fact that when hogs sold at 6c or 7c, pork chops were retailed at 15c to 18c.

while, an Increase of 6c to 7c in the price of hogs resulted in an increase of 13c to 15c in the price of chops. It would seem to the average anan that the retail price should not Increase so far beyond the increase in the price of live hogs. But It is probably true that the "hie-h nrlces so restrict the volume the 'high prices so strict tne volume of Ppf la af OIULr to keep tne that will make impossible the building sooner the g0VPrnment gets to it, belter. If there is ground for a complaint made to us by a Fort Scott father whose son has recently enlisted, the Kansas blue sky law Bhould be invoked to tone down the recruiting office's prospectus. The United States Is finally to pay Columbia $25,000,000 indemnity for the Panama canal rights, whicli Mr.

Roosevelt ruthlessly took from the republic by secretly fomenting a revolution to get the canul site. Mr. Roosevelt's method was not only dishonorable, but was the act of a bully, and that this irnrAPnniATit mnnlloln 4l.nl V.v. auus te jured nation will commend us to the nations of the world. True, lt is some-j what out of the ordinary, for nations are not in the habit of dealing with each other as fair men do.

The pro- posal to indemnify Colombia Is now be-1 jngr criticised as bribery and as dlnlo- LIIU HIT. will win up nnn nr no nnn acts of all time. wife's chickens he would parole him Why would It not be a good idea for the state to grub-stake some of those potato farmers of the Kaw Valley? We read that because of the unheard of price of seed potatoes the acreage in that potato-growing section will be materially cut down this year. This is a general condition and lt is reasonable to presume that the potato acreage throughout the United States will be greatly reduced. There could be no other result than that potatoes will be scarce and excessively high after the new crop comes on.

Some means of securing the planting of a full acreage in the Kaw valley appears to be a necessity, even if the state should have to provide the seed under an agreement thnt the potatoes grown from that seed should be sold to consumers. REASON AND THE LARDER A Topeka Journal editor believes the months. He says lt Is believed an larder will restore reason. Jet tne juiiiiimi in uiiu .1,0. Tinners That- sei hwmij' 1 1..

Ih a country permitting its inroer to gei 1 pmpty by a lapse of reason..