448

Date 1912-09-10

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Bridge, which springs e chasm for nearly one wenty meters. Nearly feet below roars and torrent. above, on all ge mountains, while at ad rises the ancient rocky fastnesses, the Wiesbers. eed a land that charms With wide open arms pe world to her cities, ins, and her glorious ghlands, and ever she aer guests. an abun ngs thet are good. et hehehotepepetupeteteseve Peffer, the Joke Was a Pioneer and a Prophet Lone Star State Representative Kidded Along About His Many Theories Had Ideas Which Are Now Ad- vocated by All Parties. A few months ago the newspapers of the United States carried a brief tem to the effect that William A. Peffer, United States Senator from Kansas, had undergone an operation for the amputation of his right leg above the knee, in order that his lite might be prolonged until he could complete a real history of Popu- lism. As a Senator, Mr. Peffer was the butt of ribald jests and jeers, partly because of his luxurious hir- ute facial adornment, partly becaus he was a Populist and advocated such absurd theories as the initiative and Teferendum, the recall of judges, the imperative. mandate and a national income tax. Now it would seem that Peffifer was both pioneer and a, pro- phet for his pet doctrines, with the exception of the free coinage of silver have become orthodox and respectable and axe advocated by Democrats, Republicans and Progressives. William Alfre Peffer wag born in Cumberland County, Pa. eighty-one Years ago today, Sept. 10. 1831. He Was educated in the rural schools and at the tender age of fifteen be- came a school teacher, working on his father s farm during the summer months. Upon attaining his majority the moved to Indiana, thence to Mis- souri and later to Illinois. He was just a plain farmer, a tiller of the soll, until the outbreak of the civil war, when he enlisted as a private in. the Eighty-third Illinois infantry. He acted as adjutant, judge advocate and quartermaster during the war, and in 4865-was-mustered:-out with-the-rank of lieutenant. After the war Peffer settled. in Clarksville, Tenn., where for a time the was engaged in the practice of law. Then he went to Kansas, where he took up journalism, and was the founder of the Coffeyville Journal and the Fredonia Journal. He was a Republican in those days, serving term in the Kansas Senate, and in 1880 was a Republican presidential elector. In 1881 he established the Senator, t similar movements that resulted in the political organization known as the People s or Populist Party. When Populism swept the Sunflower State, the wave. carried Whiskers Peffer into the United States Senate and Seekless Jerry Simpson into the House of Representatives. Peffer, 8 thinker and a student, very earnest and very guileless represented a new type in the Senate, where prac- tical politicians and men of. wealth were the rule. He succeeded John J. Ingalls, orator and wit and polished man of the world, anda comparison between. the two statesmen made Peffer s simplicity all the more marked. Congressman Jerry Simp- son, famed for his alleged lack of hosiery, had a double-edged tongue and was able to hold his own in de- bate against the brightest wits of the House, but poor Peffer, always serious and earnest, had no such defence against the shafts levelled in his di- section After completing his term as Senator Mr. Peffer was the prohi- bition candidate. for Governor of Kansas. That was in 1898, and mark- ed his retirement from politics. Pop- ulism steadily declined, and its more popular planks were taken up by one or both of the established parties. William Allen White, with his What's the matter with Kansas, put the finishing touches on Populism in Kansas, where it had had its strong hold. Today the great man of Em- poria is preaching some of the Peffer doctrines, which goes to prove that, minus whiskers and plus hostery, Populism has attained respectability. A year from today will mark the centennial of the battle of Lake Erie, and the anniversary of Perry's vic- tory over the British fleet will be commemorated by great celebra- tion. The flagship Niagara, lying un- der twenty feet of water in Erle Harbor, will be raised and rebuilt for the occasion. Kansas Farmer, and became Iter- ested in the Farmers Alliance and LARGE STOCK OF Finish, Fir and Maple, and Oak Flooring, SOLE AGENTS FOR i Paroid Roofing, B. and S. Wail Board requires no further finish. SEE US BEFORE BUYING. YARD EAST ALLOWANCE; DOOLSEOGOPLSS SHEESH SHGS toners of hs tout esi, proof Paper, Neponset Roofing, Felt, ; For Your Electrical Work Done a little better than seems necessary and a little less ex- pensive than you expected. The secret of our success is high class work best of material and right SAME ATTENTION PAID TO SMALL JOBS AS THE BIG ONES, - ESTIMATES FURNISHED FREE. SOLEIL REDE POS Western Canada Lumber Co.Ltd. 4 3 3 Dry Common Lumber, Fir and Cedar Perry Electric. Supply Co. The Daily News delivered in the city 35 2 month. Cedar Doots; Fir, Neponset Water- PHONE 467 411 4th AVE., MEDICINE HAT prices, + TE REVELSIONE Yard, North Railway We carry in stock a full line of Building Material Lumber, Lath, Cement, Plaster, c., Fir Finish and Flooring a Specialty. POLOHOTOTOLS sereresete SM. CW. ALP. Washington, D.C., Sept. 9. The September crop report of the United States Department, issued at 2.15 to- day, and compiled by the Crop Re- porting Board from reports of cor+ respondents and agents of the Bur- eau of Statistics, gives a summary of the condition on September 1, or at time of harvest, of corn, spring wheat, oats, barley, buckwheat, po- tatoes, tobacco, flaxseed, tice and apples. The report in part is as follows: Spring Wheat Conaition 20.8 per cent. of a nor at time of harvest, compared with 90.4 per cent. on Aug- ust 1, 56.7 per cent, at time of harvest last year, and 76.6 per cent. the aver- age condition at time of harvest for the past ten years. The indicated yield per acre, estimated trom condl- tion reports, 18 15,6 bushels, compared with 9.4 bushels harvested last year and 13.4 bushels, the average yield 1906-10. On the planted area, 19,201 - o 000 acres, it is estimated the final total production will be about 300, 000,000 bushels, compared with 19: 000,000 bushels harvested last year nd 201,000,000 bushels harvested in 1910. Oats Condition, 92.3 per cent. of normal at time of harvest, compar- ed with 90.3 per cent on August 1, 64.5 per cent., at time ot harvest last year and 78.8 per cent., the average condition at time ofjharvest for the past ten years. The indicated yield Per acre, estimated from condition re- ports, is 34.1 bushels compared with 244 bushels harvested last year, and Condition, Yield aad Production of 1912 Crop Compared With Former Years Issued By U.S. Agric. Dept. Dispatch) yushels, the average yield 1906- e planted area, 37,844,000 estimaie the total uroduc- be about 1.290.000,000 bush- i -eompared with 922,000,000 bush- ls harvested last year, and 1,186, 000,000 bushelg Harvested in 1910, Barley Condition 88.9 Yer cent.., of of normal at, time of harvest, com- pared with 894 per cent, on August 1, 65.5 per cont, at time of harvest last year, and 8L2 per cent, the aver- age condition at time of harvest for the past ten years-..The indicated yield per acre, estimated from con- Ution reports, is 27.6 bushels, com- pared with 21,0 bushels harvested last year, and 4.8 bushels the aver- age yield 1906-10. On the planted area, 7,574,000 acres, it is estimated the final total production will be about 209,000,000 bushels compared with 160,000,000 bu: harvested last year and 174,000,000 bushels har- vested in 1910, Flax Conaition 86.3 per cent., of normal on September i, compared with 87.5 per cemt, on August 1, 68.4 per cent, on September 1 last year and 80.8. per cent, the average condition on September 1 for the past nine years. The indicated yield per acre is 9.7 compar d with 7.0 bushels harvested last year, and 8.7 bushels, the average yield harvested 1906-10. On the planted area, 2,992,000 acres, It 1s estimated the total final produc- tion will be about 497,000,000 bushels compared with 19,000,000 bushels last year, and 13,000,000 bushels harvested: in 1910, a SEE AUSTRIAN EMPRESS SLAYER CONTINUE IN JAIL UNREPENTANT Sentenced to Life in Gen- eva Prison, He Spends His Days in Comparative Prison Luxury. Fourteen years ago today on Sept. 10, 1898, the wo; ishocked at the news that the kindly and benevo- lent Elizabeth, Empress of Austria, had been slain in cold blood by an anarchist, Luigi Lucchent was) the name of the enemy to society who perpetrated the deed. When arrested he boasted of his crime, declaring that he was.a.true friend of humanity. and that only by slaying kings and queens as rapidly as they appeared, could monarchism ba made unpopu- lar. The assassination of the gentle Empress occurred in Geneva and, as Switzerland has abolished the death penalty, Luccheni was sentenced to life- imprisonment. Since that day fourteen years ago many tales have been circulated as to Luccheni s fate. He was pictured, in the public prints as shacked in chains and confined in a dark and dreary dungeon, where day and night were all the same, with bread and water as a diet, and with rats and other rodents as his only compan- fons. Tormented by visions of his vietim, he became insane, and, it was reported, committed suicide. In the fall of 1910 the newspapers of the that Luecheni, violently insane, put an end to his misery by hanging him- self bp his helt to the window. bars of his cell. Yet a little later a newspaper cor- respondent found Luccheni alive and well, living in comparative luxury in 8 well-lighted and. nicely furnished cell in Geneva s old prison, and still unrepentant. For a time, it was al- leged, he had a picture of the Em- press Blizabeth on the wall of his cell, and boasted to his fgellow pri- Luechent is described as a sallow, but sturdy man, with dark and pler- cing eyes and perpetual cruel scowl upon his pallid face. At times he feigns insanity, but the prison author- ities say he fs entirely sane. Far from being a stolid ignorant brute. he is above the average in Intellectual at- tainments. He speaks and reads several languages, and is very fond of books. He delights in Dickens, and is said to have read all the wo-ks of that author over and over. Mon- tesquieu and Jean Jacques Rousseau fare also among his favorites. He cares little for the Iterature of an- archism, but s familiar with most of the classic works of that school world carried an item to the effect FIRST THINGS The first woman. In England to at- tain prominence through the advocacy of political suftage for women was Mary Wollstonecraft (Mrs. Godwin), whose great work, The Rights of Women i still considered by. many suffragists to be the bible of the cause of her sex. Living in an age of revo- lution, she wes profoundly affected by the works of the French republi- cans ang an ardent admirer of Thom- as Paine, the American. writer. It was Paine's Rights of Man, that gave her the idea for The Rights of Woman. She also wrote a Vindi- cation of the Rights of Man, in answer to Burke's attack on Paine s work. The pioneer suffragist advo- cated the extremest freedom for women, held that the marriage cere- mony should be jabolished and that) marriage should cease with the cos- sation of sympathy between. the parties. The daughter of Mrs Woll- stonecraft became the wife of the poet Shelley. A small want adin The Daily News Classitiea Column will bring results. don t wake up fo find that Winnipeg people hate bought up all the lots in ROSEMO They know at the Peg what the Canadian Northern Railway ate to do near this property. : ROSEMONT Lots will make more money for you. than any other lots in Medicine 1 ROSEMONT Which is the most suitable property for building the homes of the Canad- ian Northern Railway ere joining as ai does the quarter section recently purchased by the'C. N. R, for their shops, roundhouse and yards ROSEMONT Is only one mile from the centre of Medicine Hat, so it should be immed- aie iately supplied withe Gas, Water, etc. ROSEMONT Is far enough away from the noise caused by the shunting oe a most desirable residentia district. You can, buy. ground floor prices on Price of Lots 200 Mp. 25.00 CASH 25.00 Every 2 Months : Interest ONLY 6G per cent. These lots will double in price whileyou are Paying for them, Kennedy Pool PHONE 428. 517 THIRD AVENUE. ; SHESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHSSHSSSSSSSSSESSSSSSSS Se 2 000.00 per month. of thought, According to an English journalist, his cell 1s airy and large, provided with comfortable bed and well-filled bookcases, and lighted by electricity-. The assassin is well fed and s given a liberal :allowance of, cigarettes and wine. Before he became notorious by slapying an Empress, Luccheni lived in extreme poverty and was forced bp the police to flee from city to city, with never a moment's peace. He tolled for a pittance at th mast menial of occupations, and was often on the verge of starvation. Com- pared with the miseries and depriva- tions of his past, his'present existence Street. 3s ae is one of luxury, Subscribe now ise Dally Nows. We Can t All Be Farmers We Can t All Be Wage Earners We Can t Ali Be Captains of Industry But we can all of us make big money in safe investments. is the Safest and Best Investment now offered to the public. REDCLIFF has four large factories in operation and making REDCLIFF. famous as the high-grade Building Products centre of Western Canada. These factories haye a present pay roll of over 30,- More Factories Are Coming More Railroads Are Coming Real Estate is Booming We also have Medicine Hat snaps and good farm lands at low prices and easy terms. ASK THE STONER AGENCY 395 Toronto Street ABOUT IT Phone 396

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