The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1896-11-12

The wheat fields throughout the
state are looking fine.
The schools of Mulvane have been
| closed on account of diphtheria.
The Circuit Rider is the name of q
venture to fill long-felt want 1t Atti-
ca. OF course, . preacher is at the
head of it.
| An Atchison preacher is on trial be-
fore the sewing societies for kissing
pretty sister. He pleads IN defense
temporary insanity.
| The man who has the contract t6
sprinkle the streets of Garden City has
a good thing of it this fall; soaking
rains three or four times week.
! There is physician in Topeka who,
when he feels in need of exerci Sc,
goes out to his farm near the city
and husks corn OF pulls turnips for
half day.
Carl Noting of Atchison county WHIT
went to Alaska to get rich has return.
ed with a bunch of whiskers and
bearskin, the sum total of his posses
sions.
! The oil in Southwestern Kansas
| around Neodesha is said to be valued
more because it inclines to heavlness
and is rather dark. The yield from
the wells there show no sign of dimin-
ution and the oil is sent to Whiting,
Ind, to be refined. The people around
Neodesha confidently anticipate that
some day a big refinery will be built
there.
Patrick Cullen, a veteran at the Sol
diers' Home committed suicide in q
tragic manner last week. He went to
the edge of Lake Jeanette, close to
home hospital, and took off his hat
carefully placed his money and jewel
ry in it. Then he dropped to his knees
and crossed himself and arising waded
into the deep water. Before he could
be reached by comrades in a boat he
was dead.
People who don't know what is in
the bed of the Kaw river may have
wondered why it takes SO long to get
the sheet piling driven for the first
coferdam of the new bridge. Twenty
or more piles have been pulled up, as
we'll as timber and iron rods, from un-
der the sand. Superintendent Hinck-
ley says these are the remains of the
pivot pier and draw span of the first
bridge Topeka eyer had. It was q
pile bridge, was opened to travel May
1, 1858, and washed out July 1s of the
same year, having been in use two and
a half months The iron rods and
timbers are part of the draw, which
was built to accommodate the passage
of merchant steamers which would
presumably follow the development of
a country along ''navigable" stream.
The woman went back to her prairie
home to toll and wait for the better
times, and took with her a cheerier
heart, as did all who heard the
splendid address The same homelike
feeling came to others, and On the
street they talked of 1t in quiet tones
that told of the depths of the impress
sion. The west is very much child
yet. Its politicians may threaten and
warn the east, but in the hearts of the
people there Is tie that binds to the
old home. Everything is ''back east
when good and pleasant times are
mentioned. The dream of the settler
is to on a visit to those whom he loved
and dwelt with in the days of youth.
For this he saves and scrimps; then
when the hard times come and he has
to take the money to bny the neces-
sarics of life he is indeed bitter-and
who can blame him? Many a farm
house in Kansas has hidden away in
its recesses store of coins, gathered
through the years to furnish a trip to
the old home in the east. The children
of the west are brought up on the tales
of the magic east, and they are as loyal
as were their parents to the land
where everything seems bright and of
good repute. The ties are close yet
An Atchison girl who teaches school
in the country sleeps in cold room,
and takes her ba:h in a wash bowl by
the kitchen fire, but she gets chicken,
vegetables, hot biscuits, cakes pies,
cream and all for So week
The presence of little naval lieu
tenant at recent wedding in Topeka
caused a tremendous f1utter. Little
army ieutenants in Topeka are as
common in Topeka as asparagus at
six punches for nickel, but navals
seldom get SO far inland