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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
WHITE PATCHES ON THE MOON
Thought by an American Observer
to Ee snow, But English Scien-
fist Says Not.

From a series of photographs taken
in Jamaica a few months ago, Prof. W.
81. Pickering has concluded that a
small amount of snow may exist on the
moons surface. He noticed in particu-
lar that the great walled plain of Plato
shows a regular progressive change
during the lunar day. White patches
are seen upon it's floor, which, as the
sun rises higher above it, diminish in
size and vanish; and these, Mr.. Pick
ering believes to be snow. In an article
entitled: "Changes on the Moon-Real
and Apparent in the Pail Mall Maya
zine, Mr.. E. Walter Maunder states his
reasons for believing that Mr.. Picker
ing is mistaken, reports the ST. Louis
Republic.
The observation itself may be &C
cepted. Indeed, there is nothing novel
about it. Such changes in the il1umina-
ton of the floor of Plato are described
n all the textbooks, and, so far as his
observations have yet come to hand,
they appear to contain nothing new.
For to have snow we must have an
appreciate atmosphere, capable of
sustaining water vapor; and that the
moon has no such atmosphere we
KNOW, DOtd IIOuu llOii q liz IL JILL
theory. The sharpness with which
star disappears when the moon passes
before it, the intense blackness of all
shadows on the lunar surface, the
crispness of the horns of the crescent
moon, the absolute lack Of any spec
troscopic evidence for lunar atmos-
phere during an eclipse of the sun
an observation which was repeated I'M
der the most favorab BILE circumst ances
by the French astronomers in Egypt
during the eclipse Of November II last
are quite sufficient to rule an appre-
cable lunar atmosphere out OF
court.
But the theoretical consideration
are vet more conclusive. The first
point to note is that a lunar atmos-
phere, if it existed, would be distribut-
ed in quite a different fashion from the
atmosphere of the earth. Here we
find that if we climb mountain some
three and a half miles high-a little
higher than Mont Blanc, that is to say
we should have passed through one
half of the mosphere; the barometer
would record for US pressure but one
half what it had done at sea level.
Were is possible to ascend to twice that
height, to seven miles, the pressure
would be reduced to cne-fourth; and at
ten and a half miles, to one-eighth.
Not so with the moons atmosphere.
Whatever its density on the surface
we should have to ascend nearly 20
miles before that density was reduced
to one-half, and to AZ miles before it
was quartered. This difference OF
distribution, if we take account of it
atone, would have very striking eff
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

feet. For, if the atmosphere density
at the moons surface were no greater
than that at 40 miles above the earth's
surface, at so miles above the two plan
cts the moon would have the denser at
mosphere, and for all heights above
that. The total amount of such lunar
atmosphere would nearly correspond
to that above distance of 80 miles
from the earth, though its distribution
would be very different for it's density
would be much Jlore nearly uniform.
Such an atmosphere could not fail to
give evidence of its presence in twi-
light effects, and in softening the ex-
IRENE hardness and blackness of lunar
shadows; but it would be quite incap-
able of carrying any appreciate
amount of water vapor, or of sustain
ing any cloud that could possibly make
its presence felt across the 100000
miles which separates US from the
moon.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
TAG ENDS OF THINGS.

Rome has $4,000 visitors during the
first six months of the year.
Trial by jury in Britain dates from
the reign of Ethelred l., S66-S71 A. ID.
Only five outbreaks of yellow fever
in English ports are known to have oc-
Cured in the last century.
The pearl is the only precious stone
that can be skinned To skin 1t is often
the only way to restore its milky color.
The records of the Great Bank OF
Newfoundland show that the cod leave
there entirely two months every year,
December and January.
OF 90 emperors who have governed
the whole or large part of the Roman
empire 60 were murdered or died under
suspicious circumstances.
The island of Newfoundland ter
ritory as large as the state of New
York-has only about 100000 inha biz
tants, and these are sprinkled along
the coast line.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
HELEN MOONS CASE.

New Providence, la, Oct. 1Sth.-The
wonderful case of little three year old
Helen Moon continues to be the talk
of the neighborhood and everyone is
rejoicing with Mr.. and Mrs. E. V. Moon,
the happy father and mother.
1t will be remembered that this
sweet little girl was given up by the
doctors with Dropsy. She was so far
gone that her eyes were closed up and
her body bloated till it was purple
After everything else had failed
Dodd's Kidney Pills were used and to
the joy and surprise of everyone she
commenced to improve
This improvement resulted in COM
plete good health and she continues to
keep strong and well and without the
slightest symptom of the Dropsy left, !;
The doctors are a. much bewilderef
as anyone at the wonderful cure of
this desperate case.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
REMOVED MANNERS BUMP.
Vienna Surgeon Operates on the
Brain of q Young Man with
Queer Result.

DR.. Karl Diwald, one of the best
known surgeons in Vienna, has just
drawn attention to a very peculiar
case, says a London paper.
A young man who was attending the
military college was accidentally shot
in the head by a revolver, and Dr.
Diwald, who was summoned to attend
him, extracted the ball and at the same
time removed fragment of the brain.
Serious results were expected, but
the young man speedily recovered and
soon afterward passed a successful
examination.
Strange to say, however, since the
operation took place his manners and
habits have been deplorabl which is
the more remarkable since he was re-
puted to have been one of the most
polished young men in Vienna. His
associates now say that they cannot
tolerate him and that even at ia BILE he
is constantly guilty of gross breaches
of good manners.
DR.. Diwald maintains that the por-
ton of the brain which he removed
while extracting the bullet must have
been that very part which controls all
matters relating to decorum and good
conduct; in other words, that the
bump of good manners is located in
that part of the brain, and, that, since
he has lost it, the young man finds it
impossible to display good manners.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17


eneo' brafy. Bedrooms.
parlors and diningroom as usual, but
no kitchen, no servants. His meals are
shot up to him in a little elevator de-
signed to keep them hot; his drinks
sent up in another arranged to keep
them cool; the walters who are to
serve them come in another elevator
reserved for servants. In this ride the
chambermaid and cleaners, the Wallets
and lady's-maids who are to be kept
on tap, as it were; ready to fit to any
point when called for.
You have the absolute privacy in
your own rooms which deadened walls
and the absence OF any but your own
family give. But 4ou can give sump-
tuous banquet fo- 20 people without
the slightest bot er at an hours no.
tice; you can have a valet in three min
utes and for aslor g as you like without
either hiring him or looking up his ref
erences. You can. if yoi, prefer, din
in the restaurant and ADMIT no one to
your rooms. living there like recluse
Or you can keep as many servants as
you care to upon the one condition
that they do not live in the fat. When
their work is done they go elsewhere
to sleep. It is not thought that many
OWEN LANGDON.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
FUTURE 4 IF TUNNEL
In LARGE CITIES 8
By JOHN B. MCDONALD,
Contractor for the New York Subway and
the Proposed East River Tunnel.

THE TUNNEL. ALONE REMAINS. It alone speed,
cleanliness, safety
has of tunnels. Boston
important improvements In New York
undertaking stupendou task We building
mil underneath the hckly populated
the bowels the
This will Il
would have to be twice We
a
We The work night and
which
already half Cars building
All should
built is. Did off?
The is HIGHER CIVII.IZA-
civilization the tunnel will
method
w. 3 oVe. Sv>@2I
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

below, and was dashed to his death
On the tagging.
For so long time and longer, I'M
less it too mercifully yields to rebuild
ing, will the sordid little saloon be
pointed out where Nicholas Fish, heir
to vast wealth and great name, was
killed in a revel with strange>women
IN the early afternoon. 1t was the
browning tragedy of a month that has
fairly reeked murder.
The Fishes have vast wealth. Stuy-
Tesant Fish is president of the Illinois
Central; his wife the deputy lead
ar of New York society; his daughter
a belle just "out." Nicholas Fish was
a banker of solid standing. His son,
more fortunate in his death, was that
Hamilton Fish who was almost the
first American to die in the Spanish
war. Young Hamilton Fish was a
youth of enormous physical strength
and unbridled passions. He was con-
stantly getting into brawls where his
vast strength and utter recklessness
made him a dreaded antagonist. PO-
Hcemen used to fear an encounter
with him more than even with the re-
doubtable "John L." himself. "John
L." could usually be reasoned with.
They said of young Fish, when his
manly beauty was laid low, that he
was fortunate thus to die. Just about
that time small breathing place
upon the East side, named for the
statesman of the family, the Ham
ilton Fish Park" was thrown open to
the people. The coincidence gave rise
to the prevalent error that it was
meant to honor the soldier dead; and
about the name of the headstrong
youth is already growing up a legend
Of manly deeds and almost superhu-
e man prowess. He will not be easily
forgotten.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
THE DARK AND THE BRIGHT
SIDE OF NEW YORK CITY =

enough. They have to be. This is
city of usually well behaved people.
Even the Fish case might give rise to
exaggerated notions. For there are
few saloons in New York where wom-
en- are seen drinking. Such a sight is
in London common. Charley Murphy,
the new head of Tammany Hall, is no
saint; but in the four saloons which
until lately he controlled. no woman
was ever permitted to drink. The
great East side, which is the city, is or
DERBY and religious. The gilded vic
iousness that faunts itself in the Ten
derloin would fade soon enough but
for the constant stream of money
poured into the hoppers of the mill of
vice by strangers in town.
And while the scion of one ancient
and honored house. though a man in
gray hair and sober years, is carous-
ing and paying the price with his life,
the great work of charity, of rescue,
of neighborliness, of hope, goes on.
What pity that Nicholas Fish, with
all his wealth, could not have visited
the East side upon that mission in
stead of another!
The ''Water Babies'' of the GouIds.
Last year a beautiful white yacht
lay for weeks in the cove to the rear of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

young woman of refinement and social
standing. There are fewer men con-
verts. The missionaries are all men
They have plenty of money. They
hold services in several churches, and
in a great Brooklyn theater. They are
strongest where the population is of
the purest English stock. Upon the
foreign born, except Germans and
Swedes, they have no influence. have
aever heard of an Italian convert.
In the main the Mormons are quiet
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

how, of the "ser-
want irl prob
lem. The latest
solution, in New
York, may inter-
est you.
1t is an apart
ment house, VIII ere
you can have-if
you like and care
to pay $4,000 a
year rental for it
5000 square feet
or less of a floor
space. Each ten
ont hos nc I;
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

The place is big.
1t may S e e m
stran ge. for in
stance, that there
are in the town
from 5000 to 1O,-
o o 0 protesting
Mormons. T h e
fact is unknown
or ignored except
when some eXcit-
ing news calls it
to attention. This
news u S u a | l V
takes the shape of
the conversion of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

President ROose-
velt's house at
Oyster Bay. The
place is called
Cold Spring Har-
Dor, and the most
beautiful about
Long Island it is.
By-and-by it was
known that a
stranger hadcome
aboard the yacht,
and she steamed
n w a y and the
wealth of the land
was congratulate
iuU Mrs. George
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
A WffeIy Practice

Smythe Ito ervant)-Bridget I
have to go out this evening. and 1 want
you to see that your mistress gets this
note as soon as she comes in, without
fail.
Bridget-Yiss. sorr; I'll just lave it
in the pocket of the trousers we just
taken off. She'll be sure to go through
them.-Columbus Dispatch.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

IN a S astOnished
even New York
for many a day.
A poor drab of
the streets, whose
pathetic fate re-
yealed that hap
PLY in her child
hood home moth
ing was known of
her but what was
good, was killed
u n d e T circum-
stances of fend-
ish brutality and
generalization by
4h4 or~0 liz -
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

house, a little back
yard upon the
West side and
the rear window
of the house it
served were point
ed out from the
windows of ele-
waited trains flying
past as the scene
where B + o k e T
Hatch, caught in
a degrading am
our and seeking
to escape, leaped
for a footing in a
fr1a %hof cfoo6
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

Brigham Young, the Mormon apostle.
The killing took place in the very heart
of the crowded ''Tenderloin," the gay
est and cruelest portion of the city.
The respectable apartment house
where the young woman was killed was
also the home of several Mormon mis-
sioneries, who preach the Latter Day
Saints gospel in New York, polygamy
and all. The father of the murderer
himself had hired three apartments in
the plaCe-rumor has it for three
wives who wish separate quarters.
And, strangest. of the strange, under
the same roof lived three or four of
the brightest newspaper reporters in
New York, not enc of whom suspected
the criminal, or, for that matter, had
so much as seen him-so little does the
New Yorker know of his neighbors.
1t needed but the hint of religious
mania suggested by the young mans
written notes of Scriptural passages
upon "blood atonement" to set New
York shivering to stories of the aveng-
ing Danites and the Mountain Meadow
massacre. 1t would have taken little
to start panic fear of mysterious
murderers killing in the name of an
abhorrent creed.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

The Mormon Murder Mystery.
Hot upon the heels of the Fish muir
der came the most singular crime that
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

How can we get both IN our large
cities?
By elevated railroads? No :;
they are too noisy When run by
steam they are dirty. When run
by electricity they are dangerous
Except for short distances
the surface road is out of question.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

For 20 years, until it was obliterated
10 make room for new apartment
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17
TIL:
chinery.

Of industry, of abor-savng
chnery The speed
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

A City Where Strange Things Happen
Of course strange things happen in
New York There is room for tbep,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

From time to time the telegraph an
nounces the solution somewhere. some.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-10-17

The ''Water BabieS'' of the GouIds.
Last year beautiful white yacht
lay for weeks in the cove to the rear of
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-10
ANEW COIN PROPOSED.

A bill has been introduced in the house
of representatives to provide for the coin
age of two and a half cent copper coin
and is received with much favor in the
great commercial centers. In support of
this proposition IL is said that our deci-
NAL system logically calls for such a coin
and that there is a large and growing de-
mand for it i'm various line of business. The
government has discontinued the coinage
of several coins that were formerly in
more or less general use
We once had a half cent piece, but 1t
was not much needed and there is no call
for it's restoration.
There was more reason for the two-cent
and the three cent pieces, the coinage of
which has been discontinued. The former
are frequently seen, but the latter have
become rare.
The minis are now turning out nothing
between the penny and the five cent piece
and there should be something in this
gap Many articles are sold at the rate
of two for a nickel. four for 10 cents, etc,
and it is impossible to make the exact
change when purchasing an odd number
OF these. The purchaser is required to
pay half cent over the stipulated price
when he purchases a single article of this
kind. The currency should be kept so that
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-10
AFTER TEN MONTHS.

The great steel combines account of its
operations and its situation ten months
after it welded its constituent elements
into the one gigantic corporation is inter-
estlng In this time of the practically un-
limited organization of trusts.
An important statement is that the So
called syndicate" retained 6499S7 shares
of preferred and S49,sSS shares of common
stock. This residue of stock, or the pro-
ceeds thereof after reimbursing the syn
dictate the $25, 100000 in cash which it paid
TO the corporation and approximately So
OO0, 900 for other syndicate obligations and
expenses. constituted surplus or profit.
The present market quotations Of the
stock are 4S for the common and SO for the
preferred.
This would make the profit of the com
bine sos 995, 275 after the SIS, 900 900 paid out
has been deducted.
The report gives the assurance that "the
demand for products has been so great
that prices could easily have been adj
vanced. Indeed. higher prices have been
voluntarily offered by customers, but the.
companies have firmly maintained the po-
sition of not advancing prices"
More han month ago the profits
of the corporation had been for the first
nine months of its existence about 10 per
cent upon its gigantic capitalization of
81, 100 OOO, OOO. The figures given in the report
referred to seem to confirm this asser-
ton.
Fully half of the stock is water and the
profit on the capital actually invested
must therefore have been up to date some
thing like 20 per cent.
Nobody can blame the steel combine,
but what must we think of a policy which
gives license to such a monopolization of
one Of the most important of all industries
and fortifes it with a protective policy
undl which 1t can work its own sweet
! will upon the people of the United States
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-10
PHENOMENAL GROWTH.

The census bulletins on manufactures
in the south show an industrial progress
in this section between 1890 and 1900 that is
simply astonishing.
During that period the amount of cap
ital invested in manufactures in the fifteen
states classed as southern increased ISL
per cent. and the value of their products
SEQ per cent.
At the time the last census was taken.
June l. 1900 the capital invested in these
states in manufactures was s1.15s, &C, O97
and the annual value Of the products was
1.46s. es9. ls5.
These figures were taken eighteen
months ago and since that time there has
been an enormous increase both of capital
invested in southern manufactures and
the calue OF their products.
Georgia's percentage OF increase during
the decade covered by these statistics was
57.7 in capital and 54.S per cent in value Of
products.
Some Of the other southern states show
larger percentages. but several of them
are states which had less money than
Georgia invested I'm industries in 1890 and
new investments made a proportionately
better showing.
Georgia had on June 1. 1900. SSe. 7S9 656
invested in manufactures and their annual
output was worth s1O6e54.52.
OF course statistics taken at this time
would show a very large increase in these
accounts. There is every prospect that
the decade now on will make an even
nobler showing of industrial growth in the
south than did the ten years included in
the bulletins from which these figures are
81
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-10

1t will accommodate the trade as exactly
as it reasonably can.
The two-and-a-half cent piece would be
used largely and there is no reason why
we should not have it. In some cities the
street cars carry school children at hair
fare and the proposed coin would be
great convenience to that class.
The use Of one cent pieces has increased
enormously in the last few years and an
other coin of less than s cents value
would be very acceptable.
1t has not ben many years since pennies
were not usually given in change in the
south except by the postoffices and banks
In transactions of any considerable size
involving odd cents the rule was to allow
the advantage to the party to whom the
greater part of the undivided nickel be-
Ionged Very few articles were obtaina-
BILE for one cent. The five-cent piece was
the smallest piece of money in common
use 1t is quite different now. Pennies are
in constant demand and are regarded as
indispensable. They are scrupulously re-
quired and invariably rendered in change.
They are a great aid to economy and the
habit of saving.
The two-and-a-half-cent piece WIN be a
convenience that the public will appre-
ciate. 1t should be coined and circulated
without delay.
Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-02-10
TAFT AND CHAFFEE
ON GOOD TERMS NOW

WASHINGTON, Feb. Elm his state
ment before the senate committee on Phil
ippines yesterday Governor Taft dwelt es-
pecially upon the relations of the civil and
military authorities in the Philippines.
Governor Taft said originally the civil
and military control of the islands had
been in the hands of the militia and that
naturally there had been some difference
of opinion between the military authori-
ties and the commission as to the methods
of proceeding. General Macarthur had con-
tended that authority over the islands was
vested in the military and the reference of
the chief executive because the islands
were in a state of war. In this view the
commission did not concur. This differ
ence did not extend to control of munich
palities.
Governor Taft explained at some length
the contention Between the commission
and General Chaffee, which had, he said.
arisen over the -habess corpus provision
in the commissions code. That provision
had been made to protect native officers
who surrendered and who are subject to
arrest on charge of crimes committed
while in the insurrection service believed
to be contrary to the rules of civilized
warfare. The provision had, however
been invoked in the interest of an enlisted
man serving in Cebu, who was seeking to
secure his release from the military SER
vice in an indirect way. The question had
been referred to Washington, with the re-
suit that instructions had come back that
the differences must be compromised.
General Chaffee and 7 are on the friend
lest and most cordial terms" he said.
and We had no difficulty in reaching an
understanding after a prolonged confer
ence."