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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-04-10
Great Bend Has

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Energy
Prosperity
Enthusiasm
Pretty Girls
Opportunity
Two Dairys
Ideal Climate
One Foundry.
Energetic Men
Three Banks.
Three jewelers.
Three Bakeries.
One Gun store.
One Auctioneer.
Two Feed Stores.
Four Tin Shops.
Three Dray Firms.
Healthy Children
Five Restaurants.
Three drug stores.
Four Coal Dealers.
Two Billiard Halls,
Two News Dealers,
Four Barber Shops.
Good, level Streets.
Two Cigar Factorys.
Fourteen attorneys.
Three Dental Firms.
A Telephone System.
Ten Grocery Dealers.
Three Photographers.
Two Bowling Alleys.
One Ice Mandatory.
Three Butcher Shops.
Two Furniture Stores.
Six Hardware Dealers.
Six Real Estate Firms.
Five Grain Elevators.
Fine Bluegrass Lawns.
Three Lumber yards.
Six Blacksmith Shops.
Two Tombstone Dealers.
Five Shoemaker Shops.
Two Secondhand Stores.
Magnificent Shade Trees.
A Steam Laundry Plant.
Four large FIGURING Mills.
Two Veterinary Surgeons.
Four Implement Houses.
Two exclusive Shoe stores.
Four Department stores.
Long Distance Telephone.
Up-to-date Pop Factory.
An Electric Light System.
A fair sized Opera House
Two Bicycle Repair Shops
One Horse and Mule Marker
A Professional Bill Poster
Four Public School Building
Complete Waterworks Syste
Two Tailoring Establishment
oft Well Water in abundan
even Livery and Feed Stabl
tut few Empty Store Roor
hree Plumbing Establishme1
i've Halls for Public Meetir
i've Millinery Establishes
progressive City Governm
ight Contractors and Build,
inc Physicians and Surgeo
ells-Fargo and Pacific Expr
20 Undertaking Establishme
rec Poultry and Game Ship
e Dealers in "The Prohibit
Military Band with % Mem1
T Harness Makers and Sadt
Fire and Life Insurance Ae
Creamery and Swimming Sta
Dry Goods and Clothing st
IL and Western Union Telegl
e Department of Sixteen Me
lasterers, Stone and Brick NJ
ainting and Paper Hanging
lmercial Club with ample !
Hotels and six boarding
Pedigreed Stock Breeding
q Line and Two Branch r
in Cut Flowers and Green 81
national Academy Gath
Hospital.
rch Buildings and Eleve
Organizations.
of Brick and Stone Sidew
within two years.
'ly Newspapers { and The
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24
His Unexpected Speech.

General 5. b. NJ. Young, the frs,
chief of the new army staff, was at
dinner the other evening and was
called upon to speak. The guests
expected that he would content him
self with few stereotyped phrases,
but the general arose to the occa-
sion. Gentlemen" lie said, Il beg
you will pardon my expression OF
surprise. | have been caught in a
cul de sac. / had not expected 70
speak on this occasion. But, gen
tlemen, if had expected to say
anything ] should have spoken
somewhat as follows And at this
iuncture one arm of the veteran
plunged into the labyrinths of his
coat and produced carefully pre-
pared speech, which he proceeded
TO read. The apology for his un-
preparedness and the evidence oi
the painstaking way in which he
dressed his remarks in advance were
too much for the banqueters, and he
was forced to suspend his remarks
until the uproar was over.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24
Charge of Plagiarism.

A handsome carriage drawn b,
two fine horses drew up at the Ar
lington hotel the other day and q
fine looking man with closely
cropped white beard ahghted. The
coachman. as straight as a ram
rod, sat in the drivers place. On
the side Of his hat he wore a red
white and blue cockade.
THAT Is the White House car
riage. j. it not Z" asked a patron OF
the hotel.
NO. SIR replied Brown. the
head hall man. THAT Is the car
rage Of the Mexican ambassador
Then the Mexican ambassador
has copied the White House cock
ade,' insisted the questioner, ''for i
saw a red. white and blue cockade
on the hat of the White House
coachman only Yesterday"
mo. sir, YOU are mistaken again,
replied Brown respectfully. 1T is
the White House that has copied
the cockade Of the Mexican ambas-
sador. Washington Letter in New
York Herald.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

ON the ADOPTS of the word Jolly"
into the English II had the meaning Of
beautiful. as il has among the French
today The English dramatist Beau
mont OF the sixteenth century speaks
OF our first mother as 1.-The Jolly Eve"
In time. however. ii came 10 mean hi
larious. regardless OF physical beauty
But this latter meaning Is probably
the right one after all. as the word
doubtless comes from Yule tYu-le,. the
pagan Christmas. 50 10 speak. for be 1t
known that what we now observe as
Christmas day was a heather holiday
called Yule. and the Yule festival was
one Of noisy demonstration.
lule indeed means noise or outcry.
prai>ing IN loud voice. chanting. sing
ing. making outcry In honor OF their
god From yule. then. to jolly the step
is short and easy. both meaning revel-
ry. rejoicing. Ours is a risen Lord,
theirs the same. The words are idepti-
cal So. too. in large degree the Christ
mas jolIities. praises and those Of hea-
then Yule. Into such close relation do
simple words sometimes connect the
present with the past.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24
ONE TRANSFER.

", C. Whiiaey says that a clear
understanding 81 the English Ian
guagc d,pcad~ not 50 much on the
words used az ga the persons who
utter them
"A friend 81 mine. head Of a
street railway conn Gly, MAS told
BY his secretary tia, 4 gentleman
wished 10 scc him.
Whats LIS business" demand
ed the official
lie wants to consult with YOU
about a transfer, answered the Sec
Rotary.
live no time TO see the man. !
presume its about some five cent
transfer which a conductor refused
TO give muttered the railroad man.
Ellis appearance indicates that
he has an entire system 10 trans
fer suggested the clerk.
$50 il proved The caller was a
man holding a large interest in a
competing road, who wished TO sell
out.
Thus, you see, a transfer may
cover five cent piece of paper or Q
million dollars worth OF stock. 1t
all depends on who is using the
word transfer
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

A settlement worker. having been r.
quested 10y anxious mothers 20 address
the younger women OF the settlement
clubs On heart interest" topics. decid-
"a 20 do SO She talked with the girls
earnestly. urging upon them the deep
and intrinsic sacredness Of all love aud
marriage relations. the coarseness and
vulgarity OF indiscrlminate fiirtations.
the great and growing need for high
ideals. standards and action on the wo-
mans part Then. just as she took her
seat. IL occurred 10 her that she might
have talked little bit over the heads
~ her listeners. and she sprang 10 her
feet with an added remark:
Please believe that what I say is
true. my dear friends" she exhorted
earnestly. and please don't think
don't understand my subject l know
what I'm talking about. girls-I really
do"
Once more she took her seat. delight
ed with the air OF general interest. and
from the rear OF the room came the
question:
Please. Mrs. s.. how many times
have you been In lovc?"-New York
Commercial Advertiser.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24
Omar \ Plaoiarist7

Another charge of plagiarism
An Edinburgh firm has recently is
sued an edition Of Omar khayyam
and the Academy has dug the dread
full charge from a Scottish newspa-
per, which compliments Mr.. Ed
ward FitzGerald on his translation
zone is inclined TO think" writes
the Scotch reviewer of the Persian
bard, "that the Persian astronomer
poet Omar khayyam has been dill.
igent student of Shakespeare and
Burns For instance, Burns writes
"The desert were a paradise if thou
vert there" and Omar has it thus
And thou.
Beside me singing in the wilderness
All. wilderness were paradise enow!
Is it not obvious that Omar cop
led from Burns: Or perhaps the
reviewer j. like the lady who could
never distinguish between Adam
Bede and the Venerable Bede.-
London Chronicle
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

In his book on China and the Chi.
nese" DIR. Giles gives a specimen Of
Chinese humor which. II the source
were not known. might well be mis-
taken for American humor.
There is a Chinese story which tells
how very stingy man took a paltry
sum Of money to an artist-payment is
always exacted In advance-an1 asked
him to paint his portrait The artist at
once compiled with the request. but
when the portrait was finished nothing
was visible save the back Of the sit
ter's head.
What does this mean r. cried the sit
ter Indignantly.
WELL" replied the artist, Il thought
man who paid so little as you paid
wouldn't care to show his face"
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

Great natures are always generous.
They are fountains not only OF vitality.
but Of bestowal. However great the re-
wards they receive may be. these re
wards are but fraction Of the worth
of the service rendered. and no man
ought TO be satisfied. whatever his po-
sition or work. unless he can feel that
he Is giving far more than he is re-
ceiving. that very large part OF what
he does Is not returned in money. that
however successful he may be on the
practical side he must still be counted
one OF the benefactors Of his kind be
cause OF the generosity Of his bestow-
al.-Outlook.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

The statement has been made that
prussic acid was made from peach
stones. This Is altogether q mistake.
for, although under certain conditions
a trace OF the main principle Of the
deadly poison can be found in peach
stones. there Is not sufficient to pro-
duce the acid without other essential
ingredients. Indeed. without the proc
ess Of fermentation there is no evidence
at all Of prussic acid in the stones.-Ex-
change.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24
A Too Hsstv Dentist.

A young Maryland widow has
just won a strange lawsuit. She
had a number of teeth filled with
gold, and after the work was done
she said that il was not satisfac-
tory. The dentist asked to exam
inc his work and while doing so
pulled out all the teeth which he
had filled with gold. lie said in
court that he could not afford to
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

How does young Swift manage Il
uncork so much champagnei HI
doesn't earn any money"
well. he pulls the snre cork owe,
and over"
why. how do you meant"
Has rich uncle with a cork leg
Boston Transcript.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

Professor" inquired the thoughtful
member Of the class. don't you sup
pose there will come a time when all
the coal and all the coal oil stored away
In the earth will have become exhaust
edg"
Certainly" said the Instructor.
What will we do them
We shall be playing harps. I hope"
Chicago Tribune.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

Irate Landlord Ito couple who are
taking lovers walk on his property
Now. then. can't you readi
Amorous Youth-Oh. yes, We can
read
Irate Landlord-Then 60 to the end
Of this road and read the sign there.
Amorous Youth-We have read IT, II
says. ~Private." and that is just why
we came down here.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

You're not economical.
Wife Well. II you don't call . wom-
an economical who saves her wedding
dress for a possible second marriage
Id like to know what you think econ.
omy Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

Mndge Don't you think a girl should
marry an economical mani
Dolly-I suppose 80. but its Just AZ.
ful being engaged to one.
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

Sunday School Tcacher-well. who
was sorry at the return OF the prodIgal
son?
Little Girl-The fatted calf Boston
Christian Register
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

Trains Nos. I, 2, and run solid between
Louisville and IT Louis.
Train-9 and 10 between Louisville and
Evansville run solid, carrying chair cars
Trains Nos. n and ~ carry through first
class coaches between Evansvil lille and Louis
Vile.
Day trains between Louisville and 81.
Louis carry Cafe Parlor cars, and with one
change OF ears through sleeping car service
from ST. Louis and Louisville to Chatta.
noogs, Birmingham and other points In the
southeast.
Night trains between Louisville and st.
Louis carry Pullman drawing room sleeping
cars with buffet service.
II. Is. srkNcER, Gen. Man, st. Louis, Mo
D. u. uARDwicK. O. II. A., Wash ngton, u, @.
0bo. Is. ALLEN, Asst Gent Pass. Agent,
~ Louis Mo-
v. X. CLArcoMB. Ag't. Jasper. =
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24

No.54 No52. No.50. No 81. MOSS Noss
40 il.2' s41 Lv. Lincoln Ar. 7.55 sos II Is
102t LIS $50 AR. Tell City Iv -07 6 20 10 a
10 80 100 s.B " Cannelton 100 s. 10 ins
The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1903-07-24
aoCKPoRT and cASSELToN DIVISION.
Aprio, 1868 Ism

Except Sunday. Ia. Exsunday.
Nos. No.N. Nos No. co. No "a No a.
r. M. a NJ. A. NJ. An Nm PM
100 SOD ii.s0 Nv. Lincoln Ar. sa 1907 .ss
TO- 7-N HOO Ar. Rockport 81 100 1918
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-09
SCHOOL BOARD MEMBERS
w ERE HOLD-UP ARTISTS
Citizens of Kansas City, Kan, Have
Much Evidence for Grand Jury.

KANSAS CITY, Mo-, Oct. s-A
grand jury to investigate alleged
boodling on the part of the members of
the board of education of Kansas City,
Kan, seems a certainty. Each day de-
velops further evidence of crooked
work, and today it was asserted by M.
A. Waterman, chairman of the inves-
tigating committee, that a member of
the board had demanded money from
a Chicago firm to influence the award
ing of contract for school books. Mr..
Waterman said:
I'VE have gone far enough with our
investigation to know that nobody can
longer oppose the calling of a grand
jury. Certain members of the board
of education have been conducting
regular hold-up games. The boldest
schemes have been promoted to get
Doodle. A representative of a Chicago
text book publishing company told a
member of this committee that a men,
Der of the board of education demanded
that he be paid a large sum of money
for his vote as member of the school
board when the contract to furnish text
books was before the board last year.
A contract to that effect was made
and the member of the board was to
get the money, provided the board ac-
copied the books"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-09
WILL BUY 8 PIANOS
School Board Limits Price to
500 Each.

Pianos for the schools claimed the
attention of the board of education
again last evening. After some. dis
cussion of the economy of buying in
Strumentss Of the old-fa shioned square
shape, at bargain sale prices to save
rentals, the committee on supplies was
authorized to purchase not more than
eight pianos, at cost not to exceed
500 each.
The question came, up on a report of
the committee on supplies submitting
offers from number of firms and pri-
vate individuals, who would sell pianos
OF various kinds and makes, for prices
ranging from $25 to SIS. The commit
tee recommended that it be authorized
to buy such of. the instruments as 1t
might deem, upon the advice of the
supervisor of music, to be desirable.
Mr.. Fisher, chairman of the commit
tee, felt that authority should be given
to the committee to buy a sufficient
number of pianos if desirable ones
could be found, to take the place of the
seventeen rented instruments now in
the schools.
President Holman called attention to
the fact that the end of the year is
close at hand and the funds of the de-
partment are very low and some of
the other members agreed with him
that only a portion of the necessary
supply of pianos should be bought at
this time.
Mr.. Fisher argued that an entire
equipment would cost but 1000 and
would save 5000 in rentals, and the diff
ference would have no appreciate eff
feet upon the fund. President Holmans
suggestion prevailed and only eight
pianos were authorized.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-09
LOWEST BID GOES
Schools BoardWiIlAdhere Strict
Iy to This Rule.

Corporation Attorney Michael has
advised the school board that in the
expenditure of the city funds, it must
purchase it's supplies from the con-
tractor selected by the purchasing COM
mittee created by the city charter and
consisting of the mayor and the presi-
dent of the board of education. But
the board may purchase in the open
market when using the money re-
ceived by the state award.
Having set this legal opinion before
the board at the meeting of last night,
President Holman then proposed that
hereafter the board make it rule to
purchase from the city contractor
whenever using the city funds, and
that when the board is buying with the
money received from the state, bids be
invited and the contract awarded to
the lowest bidder.
This was put in the form of a mo-
ton and adopted.
The action of the board is called
forth by recent disagreement among
supply houses as to which of them was
entitled to furnish certain class of
goods.
: One dealer submitted a bid, which
was the only one, and 1t was rejected
because it was too high. Then the
other submitted a lower bid and it was
accepted; but when the first dealer
came in with a still lower bid he found
he was too late and made protest.
The members of the board agreed
that this method was irregular and
not entirely fair, and the adoption of
the rule outlined above is to prevent a
recurrence.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-09
INSPECT SITE FOR
SMALLPOX HOSPITAL
DR.. Ohage Says Pie's-eye Lo-
cation Is Out of the Cues.
ton.

With Assemblyman A. T. Rosen as
their. host, and his roomy launch a
means of communication, the joint city
and county committee having in
charge the proposed new detention
hospital visited Pigs-eye yesterday for
the purpose of inspecting the location
at that point, but they were not visibly
impressed.
st. Pauls ten acres at Pig's-eye,
where at one time it cared for the un-
fortunates stricken with smallpox, are
just now very much under water, and
the committee, after viewing the place,
decided that, if 1t was used, launch
for the health department would be
very necessary adjunct. Where the
road was big lake of water exists
and the low places contain pools of
water that make the spot anything
but inviting.
According to Mr. Rosen, who piloted
the party, the place is now at its
worst, but under ordinary conditions
it is one of the prettiest spots on the
river. The Hastings road is it's means
of communication with the city.
Nash Favors Site.
County Commissioner Nash,who was
with the party, also spoke of it's adapt
ability for pest house purposes, and
promised, in the event that it was
chosen, to interest the county board
to the extent of having the road lead
ing to it put in repair and the sur
roundings made habitable.
The committee met yesterday with
Health Commissioner Ohage in the
mayors office, but no amount of ar
gument could bring the doctor over to
the contention of some of the men,
bers of the committee that Pig's-eye
was the place for the pest house. He
Two - ILL., IL.
change in location would entail, and
said the place was unhealthful, that
physicians would refuse to visit it be-
cause of its inaccessibility, and prac-
t1cally intimated that even if it was
selected as location for a pest house.
that he would not use it.
County Commissioner Nash, who is
enthusiastic over the Pig's-eye location,
raised the point that the city would
be enjoined if it attempted to improve
the Dale street location, and read a
communication from a Rosemount
property owner. who held that the
present buildings were menace to the
city, as they contaminated the big
reservoir a mile distant.
ohaee Says Site Won't Do.
AS the reservoir is much higher than
the surrounding territory, being for the
purpose Of furnishing water to the hill
district, Mr.. Nash's remark about con-
tamination brought forth a sarcastic
retort from DR.. Ohage to the effect
that it was the first time he ever knew
oW water running up hill.
DR.. Ohage informed the committee
that the Pig's-eye location was out of
the question, and that if it wanted to
save the city money, it had better ap-
propriate $4,000 and carry out his
plans for the improvement of the Dale
street grounds and buildings. To make
the change and erect buildings on the
plan proposed, he says, will cost not
far short of $4,000.
Dale street hospital, but, as it is at
present inhabited by several smallpox
patients it will undoubtedly be viewed
from a distance.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-09
IS AT LIBERTY TO
BELIEVE In WITCHES
Indiana Court Says Such Belief Does
Not Prove a Man Insane.

INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Oct. SIN a
decision of the supreme court reversing
for lack of evidence a judgment de-
claring the will of Joseph Wait invalid
the court has decided that a mans be-
lief in witchcraft does not prove him
insane.
1t was shown by the evidence that
Wait wandered over his farm near In
dianapolis for days at a time, search
ing for hidden treasure He carried a
ball tied. to string, and he said that
when the bali whirled around the
treasure would be found directly under
the spot.
In his opinion Judge Hadley said that
there were many sane people who be-
lieved in the power of a forked stick in
revealing underground water supplies,
and that many scholarly business men
believed in spirftualism, clairvoyance,
TRANSPORTATION of souls and w1tehcraft.
He pointed out that Blackstone and Sir
Matthew Hale believed in witches and
in their burning.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-09
WOULD CONSOLIDATE
Congregationalists FavOrMerg-
er of Missions.

The annual meeting of the Mime
sofa Congregational association came
to close last evening. Yesterdays
sessions were devoted to the discus
sion of plan to consolidate the vari-
Gus missionary branches of the church
The general sentiment of the associa-
ton is for the merging of the mission
airy benef1cence and the missionary adj
ministration. T..
According to a large number of dele
gates, the present system Is confusing
and unbusinesslike and a change which
would bring all the societies into one
strong centralized organization would
prove beneficial and economical
A. A. Miller led the discussion in
favor Of the change. He said that there
are far too many societies for the dis
trlbution of the mission fund
THE appeal for aid should come
from one and not a number of sources ;"
said Mr.. Miller when the appeal
comes from so many different quarters
the laymen are often confused as to
the purpose for which they are con-
tributing. Home missionary work
should be consolidated with the Sun
day school work, and there should be
but one official publication and not
half dozen. The way matters are now
conducted we CongregationaIists are
diffusing our energies"
Dr. >. q. Smith said that the queS-
ton had two sides. There are many
people" said he, who now contribute
their small mite to the various funds.
who, if called upon for lump sum,
would not contribute much to the
general fund"
About twelve delegates talked upon
the plan to consolidate, the majority
favoring the merger Of the different
church societies.
Rev. e. L. Heermance read the re-
port of the Sunday school committee,
in which the following recommends
tons were made:
First, the adoption of the primary
lessons of the Publication society;
second, the adoption Of the special
lessons for Bible classes; third, the
adoption of the BIakeley lessons;
fourth, the adoption of the advanced
Y. M. G. A. course and the American
institute Of sacred literature.