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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1903-12-03

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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1903-12-03
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Der Deutsche beobachter. [volume] (New Philadelphia, Ohio) 1869-1911, 1903-12-03
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

German statistics show that from the
beginning of the last century, when coal
began to be generally used as fuel, the
wood consumption has increased in the
same proportional rate as that of coal.
In Great Britain, according to the evil
dence recently given before the Depart
mental committee appointed by the
board of agriculture to enquire into and
report. upon British forestry, it is shown
that while during the past 20 years
the increase in population has been %
per cent, the percentage of increase in
the imports of timber for the same pc
riod has been 45 per cent; that is, that
zach inhabitaIt of these islands con-
sumes more timber than was the case
20 years ago.
The. manufacture of pulp and cellu-
lose alone is now consuming immense
quantities of our spruce and other
woods Taking the whole consumption
of wood the world over for the various
uses to which it is applied, and then
taking into account the visible means
of supply. and the outlook is by no means
reassuring. One thing is certain, and
that is, that a timber famine is shortly
to be felt if the timber producing coun-
tries do not at once commence to hus-
band the forest wealth which they pos
sess, and of which so many of them
seem to be oblivious.
The history of the increase in the
value of forest products in Europe with
In the past 100 years may be
taken as indicating what the advance
IN price of these products will probably
be in this country within the presen.
century.
This question was very fully discussed
ut the last two meetings of the Royal
Scottish Aforementioned society, and I
will take the liberty of making a few
quotations from recent reports of tran
factions at those meetings. In the re-
port. of 1900, DR.. John Nisbet, in his ad-
dress makes the following quotation
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13
HEALTH IS WELL GUARDED.
Substantial Progress In Sanitation
Is Being Made I'm These
Modern Times.

People hear so much about health In
stitutes nowadays that they are apt ts
be little skeptical as to their efficiency
and to regard them largely as money.
making arrangements. In England al
most all matters concerning the public
health are treated at institutes, like the
British sanitary institute, for instance,
and every public man thinks 1t his duty
to patronize 1t, says the Boston Globe
At a late meeting of the institutes the
question was raised as to what had been
accomplished by these institutes, and IL
was found that since public health be-
came science at the beginning of the
late queens reign the average life Of
man has been increased by three years
and that of a woman by five years
That the doctors do know something
is evidenced by the fact that 90 years
ago typhoid fever killed 374 people out
Of every 100000 in Great Britain To-
day, with an enormously increased pop
ulation, it kills bare 100 per 600, 600
Typhus, which 60 years ago struck
down another 800 per 1 ZOO, 900, has been
literally stamped out by sanitation Sta
tisticians compute that the London coun.
ty council has saved 90, 900 lives, mostly
infants, since its creation
In the days of Good Queen Bess" the
death rate was so per 1000 per annum.
Deaths from fever have fallen by So per
cent, typhoid by 60, scarlet fever by 81
and consumption by 45 per cent. From
1861 to 1865 scarlet fever killed 9S2 per-
sons per 1000, 900; it now-Darely carries
off 10o
The death rate in consumption is also
declining. During 1876 death by con-
sumption claimed 2.526 persons yearly
out of every 100000 living. To-day
better acquaintance with the laws OF
health has cheated death of half the har-
vest of 1875 from this disease. So that
the various Institutes OF medicine and
sanitation do much good even if no more
than to induce better modes of living.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

afterward permitted to sail on to Con-
stantinople with the apologies of the
sultan Mrs. Goelet has done no en-
tertaining since the death of her
daughter Beatrice, whose face and per-
haps whose name will be familiar
three centuries from now, though she
died as young girl. 1t was she whose
portrait by Sargent, named simply
Beatrice" without the final name, was
the sensation of a picture exhibition a
dozen years ago, and was probably Mr..
Sargent's crowning masterpiece up to
that time. With a demure and limo
Gently sweet expression the little girl
stood with folded hand just beside a
stand on which perched a gorgeous
green parrot. AS Sargent is the one
living painter whose pictures we know
will be increasingly famous for a CEN
tury or more to comet may be true
of others, of him it is undoubted-the
claim Of the little Beatrice to reason
able share of immortality transcends
that of many grave statesmen and
scholars and men of wealth who to-
day loom big but are doomed to speedy
oblivion.
Genius works its marvels still, after
ALL
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

up the old ques-
ton: What shall
We do with the di-
yorced ones ?" 1t
is awkward.
Mr.. Vanderbilt,
for instance, with
his brand new
bride-hoW can he
long pervade New
Ycrh's social world
without meet i n G
Mrs. Oliver Bel
mont, who was
once Mrs. Wander
bilt, and to whom
he behaved in the
matter of their di-
vorce with such
chivalry as made
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

of the occasion by the story that t'Bob-
by Goelet was opposed to the match
his mother had arranged for his sister,
The Goelet family is of late years
scarcely known in New York, whose
real estate built up that great fortune.
Is it something to remember to have
been married in the same month with
an American countess? 1t would seem
SO. Not in ten years has November
seen so many fashionable marriages as
were scheduled for the present month.
Tracy Bows, ten years out of college
and already member Of nine fashion,
able clubs, is to wed Miss Alice DIN, a
member of a stylish but not too rich
Hudson river family. Chauncey Still
man has already welded a poor girl, a
trained nurse who saw him through
typhoid fever while he was in Harvard
AS the son of 'Rockefeller's banker
the president of the great National City
bank, Mr.. Stillman will be conspicu-
GUS figure in finance, and perhaps later
IN society.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13
WOMEN IN HIGH POSITIONS.
Many Are Forging to the Front in
Various Lines of Business
and Labor.

One Of the largest railroad corpora
lions in this country has decided that
the female stenographers in its employ
will not be allowed to qualify for pro-
motion, nor shall they be eligible for
its pension list. This is a sweeping de-
cision, and probably represents senti-
ment other than that of the corporation.
says the Baltimore American. Fifty
years ago no one imagined that woman
could be stenographer, and the idea
OF their entering the ranks of men to
compete in heavier brain work would
have been regarded as ridiculous. IT
cannot be said that they have CONQUERED
every branch Of endeavor, but they have
done wonders in the third of century.
and they may even dissipate the preju-
dice of this western railway corporation
before the half of the present century is
reached.
The reason for their exclusion NAV
come from the employees The agrees
iveness Of women has in number Of in
stances led to combinations of their feI-
low male workers against them-a kind
of self-defense movement which can
scarcely be criticised severely. for the
women have pushed the men out of some
occupations which formerly belonged
to them exclusively. The majority of
clerical railroad positions can hardly be
said to be beyond the capacity of bright
brainy women; the management, how
ever, may have inferred that those Sc
lected for the higher Offices are often
drawn from those clerical departments,
and there have been notable instances Of
such cases.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

him long the most popular of all the
family? And how will, people like
Mrs. AstOr, connected by blood and
marriage with parties on both sides of
long-continued feuds, continue the
strain of trying to keep themselves out
of hostilities?
Of course there are rumors of peace
where there is no peace-of hurried
"makings-up" between Mrs. Wander
bilt, the dowager lady of Cornelius,
with young Mrs. Cornelius, who was a
Wilson and niece of Mrs. Astor. But
We have heard these stories before.
More real prospect of peace comes
from another direction.
1t remained for the Kemps, or rather
the ex-Kemps, to set an example which
may or may not lead to the white
doves of peace folding their weary
wings for a longer stay.
Mrs. Kemp was Baby Belle" Neil
son. Arthur Kemp was a member Of
an old Philadelphia family, rather
quiet, as Philadelphia families fortu-
nately are They were married in 1886,
divorced in 1902, and in 1908 are still
the best of friends. Not that they often
meet; that is arranged for them. But
not long ago in Newport they did meet
for half an hour or so of chat as ami
cable as two friends can have. Both
are expected to remarry, Mr.. Kemp the
widow of Hugh Tevis, of California,
who is very wealthy; Mrs. Kemp a
young Boston clubman, himself a di-
vorce.
Divorce under the circumstances is
all right or it isn't. In either case
why shouldn't the companions in a
business arrangement or in sin, as
the case may be, make the best of it
and be sociable?
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

from an article which appeared in the
London Times of March II, 1899:
Canada possesses in great quantity
certain raw materials which are essen.
tial to the maintenance of some import
amt American industries. Among these
none are more important than timber
1T is fact, that in the northern hem
iisphere, Canada is rapidly becoming the
only country which can afford to export
timber. The other countries which pos
sess it in excess of their manufacturing
requirements are Russia, Norway and
Sweden. 1t is a typographical peculiar
fly of the Russian empire, that the rivers
fraversing the principal districts flow
into the Arctic ocean. They are, there
fore, useless for the purpose of floating
out logs to the markets of the world;
and. so far, no method OF land transport
has ever been devised which will carry
timber for long distances cheaply
enough to bring 1t into practical COM
petition with water-carried logs. The
forests Of Russia may -or the present be
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

regarded as commercially Inaccessible,
Norway and Sweden, which 90 export
timber, are hardly able to supply the
deficiency of Germany. All other ma
tons requiring timber OF the sorts
grown in the northern hemisphere must
look to Canada for their supply.
M. Melard, inspector of forests in the
service of the French republic, in his
recent work on "The Insuf1iciency OF
the Worlds Supply of Timber" says:
There are but seven countries at
present able to supply large quantities
OF timber. Five are in Europe, namely,
Austria-Hungary, Sweden, Norway, Fin
land and Russia; two are in North
America, namely, Canada and the United
States.
1T has been shown that the available
surplus of Austria-Hungary, of Russia,
and of the United States is seriously
threatened by the increase of population
and by industrial development, and tina.
of Norway by the abuse of the axe.
There remain only three sources of sup
ply in which confidence can be placed
for yet little time. These are Sweden,
Finland and Canada
IF Sweden, Finland and Canada were
to attempt to supply all the countries
which reach out their hands for timber.
their normal production, and their for
ests too, would be disposed Of completely
in very short time, revenue and capital
alike.
"a timber famine is thus within sight"
From what has been said it is evident
that the eyes of the world are turned to
Canada for the great future supply of
timber, and two questions suggest them
selves: first, what is the extent and
value of her timber; and second. we are
pursuing forest policy that will tend
TO maintain this supply in the future?
Regarding the first. it has been esti-
mated that this country has an area Of
266, 600, 900 acres of timbered land. This
is certainly too1ow an estimate, if taken
to represent the whole area of land on
which any kind Of timber is growing;
but may safely be taken as embracing
the area covered by timber of merchant
able value, including pulp-wood. Put
tirg the quantity growing on such land
at 1000 feet board measure per acre, we
have total quantity of 532 900, O0O, 900
feet now ready for use. Besides this We
have covering this same area an i'm
mense quantity which has not yet at
tanned sufficient size for cutting This
growth varies in size from the young
Seeding just shooting from the ground
up to the young tree of 10 or IL inches
in diameter. Let US consider the value
Of this younger growth. In those coun-
tries where a regular system of cutting
has been practiced for a numSer Of
years the annual growth increment has
been established with great accuracy,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

are paid with pleasing regular
ity. In the case of Rockefeller
and the STANDARD Oil crowd the i'm
preston grows that they have picked
up good bargains at low prices and are
not worrying. Even Morgan. though
hard hit in his sorest spot, his fnan-
cial prestige, is not much hurt in his
pocket. The rich men who have suf-
fered are plungeFs of the Pittsburg
type who. instead of being satisfied
with the ''sure thing" of dividing wa
tered stocks and selling them to the
public while the public had an appe-
tite, went on gambling in the blissfuI
belief that the appetite would con-
tinue- These men have lost heavily
some nearly all they had, and with
them have suffered heavily a host Of
comparatively poor investors" But
the solid old houses. the Speyers, the
Kuhn-Loebs, the Mortons, are impreg-
nabie as ever. They do business; they
do not gamble. They are not doing so
much business as they were; that is
all. And OF course the Astors and Goe-
lets and other houses that hold mainly
real estate. or who invest and whose
society duties" leave not much time
for gambling in a stuffy street, have
not burned their fingers much.
1t isn't pleasant for man who had
$40. 000. 900 worth of stocks to. have
them shrink in nominal values to
s., 0o0. 900. But after all, here is Vanity
z an. OWEN LANGDoE.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

but to apply their figures to our forests
would undoubtedly be misleading. Three
hundred and fifty feet board measure
has been estimated as the annual growth
in the United States. If we put ours at
say 200 feet to the acre we will
have an annual growth of So, 200, OOO, 900
feet. This, however, would include limbs
and branches and very rough timber
which would not be used in this country
except for fuel Deduct for such timber
80 per cent, and we have still left
81 ,240 ,000, 900 feet as the yearly product
At the lowest the stumpage, that is, the
value of such timber standing in the
tree, may be put at present at 81 per
+ thousand, which would give in the first
case revenue to the state, provided it
were all in the hands of the crown and
subject to government dues, as most OF
it is, of $500. 000, coo for the virgin for
ests of to-day, and yearly return for
that of the maturing timber of SGT ,24O,-
600. But this represents only what Nigh.
at present prices be asked by the gov
eminent as a royalty and forms but a
small part of its value to the community
as whole. Possessing rot only the raw
material, but also the motive power
right at hand. Canada should be without
a rival in the manufacture of all ar
ticles in which timber forms the chief
ingredient.
With regard to the second point, the
day has now arrived in Canada when q
broad, comprehensive forest policy is a
necessity, and can only be ignored with
great loss to the country. On account
of so much of the timber being still in
the possession of the crown, this country
is in a position, by careful administra-
ton of it's forests, rot only to preserve
favorable conditions in the matter of
water supply, but at the same time to
derive a perpetual revenue from this
source in excess of what has ever yet
been realized, and at the same time pro-
of the population.
1t is true that much of this timber is
as yet inaccessible, bat with the enor-
nous demands for it which the future
will bring, and with the increased facii-
tiles for its transport. which will be af-
forded by the rapid opening up of the
country. there can be no question that
the timber industry of Canada should
not merely continue to maintain its
present position among the other pro-
dueing countries, but to take its plars
as the foremost Of them all.
E. srEwsxr.
Canadian Superintendent - Forestry.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

seven years siege
of gloom upon the
m o S t beautiful
house in New York
is lifted by the re-
turn of w. X. Van
derbilt and his
bride to the great
mansion that has
stood blank win
dOwed ever since
the divorce that
set free the wife
Of the richest Van
derbilt to marry a
Belmont.
The house is
froEs designs by
Richard Hunt. 1t
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

Is more than 20 Vanderblts Are Builders
years old, but quite in the present
mode. It is cast in the form of a med
ieval chateau, Blois or Chenonceaux,
for example; and in interior fittings,
beauty of appointments and fitness for
its purpose it is not surpassed by any
of the newer and larger houses,
though, for that matter, few are larger.
The Vanderbilts all have what Lom-
broso would call "megalomania.' W.
K. Vanderbilt not only had this vast
mansion On Fifth avenue to shut up
when his affairs went wrong, but the
famous Marble Palace in Newport has
been white elephant ever since, and
he has just finished in the new idle
Hour" on Long Island one of the most
magnificent country places anywhere
in tthe world.
The late Cornelius Vanderbilt erect
ed the greatest city house in the coun-
try-at least the most costly, owing TO
its character and situation It's cost of
nearly 100000 including land and
fittings, is really disproportionate to
the fortune he left his widow
Cornelius Vanderbilt had no very
notable country place, and his Newport
place is surpassed by perhaps half a
dozen others. But George Vanderbilt
established in North Carolina the
greatest country place in America,
with 10000 acres of land, which is
now to be turned over to a sporting
club.
The young w. K. Vanderbilt has es-
tablished on the edge of the city an
estate of 1000 acres at a huge cost, and
is now engaged in trying to narrow a
three rod public road to one rod aud
to wrest lake away from the town
ship that owns it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

show in the latter
part of the month
the one great eX-
hibition of new
gowns to which
the public has ad-
m i t t a n C e at a
price.
Mrs. Robert Goe-
let is in town for
the marriage fes-
tivities of b e r
niece. She is the
Mrs. Goelet whose
yacht, the MAMMA,
has for years been
known in Euro
pean waters. Tt
was the MAMMA
that WAS sfonned
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

SOClSly q.
1 hardly think
SO. True. it has
been a rich mems
panic" but it hit
mainly only one
class of rich men.
Men like the Van
derbiltS, W b o s e
wealth is in rail-
road stocks and
bonds, are many
millions poore I
than they were a
year ago if they
had to sell out at
market rates. But
they do not have
to. Mea n W b lie
t b e ir dividends
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

SO promptly as
now it is begin
ming.
No one could af-
ford missing the
wedding of May
Goelet to the tall
duke of Roxburghe
pronounced Rox-
boro), though there
are many coma
plants of Mrs. Goe-
let's fthoughtless-
ness" in fixing a
date so unfashion-
ably early as No
v e m b er 10. A
pleasurable flip
of gossip was add
ed to fhe interest
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13
Gale brought Good Fortune

One. hundred and hfty-three whales
we're blown ashore on Newfoundland one
night recently during a gale. The big
creatures we're unable to get out of the
shallow water, and the fisher people
killed them with axes and spears Their
harvest will be a rich one, for some of
fhs whales were large ones. the sort
Ehich whaler Is glad to run across once
; month.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

Mlser once buried all his money in the earth the foot of
day feast the sight of his
tevs fellow who had watched him at this occupation night
and carried off the gold The day the Me finding
clothes and filled
his nehbors tod him that if
nothing Go day. said he nd
will be we'll off ever"
g why man
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

"a preacher" remarked the man who
thinks himself born jokesmith, '.re-
minds me of retired prize fighter"
Whats the answer" queried the
party who is somewhat dense.
They are both ex-pounders,' an
swered the alleged humorist. with Z
ghouilsh grin--Chicego Daily NswA
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13
FORESTS OF CANADA
They Represent the Great Timber
Supply Of the Future.
THE OPINIONS OF AN EXPERT
Canadian superintendent of Fores-
try Believes His Country VIII Have
Virtually a Corner ON Wood
The Present Resources.

-. HE question of the world s
N%&sN future supply of timber is
zik now engaging very wide
a MrN attention, and the almost
wv unanimous conclusion is
S5 that the comparative
scarcity which now prevails must neces-
sarily increase with even greater speed
than it has in the past.
It was at one time thought that the
great increase in the use of brick, stone,
iron and cement in structural works,
coupled with the more general use of
coal for fuel, would decrease the use OF
wood, but this has not been the case.
AS for the displacement of wood by coal,
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

Seven Years Siege Lifted.
Many things cOnspire to make the
season promise gayety. For one, the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

The Clans of the Divorced.
The gathering of the social clans
lpon scale not often paralleled brings
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

Wall Street and Society.
viii the heavy slump in Wall street
securities lessen the furious pace of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1903-11-13

by Turkish gums at the mouth OF the
Dsrdaneues three months ago. but was