Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1904-05-05
PLAINS Department.
F. 8. SULLIVAN Editor.

| John w. Baughman and Attorney
Sullivan are attending court at Lib
eral this week.
Mr. c. c, Hackney came in today
from Wichita to make more i'm
provements on his homestead south
of town.
Who said it couldn't rain2 By
actual measurement it has rained
four and one half inches within the
past ten days.
Work will commence on grading
Grand Avenue and ditching from
the cutters as soon as the water will
vanish from the streets so work can
be done.
There is portion of the winter
wheat that will make fair crop and
the prospects for Macaroni wheat
was never better, while all spring
crops never had better show.
John w. Baughman, John A.
Upton, A. C. Olin and the editor
are all brothers in distress, the
mesdames having left them to
wrestle alone with the intricate
problems of housekeeping.
We have just returned from the
air being absent since the high
winds as we went up in the clouds
but came down last night with the 3
inches of rain, came in with a boat
and will now endeavor to furnish
some news.
John A. Collingwood is out super
intending the breaking of 1000
acres of prairie. w. H. Wilson
will have about as much broke,
Edwards & Baughman will have
1000 acres, and there will probably
be 1000 acres more broken out by
different parties, making a total of
Ia,o acres of new ground that
will be put in wheat this fall. 1t
also represents $751; which will
be paid to the laboring men around
Plains. Seems to US that this is
pretty good country for poor man.
We were forced to smile over the
remark that Bro. Fuhr had in the
Globe a short time ago, to the eff
feet that one could go onto 100
acres of Meade county land and
make living, provided he had
$500 to start with. Yes we smiled
at this, smiled because we knew
that Bro, Fuhr must have had in
mind some farmer of the silk stock
ing variety, who dimes on frogs legs
and nightingale's tongues and
hauls his produce to town in an
automobubble. But when "Alright
Jimmy" came back with his non
sensical TRADE last week we did not
smile, we just grinned derisively.
Jimmy" is all wrong in this case,
as the experience of hundreds go to
show. "Jimmy" states, as the ac
cumulated wisdom of 20 years in
in the west, that no man could go
on 100 acres with $500 or $1,000
and make living; in fact he says
the unfortunate fellow with only
$500 would starve in two years.
We think Jimmy" is suffering
either from a morbid liver or indi-
gestion, and would advise him to do
something for it. We know of an
other ''Jim" who used to be just
like him; always pessimistlc, always
grumbling and depressed; he used
"Force" with such remarkable re-
suits that he has ever since been
known in song and story as Sunny
Jim. And so we think that if
eAlright Jimmy" would partake
freely of ''Force," and bottle or
two of 'Liquozone" his liver would
improve and he would see things in
different light. Now we have
lived "a years within days walk
of the tooth meridian, and from
our own acquaintance we could
name a hundred farmers in western
Kansas who settled on a homestead
IS or 20 years ago, lacking about
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS of having
the $500, and have not only made
a living but also amassed consider
able wealth besides; and several OF
these live around Plains too, and
show no signs of starving, unless ii
be Farmer Bisbee, who is looking
rather thin, but we think he will
pull through in fair shape.
/ We cannot understand what COM
bination of evil influences could in.
duce "Jimmy" to condemn in such
unmeasured terms, country in
which he has lived for 20 years
Surely if it were so worthless he
would have left it long ago. You
remember the old story of the Irish.
man, Who in a state of exuberatior
shouted "Hurrah for Cork" ar
. Englishman standing by replied
ironically, "Harrah for HI
'eThat's right" rejoined Pat, ''iver!
man stand up for his own country.
Now s'Jimmy" take a tumble to
| yourself; you are about IS years be
: hind the times; you are good fel
low, but not up-to-date, that's all
the day of the branding iron'
supremacy has passed, and agri
culture is enthroned as it should be
= The only men around Plains wit
t have made money are the farmers
, and this is generally true all owe
western Kansas; the only men wh'
are plastered from top to toe wit
mortgages are the cattle men; thes
S are the facts as they exist, and if
D does not prove the fallacy @