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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-12-22
LOCAL NEWS

day.
j. NJ. Sare, of Lyons, was an
our of town visitor to cur city
Saturday.
j. W. Johnson, the Eureka
stock man, was in with the crowd
Saturday,
J. J. Anthony returned Friday
evening from his trip to the west
ern part of the state.
J. A. Hance, of Galatia was
among those to remember the
printer the last few days.
c. Ochs and wife, of ..Wheatland
township, were in with the crowd
of Saturday shoppers.
Mrs. Ed. Dirreen and Mamie
Carroll, Of Albion township were
trading in the city Friday.
Mrs. W. L. Bowersox has gone
to Scandal, Kansas, to spend. the
holidays with relatives.
Trustee Lowrey of Walnut
township was shaking hands with
Great Bend freiends Saturday.
VIII Brown, of near Ellinwood,
had a finger cut off while working
with an enigne one day this week.
Mrs. Lenora Peugh and Mrs.
Beetz, of HOisingtOn, we're over
doing Christmas shopping Fri
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. f. Balcome, of
Durango, Colo, are visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. Seward
Moses.
The pupils of the Great Bend
Business College are arranging to
give an entertainment at the
opera house on the night of Dec.
9th.
Mrs. Joe Walter and daughter
went down into Stafford county
Saturday to attend a birthday sur
prise on their daughter and sister.
Mrs. Ed. Walter.
At the whist party in EllinwoOd
Friday evening, at Elmer BrOdie's,
there were several Great Bend
guests, and one of them, Geo.
Brinkman, carried off the gentle
mans prize.
Bob Fouts, clerk of the Kendall
hotel, accompanied by his wife,
went to Hutchinson Saturday
morning. Mrs. FoutS will go
from there to Mcpherson to visit
home folks until after Christmas.
A year subscription to this paper,
paid in advance, would be a Christ
mas present any OF your relatives
would appreciate. 1t would be
like getting letter from home
50 weeks in the year. Had you
thought of its
John Dawson, mail carrier,
met with what might have been a
serious accident Friday evening as
he was coming up from No. 5.
His rig and another one coliided
and John was pretty badly shaken
up, and had one side of his head
bruised and his face cut a little.
He is on duty though Just as if
nothing had happened.
Rev. McHale, of Hoisington,
accompanied by his little son, was
in the city Saturday. While in
conversation with or reporter he
stated that on last Sabbath day
be preached to the Christian do
nomination at Bonneville, Mo-, to
which place he has received a
call, but as yet has not decided as
to whether he will accept the same
or not.
The "Potatoe Social" given at
the home of 0. W. Dawson Fri
day evening by the ladies of the
Presbyterian church is reported
as being a most enjoyable affair,
as we'll as a profitable one to the
church ladies. All the "Murphy's''
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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-12-22
KANSAS WHEAT FIGURES.
Secretary COhurH'S Report on The
! States hOstPOpuIaf Product,

In the report from the state
board of agriculture. issued on
the 14th, are the following facts
of particular interest TO Barton
county people:
That the Kansas wheat-farmers
have been particularly prospered
in recent years can well be con-
Guided from the fact that in the
past five. ending with 1905,
Kansas raised two wheat crops
of over 80 million bushels each.
one of over II million bushels
one of over IS million bushels
and one of about 30 million bush
els, aggregating 361, 344, 039 bush
els in the five years, worth S237-
457, 229, or an average annual out
put of 76,26S, sos bushels, worth
an average of SAT, 491, 446.
The most valuable four wheat
crops produced by Kansas have
been raised in the past FIVE years,
=.
as follows:
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-12-22

Phillip Brack, of Rush Center,
accompanied by Jacob LiebSack
of Grant township, Barton coun-
ty, we're calling on the county
officers Saturday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-12-22

James B. Danah, of Mcpherson
was a Great Bend visitor Friday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-12-22

Correspondents report that this
falls sowing will aggregate about
100000 acres, an increase from
one year ago of "a, 1853 acres, or
L1per cent. Seventy-fye cOun-
ties, located in various portions
of the state and more or less not
ed for their INSTRUMENTATION re-
port the same or increased areas.
Calling a satisfactory stand and
healthy condition 100, the general
average of the growing wheat for
the state is now S0.4.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1905-12-22
Mount SebO Chapter. No. S.. R. A. y.
Officers for 1906.
Land For Sale.

4SO acres, 6 miles south and 3
west of Burdette Kas. 1870 acres
in cultivation; 100 acres in wheat,
4 goes with place. Small house
barn, granary, well, windmill. 60
acres fenced. Is a bargain at $40
per acre.
l.. H. Allen, Owner, Larned,
Kas.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17
WORST KIND OF POVERTY
A Man May Have Plenty of Money
and Yet Be Very Poor.

ana Yet BE Very Poor.
Much of what is called success is
but the most vulgar kind Of prosper
ity; 1t is the success of the brute fac
ulties at the expense of the divine. To
develop few of ones brain cells, and
these the lowest, by everlasting dig
ging and grinding for money, to cult
vate one huge gland which secretes
nothing but dollars and the exclusive
cultivation of which crushes out of life
all the finer sentiments, all that is
sweet and beautiful and worth while,
makes a man as dry and barren as the
great Sahara desert He who follows
this course cannot be rich, no matter
how much money he may have. A
man is rich when every faculty with,
in him has followed his highest ideals
when he has pushed his horizon to its
farthermost limit.
"A man Is poor when he has lost con.
fidence Of his friends, when people
who are nearest to him do not believe
in him, when his character is honey.
combed by deceit, punctured by dis
honesty. He Is poor when he makes
money at the expense Of his chara acter
when principle does not stand clear
cut, supreme in his idea. When this
is clouded he is in danger of the worst
kind of poverty. To be in the poor
house is not necessarily to be poor. II
you have maintained your integrity, il
your character stands foursquare tc
the world, If you have never bent the
knee Of principle to avarice, you are
not poor, though you may be com
PEELED to beg bread.-Orison SWEET
Marden in Success.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

time the officials are confident of their
ability to do very much better than
this. If the scheme proves successful
other connections will be made and
the mail to and from the main post
office handled in this manner.
This innovation besides cuttingd down
the time Of mail transportation will be
the means of saving much money now
spent by the government in the main
tenance of wagons and horses. 1t will
also place at the disposal of the Chi
cago postmaster considerable room
about the postoffice structure which is
now given up to the purposes of a
wagon stand. This is an item Of some
Importance in this case, as there is a
scarcity of room, and the space thus
gained can be put to good use.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17
Nv

physician give patient essened Of his her
moral responsibility.
Specialization is breaking up the unity Of science into
an increasing number of departments with the result
that the layman who seeks have inquest held
his own ruined health must before coroners
jury of doctors. Even the individual doctor has tendency
to become kind Of civic hermit and to detach himself
from the great body Of his fellow He seeks to build
up cientage and to live in 1t in little world When
successful seek him in vain in other of social
life public usefulness In general literature he takes
languid interest in public affairs practically To the
refinement Of art the teachings of science beyond the
boundaries of his profession to public affairs he is strange
y Indifferent He loses touch with his brethren Of
the medical faculty and rarely attends the sessions of the
medical societies the anniversaries of his college, In
short he is wholly absorbed little cotere of human life
to which, with his curative powers he is kind Of benef
cent but limited providence.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

husband she must be his best friend
This, Of course that she administer Judi
cous amount of kindly criticism She say his
other friends would like to say, but can't She must do it
because she proud Of him. loves him. wants to let
others see him at his best If his clothes are getting
shabby, he is falling into habit If he makes mis-
taxes she must tell himprivatey of course perhaps
as Mrs Caudle wont to do when the lights are out
and the house is still.
AS her husbands friend will of course snen6
his money carefully That she will spend money goes
without saying But she generally get more for it
than he An ordinary good housewife will get as much
out of dollar her husband will FIVE This frugal
care is of the best befending Door men
what is woefu than for to spend her bus-
bands hardearned reckessly and to
run up bills with all the dressmakers and mners in the
neghborhood wasting her time gossip and shopping and
wasting his money herself?
The wife that makes the best friend for husband is
like the model of the old covenant described in
Proverbs 81 THE heart Of her husband doth safely trust
in her. she will do him good and evil all the days of
her life" "A the days-not only those of her Young
and early love- or of her meridian charm beauty but
Of her elder yearsalways the same careful and thrifty
good housewife, prudent inancier a marvellous hand at
making little go long way adept at turning the
chdrens frocks, and cutting down jackets f
the younger boys, and making old things look like new
where there Is the need for economy and there are
ample just careful to that there 10 wiul
waste and that the and needy have share of the
household provender
AS her husbands best friend, wife will extract bis
anxietes and worries This Is art which onv
love teach He home with and fretful
which is exactly bad temper though it might
degenerate into it. She knows he shuts the front door
that things not quite straight Something has gone
wrong in business he has lost money had msundersand-
ing with an influential deacon fallen his en-
ployer or the chairman of the company.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17
Some Very Long Names

A directory issued in Honolulu con-
tains what is believed to be the long
est name appearing in any such publi-
cation. 1t is that of Miss Annie X.
Keohoanaakalainhu Observation-Disclosures,
which means substantially Jack and
the Bean Stalk" Pauline Nabuchodo-
nozowiszowna, resident of Milwau-
kee, is probably champion of America.
though Salvatore Schlianoditonnariello
of Providence, r. l., and Bernard G.
hrenhoersterbaumer of st. Louis NAV
be regarded as entitled to honorable
mention
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

had to be transported in this manner,
and much delay resulted incident to
the exchange from the trains to the
wagons and back again, Independent
of that which frequently happened to
the wagons in the course of their trips
through the thronged streets of the
busy city. Connection had been estab-
lished between the stations of the
Lake Shore and Milwaukee Central
and the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul, and upon the completion Of the
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

The dispatches recently have told
the world much about the German en-
peror and his shooting party. We do
not remember how many hundreds Of
birds the Emperor himself brought
down, but the episode reminded one
of slaughter. To the American sports
man 1t would not be exciting to stand
comfortably by while dozen servi-
tors load and pass guns to the shooter
and an army of men beat tom-toms
and drive unsuspecting birds within
range of the guns. This sort of sport
is comparable to sticking pigs in a
slaughter house.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

weather forecasting and them against mpostors.
1t is the opinion of the leading meteoroogsts of the
world that the public interests injured by the pubca
ton Of socaled long forecasts especially by such
predictions relate storms, floods droughs
other atmospheric phenomena of dangerous damaging
character and the persistent efforts
their predictions the public for personal gain have
reached such proportions that 1t Is deemed advisable fairly
and temperae counteract the influence of those whom
we believe to be preying the creduy of the public
Some Of these men may be honest, and may, in their
ignorance attach undue Importance that may
accidentally coincide In time Of with certain
relative positions OF the planets with changes in
phases positions Of the with periods Of increase
decrease in sunspots apparent variations in solar
tensty. They may believe that they have discovered
physical law meteorological principle that has
been revealed astronomers meteoroogss any other
class of scientific Investigators but the publication of
dictons that by of their absolute inaccuacy
calculated to be injurious agricultural commercial
other industrial interests doubt upon the
honesty Of their purpose and upon their asserted disn
terested devotion to the public welfare.
Such publications bring the science of meteoroogy
disrepute and cannot therefore, be made in response
desire to advance that science along useful lines
they reard the work Of the honest investigator through
whose efforts only gains be made in a fundamental
knowledge of the causation of weather that will justify
forecasts for month in advance
1t strange that in branch Of industry should
govern their business affairs by methods that effect
uay dscreded in the middle ages and which should
be tolerated in the twentieth century.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

No department Of the national ad-
ministration pays its way" quite so
manfully as does the Department Of
Agriculture. Congress has recognized
this fact in liberal appropriations. In
the bureau of forestry alone, accord
ing to Secretary Wilson'S report, these
appropriations have permitted in six
years a sixteen-fold increase in the
working force and a twelve-fold in
crease In expenditures. Yet a single
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

The belief that educated Indians re-
lapse into savagery when no longer
under the influence of government
schools is not borne out by statistics
which, happily. the schools are now
taking pains to keep. At least one In
dian is mayor of city, and another is
vice president of bank; but these
men do not count for so much, when
one views the question in n large
way, as the hundreds of graduates
who are earning living as farmers,
carpenters, shoemakers and black
smiths. A disposition to work and
stick to 1t marks the distinction be-
tween the civilized man and the say
age" Of any color.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is Mortified
by what he justly calls ''the appalling
number of homicides in the United
States. He says Americans are our
own stock"-that Is not so true as 1t
was fifty years ago-and 'can have
no more and no less tendency to law
lessness than we." In three years
there were 31,OO0 homicides in the
United States, while the loss Of the
British army in Africa from all causes
for the same length of time were only
1900. DR.. Doyle cannot understand
lima and Georgia should each have
more murders than the British en-
pire. The novelist does not say, as
some Englishmen have in the past,
that American lawlessness Is the nee
essary result of democratic institu.
tons. He likes Americans. He has
faith that they with their energy and
adaptability" will find some way of
stamping out this "hideous growth of
crime" This friendly critic of condi-
lions, which every American should
admit are deplorable, believes he un-
derstands their cause. He says 1.-The
law Is loosely administered" He pre-
sumes the judges are not so free as in
England and are Influenced by political
motives-'there Is a pull hither and
thltner, and justice is not administer
ed" So he suggests that 'in the es-
tablishment Of a pure, Independent ju-
dietary throughout America there is
the best possible scope for the energy
of Roosevelt" II Sir Arthur Conan
Doyle had a superficial acquaintance
with the American system of govern
ment he would not suggest that the
President undertake the impossible
task Of providing an independent judi
ciary for the state courts, in which
most murder cases are tried. If he
had lived more than four months in
this country and had studied American
criminal Jurisprudence he would have
found that American judges are not so
free as British judges in that they
have less authority, but that political
motives and influence" do not affect
them In murder cases. If judges here
had the authority they have in En-
gland there would be more convictions.
The trouble is that juries prefer to ac-
quit If any plausible reason for doing
so can be found. The same people
who take human life so recklessly In
personal or Industrial quarrels seem
to be beset by the notion that the
state ought not to take the life of a
man or keep him in prison till he dies
because he has murdered somebody,
The citizens Of state, when ashamed
OF the murder record it has made, will
provide a better police system for the
prevention Of crime and apprehension
OF criminals. They will revise and
strengthen their weak and lax crimi
nal Jurisprudence. When drawn as ju
rors they will have fewer maudlir
scruples about finding men guilty OF
murder. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
should study the subject of crime in
America more thoroughly before he
makes specific recommended tons on the
| subject.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

work the mails were transferred di-
rectly to the tunnel cars and after be-
ing sealed were sent on their way.
The operation is largely automatic,
and as the way is clear no time is lost
in transit. The company undertaking
the contract agrees to cut the present
time of handling the mail between the
points named in half, but at the same
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

metropolis, says the Scientific Ameri-
can.
The first instance of this kind was
recently accomplished in an expert
mental manner by the transportation
Of the mails by this subsurface line in
stead of by horses, conveying the bags
across the city from one depot to an
other. The entire transcontinental mail
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

The Igorrotes at the st. Louis expo
sition proved to be one Of the best pay
ing of the attractions, the admission
fees amounting to more than 500, 900.
The margin of profit must have been
large. 1t cost next to nothing to feed
and clothe them.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17
Future Careers Arranged.

Holden-Both of your children are
getting along. They'll soon have to.
decide upon their life careers.
Belden-Oh, that's all settled long
ago. Tom has made up his mind to-
be retired millionaire and Henrietta
thinks she is cut out for rich widow.
Boston Transcript.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

Counting his retired pay and his sal
ary as adjutant general Of Massachu-
sets, General Miles will receive more
than $4,000 year. Verify, peace
hath its compensations no less re-
nowned than war.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17
BeIgium's Public Houses.

Belgium, where public Libraries are
almost unknown, enjoys 10000 pub
lie houses. That means one public
house for thirty-six inhabitants, or one
public house for twelve men above II
years Of age. During the last fifty
years the population has increased so
per cent; the number of public houses
25S per cent.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

The Porte promised few days ago
to quit preventing the circulation of
Bibles in Turkish possessions. TIL =
promise has already been broken. But
this is not surprising. 1t merely shows
that the Porte continues to have the
same old idea of a promise.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

All the newspapers are gleeful over
the passing of the circus poster, but
little Johnny Is wearing long face.
Johnny has always thought the posters
nearly as much fun as the parade.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

The barefoot boy who said There
amt going to be no core" appears to
have been true prophet, judging
from from the reports Of discoveries
made by the expert fruit growers who
are producing coreless apples.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

discovery made by the bureau. and
now applied to the production of tur-
pentine, is effecting an annual saving
equal to the total expenditure of the
bureau for six years. The department
is the farmers Aladdin's lamp. Rub
it and its genius produces anything
called for.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

Professor Alexander Graham Bell
thinks he has solved the aerial navi-
cation problem. 1t is to be hoped that
ne has at least provided himself with
q feather bed upon which to fall.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

Whenever a rich American girl
makes up her mind that she wants
one there seems to be an earl or q
marquis, or a duke, or something left
somewhere.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17
Had to Have 1t.

"You married me for my moneyp'
she exclaimed angrily.
"Oh, WELL" he replied soothingly,
don't blame ME. 1 couldn't get ID
any other way, you know"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17
CHlCAGO'S SUBWAY.
Value of Freight Line that Carries the
Transcontinenta1M Mail.

1t is claimed that the underground
railroad of the city of Chicago will in
a great measure relieve the congested
condition of the streets Of that city,
not so much by the diversion of .raf-
tic below the surface as by the re-
moval of the great number of teams
heretofore required to handle the
freight traffic of the great western
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

Coxey was rich when everybody else
was grumbling about hard times. 1t
is just like him to go into bankruptcy
when the country Is prosperous.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

Thomas P. Wood, Chicago carpen-
ter, has asked the courts for an in
junction restraining his wife from
talking. Does he want the woman to
burst2
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

One of the incest things about
French duels is that even the innocent
bystanders don't get hit.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

In some parts Of this glorious land
of the free weddings are almost as nu-
merous as divorces.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

A new play, entitled IAN Honest
Politician" was produced in New
York. Realism on the stage is mori-
bund
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

When a man has fame lie does not
know it.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

The Japs have shown that a navy Is
not necessarily required to destroy a
navy.
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1905-02-17

Kleptomania is a disease for which
the victims are always taking some
thing.