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Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
CONFESSIONS OF poDD CASTOR

have noticed that about the only
place silver threads among the gold
are really popular is in song.
feel reasonably sure of one thing:
When die nobody is going to claim
that 1t was the result Of overwork.
do not much mind playing against
visiting man, but I do hate to Be
booked in competition with baby.
Nothing would SO completely recon.
Gle me to death as the appearance, al
my bedside. of some of my relatives.
would really like to be fatter, but
realize that I cannot afford it. Beina
fatter would mean a new dress suit.
find that every young gel has a
wild desire to wear her hair up" and
every old girl has the same desire to
appear with down"
have noticed that the only time the
banana does much business is at a
season of the year when it has no
competition.
I find that one of the hardest duties
Of the dramatic critic is to reconcile
the average society play with the aver
age stage furniture.
About all the ambition have left is
to grow rich enough to have a hack
waiting for me while lounge around
inside smoking and "gassing.".To-
peka Capital.
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Technical Training.

No boy should begin to learn a trade.
unless poverty requires it, until he has
received a good common school edu-
cation; and, if possible, he should en-
ter some technical school to be scien-
tif1cally trained for his work. Time
spent in technical school is not
wasted. It pays. Perhaps not during
the first year Of active work, but dur
ing the second year it's advantages will
permanently appear. The well-edu-
Gated hand-worker is sure to outstrip
the unframed workman. 1t is a fact
that few well-educated and we'll
trained mechanics remain in the rear
ranks, and that most of them are
either front-rank workmen, or are pro-
NOTED to command.
Let us take two boys of equal capaci-
ty and of equal trade opportunity. One
spends, say three years, in the tech
shop Immediately after graduation
from the common school. The latter
boy has three years trade-start of the
other. At the end of three years the
first boy, educated and school trained
| for his work, enters the same shop. In
shop experience he is three years be-
hind the other, and for one or two
years the unframed and unskilled boy
may be his superior; but at the end Of
five years the boy especially trained
with solid technical education bach
OF him, will outstrip the unframed boy
two to one, all things being equal.
Education fits for experience. Elk.
perience seldom takes the place OF edu
cation, and when 1t does, it does so al
the expense Of the individual.
Ones earlier years are, by nature
and by convenience. an absorbent ami
educational period. in which it is nat
ural and easy for one to enjoy schoo
study. and to acquire the knowledg'
Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1906-08-08
DIDN'T BELIEVE
That Coffee Was the Real Trouble.

Some people founder around and
take everything that's recommended
but finally find that coffee is the real
cause of their troubles. An Oregon
man says:
''For 25 years I was troubled with
my stomach. I was a steady coffee
drinker, but didn't suspect that as
the cause. I took almost 1nything
which someone else had been cured
with but to no good. I was very bad
last summer and could not work at
times.
"On Dec. 2, 1902, I was taken so
bad the doctor said could not live
over "a hours at the most, and 1
made all preparations to die. l could
hardly eat anything, everything dis.
tressed me, and was weak and sick
all over. When in that condition cofs
fee was abandoned and was put on
Postum, the change in my feelings
came quickly after the drink that was
poisoning me was removed.
"The pain and sickness fell away
from me and began to get well day
by day, so stuck to It until now
am well and strong again, can eat
heartily, with no headache, heart
trouble or the awful sickness of the
old coffee days. I drink all wish of
Postum without any harm and enjoy
1t immensely.
"This seems like a strong story.
but ! would refer you to the First
Natl Bank, the Trust Banking Com
pany, or any merchant OF Grants
Pass, Ore, in regard to my standing.
and will send a sworn statement
OF this If You wish. You can also use
my name" Name given by Postum
Co.. Battle Greek, Mich.
Still there are many who persist
emily fool themselves by saying aCof.
Zee don't hurt me-" A ten days' trial
OF Postum in its place win ten the
truth and many Zines save iifa'
There's reason
Look for the little book. s-rhe Road
70 Wellyilless IN pku,
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leading Authority.

Mister" said the sad-faced individ-
nal who had sneaked in the big sky
scraper, can I sell you the great
Encyclopedia of Sporting Events?'"
Nope" replied the busy man. I'VE
have one encyclopedia of sporting
events already
THAT so? Where do you keep it?''
.Why. we try to keep him on that
stool over there addressing envelopes.
/ mean the office boy. and he is an
encyclopedia on everything, from q
game of skidoo to the Olympian
games. Chicago Daily News.
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workmen. They say that if it had
they would use good deal of it sur
reptitiouSly
A Question of Means and End.

John Morley, secretary of state for
India, himself one of the very few
men in British public life who do
not golf Che declares he's not old
enough yet to begin it), tells of an
incident in practice game to those
same famous North Berwick links.
A laird and his son were playing,
when the younger man sent ball
whizzing dangerously near his ia
theirs ear.
''Ye mamma kill pal" explained
the caddie; then adding, after a
thoughtful pause: Maybe yen be the
eldest SOM"
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Nothing Succeeds Like "Eaa-o-sEE.'

NoCn1u& succeeds Like Ed0-O-SGEk.
The man who breaches the best SER
mon; the man who tells the funniest
stories; the man who keeps the best
store; or the man who makes the best
goods soon finds that people come to
him. Merit is the best advertisement
In the world. People speak well Of
things they know are good. They pass
the good word along.
The best breakfast food is EGG-O.
SEE, for it contains all the hfe-giving
properties Of natures best food, which
Is wheat.
EGG-O-SEE is deeply in debt to the
thousands of wives and mothers who
use it in their homes, for these good
women tell their neighbors about this
great food.
Children and aged persons alike are
friends of EGG-O-SEE.
Merit and common sense are the
things that advertise EGG-O-SEE
most. EGG-O-SEE is cheap. A 10
cent package contains ten liberal
breakfasts. EGG-O-SEE is sold every
where. Grocers must keep it If they
want to keep their good customers,
for good customers insist on buying
EGG-O-SEE.
The fact that no preparation, no
cooking is required, makes EGG-O-
SEE very popular. Open the package;
put as much as you like in a dish;
pour on milk or cream and eat. 1t
is delicious. It is wholesome. It
makes you strong.
A lot Of interesting facts about
EGG-O-SEE have been published in
book form entitled, Back to Nature"
This book also has a course of phys
ical culture-fully illustrated. Any
one wishing this book will receive it
free by addressing EGG-O-SEE Com
pany, 10 First St., Quincy, Ill.
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A PERIODICAL IN HIMSELF,
New York Merchant Had Claim to
Fame, Though Not Altogether
Literary.

It was Oliver Wendell Holmes
was it not?-who was asked, after he
had made trip across the ocean, if
he had done any literary work while
on board the ship, and answered that
he "had been a frequent contributor
to the Atlantic"
Somewhat similar is the anecdote
related of a New York merchant
whose business had required him to
make several journeys to San Fran
cisco and back during the year.
While on one of these long trips,
after he had exhausted the stock of
reading-lnatter he had brought with
him, hs was showing a fellow pas
senger a bundle of the popular mag
azines that formed a part of the sup
ply.
''You don't seem to have the Over
land Monthly here" remarked the
passenger.
HUH" exclaimed the New York
er, I'm the overland monthly my.
self"
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oozing of albumen from it. There will
be found more albumen in the scum
that arises than in the meat itself.
Mutton, cornbeef or fish If first put
into scalding water will have the pores
at once plugged by the surface albu-
men, and thus all that is vitality pre-
cious will be retained. BY putting
salt in the water quick coagulation ia
especially aided. The nutritive quail.
ity Of fish and its flavor Is best OBJ
tanned by roasting or baking.-Farm.
ing.
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Ability in Demand.

While shrewdness in business pays
better than skill in mechanics, and
while this business quality undoubted-
ly wins a greater money return than
does any work of hand or of intellect,
yet the skilled workman is not without
opportunity for rapid advancement He
Is in no sense second factor in civili-
cation. AS a matter of fact, he has a
right to be really prouder of his at
tainment than has the man whose
wealth consists only Of money. When
| civilization advances another peg, the
skilled mechanic, the man of brain
and hand-action, will have the same
social recognition as does the rank and
file Of our business and professional
men. The quality of skilled labor is
rapidly growing better, and is pro-
crossing by such gigantic strides that
it is only question of time when the
intelligent work of the hand will be
considered upon the same plane as is
the work of the brain, and there will
be no such thing as despised labor.
There will be little labor that involves
muscle alone.
Comparatively few educational au-
thoriries, or those who have given ed
ucational ways and means intelligent
thought, are in favor of a classical COL
&age education for those who propose
to enter a mechanical trade; but the
educational opinion is almost unani-
nous in advising, for anyone who in
tends to be more than common
laborer, a course in the technical
school of institute of technology, or, at
least, course in manual training. The
boy Who enters a trade without, at
least, partial technical education, is
liable to stay near the bottom, or to
rise ve:y slowly, while the technical
school-tralned boy usually makes rapid
! advances after his first year at work.
OF Use, experience teaches, but ex-
| perience is often too far away to prop
erly instruct in the preliminaries. A
few years given to hard technical study
in good trade school or institute OF
technology will pay better in the end
than can any amount of working ex-
perience. But on the other hand tech
nical education without experience is
well-nigh worthless.
Experience without technical educa-
ton is worth something. The COM
bination of the two wins success. A
thorough technical education, with ex-
perience, never allows it's possessor to
remain at a standstill. He must rise
| and generally rises rapidly.
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which should precede actual sxDen.
ence. The first few years Of technieal
school training give a foundation,
which the actual work In the shop
cannot afford. Experience needs edu.
cation for its economical development.
The scientific or technical school dis
ciplines the boys mind, and gives him,
in the most economical way, the broad
principles OF mechanics-the principles
which experience teaches moro slowly.
Too much cannot be said to impress
the wolld-be skilled mechanic with
the enormous advantage of technical
education, to be obtained in some high
grade institution, where the principles
of mechanics are broadly taught. The
graduate of the polytechnic institute,
or other technical school, will find his
diploma the key to a position.
1t should be clearly understood that
education. in itself, will not produce
the skilled workman or expert hand
worker. Education, to be of any use.
must have something to work upon
some natural ability in the first place.
Without this basic material, the most
liberal education is worthless, and GER
tainly has no commercial value.
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When They Wore Armor.

who are you?" inquired King Ar
thur of the stranger.
Il am Spike Hennessy. the safe
blower" was the answer.
AT last!" exclaimed the king.
Hurry, then. and help me unbutton
my friend Launcelot's pea-jacket. /
fear that he has tainted" Life.
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Martin. who Is very hard of hearing
arose In the caucus and nominated
one Mr.. Brown for the Office Of Jlstics
Of the peace.
Mr.. Brown promptly arose and de-
clined the nomination with thanks
and while he had the floor he NOM
mated Mr.. Martin for the office.
Martin, not understanding what
Brown said. but evidently thinking It
some modest remonstrance. arose and
said:
Gentlemen of the Convention: We
now have before the house man who
Is not only worthy, but is In every
way competent. and move that NOM
nations be closed. and he be elected
by reclamation. and it be made unan-
imous."-Judge's Magazine Of Fun.
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New Standard.

Employer-What salary do you
want?
Once Boy-Enough to place ma
above Dc temptation Of graft-N =.
Sum.
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Between the Horns.

Johnny-What's dilemma?
Tommy-Well, it's when you cant
sit down because your pa licked You
for going in swimming, and you can't
stand up because crab bit your toe.
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Aids to Success.

The boy OF natural capacity, with q
willingness to work, and an ambition
to amount to something, finds that his
education makes it much easier for
him 20 market his ability; and, fur
Their, it enables him to develop much
more rapidly than he could hope to do
if he entered the shop directly from
the common school. The man is made
from the boy, not the boy from the
man. AS the crude boy is shaped, so is
the man likely to be. Therefore, the
boys educational years will probably
be the most important ones Of his
whole life.
The world needs more skilled work.
men and expert hand-workers. There
is room for many more than are now
available These men, far more than
the business men, are the pushers OF
progress. They, with the farmer, are
producers of material commodities.
They actually do something, something
which contributes to the roundness
and Wilderness Of life.
A liberal technical education is an
asset: First, because it assists in de-
veloping ambition; second, because it
broadens the mind and makes 1t
adaptable to the work of both the
mind and the hand; third, it disci-
pines the mind, that the mind may
the mere master the muscle; fourth, it
opens opportunity for advancement;
fifth, it Is economical, because it ena-
bles the boy to accomplish more in a
given time, after he is fairly started in
his work, than he could possibly effect
without this education; sixth, it fits
him 1or proprietorship.
The blacksmith, unless he is self
taught, at an expense far greater in the
aggregate than is the cost of being
school-taught, is many times more
likely to remain a journeyman black
smith than is his. neighbor who has
had the advantage of some sort of
technical education. This trained man
VIII not Tong remain at the anvil. In
time, he will be master of many an
wills and of anvil men. True, he may
rise to proprietorship without the aid
of the technical school, but he will be
promoted quicker with this school
taught education, and can hold his own
better than he can hope to do other
wise. This argument applies to other
mechanical departments, much more
than it does to blacksmithing. 1t is
simply question of going to ones
work before the mind and hand are
economically and practically trained,
or of going at it with mind and hand
especially trained and disciplined to do
that work in the most economical and
satisfactory manner.
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Where Nutriment Is Lost.
If meat is put into cold water first
for boiling there will be a constant
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Boys will be boys, especially the
gay old ones who have passed so.
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The terms skilled or skillful may be
% broadly defined as to cover all hand
work requiring more than the exercise
OF automatic action, and 1t may be so
narrowed as to eliminate any work
save that of extraordinary, or, at least,
OF more than ordinary mechanical abil-
fty.
For the sake Of convenience, I pro-
pose to consider in this article all
hand-workers whose employment de-
mands the use of their brain at the
same time that they exercise their
muscles. Such men may be classified
as Observation-Disclosures or as hand
nd-Drain-workers, in the one case the
brain doing more than the hand; and
in the other, the hand accomplishing
more than half of the work.
The expert worker is commercially
one grade above the skilled mechanic;
by the combination Of ability and ex-
perience, he does some particular kind
OF work better than it can be executed
by the so-called skilled workman.
Neither the skilled mechanic, nor the
expert workman, nor anyone who en-
ploys both brain and hands, can be
classed as a laborer, or as a mechanic
in purely mechanical sense While
by the false ethics of an artificial soci-
ETY. the skilled mechanic and the ma
5ority Of expert workmen are not con-
sidered the social equals Of successful
workers in some other callings, they
are recognized at their full worth by
the representatives of civilized society.
And this recognition Is advancing in
mighty strides, and sooner or later the
combination of brain and hand work
will rank so high that society will dare
die no exceptions to it.
The formation of gigantic monopo-
lies, the consultations of capital, and
the fearful increase OF business upon
paper, cannot but produce a reaction
which will apprize work at works
value, and render unto intelligent
workmen the appreciation OF high
progress The skilled workman is
product of civilization, and progress in
mo small measure depends upon the
work of his brain and of his hand. He
is a builder of something, a maker of
the tangible. The institute of technol-
ogy and the technical school are to-day
more vigorously pushing progress than
are many Of our classical institutions
which teach less Of the necessities than
the realities of life.
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Chances to Rise.


q fair education, does not permanently
remain at a standstill in any depart
ment of mechanics, unless, in spite OF
his mechanical ingenuity and capacity,
he completely lacks ambition, a con-
dition which too often exists. Sooner
or later, he may become a foreman or
superintendent, and possibly a manu-
Cacturer.
The boy without pronounced bust
ness or professional capacity stands a
better chance of success, both in the
present and for the future, by entering
some trade which allows his hand to
do his hands best, than by taking
chances with what he is probably I'M
fitted for. If the bulk Of his work is
something which encourages and de-
velops his handicraft, he is reasonably
certain of rising from the ranks and
OF earning comfortable livelihood
The workman is almost certain of per-
manent living wages.
If his mind takes little thought OF
what his hand is doing, an ordinary
mechanic he will remain; but if the
work of his hand comes under the in
'telligent direction of his brain, then
he will rise as high as his combination
of brain and hand will allow; which
may be only few steps above the or
binary or to any height, even to that
of manufacturer and proprietor.
The ordinary mechanic, above the
laborer grade and beyond the appren.
ticeship step, earns from $40 to $12 6
week on an average, and up to sever
dollars day as a maximum. The
skilled workman, who is. able to dc
something beyond mere hand-work
seldom receives less than three dollars
a day, and from that up to five dollars
a day. The expert workman otter
earns as much as $4,000 a year, ant
from that UP to $1,000 a year, although
comparatively few receive the latter
amount His average income is prob
ably not in excess of $4,000, although
there are by no means small number
earning as much as $500 year. The
foreman and superintendent, who art
either skilled workmen or expert work
-ers, and who are discipiinarians as vel
as mechanics, are seldom paid les:
than 1000 a year, the amximum be
ing not far from $4,000, and the aver
age from $1,000 to $500 a year.
The terms foreman and superintend
emit are. to an extent, Analogous, an,
frequently both Offices are vested IL
one person; but the superintendent
outranks the foreman, the latter bein;
usually in charge of department
while the superintendent is manage
OF several departments, and has gen
eral oversight of the foreman.
Skilled workmen are usually in de
mand, and are seldom out of work 70
more than limited period. They ar
not as likely to be affected by depres
sions IN business as are those Of or
binary capacity. Expert workmen rep
resent the highest class Of hand-work
ing mechanics. and often grade wit
eoremen and superintendent.
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