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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23
SEWARD.

The public sale at Geo. Blunn's
Tuesday was largely attended
and everything sold we'll.
The school at Dist No. Ga COM
menced again, after being closed
by the County health officer for a
week on account of a threatened
attack of scarletina in the school.
Sherman Smith has been con6n-
ed to is bed for some time with
symptoms of pneumonia or la
grippe.
Several of the band boys have
received their new horns, and
they are getting ready to make
the old cranks in town cuss about
the unearthly noise they are max
ing.
There was a large attendance al
the services of the Catholic
Church here last Sunday.
Lots of wheatis coming to town
now; a good many are hauling il
off so as not to have to pay taxes
on it and some because they dc
not see any prospect of an in
crease in price for some time t.
come, and so they want to get
rid of it.
Oscar johnson is here from
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23
ROUTE THREE NOTES.

Mike Murray and Albert
Redetzke were at the county CAPT.
tol Saturday, and the carriers SUBJ,
Mrs. Butler, took dinner with
Mrs. Murray.
Mrs. Campbell, of Odessa, Mo,
is visiting her daughter, Mrs. P.
I. White on Route 3. She was
accompanied on her trip by her
daughter-in-law Mrs. Eugene l..
Campbell of Kansas City.
Frank and Lena Harris, nephew
and niece of Mrs. Murray. were
guests at the hurry home over
Sunday, as was also Johnnie
Kubiak, of Colorado.
B. f. Parish is doings the
butcher act this week, assisted by
Prof. Mike Murray.
Albert Redetzke is making q
business trip to his farm poses.
sions in Stafford county this week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23

musical festival is becoming so
we'll known that its reputation is
almost a national one and the
pretty little city of Lindsborg
with its great college is well
named The Bayreuth of America.
See agent Mo. Pacific Ry, for
dates and particulars.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23

George Bastel, one of the pros
porous farmers of the north side,
was in the county seat shaking
hands with friends, Wednesday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23

D. 7. Dennis, Of this city, has
been summoned to appear for
service on the United States
grand jury in Topeka, on March
18th.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23
Gard Of Tanks.

We desire to thank our friends
for their many kindnesses shown
Us in our recent bereavement.
Mrs. Delaplane and Family.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23
For Sale at a Barqaln.

North \ OF Sc \ of section
5-2O.14, Liberty township, con-
tanning so acres. Call or write
for price. Dawson & Zutavern.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1906-02-23
Official Township Statement.

Report Of John Evers, treasurer of Clarence
township, for the year 1906
Jan. 80, 1905, balance on hand ...........s13s %
Aprlilo; i9O5. received lrum County Treas 27s 90
Dec. s, 1905, Y" AZ ~
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17
..2oN.

V u $ ~ < Il
rail around three sides, to protect
the little pigs. This room is for far
rowing, with feeding floor in the yard
outside. We got out all the frame tim
Der on the farm, buying only the drop
siding, shingles, window and the
door and sash. The house is set up on
stone pillars, leaving space under
meath large enough for dog to run
through. so that there is no rat har-
Dor. The artist did not get the par
tition between A, B and G, D, in
proper position. D should be IL feet
long, and B eight feet. The bridge
at hog. door can be removed and put
back at pleasure The shingles on this
house $4,000 cost $14.50; the drop sid
ing, door frames, etc, about $50; the
labor (outside of getting out the frame
timber), about $22. We hired an
extra hand two or three days to help
cut logs and get them to the mill;
the rest Of that work was done by the
farm manager and myself. The total
cost of the building, including the
painting, was not over $75. The floor
is of. two-inch hard maple and red
beech plank, and the frame, rafters,
lath, jolst. partitions, ETC., Of beech.
We shall have two more windows put
In, and will then consider the house
good enough for the purpose. and am
pie for dozen head of swine besides
the brood SOW and pigs.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

very important measure which, n Sit
becomes law. will distinguish him
as q man who has accomplished real
reform. His bill provides for the pur-
chase Of land and the erection Of en-
bassies and legation buildings for our
representatives in foreign lands. His
own travel abroad in Europe and in
the orient has impressed him with the
very shabby showing the United
States makes in the matter OF homes
for ler diplomats. For posts in Eu-
rope very wealthy men have to be Sc
lected as ambassadors in order to do
credit to the government in the mat
ter Of embassies and in entertaining.
Whitelaw Reid, at London, pays $685.
900 a year merely for the rental Of q
mansion, or twice the salary he re-
ceives from his government.
Compared with the generous sala-
ries paid foreign ambassadors In
Washington and the liberality Of their
home governments in purchasing for
them permanent quarters here, the
United States cuts very sorry figure
abroad.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

the way across the continent and
wherever his big system of railroad
goes, and who is Canadian Yankee in
with, humor and enterprise. Mr.. Ham
is one Of those rare characters that a
big corporation gets hold Of some
times, whose personality counts for
more than the name of the company.
He has made 20 trips from Montreal
to Victoria in the interest Of the Can
adian Pacific railroad, and they have
resulted in q wider diffusion of knowl-
edge regarding the wonderful terri
tory this system serves than has been
accomplished by any other means.
Mr.. Ham personally conducts tours
Of homeseekers, investigators and in
vestors, with an occasional party of
newspaper men, across the continent.
and there Is scarcely mile Of the
3,000-mile trip with which he is un-
acquainted. He can give the depths
Of soil in every section, and the acre
of the big 1,00O-mile square wheat
farm in northwestern Canada, and can
tell within thousand feet of the out
put of the lumber in eastern Canada
as well as on the Pacific slope.
Wherever he goes. a bright light is
shown for the Canadian Pacific rail-
road, or, as many Of the natives in
Canada are in the habit of calling it..
the &C. p. r. railway" While Mr..
Ham was in Washington he did not
neglect to cali attention to the ad-
vantages Of his home country Of Cam
ada as winter resort as well as sum-
mer.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

Tor that matter, In the army, navy and
marine corps can put away their dress
uniforms in cedar closets and chests
and fortify them with camphor and
moth balls. The odor of these moth
destroyers and preventers is first no.
ticed on New Years day, when every
officer Of the army and navy and reve-
nut cutter service within the city is
expected to put on his finest dress uni
form and repair to the White House
to greet the president and his wife.
During the Spanish-American war
an order was issued requiring officers
to wear their uniforms while on duty,
and they all became SO accustomed to
doing so that their official clothing
was in use most of the time. Gradual
ly the order came to be ignored, and
to-day army and navy officers holding
positions in Washington go about
their duties in civilian dress and the
blue and drab uniforms which are
costly affairs are kept safe from
moth and rust. When the New Years
reception is on it is no exaggeration
can be detected square away from
the White House. Then come the Off
cial evening receptions, which are
given fortnightly, and again the Off
GERS must turn out in full regalia, so
that the sweet odor of the flowers dec
Grating the executive mansion and the
delicate perfumery affected by the
ladies must contend with the sharper
and more insistent smell of camphor.
These official receptions are now
over, and the thrifty officers can once
more don civilian dress and attend
evening functions in the formal black
dress suit. Officers as rule grow
very tired of the color of their uni
forms and are very glad to lay them
aside for civilian dress.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

throng as to ruin gowns and tempers.
Since the Roosevelts came to the
White House different system has
been in force, under which there is a
judicious division of invitations, so
that everybody who ought to be in
vited will get at least one invitation
to each reception. The capacity of the
old mansion is limited, despite the
wide-famed East room, which is sup
posed to accommodate thousands
Every function at the White House
proclaims loudly the necessity of an
executive building where the presi-
Dental offices could be located and a
large hall be provided for official re-
ceptions, leaving the present mansion
exclusively for the private use of the
president and his family.
The idea Of grand executive build
ing Is at present kept in the back
ground, although the insignificant ex-
ecutive Offices where the president
does his work were erected as tempor-
ary quarters in expectation that con-
gress would take up the matter and
provide proper place for executive
headquarters. There is not a day
passes that the inadequacy Of the
White House offices is not emphasized.
There is no more beauty about the
building than there is about the aver
age country railroad station. The
rooms are uncomfortable, ugly and
not very healthful.
The worst feature about these tenn
porary quarters is that the president
Is separated from the public by only
one or two doors, and noises in the
outer Offices penetrate easily into the
cabinet room or into his own office.
The deplorable Mrs. Morris incident
could not have occurred in a building
that had been constructed for protec-
ton as well as use Of the president.
She raised row within ten feet Of the
presidents room, something she could
not have done in properly construct
ed building.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

Unrest.

Ever an old UNIV orded longing comes to me.
Comes In the scent of gardens have
never seen, A
In p!aintive sounds Of q far-distant, un-
sailed sea, 5Fs 4gss
In the imagined hush of forests darkly-
green.
Ever an old unmastered longing sweeps
my heart,
Beats wildly on the level. changeless
shores of life,
Full with the murmurs Of dead love. dead
song, dead art.
Stirring my eager soul to some transcend
ent strife.
Ever an OLD unfathomed longing blinds my
With half-remembered visions-dtful.
nameless tears:
HAPPY tits promise of a dreamer's Paradise,
HAPPY the shadow Of the sorrows Of lost
years.
At nightfall. or 6. morning. or at hurried
noon, es4
It comes, and bears me from my task on
restless wings.
o Brothers Of Unrest. say is it curse. OF
boon,
So whispers to an alien soul Of alien
things?
Emery Pottle, In The Reader.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17
NEED or VENTILATION.
a Low Temperature with Good Air Il
Better Than Higher Temper
ature and Foul Air.

When 1t comes to the ventilation re-
member that the stable should be, nor
mally, just warm enough to keep the
COW comfortable. The old idea that
TO save feed and produce butter eco
nomically it should be 20 or even so
degrees in the cold days Of winter is
long ago exploded. Better too much
ventilation and too cool than too hot
and sitting, declares G. D. Smith. Of
Michigan agricultural college.
Naturally, without artificial heat It
Is impossible to have the stable warm
In the sense of above 60 degrees on
cold days and ct the same time well
ventilated. The silo should be at one
side with a ventilated space between
It and the stable. The hay, II over the
cows, should be supplied through !
chute outside the stable but near
enough to the feeding alley to avoid
carrying long distance and conse-
ouent dust
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17
CONVENIENT HOG HOUSE.
Arrangement Of Building Which One
Farmer Has Found to Be
Satisfactory.

Last fall we built the hog house IL
lustrated herewith, writes . corre-
spondent of the Ohio Farmer. It is 20
feet long, IL feet wide, and seven feet
high to the square. In the plan. G,
is the hallway; D. the feeding floor;
B, the sleeping room; A, room for brood
SOW; E.. the trough; G, window Tor
throwing out manure; r, the hog
door. The partitions separating these
rooms or divisions are four feet high.
The partition between the hall. g.
and the feeding floor, D. sets over the
trough, e. leaving enough Of the
trough projecting into the hall 30
that slop can be poured in from the
C side. There is a window In each
end, and one in each end Of attic.
The SOW room is provided with guard
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17
PROTECT FOWLS FROM LICE
Some Suggestions as to How It May
Be Done Even When Flocks
Are Large.

Fowls are hard to protect from lice
largely on account of the number Of
fowls that must be kept by any one
man who expects to make much money
out of them. II a 1,OOO-pound steer
or horse has lice, the treatment of that
animal for the parasites is not great
task; but it is far different II 1000
pounds of chickens have to be treated.
That might mean as many as 20d
fowls to be washed. dipped or other
wise handled and cared for. 5s.
There are severals ways OF killing
lice, but the most thorough way Is to
wash the fowl with soap and water.
A poultry exhibitor said to the writer:
IF the man that has lousy hens will
wash them as the Snowman does his
birds he will have no trouble with lice,
provided he does not again permit
them to come In contact with other
birds that are lousy" His method OF
washing was to make strong lather
OF soap and water and scrub the birds
thoroughly. The lather was worked
into the feathers and under all of them
and was again and again washed Oh.
This kind of treatment gets rid Of the
lice and leaves the birds, absolutely
clean.
The next best thing, III the opinion
of the Farmers Review, IS perhaps
grease put under the wings, under the
tail feathers, and on top Of thd head
Sooner or later the lice on the bird
will take refuge in the places men.
toned and will become covered with
grease, which will In turn cause the
stoppage of the breathing pores Of the
insects and hence strangulation. This
is the current opinion. but whether all
the lice do thus commit suicide Is 1
question that is hard to settle. Ger
tain 1t is that the application O1
grease does greatly reduce the mum.
ber of lice infesting the fowls.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17
Right Mental Attitude.

The mental attitude which we al
ways hold toward our work or our
aim has everything to do with what
We may accomplish. II you go to
your work with the attitude Of a
slave who goes lashed to his task, and
see in It only drudgery; il you work
without hope, seeing no future in
what you are doing, beyond getting q
bare living; il you see no light ahead,
nothing but poverty, deprivation and
hard work all. your life; if you think
that you were destined to such hard
life, you cannot expect anything else
than that which you look for, says
Success Magazine. II, on the Other
hand, no matter how poor you may
he to-day, you can see better future:
II you believe that some day you are
going to rise out Of humdrum work,
that you are going to get up out of the
basement of life into the drawing
room, where beauty, comfort and JOY
await you; If your ambition is clear
cut, and you keep your eye steadily
rron the goal which you hope to
reach. and feel confident that you
have the ability to attain it, you will
accomplish something worth while
The direction of your effort will fol-
low your eye. If that looks up as well
rs on, you will climb That one quail
fly Of holding persistently the faith
in themselves. and never allowing any
thing to weaken the belief that some
how they would accomplish what they
undertook, has been the underlying
principle of all great achievers. The
great majority of men and women
whc have given civilization a great
uplift started poor, and for many dark
years saw no hope of accomplishing
tteir ambition. but they kept on work
ing and believing that somehow 9
way would be opened Think OF what
this attitude of hopefulness and faith
has done for the worlds great invent
ors! how most Of them plodded z on
through many years of dry, sdreary
drudgery before the light came, and
the light would never have come but
for their faith, hope and persistent
endeavor. What if they had listened
to their advisers! Even those who
loved them tried to beg them to
give up the foolishness Of coming
their lives into that which would
never be practical or useful. We are
enjoying to-day thousands OF bless
ings, comforts and L conveniences
which have been beQueathed US by
those resolute souls who were Obliged
often to turn a deaf ear to the plead
iugs Of those they loved best as they
struggled on amid want and woe for
many years. SSSI#IB
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

thing as q member OF the house. He
has already demonstrated on the floor
that he is capable Of taking good care
Of himself in debate and he can
make an interesting and informative
speech. His experience on his Phil
fppine tour last summer was not alto
gether that Of 1ove-making. He
studied inte1ligently conditions in the
islands, and when the Philippine tariff
bill was up IN the house he had an OPP
portunity to display his knowledge Of
the whole subject. He does not hesi-
tate to speak plainly about the Phil
lppines. and declares that the United
States will be well rid Of them when
they can be properly governed BY
their own people.
NJ. Longworth II now advocating 1
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17
Faulty Of Consumptives.

A young school-teacher from Wash
angton. d. c., was sent by her physi-
clan to spend the winter south She
might teach, perhaps, for three or four
months, and then she could " return
home for the summer and retake her
old place north when the winter came
She arrived south worn out; she lived
four weeks and died skeleton; sure
" not cured by climate. writes Albert
Hale. in The Reader A bright young
lad from Illinois, whose father was
very wealthy, was ordered by the best
skill obtainable to hurry south 80
that the climate might cure him.
He died within three weeks Of his ar-
rival. consumed by tuberculosis. A
boy from one OF the big cities OF Iowa
was sent to the southwest and died
ON a stretcher at the Doctors door.
OF course he would have died at home,
but why order him away. among
strangers? Why shorten his life by
the long, hard journey when death was
inevitable? Ansambitious young wom-
an from Ohio rejoiced to feel that she
was at last in the southwest, whore
she could be cured Immediately. She
had been advised to exercise, to keep
out Of doors; SO she at once started
to run up hill-not to lose a moments
time. She died with hemorrhage With
IN six hours Of her arrival o. victim
Of the pursuit of climate. The sis
ter OF a physician in Minnesota was
sent to the southwest More from
friendship than because Of any sup.
posed need for professional aid, he
asked doctor there to- call on his
sister and give an opinion, especially
as to how soon she would recover.
ssYour sister is dying" telegraphed
the local man. ''You lie," came back
the telegraphic answer Come and
see for yourself" was the second mes
sage, to which ths brother responded
In person only just in time to find
her in her hast gasp. and then to car,
~ her body ~ . conn back to the
home she had left few weeks be-
fore. :,
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

RS~
pie in this ten-mile square territory
have no franchise, they are the wards
Of congress. The two district commit
tees Of the house and senate look
after affairs in Washington just as the
branches of councils or boards of al
dermen would do in any other munic-
ipality. It seems to be rather
trifing business for bodies represent
ing the entire country to have their
time occupied in discussing the open
ing of streets, the laying Of pave
ments, building schoolhouses, etc. The
system, however, cannot well be
changed, the sad experience Of ter
ritorial form Of government 20 or 25
years ago precluding the thought Of
changing back to that form.
Just now there is good deal Of talk
concerning the prohibition Of the sale
Of intoxicating liquors in the district
or the imposition Of an extremely high
license. The great capital Of the ma
ton, supposed to be the center ~of
statemanship, art and literature, is no
better of In the matter Of common
drunkenness than manufacturing
center. A United States official has
written to the excise board stating that
conditions are deplorable on account
Of cheap beer and the bucket trade
He declares that most Of the alley
fights, assaults and other violations
Of the law are traceable to cheap beer
and to the habit Of rushing the growl-
|.er." The matter will be brought up
before congress and an attempt made
to cut of the trade In cheap intoxi-
cants and to do away with multitude
Of low groggeries where the colored
element Of the city get their inspira-
tion for all sorts Of misdoings.
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17

The strongest argument in favor OF
nations maintaining peaceful relations
with each other would seem to be the
progress which is being made in the
invention and manufacture of terrible
explosives for use in time Of war.
Formidable war vessels Of every de-
scription may be built by various
countries, yet q fast as their design
ers succeed nsproducing what they
consider almost invulnerable fighting
machines, the inventors Of high explo-
siyes find something that win destroy
such ships with comparative ease. .s'
St. Tammany farmer., 1906-03-17
The Girl IN the
Royal Box
By cosl1o 1IA11lLroN
Copyright, 1906. by Joseph B. Bowles.]

The orchestra sweiled beneath the
stage, and the curtain fell. With q
sigh of intense relief. Aubrey Chilham
got uE.
Lets get out for bit, Bratton,' y
he said. 1--WE got the very dickens Of
hump. old man."
why, what's the matter. my dear
Aubrey?" cried little Lambley Brat
ton. do tell me. I'm really very
sympathetic. Really"
"Yes," said Chilhaln, under that
stucco Of artistic cant you've a jolly
little heart. Come with me, and I'll
show you what's the matter"
Filled with curiosity and kindliness
the over-dressed, studiously effem.
inate, laboriously erudite little man
danced along by Chilham's side with
a small white gloved hand on his mus
cular arm, very proud, in the honest
rart of his soul, of being seen with
the well-known player Of outdoor
games, from polo to war. Chilham
led h,m into . corner Of the dress.
circle. Ii
There" cried Ch.lham, looking al
the royal box, there's the cause Of my
hump :
In the midst Of several men with
familiar faces sat Margaret Edale.
"Yes!" said Chilham, more to him.
self than to the man at his side, "s
dashed nice thing I did for myself
when / fell in love with that girl.
give you my word she is the exact
antithesis of the woman should like
to make my wife. The absolute an
tithesis! AS things 60, I'm poor. Hel
dress .bill would swamp the whole OF
my blessed income. I'm plain. She's
the loveliest thing that ever trod IN
shoe leather. I'm stupid. She's az
alert and nimble as a needle. hate
London. She loves it. By goodness!
and yet love her SO much that my
blood is thin for the want of her, my
days dull, my nights sleepless.''
The lights all over the theater sud.
denly went out, the cymbals in the or
.chestra were placed quivering away,
the limelight hissed. and the curtain
rose.
T "I shan't go In for this act" said
sChilham., I'm. not in the mood fol
being amused.
Bratton turned back alone.
AS Chilham moved to the cloak-room
put on his coat and hat, and going
back TO the door, remained there as
he knew he should Margaret Edale
laid her little hand ON her sisters arm,