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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-04

Mrs. Annie Kearney died
Thursday at her home at Seward.
She was IS years old and bel
death was caused by heart disease,
Mrs. Kearney had lived for sever
al years in the vicinity. and had
been quite poorly for some time
The only immediate relative living
near here is Grover Kearney. be-
SOD, who lives in this city. Fun
eral services were held at bel
late home and she was buried a
Seward Friday afternoon.
Billy Murphy went TO Kansa
City Sunday to take in the earn
val.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-04
SUGAR BETS As hog FEED.
Excellent Results Obtained al ne.
Colorado Experiment Station.

Referring to an experiment M"
the feeding of young sows, which :.
was carried on last winter at the
State agricultural college in Colo
RADIO, the following results hays>
been summarized by the Fort
Collins Courier: The growing:
importance Of pork and baeor
production in this state has direct
ed the attention OF Professor Nc
Lean. professor of animal hus-
baIdry at the agricultural college
to consider some of the vari GUS
phases concerned in the most pro-
6table production of this kind of
meat. The experiment just COM
pleted was undertaken to deter,
mine the value of sugar beets as ~
food for young brood sows. All
the young sows at the college
farm. twenty-four in number.
we're divided into two smaller
lots. Two one lot a full grain
rations consisting Of equal parts of
corn. bald barely and middlin q
was fed; while the other lot was
fed as much grain and all the
roots they would eat. The exper--
iment lasted ten weeks. At start
ing the sows we're approximately
six months old. They we're rum
in small lots in which we're porta--
BILE pens for shelter. A record
was kept of the amount Of food3
eaten by each lot and their
weights at the end of each week.
1t was found that the pigs
which received a full grain ration
made 1893 pounds gain. while the
other lot which received root with
4 half grain ration, gained 673
mounds during the ten weeks
Though the grain lot gained 100
pounds more than the beet lot.
vel there we're five individuals IN
the beet lot made just as COCOA
aims as the best OF the grain lot
re sows receiving the beets did
t make as phenomenal gains as
ID those receiving only grains.
vas found also that the sows
ed grain alone we're harder 10
keep in a healthy condiditiop.
Twice during the experiment they
went of feed. became dry and
bristly in the hair and sluggish
in conduct. while the lot fed roots
never went of feed at any time
during the experiment.
When beets are valued at S. per-
ton, the gains are more costly on
the lot fed beets than on the grain
fed lot, but if beets are valued. at
$3.50 per ton, the grain is ob.
tanned at z cents less per pound
by feeding roots. The sows ate
the beets very heartily consuming
an average Of nearly ten pounds
per head per day during the en-
tire experiment. Their relish Of
the boets., the amount eaten. the
vigorous healthy condit ion Of
t csc sows and the cost indicate
that beets are an excellent and
profitable feed for sows when fed
even in such quantities as to re-
place one half a grain ration.
This experiment with others.
will appear in bulletin form in
the autumn of this..year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-04
T. C. Moseley,

50 East 2Srd Street, New York
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-04
A Bread and Meat Trust.

Prosecution of the packing
trust-the National Packing Co.,
of New Jersev-is the next step
OF the government in its anti
monopoly campaign and a Wash.
ington official is quoted as saying,
from the facts the government
detectives have uncovered. that
this is the easiest trust in the
world to get at. Compared to
getting facts about the Standard
Oil, it looks easy"
Active preparations for the pro-
secution of the packing trust be-
gan this week at Chicago. While
the concern is incorporated in
New Jersey. its ten members are
citizens of Chicago-J. Ogden
Armour. E. F. Swift. Ira n.
Morris, Thos. E. Wilson, 5. A.
McRoberts, L. E. Swift. Edward
Morris, 7. j. Connors, Arthur
Meeker and Lawrence A. Canton.
They are readily recognized as
insiders in the Chicago packing
industry, and while they are os
tensible competitors in the meat
ield all are directors like in the
single National Packing Corpora.
ton. 1t is claimed By the govern
ment that this directorate is in
control of the following markets
The price of meat to all con-
suners.
The price of cattle to all
breeders.
The price of leather to all fac.
tories and thus incidentally.
The price Of shoes.
The price of grain. through al.
lied interests. and thus as an Incl.
dent.
The price of bread.
To release the grip of monopoly
on bread and meat, the two main
necessaries of life. is the govern.
ment's object in this suit. 1t has
information that the National
Packing Co., names the prices to
be paid for cattle and the prices
to be asked for meats. and that
the various packing concerns of
the West adhere to these prices.
Excepting a small concern here
and there all the other corpora &.
tions in this business bow to be
wishes of the ten tyrants Of food.
So successful was the combination
that it became topheavy and quar-.
reling over divisions of prof is lei
the government into the inner
workings of the monopoly. Oil
is one of the necessaries of life
but interest in the oil suit at New
York will give way before the
universal interest in the prosecu.
tion of the food trust. which tbt
government is now said to be full
ly prepared to press with the full
expectation of dissolving the
monopoly. Topeka Capital.
Clint Johnson and wife were W
from Ellinwood Sunday visiting with
Amos Johnson and family.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mic Berescheidt re-
turned from Raymond Sunday even,
ing after a short visit with MICS folks
A. E. Wilson, a resident of thi.
county in Is, is visiting with Roberr
Brown. Mr.. Wilson now lives al
Tacoma, Washington.
Frank Greenwaldt is the pur.
chaser Of a New Story & Clarke
Piano.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-04
Charles YounkIn ResIQns,

Charles Younkin, who..has been
holding the position Of princip 81
in the west building has resigned.
having been elected superinteDd-
ent of the Pawnee Rock schools at
a better salary than be was get
ting here. The school board with
some reluctance acpected his
resignation, and have filled the
vacancy by electing Louis Haag.
of Larned to the place. Mr.. and
Mrs. Haag will move to this city
at once. We are sorry to see Mr..
Younkin leave our schools. but
cannot tlame him for it when
there is a better salary in sight
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1907-10-04

Do you know it is almost i'm
possible to get hands for any sort
TO laborl The mills and eleva.
tors, contractors and boarders.
farmers. and every one else that
has any work to do all need hands.
We simply have not got the band:
in the county. Good wages arc
paid but we have not got the men
to fills the places. Farmers are
having to do all their work them
selves and vet wages for farm
hands are very high. While
wages are high everything else i
high in proportion. The ques
ton of getting..labor here will b.
a grave one if there is no chang
between this and next harvest.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
Nature Reclaimed Island.

King island, between the coasts of
Tasmania and the Australian main
land, has always been an arid waste
of sand and other honorable soil.
Some years ago, however a vessel
was wrecked off the island and a num-
Der OF the sailors mattresses, stuffed
with the yellow-fowered clover, a kind
of grass. were washed ashore A GER
tain quantity of seed was contained
among the stuffing and in due course
these took root and in the space OF a
few years covered the sandy stretches
with rich verdure. Glover and other
leguminous plants have the peculiar
capacity OF fertilizing a waste soil,
owing principally to the action of bac-
terra, thereby enabling the plants to
draw nitrogen directly from the at
mosphere. King island. previously a
waste stretch Of sand, is now one OF
the richest grazing districts in the
Australian continent.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
Popular Hatred

Let no man slight the scorns and
hate Of the people. When it is unjust.
IL is a wolf; but when ii is just. a ORA
gon. Though the tyrant seated high,
does think he may contemn their NAL.
lice; yet he ought to remember that
they have many hands. while he hath
one neck only. If he. being single. be
dangerous to many, those many will
to him alone he dangerous in their
hate. The sands of Africa. though
they be but barren dust and lightneSs.
vet. angered by the winds. they bury
both the horse and traveller alive
Against the hatred Of multitude
there is no fence but what must come
by miracle; nor wealth, nor wit, nor
bands OF armed men can keep them
safe that have made themselves the
hate OF an enraged multitude. 1t is
thunder. lightning. storm and hail To.
gether.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
Atmospheric CHANCES.

Prof. Milne, the great British seis-
mologist, has demonstrated that at
least part of the weather and changes
in the atmosphere's temperature
seems to come from below instead Of
directly from the sun. He has been
in the habit of leaving an ingenious
Photographic arrangement in quarries
at night. The Photographic paper,
when examined later, was found to be
marked from time to time by dark
bands, black spots and what are called
singeings. Some of these markings
occurred at the time of earthquakes,
but by no means all. Scientists say
that most minerals become luminous
at frequent intervals. The cliffs of
Doyer have been seen suddenly TO
CLEAN and hilltops become visible in
the darkness. The conclusion is that
the disturbing forces which go on
even at the very center of the earth
are converted before they reach the
surface into heat and light and make
all manner of difference in climate
and weather.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
THINKS WHILE HE WORKS.
One Man Who Saves Money for the
Firm.

There once was man who did not
do things. He was running a certain
section of certain large firms bust.
ness. and people began to talk Of him.
What's the matter with that fel
low" said they. do you notice how
he does nothing? All he does all day
is-nothing,. or, not much, at all
events. How does he manage to hang
on?'
The other fellow made reply to the
effect that HE does not hang on
He's anchored here. II he wasn't, he'd
be let out. But he'll never get any
further up. Watch him."
And everybody watched.
One day this certain firm happened
to have certain something on its
hands that stirred everybody up. II
was big contract, and there was
something wrong with the wording, SO
the firm had to win big lawsuit OF
lose a lot Of money. And all the peo
pie in the firm, everybody who did
things, began to run around and say:
What are we going to do? What are
We going to do?"
And the man who did not do things
sat at his desk and smoked.
Finally everybody had turned in
their suggestions and the firm was go
ing to begin to fight the case, for none
of the suggestions suggested anything
else. And then the man who did moi
do things spoke.
Suppose | go over and see the
other firm and try to frame up com
promise" said he. Wen both lose
money if it goes into the courts
They'll lose; wen lose. Suppose we
see if we can't make them see it in
the same light"
The head of the firm threw up his
hands and collapsed.
Good heavens" he gasped, why
didn't somebody think of that before?'
And the man who did things made
reply: We've been too busy plan
ming the fight to have time to think
about it."
And the head turned to the one
man and said: How in the name OF
all that is profitable did you happen tC
have such an inspiration?'
And the man laughed.
That's no inspiration" he said;
that's common sense. | simply have
sat back here-not doing things
thinking. And | know we can square
it up"
And they did.
Moral: Don't do things-all the
time Think a little.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
Men Are Soesjps.

when it comes to discretion. If
there is an inequality of the sexes We
fancy men have the disadvantage" re-
marks London paper, apropos of the
exclusion of women secretaries from
The higher bureaus at Washington.
IF there is a scandal in society, a
dark cloud overhanging the ministry.
an ominous rumor about a newspaper
or bank. where is ii first discussed ?
Why. in the mems clubs. Thence it
reaches the female gossips, and If they
in turn mention what my husband
heard at the club they are at once
set down as scandal mongers. while
the originators of the scandal go scot
free. In country houses, too. are not
the men as ready to tell tales as the
women, as eager to bring forward the
latest news, political. social or finan-
cial? Many women let their tongues
run on. it is true, but so do many
men"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
THE CUSTOM or AARAklRI.
Said to Be Practiced Only by Descend
ants of Old Mobiles Of Japan.

The custom of harakiri is thins
rather confined to the samurai class
and the heimin, the commoners, are
quite strangers to it, writes Mr.. Hashi-
guchi in the Atlantic, japanese mag
azine published in New York. /;
thrived in the days of feudalism, when
the lives of the camurai were at the
disposal OF their masters, lords anG
rulers.
The samurai youths were taught to
commit harakiri rather than submits t.
the disgrace OF decapitation.
Thus harakiri became an invet-
crate hereditary propensity of the
samurai class, from which it was nor
an easy affair to free them after the
advent of the western civilization
awakened the benighted land of the
Rising Sun.
In this enlightened age Of Meiji,
however this practice has been go
ing to learn that it has again come
into use in the war with Russia.
Last year Prof Ukida of Waseda
university of Toxic, who is a graduate
OF Yale, delivered an address in an
educational gathering held in Toxic.
in which he referred to the practice
Of harakiri. He said in part:
a soldier may die in the battlefield
for the sake of duty, not for the sake
of personal honor. He shall not com
init harakiri just because he has no
means of defense against his enemy.
Should he be taken prisoner by the
enemy he will do well to console him.
self with the idea that he is sent
10 the enemy's country as student,
10 be of further service in future to
his country
His reasons were right If his utter
ances were not judiciously made. Yet
he has been denounced as a traitor by
Mai Gen. Sato who based his argu-
ments upon the sentiment that the
japanese soldiers die in the battlefield
not for the sake of honor; that it is
for the Russians, not for the Japan.
csc, to die for duty: that by commit
ting harakiri rather than surrendering
to the Russians have the Japanese
been enabled to win the victory; and
that Prof Ukida's address would have
a tendency to detract from the pa
triotic fervor of the Japanese soldiers.
All the press of Japan made COM
ments upon the controversy. saying
that what Prof. Ukida termed duty
was exactly the same as what Maj
Gen. Sato termed honor in the essen
tial points.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
Dogs DAY IS OVER.
At LEAST SO THINKS CINE WEARY
PILGRIM.
Writing in Tribuiation and Sorrow He
Rscourts His Sufferings and
Consigns the Whole
Race to Perdton.

q nave come to tn conclusion" said
the weary pilgrim, who was in a
shocking humor, tibet this world
would worry along some how if they
wan Z no dogs. Course, long ago they
had their uses, though l amt never
had no use fer EN-.
The monks Of Saint Bernard KEEP
lot OF big dogs one time an named
tn place in honor OF tn beasts. An
the monks would send them out on
bad nights an try to lose them, but
anus some tourist nd find tn stray
an Jug MIN back home. Each dog
carried a little barrel of booze on his
collar an in that way made himself
poplar with total strangers. Them
DAYS sir past now. They have moved
tn Swiss Tyrol to tn Chicago amuse
ment parks. So tn dogs, bein' out of
a job, air no more use TO nobody.
"Oh, yes ] slus hev a dog about
But from greetin him with shoe leath
er an profanity every time he make a
plumb fool OF hisself I'm wore to a
shadder An every time ] am be-
Teaveo OF a dog by some blame dog
thief j VOW won't never hev another.
But it never amt very long till some
one else sticks me fer thoroughbred
pointer with a pedigree made on tn
spur o IN moment.
= brought one home tn other night
ana put MIN in 8 nice box of straw.
He waited till ] was abed and then
he set up tn worst lament you ever
heard. ] went down an shut him in
IN barn. Three minutes later ] put
him in tn henhouse. No good. He
was back under tn winder recitin tn
works OF Edgar Aallan Poe as per
several times previous. Then ! went
down an turned washtub over tibet
pup an set on it, lit pipe an
held down. thet wailin' monster fer
three hours. Then tn oil woman
stuck her head outer tn winder an
said she hated to butt in an of course
was a-doin' TN best thet could be did,
but how would If do to tie tn dog in
the clubhouse? Tie him up! Shucks!
l never thought of that. Il worked
me
They say q dog is mans best
friend Thets all right. but you never
kin tell which man. ] he'd a large
freckled kyoodle once tibet would run
IN grocer boy of tn place. chase tn
new minister up q apple tree, scare
I'll wash lady into -gallopin' conniption
fits an then escort frowzy tramp up
to a. house a.waggin' his tail plumb
I'D 70 his ears. got sore ct tibet dog
when he halted me one night an jus
wouldn't let me come anigh tn house.
] got an armful of paving stones an
he'd bust two holes in tn kitchen wall
wen ! discovered in tn most natural
way in tn world tibet tn dog was be-
hind me chawin' my leg. An only
thet mornin' the brute he'd let bill
collector walk right into tn house.
Yes. sir, III dog hes outlived his
usefulness. All dogs has, from III
bow-legged bulldog TO tn monkey
faced pug. Doggone the doggone
Gogs,"-G. A. Thompson, in Chicago
Daily News.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
Overcame All Obstacles,

At 10 years of age Keir Hardie, the
well-known labor member Of the Brit.
ish parliament. could neither read nor
write snd the only kind of schooline
ne received was a rough drilling i'm
he elements of reading which he OBJ
aimed by studying books and notices
in shop windows. Writing and short.
hand Mr.. Hardie taught himself. prac
icing the latter in the coal mine with
he Aid OF white stone blackened
with smoke from his pit lamp and
used as q tablet upon which he
scratched the symbols with pin At
>, he left the pits and became score.
tary Of miners union and two years
later he obtained a position as sub.
editor Of local Newspaper At Cum.
mock. the town in which his present
home 10 situated.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
McNinIeY's ThouQhtfuInes SIS.

1t was a blistering hot day on the
sands of Camp Montauk in 1898. Four
teen thousand weak, sick or wounded
soldier boys sweltered under their
tents
Down at the army depot the Sec
ond cavalry had received President
Mckinley and Secretary of War Al
ger with a great flourish of trumpets
and salute of swords.
Cannon were booming the presi-
dents salute and transports in the
narbor waving their. flags. The presi-
dent had called these $4,000 men and
boys together to defend the nation.
He might have been swelled with
pride over the honors being paid to
am.
His carriage moved slowly through
the deep and hot sand. The tender
ness in his nature came to the surface
as he leaned forward and asked Secre-
tary Alser:
Have the boys plenty of water?"
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
First Universal lanuuace.

One OF the earliest and most conf
dent attempts to establish a universal
language on the lines OF the modern
Esperanto was that of Sir Thomas
Urquhart, who in 1853 issued his in
PRODUCTION to universal language
which for variety of diction in each
part Of speech surmounteth all the
languages OF the world" An expectant
public was hidden to look out for sub
sequent volumes, but they never ar.
rived Bishop wilkins. who fiourished
about the same period. had his own
ideas about universal language but
they did not materialize. He was an
optimist of the first degree and was
firmly convinced that it would be pos
sible to communicate with the moon
by means Of flying machines.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
SAVED By sRoTHER.lh.LAw.
Nervous Man Escaped Ordeal That
He Dreaded.

Mr.. Band his brother-in-law are
both members Of a certain Evangeli-
cal church in city where the weekly
prayer meeting forms an important
feature. Mr.. b.. while regular in his
attendance at the church services on
Sunday, has seldom been present at
the prayer meeting through fear lest,
according to the prevalent custom, he
may be called upon either to- pray or
give testimony" He is bashfsl
man. and such an ordeal has extreme
terror for him
But one evening recently he yield
ed to his brotherinlaw's persuasion
and formed one OF the congregation
at the midweek service.
After two or three others had been
called upon and responded. the search
ing eye of the pastor lighted upon Mr.
r.. Beaming with approval. and
feeling. apparently. that public recos-
the infrequent visitor, he announced:
And now Brother B. will PLEASE
lead MS in prayer
The unhappy victim wss thunder
struck. Exactly what he had always
feared had happened. lie was fairly
paralyzed with fright. and he knew
that even should he open his lips he
would not be able to utter a sound.
But what escape was there? The
congregation had already devoutl,
bowed their heads waiting for him to
begin. The delay had become notice
able. and Mr.. BIS torture grew ms-
mentarily when sudden relief came in
an unexpected form. His brother ir-
law, who is somewhat deaf. nudgee
MIN gently. and inquired in an anx-
ious whisper:
What is the matter. John. did he
call upon me to pray?"
Certainly, Sam" shamelessly re-
sponded the other, with ready pres
ence of mind. He called on you."
The difficulty was solved. Praying
and speaking al the meetings were
familiar to the brother-in-law. and he
took up the task which had been laid
upon Mr. B.. The latter breathed
freely again, like a man who had es
capped a great danger. Some members
OF the congregation looked surprised.
but a look of comprehension passed
over the face Of the minister, and Mr.
b believes that, should he have
courage to attend again. he would
he passed over as silent participant.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-11-13
Errors of Lawmakers.

Some absurd clauses have found
their way into certain acts of the
British parliament One statute en-
acted punishment of IA years trans
portation for a certain offense, "and
upon conviction one-half thereof
should go to the king, and the other
half to the informer." Then there is
an act of parliament for the rebuild
ing of Chelmsford prison which stipu-
lated in one clause that the prisoners
should be confined in the old prison
until the new one was built and in
another-an amending-clause, that
the new prison should be constructed
out of the material of the old one.