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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21

M ARITAL unrest is neither an on
4sA spring of the new woman nor the
evil outgrowth of freer and juster di-
vorce laws, declares Dr. Clarke
Houghton- 1t is as old as the world
To charge it up to the conscience of
the new woman" is neither fair mind
ed nor rational. The Old Testament
reeks with it, and the biographers of
our great warriors, statesmen. poets
and prophets all the way down the
ages from Earle or G6rky Of the pres
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21
Kills Big Golden Eagle.

After attempting almost daily to get
a shot at the birds, c. o. Bates, living
five miles north of Mentor, shot and
killed at least one of the two golden
eagles that have been lowering about
his farm At the time he fired 1t was
quite dark and Bates was barely able
to distinguish the birds as they sat
within a yard of each other. Mr.
Bates is quite sure that the other bird
was injured The weight of the bird
allied is eight and half pounds. Mr.
Bates is authority for the statement
that eagles are more plentiful now
than they have been for years Sew
eral specimens of this kind of eagle
have been seen. They are called
golden eagles because of the yellow
marking about the wings. The claw
of the bird is as large as mans hand
and when Mr.. Bates, who is six feet
tall, holds the tip of one wing as high
in the air as possible the tip of the
other wing barely clears the ground.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21

the place assigned to you by nature,
be mans helpmeet and all will be
WE'LL
Has higher education made woman
dissatisfied with the domestic sphere?
Or is it that the nigh tension of
modern everyday business life has
prevented the husband from giving
his wife the romantic attentions and
caresses demanded by her nature?
Modern Man Too Busy.
1t is not uncommon for the wives
of business men to spend summer in
Europe and winter in the south, and
many times they find in these places
the romantic companionship and at
tention their own husbands had not
time to give them at home.
Like birds in gilded cage they
were treated, their husbands sending
them packages of lace and bundles of
silks, and bringing them home hand
fuls of jewels, but if they ever sus-
pected their wives need of romance
and tenderness they were unable to
supply it, because of the demands on
their time by their many business in
terests.
for picking, preserving, dyeing and
cleaning have left the twentieth cen
fury woman with vast leisure on
her hands, and has her lack of domes-
tic occupations and cares made her
dissatisfied and hypercritical of her
busy and worried husband?
And does she brood over his cold
ness" all day because in his haste to
keep some business engagement he
hurries forth without the morning
kiss?
Other Reasons Given.
Or is it that young couples look at
marriage too childishly and do not see
the economic, sociological and political
sides of the family? Do they not
realize it's integral relation to the
state?
Do they consider it as a personal
thing, and does their dull sense of the
sociological aspect of marriage dull
them to the sociological aspect of di-
vorce?
Or are marriages too lightly entered
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21
Gets a Gould Scholarship.

New York university has announced
the awarding of two scholarships es-
tablished by Helen Miller Gould in
memory of her father, Jay Could The
first, known as the Jay Gould South
western scholarship open to students
living on Gould railroad lines in the
Southwest, was given to Harry Mowen
of Fort Smith, Ark Claude E. Pal
mer, of Osawatomie, won the second.
which is open to residents along the
Gould lines in the West and is known
as the Jay Gould Western scholarship.
Both scholarships pay $270 annually
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21
WHY?

TITHIN the last 20 years
MYRSH there have been 100000
kGWNN divorces in the United
HA4AE States. These figures are
~ supplied by the census bu-
~ reau at Washington, which
is still at work preparing the complete
and official report.
This is an increase of 1000, 900 in
the last 20 years over the 20 preced-
ing years, and the appalling part of
it is that two-thirds, or nearly 100000,
of these divorces have been granted
says the New York Sunday Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21

WHAT we need is a doctrine OF
w marriage. There is no clear
cut doctrine of marriage. The church
is tied up to the ethics of 1000 years
ago, the oriental fantasies of Paul.
"The old idea of marriage was in
cuIcated and secured through two
fundamental NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. to
parents and the understanding that
marriage was to be permanent. These
principles are both fmperiled," is the
idea of DR.. Felix Adler.
Under present conditions they are
no longer tenable, for the first was
founded on the idea that the child had
no rights except through its parents.
It's position was one of the sub
servience, of unquestioned obedience
to the parents, and as regards the per-
manence of the marriage tie, it was
chiefly bond that tied the woman to
the man. Her position was one of
subordination.
To-day we admit that the child has
rights which we are bound to respect
and that the woman is the equal of
the man.
Zone trouble with modern marriage
is that the masculine element pre-
dominates in the ceremonial. This
should not be so. The great trouble
is that people who marry nowadays
look in marriage only for happiness.
Happiness is not the end of marriage,
as most people think, but only an in
cident of married life. They are
bound to find many trials. They should
respect the etchicsl ideals; their great
responsibility is to future generations,
| the good of the race!
Under the multiplication of di
vorces in this country the issue is
whether the sensuous nature of the
marriage contract is to prevail OF
| whether the spiritual is to FREEDOM
| mate. I believe in separation. but
| never in divorce"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21

I AM a minister of the gospel. I be-
Heve in the Bible. 1t is regrettable
that there are SO many different state
laws governing divorce, and I feel
sorry for the children of all these di-
vorced people, says Rev. Phoebe A.
Hanaford.
No, it is not the fault of the new
woman There is no new woman"
A woman is a woman. There aNa good
women and bad women, but no new
women
There are too many hasty mar
riages. This should be looked after.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21


investigation it had to leave out near
ly 100000 cases which were pending,
and of the 1900 Investigators. clerks,
ETC., employed in the bureau in the
preparation of this report 40 are still
at work getting 1t in it's final and COM
plete shape.
France has only 70 divorce courts,
Germany only %, England only one,
and the United States has 1921 courts
empowered to grant divorces. These
facts alone are sufficient to give the
thinker pause and ask What is the
remedy?"
anew Woman" Blamed.
Writers who defend the conven-
tonal and domestic" type of woman
put all the blame on the new wom-
an" They say she has lett her legiti-
mate sphere-the home-that she no
longer loves or inspires love, and that,
in defiance of all history and her own
apparent destiny, refuses to consider
marriage and motherhood the object
of her existence.
They urge she has abandoned the
hearthstone to become a writer, an
artist, a playwright, an actress, a
teacher, or whatnot, and during the
period in which she has gained her
rights" 0he last 20 years. the mar
rfage institution has been assailed on
all sides.
Is it the new woman's" fault?
The new woman" differs from her
sister in this respect at 1east-she
has no f1attery for "the tyrant man.
She turns right around and places all
the blame for the marital unrest on
his shoulders.
Man does not understand our com
pick nature" she says, and while he
considers marriage as only one stage
of his own mental and spiritual devel-
opment, he insists that we shall con-
slider it the only excuse for our ex-
fstence.
Calls Contentious Unfair.
This is unfair" she continues.
I'VE are not to be classed with our
domestic sisters. We pity them but
we are not of them. We have aims,
aspirations and ambitions the same as
men, and to attempt to force US into
domesticity is to suffocate u.s. We
object to being called undutiful help
meets because we are not submissive
to our husbands misconception and
misunderstanding of u.s.
But" the defenders of the conven-
tional type of woman reply, You can
not accomplish anything great in lit
erature, science or religion, and you
never have produced works of great
and universal genius. The most you
can do is to make your own bread and
butter Your trivial creations in art
and literature can be spared, AID it is
your intellectual discomfort and un
rest that is spreading the divorce
germ. which threatens soon to de
velop into a divorce epidemic Take
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21
Counties Paw in Advance.

Twelve counties have not only paid
into the state treasury all that is due
from them as taxes, but have made
payments in advance. They are: Cow
ley, Crawford, Grant, Greeley, Phillips,
Rawlins, Rocks, Sherman, Smith,
station, Wabaunsee and Wichita
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21

Husked 141 Bushels of Corn in Day.
For champion cornhusker of the
state, Gus W. Bruno" That is the
ticket some of Mr.. Bru>e's friends are
thinking of putting out shortly. Mr.
Bruno is but 20 years old He is a
son of County Commissioner G. H.
Bruno, of Douglas county One day
recently he entered his fathers corn
field and husked corn for a little less
than 10 hours. The corn was
weighed, and the scales showed that.
in the time mentioned, he husked 141
bushels of corn
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21

preacher, when marrying couples, Inn
press upon them the sociological as
pect of their union, as well as the
spiritual and romantic?
From Various Views.
The different churches have diff
ferent beliefs concerning marriage,
the different states have different
laws governing 1t, and they are both
content to rest their case there!
Thus the greatest sociological prob
lem in the United States to-day is be
ing tossed back and forth as If it
were some rubber ball, and yet
/ 100000 divorces in 20 years are sure
to leave their influence on many lives
and many families.
Back in 1748 Mime. de Chateauroux
said: Il see plainly that there will be
a general overthrow if no remedy is
used"
What she said about the political
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21
A Mounted Telephone.

An ingenious device by which the
horse is made a part of an electrical
circuit, has been reported to the war
department by Lieut.. A. c. Knowles,
Thirteenth infantry, at Fort Leaven-
worth, who has been making tests in
tended to permit Geographic and
telephone communications between
mounted operators. This will permit
the mounted operator to transmit
messages to his base whenever nee
essary without stopping his horse and
is accomplished by placing a small
piece of copper (proper1y connected
to the telegraph or telephone instru-
ment) against the animals body, thus
completing ground connection
through the horses hoofs. The tests
were made over all kinds of ground
and conversation was carried on with
out difficulty between the two oper-
ators separated by five miles of wire,
the horses standing in the grass.
Now a Democratic Paper.
A deal has been contaminated
whereby the Coffeyville Record goes
into a new management and A. 8.
Koonce, of Cherryvale will be editor
in-chief. The new management, it is
understood, is headed by w. p. Brown
and associated with him are a num-
Der of other prominent democrats of
Coneyville. 1t is proposed to make
the paper a straightout democratic
sheet Arrangements have been made
for the purchase and installation of an
other linotype machine, a new per-
fecting press and other needed equip
ment- 1t is said plans have already
been submitted to contractors for a
new building designed exclusively for
newspaper Office. The structure
will be 50x75 feet and two stories
high.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-21
Latest Kansas Events.


f. ". Kander, general attorney for
the breweries of st. Louis, Milwaukee
and Kansas City, called upon DR.. 8.
J. Crumbine. and notified him that
the brewers had decided to comply
with the boards requirement and
print on every bottle of beer sent
into the st.te the amount of alcohol
contained in the beer. This meant
that in the future there will be no
chance to dispute in the courts as to
whether beer is really beer or not
For time the brewers objected seri-
ously to printing the alcoholic con-
tent on their beer bottles, though
they submitted to the order that they
should print the information on their
chop ale'' and similar non-intoxicants
"There is only one way" DIR. Crum-
bine informed them, "to sell beer
legally in Kansas, and that is by a
licensed druggist, who must sell it
only as a remedy for some disease
Sold in this way, beer ceased to be a
beverage, and is a medicine. and the
law requires that all medicine con
tanning alcohol must show on the
label the amount of alcohol"
Chickens Were Expensive.
A certain fellow who had an &C
count in the Elmo bank was terribly
frightened when the panic came on
and demanded his money. After much
insisting he got his money in a big
roll with a rubber aground it, and put
it in his pocket. A few days after
a certain woman went out one morn
ing to let her chickens out and there
were no chickens. She went into the
chicken house to see if there was
any clue that might lead to the dis
covery of the thief and found big
roll of bills with a rubber around it
She counted it and it tailed with the
amount the certain man had drawn
from the Elmo bank, being severa
hundred dollars. Soon after a neigh
Dor with coops on his wagon came
along paying big prices for chickens
and wanted to buy some from this
woman, who informed him that she
had sold hers the night before. He
insisted on examining the chicken
house to see if any chickens were
left, and was very careful to examine
the floor closely.
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-02-23
The CarriCk Theatre

Wilmington's Only Modern Pay
house and Resi- Entertainment
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-02-23

Sclt-Contrul-thc figure grows grand
IN It's pruportiuus-lct now the divine
quality Oi Sclt-nacritlCc Tor great
cause illuminate it, We have seen the
white marble brcathc--nnw let 1t same.
We forget, maybe, that Washington
lei, the thing, that are dear to a man
vie, home, friends, case, cnl"ymcnt
tire large interests OF wealthy land
holder, the hearty pleasures o! II
gnla pruprictor-thatW Washington lett
all these to lead what looked like
"iurlorn cause" No tlattcrinG temp
tation lured him on--no vautlng ambl-
lion inspired him. When the final VIC
tory y as won, when the colonies were
free. but no government was formed.
when grateful people and devoted
sodiery we've hailing him as Father,
when in that hour-the hour OF an
open way for the conqueror's will
llcn sroke to him OF a monarchy with
him. eli as its head, his sensitive soul
started as ii serpent had stung HIM.
For this he had not come into the
world Il conflict. He had lett Mt
Vernon for Valley Forge, his own
bright hrcs;Gc Tor cold nights and dark
days-'"hat a great people might be
Tree"
In the battle OF Yorktown, one OF
his aides, anxious for his safety, told
Kim the place where he stood was peril
Gus. IF you think so you are at lib
crtv to .tcr back" 1t was not simply
that he was not airaid-that the old
i.ghting spirit was unchained-nO that
merely He was absorbed i'll the
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-02-23

talking about the tortoise and the hare
i am saving that " ash n-tnu had that
supreme qLdiitv OF living which, i'll
the languag c ct him who had it suprc-
mciy himself says Il count not my lie
work wht,cunto | am sent, This
does not idcali2c the man and put him
beyond our reach When he was at
Ipswich il 1879 the Rev. Mr.. Cleve-
land approached him, hat i'll hand.
Washington said, put on your hat,
parson, aud | will shake hands With
YOU u cannot wear my hat i'll your
presence, General, when think OF
wha, YOU have done for this country,
You did as much as |" mo. no.,
prot tied the parson. YES, you did
what you could and | have done no
more. No man can do more than his
best he 2ho does less is none
And now. kind reader, cannot
close this imperfect sketch. | cannot
let this figure Jade, until We have seen
the man standing in rcvercnt faith be
fore his God Much good breath has
locn wasted i'll wrangllng over Wash
ington's religious opinions, or indeed
As to whether he had any.
Let his own letters set that question
at rest. Seli-control he acquired; self
reliance was stron gtrat; Seli-suttl-
, c;cncy appears nowhere
When William OF Orange under
| took the restoration OF the ancient lib
critics OF the Netherand provinces he
said BE assured that before | enter
ed Upon this undertaking | entered into
TIE closest alliance with God" a man
reads Washington's public life very
strangely or specifically who does not
frd that alliance through and through
i. When the Boston Port Bill signals
the c-ming conflict, Washington fasts
and prays; when the French fleet ar
rives with its sorely needed supplies we
find him writing to General Nelson
The hand OF Providence is so auspi-
cious in all this that he must be worse
than an nhdcl who lacks faith and
more than wicked who has not graft
tude to acknowledge his obligation"
When the dark days OF Valley Forge
are come, the distressed soldiers find
their General, in the night and deep
shadows of the woods, praying.
In his h-st inaugural address Il says
Il have lived a long time and the lon
ger | live the more convincing proofs
sec of this truth that God governs in
the affairs on men. And if sparrow
cannot fall to the ground without his
notice. IS IT probable an empire can
rise without his add"
In III" Farewell Address he says, "Of
all the d;SrC sitions and habits which
lead to political prosperity, Religion
ard Morality are Indispensable sup
rorts; reason and experience forbid us
to expect that national morality can
prevail in exclusion of religious prin-
cire."
The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1907-02-23
L E6SONS
FROM THE LIFE OF
WASHINGTON
BY f-RAHN {. WILLIAMS

On the 9th day OF ichruaIE' '"'o'
Trelanl AID France paused in their
fe-cc contest to pay their tribute OF
rc.oect to al American citizen who
had lust d ed at Mt Vernon. 1t is not
str7arc that a great silence OF grief
fell uoon The hearts Of the American
pcar,c when they heard that Washing
ton wa, dead. Eut when Foreign Ma
items hush their conflicts III the pres
ence Of that death We may well Under
stand that prince and a great man
has fallen" from amongst the sons OF
men.
1t has become rather fashionable in
this day, which is nothing ii not cy-
nical,-to smile at the phrase that used
TO fall from American lips with CRATE
full reverence. To speak OF the IA
Their OF his Country" to ears polite IS
little like appearing in good society
with an "oId drap coat all buttoncd
down before" But 'woc to the people
that have no sacred memories and no
sacred heroes"
And so venture to call your attcn-
tion to some lessons from the lie OF
him whose name is still above evry
name in the RON oi American citizen
ship.
When Waiter Scott was dying-the
great Sir Waltcr-thc famous novelist,
the peoples ido'-thc man who when
he went from Eng!aud's shores went
(savs Wordsworth Followed BY the
might OF the whole worlds good
.;rI,or" ,,hr, Waiter Scott was DIV
ing. he turned to his friend lockhart
and said, "Lockhart. be a good man.
It was the great mans legacy t" other
men. We can't all be great: We can All
be good. The lessons OF lille, Tor most
of us, must lie on this latter plane.
Genius is not imitablc; virtue sand
so I ask YOU to see, not the genius Il
Washington. but his manhood. The
critics have come to differ 2hont h.
genius-it does not concern orr pre-
ent purpose. | have no wi,h noN g..
prove or disrrovc his right to be call
ed FIRST in war'-it is not the soldier
! would have Us see; or his right to be
called FIRST in pcacc"-it is not the
Statesman | would set before YOU. In
his late history OF the American pco-
pie, Mr. MacMaStcr SAYS, General
Washington is known to It's, and Presi-
dent Washington. But George WASH
ngton is an unknown man"
Legend aud myth have been busy
here, as everywhere, with the great
ones OF earth and in their Jealous Ell
forts to BEDFCk have only BUR
led their hero beneath artificial flow
els.
We begin with tic apocryphal story
~ tho Cbrrry and ,tll with thr
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-08-07

Mr.. and Mrs. Joe MOuton will
leave Thursday for Hot Springs,
Ark, where they will spend
about a month.
Ring up Ramsey & Upton for
corn, oats, hay, chops, bran and
stafolife feed.
Mr.. and Mrs. Crow Girard
and Miss Maxim Beraud will
leave to-day for Hot Springs,
Ark, to be gone several months.
We offer. you as inducements
for your trade, fresh groceries
at the lowest prices consistent
with quality, and prompt SER
vice-Bernard & Meaux
Milton Cushman, of Abbeville,
is spending a week with his aunt,
Mrs. Pharr.
Miss Rena Hopkins left Mon
day for New iberia to spend a
few days with Miss Julia Nc
Mahon.
We don't want to carry
over any summer clothing,
and we give you the op-
portunity to buy wellmade
garments at strictly cost
Kahn's.
DR.. and Mrs. J.. A. Martin
were in New Orleans a few days
this week.
Mrs. Bechet, of Carencro
spent several hours in towr
Monday.
Harold Demanade went t.
New Orleans Monday to spend
few days.
Mr.. Vestus Jones, of Green
vile, Texas, is visiting his sis
ter Mrs. o. B. Hopkins.
Mrs. Raoul Jeanmard and chill
dren are enjoying a visit II
Thibodeaux with relatives.
Mrs. A. G. Kennedy returned
to her home in Lufkin. Texas
Wednesday accompanied by Mis-
Alice Mckinney, of New Or
leans
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1907-08-07
Wednesday. Aug. Z. 1907.
Personals.

F. v. Mouton. assistant
cashier of the First National
Bank, and F. E. Davis, manager
of the Moss Pharmacy, left
Thursday for a weeks outing at
Cote Blanche on Vermilion Bay.
Visiting cards two dozen for
thirty-fve cents, fifty for fifty
five cents. one hundred for seven
ty-tve cents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Felix Martin
and children, of Carencro, were
in Lafayette Thursday.
Our phone number is 81 and
we sell good groceries and our
prices are as low as the lowest.
Ring US up when you need any
thing in our line. Robt. McFad
din.
George E. Brown, of Caren.
Gro, was in Lafayette Thursday.
If you want to take a pleasant
these summer afternoons.
q Ma team from Clausen.
f. and Mrs. Maurice Patin,
4feaux Bridge were in town
sday.
tman's Ideal Fountain
ranted to be the best
9 market. at the Moss
~ Be- and and Lucy
No. bn, Wright returned
Sunday visit to Belleview
/. Gillette's safety razor blades
at the Moss Pharmacy.
The Falk Mercantile Co. arr
prepared TO take charge o
funerals and attend to all grave
ward work. A fine rubber-tiret
hearse in stock.
Six cakes of good toilet soal
for Is cents. We guarantee
this to equal to any 10 cent soal
on the market-Moss Pharmacy
Miss A Duhon, after q pleas
ant visit in Youngsville. return
ed home Saturday.