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Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

for Grant county. Surprise and Cincin-
natl were soon out of their misery. OF
the former, a big sc~hoolhouse still
stands on the prairie some seven miles
northwest of Ulysses. The last house
left on the Cincinnati townsite also
was a big schoolhouse. 1t was bought
-cheap-by a Ulysses man. He hauled
1t to his ranch and made it into a barn.
Then came the long years of soil
tude and desolation. Hard times and
free land openings sent the people out
by the hundred. From having nor
than 1000 residents Ulysses came to
have just an even dozen of forlorn
souls, who couldn't get away.
But finally things began to look up.
What few men couldn't get away be-
gan to raise cattle, and the old town
put on some airs. Two saloons and a
poker game fiourished. Cowboys,
mostly homegrown, shot up the town
quite regularly. 1t was really interest
ing. Then came the second rush Of
new settlers, farmers, This time they
we're the real thing" Most of them
came from Just a little farther east in
Kansas, where they had grown up and
learned to live In this sort of a coun-
try. They did not get discouraged at
the first hint Of dry weather.
Judge Hutchinson enjoined the two
saloons and closed the poker game.
Public sentiment banned the six
shooter, and the reign Of Law had at
last been set up on the Cimarron.
Prosperity settled upon Ulysses, and
the town proudly boosted of nearly 100
souls, counting the Blake family with
It's IL children, and Mcmillan, the mail
carrier, with his ten. Jap" Elwood
was induced to move into town with
his seven boys and two girls, and the
hundred mark was passed. Then Nc.
MILAN moved to Hartland, Blake sent
most of his children off to college.
Jap" Elwood moved back to the river
and solitude settled over Ulysses.
The residents decided that in this
depression was a proper time to move
the town. In their pride they had re.
vived the city government, that had
lain dormant for is years or more
Michael Wilson was elected mayor,
Samuel Alexander police judge and a
council headed by Eli Henthorn had
been chosen. A crop of lawsuits was
the immediate result.
Twenty years of hardship had made
these people almost as canny as YOU
true Scot. In fact, the mayor is q
Scotch Irishman. They determined tc
move the town. Negotiations were be
gun with a nearby ranchman to >pur
chase a quarter of land for a TOWNSHIP
For awhile the residents were stag
gered at finding they would have tc
pay $12 an acre for land that a few
years ago was not worth Its taxes. But
they buckled up and bought the LAND
and moved out from under the ole
bonds.
The town was taken clear outside
the original school district, And while
at it, they improved the location Of
their town. From a rough part of the
North Fork bottom, with Its alkal
water, it was taken to a smooth, leve
piece of upland, where the wells fur
nish plenty Of pure, soft water.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

Mr.. William A. Radford VIII answer
questions and give advice FREE OF
COST on all subjects pertaining TO the
subject of building for the readers OF this
paper. On account OF his wide expe-
rience as Editor. Author and Manufnc-
turer, he is, without doubt, the highest
authority on all these subjects. Address
all Inquiries to William A. Radford, No.
1874 Fifth Ave, Chicago. III, and only
enclose two-cent stamp for reply.
This is a good house to build in the
country or village where you have
plenty of room. 1t is 80 feet wide
through the middle and 1t is "A feet
long, without counting the front YER
anda.
The veranda is not very wide, but
1t makes up in length, as It reaches
nearly half way around the house, but
1t is needed for good looks, and it is
needed to make an outside connection
between the three front entrances to
the house, the front hall, sitting-room
and dining-room, as it is usually built
in the country.
The three entrances, while not abso-
lutely necessary, are very convenient
when you have a mixed line of call
ers, as you generally do have in coun-
try places, grading all the way from
wealthy society leaders to hobos. Then
1t often happens that sidewalks are
scarce, and a good deal of mud is
tracked into the house unless you
have a good, long covered walk where
1t may be shaken OF. Until a woman
has profited by a long veranda she
never knows how to appreciate one,
Besides its architectural effect and
its utility, such a veranda offers a
splendid hanging for climbing vines
where they will show to the best adj
vantage. Large country houses with
out climbers lack proper finish. You
have often noticed country homes that
look bare and uninviting, yet they are
finished, according to the carpenters
idea OF finish. You pass such a house
quickly, but you drive slowly in front
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
A Poor nollar,s Worth.

I'm inclined to believe in fortune
tellers," said the little grass widow,
"and would IL 1t hadn't been for n |
saw up in Sixth avenue. I gave her a
dollar and she began to tell me what
a fine husband had and how happily
| was married, and what good foi tune
was coming to me.
"But It isn't true | interrupted
her. 1 have a husband, but he is In
England and | am here, and he never
has supported me, and ! eve expect
to live with him again. Never want
to- All those ibs she was telling me
and my dollar gone!
"'Give me another dollar?" she said,
and I'll tell you some more
"But not for me. What did she take
me for?"-New York Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
sneotacles for Horses.

The business Of one w~ell-known firm
of opticians in England consists
largely in the manufacture Of horse
spectacles. The object Of the spec
tacles is to promote high stepping.
They are made of stir leather, entirely
closing the eyes of the horse and the
glasses used are deep concave and
large in size. The ground seems to
the horse to be raised and he steps
high, thinking he is going uphill or has
to step oyer some obstacle. This sys-
tenn Of spectacle is generally adopted
while the horse is young. and its effect
on his step and action is said to be
remarkable. It has been discovered
that the cause of a horses shying is
as a rule short sight. and 1t is now
suggested that the sight of all horses
should be tested, like that of children.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Pirs, Floor Plan

land, but nature is good to us and
will assist graciously in covering up
the disagreoable scars that we are in
the habit Of making in our efforts to
carry out the dictates of modern civ
ilization.
There is a wonderful difference in
the appearance of a new house that
stands up boldly on a bare field and
stares at you as you pass by, and the
other house that some nature lover
has tucked away within the protecting
folds Of shrubbery. would rather
have a cheap house nicely set with
nroper surroundings than a snowy
house planted down on a building site
and left in the condition most new
houses are found in after the workmen
leave them.
OF course you must have house
enough to hang your decorations upon,
and to pay for its elaborate setting
Int the fact remains that the house
has less to do with its pleasing ap,
pearance than the taste, brains and
ambition Of the owner in dressing the
grounds.
When this house plan Is studied
from a utility side It will be noticed
that the kitchen, back stair, cellar
way, pantry and dining-room are al
closely related and intimately connect
ed with one another. This is wher'
the main part of the homework II
done. where the women rel the neei'
off their shoes and wear the moo
boards down to the tongue an'
grooye where the heat of the kitcnei
-ange should be dissipated as much a.
possible by having ample winao"s ~
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Sugar
Coated
Inn
morality
By REV. FATHER DUcEY.

more harm than its authors would very likely wish to be held account
able for
You ask me if | think we are in any way approaching such a set
of conditions a prevailed before the downfall Of Rome and Babylon
and ere responsible for those downfals. That is, of course, a very
hard proposition to go into, al well as a very dangerous one. However,
one thing seems to be certanv-the moral aspect of this country is not
a thing for us to be proud Oft is not at all a thing for delight If we
look at the disruption of family ties throughout the length and breadth
of the land and then study the government reports printed lately we
shall begin to realize just how far We have already gone on that road.
Statistics tell us that during the last 20 or rs years In the neighborhood
of 100000 divorces have been granted in this country, and that in
This notwithstanding to the population of the counry-it is said that
we far surpass all other nations. When the Sanctity of married life is
treated on all hands with such contempt it seems to me that we are
scarcely one degree removed from free love.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

ventilation, and where a woman may
step out easily through a screen door
into the side porch for a breath of
fresh air or an opportunity to sit down
while she prepares fruit or vegetables
for cooking.
The kitchen in this plan is not as
large as some women like, but | find
there is a growing change of senti.
ment in regard to large kitchens. A
great many women tell us they prefer
a smaller kitchen with plenty of pan
try DON and ~cupboards. because it
saves steps. There are more kitchens
In the city under IL feet than over;
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
A TOWN THAT MOVED
HOW KANSAS COUNTY SEAT GOT
RID OF OLD DEBTS.
Ulysses Taken Bodily About Three
Miles Across Prairie to New
slte-old Place Left to
Creditors.

Syracuse, Kan.-Western Kansas
has seen many things happen that
were out Of the usual. 1t has just had
the novel exhibition OF a city moving
bodily across the prairie, Ulysses,
county seat of Grant county, has
moved about three miles, out Of the
North Fork bottom. and also out from
under some hundred thousand dollars
Of debt.
In the palmy days Of the old county
seat fights, Ulysses, Cincinnati and
Surprise struggled for supremacy.
Each was determined to be county
seat and the metropolis of the south
west" 1t took votes to get the county
seat and 1t had not then been discov-
cred that votes do not require the
presence of voters in order to count.
Later the boomers of the west got onto
the ways Of their city brethren in the
east and found out that a fertile ina
gination was more precious than many
people, when it came to pIling up the
vote.
Anyhow, money was needed. Ulys-
SEES had a city organization, school dis
trict and control of a township. Scrip
and bonds were scattered like autumn
leaves in Kansas City. A market was
found for the scrip and for the bonds.
Word was passed that every man in
the county who voted right could have
his $40 bill. Nearly every man in the
county got 1t, too. The rest got more
More than 200 men called ~"boodlers'
by the bona fide residents yer set.
tied in an addition to Ulysses 80 days
before the election. These were a
floating crowd that followed the county
seat elections over the west, being pro
fessional voters. Ulysses won, and
was declared the seat of government
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

drama, will not give it hfe.F
The vital interests Of sAlay are and will always
remain elemental. TIE somneeSa sophisticated writer
he with the widest hFifeStiIys prfiSSo Of life, cannot write a
successful play wltho. A suSaaitsi ing to emotions una.
are primitive in us. si2 Main Summing over the oreI
list of successful writer4e Ssthesstage you may THINK
of some who are exceRsI y this rule But a close
ANALYSIS of their pieces will prove that, artfully con-
eealing art as they do, their appeal is made elemen-
tally just the same.
An inevitable subject-one that everybody is in
terested Unjust be the heart of a play, pumping
life all through it. Love is one universal
subject that all races Of all ages have agreed upon is
a theme for the theater. It is not the only one-but
the others that will occur as theatrical schemes for
successful exploitation are as universal and elemental.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
One Was Enough.

Henry, | am more than glad that
you don't drink now, but how did you
come to leave Off"
You remember the last time your
mother was here?"
yes"
We'll, one night while she was here
| came home in pretty bad shape and
saw three of her. That settled it,
Exchange.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

ern conveniences Of the present day
were not thought of at that time. Such
a thing as double doors between the
kitchen and diDing-room, or a pantry
that you could pass through with both
hands full and not have the kitchen
odors follow you is something that
the builders Of that time hadn't
thought about.
In some country places even yet the
kitchen is also used for a dining-room,
but not so much as formerly, for the
reason that t.e dining-room, pantry
and kitchen are in closer touch with
each other than ever before, and it is
not necessary to serve meals In the
kitchen. If it is done at all 1t is more
a matter of habit than necessity. A
person can accustom himself to
different ways of doing things, and
often profit by the change.
One very important feature of this
house is the cellar. When you live
in the country you want a good cellar
for storage, where you can keep eat
ables In quantity indefinitely until you
finally want them for use. A house
cellar on the farm is often used to
store potatoes in the fall for seed next
spring or to sell when the market i'm.
proves during the winter.
Since furnaces have become com
mon. house cellars are not usually SC
valuable, but they may be pa~rtitioned
off with brick or cement partitions
and one part of the cellar kept cold
for such purposes. When building :
house it costs but little more to make
a good, easy outside entrance. Where
the cellar is used for storage a mar
can't pass through the kitchen bach
and forth many times without getting
into trouble with the women folks.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

OF the next one that is embellished
with trees. shrubs, flowers and climb
ing vines. You are sure to find just
such contrasts along almost any coun-
try road.
A house may be old fashioned, and
possibly not in the very best state of
repair, but IL there is a good yard
planted to trees distributed to advan-
tage, with clumps Of s%hrubbery proper
ly placed, and a few climbing vines,
the house has the appearance of grow.
ing up of Its own accord among nat
ural surroundings.
Every n who builds a house
should remember that a building is
not natural to the site upon which 1t
is erected. Nature made no provision
for an artificial house on that side
hill or on that other piece Of table
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

ten or eleven is about the size gen
orally planned in a house containing
from three to four bedrooms, so that
the kitchen in this house is a com
promise in size between the small
kitchen of the city and the large, old
fashioned country kitchens that were
built 20 or 30 years ago.
II you will look into n OF those
large old-fashioned kitchens you will
find that the little ~cupboards and mod
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Same Old style Of Cooking.

Prof. Snaggs-Strange there's been
no improvement made in cooking in
the last 1000 years. Now, down at my
boarding house this morning | had a
steak broiled in the regular Pompeian
style.
Boggs-Pompeian style? How do
you mean?
Prof. Snaggs-Why. scorched to a
cinder on one side and covered with
ashes on the other.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

A play may be technically well written,
follow all the recognized rules of construc-
ton, tell an interesting story and by means
of excellently drawn and naturally devel-
oped characters and yet fail. l will tell
YOU why, in my judgment, it does SO.
n. Because, in spite Of all its good quail
ties, some of which | have enumerated, the
play lacks dramatic vitality. 1t has no
genuine theatrical interest.
The play is for the theater-frst, last
and all the time. Broaden the interests
of the stage as far as you will, they remain,
for. successful plays, extremely circumstan-
ave added, if they constitute the heart Of a
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
The RuIinn Shirt

$50 your daughter has broken off
her engagement. | thought you and
your wife were so pleased with the
match-that be was such a fine young
fellow"
$50 he is, but there was nothing
else to do. Our cook didn't like him"
baltimore American.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Business Reasons.

THAT ninth juror held out firmly
against acquitting the brain-frenzied
murderer, didn't he?"
Don't you know the ~reason?"
No; what was it?"
He belongs to a publishing firm of
legal books, and he wasn't going TO
indorse any unwritten law business"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
The WAY to MANAGE.

"Caustick has the reputation of be-
ing a great wit and I'm sure | can't
see where he ever got it."
That's eaEily told. He's so ma.
licious in everything he says that poo
pie are sure he must be witty"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

Books of fiction which are suggestive
of acts that are in violation of Gods moral
ity are certainly very harmful and very in
furious not only to youth-though per-
haps they affect them most-but also to
men and women.
What l am pleased to call sugar-coat-
ed immortality is always more insidious
than pronounced and unveneered grossness.
The latter by its very nature is apt to show
forth in its true light the Embellishments
of what it depicts, but the former by its
enticing method which says really nothing
while it suggests everything, is cause fol
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

Woman can only reason up to a certain
point, after which she "sees blind" or, in
other words, loses sight of the question at
issue.
If the perfect mind were appraised at,
say 100 points, and the average mind at so,
it would be found that the ratio of practi-
c~al-mindedness in these two figures would
be respectively 80 and as. With a woman
s%entimentality would take the place of prac-
tical-mindedness in similar ratios, the re,
suit being that, to an ordinary political OF
sociological or economic problem, a won-
an with a perfect feminine mind could
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Get Gid Of the Scrubs.

1t costs no more to support the well
bred animal than the scrub. As we'll
bred animal DO II either for milk or
beef vii , der better returns for tina
. cosAImed than the scrub.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Woman
Can
Not
Reason
By DR.. EDGAR HOFFMAN,
German Scientist.

bring to bear only ten per cent Of common sense, and an average woman
five per cent.-which looks bad for the longsufering suffragettes. When
women show more than usually acuminous intellect they are really not APP
plying either knowledge or experience, but are simply making "haphazald
shots by the machinery of intuition. And when a woman shows an enduring
and consistent intellectually it may be asserted positively that she is
a-sexual, or without the ordinary attributes of love that characterize
ordinarily constituted women.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
They All Do.

What kind Of a lunch did she serve
last night?'
Il thought It was all right but she
apologized TO-. it, just the same."-Ce-
troit Free Press.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

prove moral training in the state schools.
In the United States the churches are endeavoring to meet the need
chiefly by reform in the Sunday schools Many steps have been taken
toward the introduction of sound methods and of graded lessons. A
multitude Of organizations that aim at one or another social good are
contributing to the formation of a trained school conscience.
In the public schools there is much agitation but little capitalization
of sentiment into method. The movement for industrial education pre-
sents a new problem and a new opportunity. The motives for such edu-
cation are twofod; commercial and humanitarian. Both are valid, but
the moral effect will depend upon which has the prmacy in actual ad-
minisrahon. If industrial and commercial training be used chiefly to
extend and perfect the mechanism of factory and counting house; if the
production of mere things be its dominating motive, it will only increase
the present depression of human life by our economic organization
But if this new training be SO conducted as to humanlze industrial
relations and moralize commercial standards; if it shall help the young
to discover that an occupation is a moral vocation; if it shall increase
the free manhood Of the producer while it increases output, then it will
mark our greatest single advance in moral education.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Teach
Morals
International
Awakening as
to It's Need
By PROF. GEORGE A. COE.
Northwestern University. Evsnstcn. Ill.

EDUCATIONAL forces are in the midst of an international
moral awakening. What we confront may be either a grave
moral depression or a new stage in moral progress; in either
case a call has come to reconstruct all education with reference
to the moral requirements Of human society. The call has
been emphasized in this country by the National Educational
association and the Religious Educational association.
There is an almost worldwide move toward leaving spe-
cifc religious training in the hands of the family and of vol
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

why don't you capitalize that new
planet you have discovered snd put 1t
on the market?" said the amateur in
weston.
why, nobody could get to it to see
what is it like" answered the eminent
astronomer.
very true. But the consideration
hasn't prevented me from investing in
all sorts of mining and land projects"
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Enotlsm Of Mankind.

we hardly find any person Of good
sense, save those who agree with us,
La Rochefoucauld.
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01

Sl.oo per Year in Advs
Mexico weekly ledger., 1909-04-01
Why
Some
Plays
Fail
By DANIEL FR0HAAN.

tial. The new interests you
drama, will not give it life.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
7 HE MARKET I S


Chicago. July 14.-Clear weather in
the harvest belt in this country
caused slump in the wheat mar
ket yesterday bur an the loss was
regained on covering hy shorts. The
close being firm with prices up DE-
to 1-2c. compared aith Monday =
final figures. Corn and provisions
also closed firm. but oats were weak
Trading in the wheat pit was dull
and a heav tone prevailed the great
er part of the day bur On the final
half hour considerable activity de-
veloped on buying by shorts which
resulted in prices advancing from
rs 70 3-Sc from The low point OF
.he session During the cav the July
lelivery sold between 81 Is 3-4 90
S1.21. The market closed almCst az
he top, with July al the best mark.
10 rain was reported in the Wesi or
Southwest with the t-vA, p',on of a
few light showers in Northern Mis-
,ouri Firmness OF cash wheat at
Ianses Cit and ST. Louis due to
mall arrivals helped to create some
bullish sentiment late i'm the day
Corr was weak he FIRST haf Of .ro
day The close, however, was firm
with prices unchanged 10 higher com
jared with the previous close.
The eats market was weak the en-
IRE dav Al the close prices were
8 70 7-Sc below Mondays final quo
tations
Provisions developed moderate
irmness AZ the close prices were
'nchanged 10 II 1-2c higher.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1909-07-14
COTTON.

New Orleans, July l4-Cotton
pots Yesterday steady with prices
nchanged. Middling 129-1Gc: sales
% spot ana 40j TO arrive
Futures opened steady 6 10 4
'olnIs above the close yesterda
.osses In the afternoon more man
.iped out the early gains. but new
ligh levels for the season, rhich are
'ow scored almost every day. were
lgan In evidence and the bullisb
cpe for thirteen cent cotton was nj
lst realized. The March option was
one time up to 1901. the hipb
alter mark of the day. At one lime
unfounded rumor Of general rains
n Texas preciptatel decline of %
more points. October selling
own to Sl2G The market rerov,
red all Of its losses through mis-
care, but heavy realizing later
'o,ked toward 4 more or less gen.
raj recession in values. At the close
Vhich was steady, the active monthe
ere Il to 2i points below the close
londay as fellyws: Julg S12 "a
NuguSt $l2 Ga; Sent s12,Gg Oct
w SO; Dec $12.6l; jan s19 c2.
March $12.71. = 20