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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
Seraping Along on $4,000.

We have heard it laid down bv a
thoughtful man, and a Scotchman To
boot, that the most impossible of all
positions is that Of a man who has a
wiie and large family and but a
thousand pounds q year to keep up an
appearance on. Why not
for variations sake, discuss the cues.
tion as to what a man can manage
to cut anything Of a figure on? It was
laid down by a former member for
Snefild that it was absolutely impos.
slole to make any real show in public
lie with an income under ten thou.
sand G5O,OO0) a year.-London Satur
day Review.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08

Mrs. c. NJ. Moses arrived Tuesday
evening from Kansas City to join her
husband, who has taken management
Of the Aou5 department of the Moses
Bros. Mill and Elevator Co. of this
city. Mr.. Moses expects to shortly
erect 4 house on lots On west Broad.
way, and will make Great Bend their
permanent home.
3 Q We do not know what kind of i'm.
preSSionS Hutchinson will be getting
out next. A small school boy stopped
the writer on the street the other day
aad asked him to decide an argument
he was having with one of his school
mates. He maintained that Hutch.
inSon was a state, and the other little
fellow claimed that it was just town
in Kansas, and not any better town
than the one he lived in, either.
DR.. Shops Health Coffee is
created from pure parched grains
malt,nuts, etc. no real coffee in
it. Fine in flavor, is made in a
minute" No 20 or 80 minutes
tedious boiling. Sample free. A
B. Hover
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
What He Meant.

Nathan Straus, discussing the ab.
Surd difficulties that confront SAM.
lists in their endeavor to pass laws
compelling the pasteurization Of milk,
said.
THE legislators who oppose this
law bring forward arguments about
Is weak as that Of the Maine milk.
man.
"A lady, summering in Maine, said
70 her milkman severely:
look here, this milk of yours is
half water and half chalk. What do
you mean by advertising it as pure?"
Madam said the milk manufactur.
r, with reproachful dignity, to the
pure all things are pure"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
WILL LIE ABoUr the WEATHER.
Something About Which Honesty
Seems to Cut Little Figure.

The thing most lied about in the
world is the weather. The weather
cant sue for libel, so 1t is safe thing
to lie about, although 1t does strike
back now and then.
Most people see no harm in stretch
ing meteorological truth; in fact, they
look with mistrust on the person who
insists upon handing the weather
a square deal. II your neighbor says
his thermometer registered 20 below,
and you tell him that yours only
showed ten below, he despises you
for person without imagination. In
the summer, likewise, when your mer.
curry stands at So in the shade and he
says his stands at SO, you are the
one on whom popular doubt will rest
Honesty is not the best policy when
the weather is under discussion, un-
less you like to appear at a disadvan.
tage.
There Is large and flourishing class
Of liars who everlastingly pretend to
know what the weather is going to do,
setting themselves up as intimate
friends of the weather, when, as every
one knows, their acquaintance is bare
ly a speaking one. Once in awhile a
born liar, meaning to lie, will tell the
truth in spite Of himself, and it is thus
with the weather professors: they
can't miss the right guess always, be-
cause there are so few things for the
weather man to do.
Call on half a dozen Of your weather.
wise friends and ask them what 1t is
going to be tomorrow, and they will
disagree as widely as the alienists in
a murder trial, without any apparent
harm to their professional regulations.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
One of Our Markets.

Liverpool, the largest market in the
United Kingdom for American cotton.
seed cake and meal, as we'll as other
imported oil cakes, takes annually be.
tween $4,000 and $4,000 tons of Amer
lean cottonseed cake and meal. Large
quantities of cake and meal are sold
to other British ports by the Liverpool
agents.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
Easy Money at Great Partisan Bank,

Easy Money at Great Partisan Banks.
If you present a letter Of credit at
one Of the great banks of Paris, like
the Credit Lyonnais, an usher in liv.
cry receives you In a splendid parlor,
like the salon Of q palace, and bids
you be seated in a sumptuous chair.
Presently he brings you a check,
made out for the amount you demand,
for your signature. A quarter Of an
hour later he brings you the cash on
silver tray. You do not come in
contact with the clerical force, or zee
the inner workings at all.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
Il Ianlted.

Little Rollie. four years old, came to
the table, where we had tomato soup,
Of which he is very fond. Being very
hungry, he could not wait for It to
cool, but hastily ate two or three
Spoonfuls; then, laying down his
spoon, he exclaimed: MY goodness!
that soup is so hot it makes sparks all
down me" -Delineator.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
Ancient Ink Better Than Gum.

The question Of making durable ink
perplexes the manufacturers of to-day.
Observe closely any letter five or ten
years old and one will notice that IN
oil probability the writing has faded
to a brown color and is very indis.
tinct Go to any large museum and
there will be seen ancient manuscripts
the writing Of which is as black and
distinct as if 1t had been done the day
before yesterday.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-10-08
Woman'e Riuhta

Madam, do you believe in woman's
r,shtsf" asked the man standing in
the car. -
7 do" she replied shortly.
Excuse me-" he went on. T am
but an ignorant male seeking liSbt
May l ask you II you construe thess
fights to include the privilege Of
spreading your really becoming SKIRT
over three seats?
Tnereupon she condensed herseB
ne took seat and conversatiop
Jagged.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26

The Independence League or what 10
left Of 1t had big dinner a few nights
ago in New York. The reporters who
wrote UP the dinner declared that 1T
was like a funeral feast. To begin
with the assembly was wrapped in
gloom by the failure of number OF
announced speakers to take their
places at the table and to deliver their
scheduled speeches.
The few of the faithful who assem-.
bied at the tables, seemed TO believe
that the assertions were premeditated
and that the missing speakers were
like the rats who flee from sinking
ship. But william Randolph Hearst,
sole and only proprietor Of the Inde-.
pendence League, was there. He de-
livered a rafting speech and congrat-
uiated the assembled leaguers on the
Roadway that they had made. by which
although none of them had been elect
ed to once, they had nevertheless seen
the principles of their party adopted
and made effective by parties which
had been able to have men elected
to ONCE. He declared that the hearts
of the Independence Leaguers ought
to thrill and throb with political vic
tories they had won. although the other
people were filing the ONCE.
1t was said by one writer of the
occasion. that there was mot single
thrill. and nary throb." The leaguers
looked klum and so depressed when
they were reminded that the other fell
lows were filling the Offices, and they
did not appear to be cheered by the
announcement that their principles
and their teachings had been carried
into effect.
They probably recalled that the Pop
ulists have been saying the same thing
for a number OF years. And they re-
Gratis were also drawing consolation
from the same sort of declaration,
while the Republicans and not Demo-
Gratis and Populists were filing the Of
fees.
The independence League had its
brief day and at it's height 1t never
amounted to much. william Randolph
Hearst. its father and owner. appeared
first as a militant Democrat, lighting
for the Peepul" with other so-called
Democrats. The first part of the fight
was to denounce and discredit Demo-
Gratis who had chung to the traditions
and old time principles OF the party.
But Hearst was not satisfied with al
lies. and in a short while he had de-
serted them and was engaged in an
aggressive warfare on the party and
all It's factions.
And now the League dies and no.
body regrets II.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26
RAILWAYS or THE w6RLD.

Rnuauelphia inquirer.
a recent compilation of railway sta
tistics Of the woridAs Interesting. Fig
ures may be twisted to mean almost
anything, but there are some bald
facts which are. worth. contemplating.
distributed as follows: United states,
$4,000 miles: elsewhere $4,000 fniies
But the railways of British india are
In class by themselves, and II they
be- eliminated, this country has more
mileage than the rest OF the world.
The cost Of constructing our portion
is hxed at a little less than $13, 900, 0O0,-
900 and Of the rest Of the world almost
in this country is one-han that of the
rest of the world. This is partly ac-
counted for by better construction In
Europe. larger cost Of right Of way.
ertheiess. claimed that by a just com.
parison with results, we get our roads
much cheaper, according to money
spent. thsn the rest .of the world. Our
has q the roads q tSe a 4es sre ef ,s as
world, In spite OF the fact that we have
about one-fifth of the population Of,
all the other countries, not including
than $4,000, 900. 900 and for the rest Of
the world In excess of $4,000. 000, 900
Our operating expenses are proper
tionately greater being over 81 per
many passengers as the rest of the
world. but--and here Is the ASTONISHING q
fact-7we carry almost as many tons
Of freight as all of'the rest of the
world put together while In ton mile
age We have far. the best OF II. we
haul ton Of freight an average OF i32
miles. while the rest of the world
carries a ton but sixty-eiEht miles.
In other words, our railways are do
ing much more work than all the rest
of the world together, almost twice q
much in the matter of freight, vet our
receipts are not 50 large.
The Inference Is obvious that we
charge only about half as much for
hauling q ton of freigh. mile as does
the rest OF the world. Our average
charge is Just "a OF a cent for such
service, cost which is infinitesimaI
as compared with any other means Of
land transportation. Ten years from
now IL Is evident that we shall be do
ing much more than half the trafiic Of
the world. As the population in
creases, and business develops. we shall
more strikingly dominate the trans
portation world. They may do some
things better in Europe. but at pres
emit we conduct our railways in a man
ner such as to admit of contrast rath-
err than cOnaparfgOn
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26
rAx. wEALEH,. nor RoyERTY,.
Income Tax WouId Not Remove Neces.
sity for Tariff.

Income Tax wouId Not Remove Neces-
sity for Tariff.
New York World.
Senator Aldrich based his argument
certainties. The first was that next
year there. would be a return Of boom
times and rapidly growing increase
of receipts by the Treasury. We feel
the change in the air." he said.
The other was that Congress would.
because 1t should. cast off Its old hab-
its of extravaganza and make heroic
reductions In expenditures. Although
when Congress passed appropriation
bills carrying $1,040,000, 900. he now
piously declares that they could have
been cut $5O,000,00O without harm to
the public service.
Senator Aldrich predicts that his tariff
bill win produce ample revenues for
the Governments needs after July !,
1910, and that no further n her. additional
struck out the inheritance tax provis-
ion passed by the House. For the
same reason he attacked the income-tax
corporation-dividend propositions
submitted by other Senators.
Trade conditions may or may not i'm
prove as rapidly as Senator Aldrich an
ticipates. Congress may or may not
prove as economical as he imagines.
But while he comforts himself with the
brighter aspects of uncertainty, nine
persons out of every ten--plain con-
sumers. too humble politically to be
accorded the special privileges. of a
protectionist tariff-are confronted
with the certainty that the AIdrich
system of taxation Is designed inequit-
ably for them Whether or not 1t ul-
timately produces adequate revenues
for the eff1cient administration of the
Government. 1t abounds In indirect dis
ordinations against The unnumbered
many In the interest of the favored
few. 1t taxes poverty. chiefly to the
exemption of wealth. II Is a tax on
consumption which is equivalent to a
tax on the number of mouths to be
fed and backs to be covered
The income tax. which Senator Aid
rich so bitterly opposes, will not re-
move the necessity for the tariff. But
1t can be made to mitigate its injus-
tice 1t will adjust more fairly the
burdens borne by wealth and poverty
In paying the costs OF Government It
will produce a large revenue. and to
that extent make unnecessary and in
expedient tariff duties that increase
the cost of living to tens OF millions
Of consupers.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26
MONDAY. APRIL 20, 1909.
MORE ABOUT MARS.

Some days ago we made q few re-
marks concerning the project OF one
Professor Pickering to settle the Mar
tian question II somebody will kindly
make up the modest sum OF ten mil
ton dollars for his use. As might
have been expected. his talk has
started others to saying things about
the distant planet. among them being
Camille Flammarion. by some spoken
Of as ''the Jules Verne Of the skies :"
The New York Globe says:
NJ Camille Flammarion says that the
Marfians probably tried to signal MS
million years ago. Quite possibly.
And for al that we know they even
he dinosaur came with them as one
OF their domestic pets? Whatever else
may come OF Professor Pick ering's
iooking Eiassss-Zsnd we know how the
deriaud--we hope and trust that they
VIII at least inspire another scientific
yarn from the far-darting pen Of M.
ter Scott beat six ways at some sortt
Of story telling.
The astronomers have not been hav-
ing things all their own way of late
years. The automobiles. flying ma
chimes and other inventions Of man
have been taking UP the greater part
of the attention, and have left the
star-gazers and rainbow -chasers some
what behind in the public mind. True.
we have had many volumes and more
or less learned disquisitions relating
TO the peopie and conditions on the
far-away world which has become an
object OF such interest to the earth
people, but interest In 1t seemed in
fair way to become dormant until this
new and novel proposition came up.
Now perhaps there will be something
like renewal Of Interest in Mars. We
know there will II Professor Pickering
can have his way, for he proposes to
ina out ana tell us quite a lot OF
things about which we are now in
benighted Ignorance. Whether all
that he tells US can be relied on is
another matter. but II he and Flam-
marion and some Of the other scien-
lists will work in harmony we are
likely TO hear whole lot of things
even II some of them are not true.
We think it safe to say that it Will
make interesting reading. at all events
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26

been put into common usss To NJ who
have become accustomed to the almost
daily, adoption OF some new device or
invention. It 10 Impossible to conceive
the marvel OF this mans FIRST sight OF
an automobile, for example. No won
der the novelists take delight in at
tempting to picture what this great,
round. old world win be iixe hun
dred years hence"
An electric street car will be - novel
sight to him. Of course. but that viii
be but one OF the many novelties to
both eyes and ears that he will en-
counter as he looks about him II he
is in one Of the great cities. Those Of
us who are free to 80 about at will.
to see, hear and read Of all that Il
being done. are not Impressed a. we
might be II we had not been growing
up with the country. as 1t were In
ventions and improvements are going
on all the time right under our noses
and hardly excite In us q feeling Of
wonder. We have gotten 20 IN the
habit OF taking these things All a. .
matter OF course that when something
new and wonderful appears We look
on IL somewhat a. matter OF course.
and fan to be impressed to any great
extent.
Z II will be far different with this lib
Grated man, although he has not bsen
shut up quite score Of years. In
that period Of time, however. many
strange things have taken place and
wonderful inventions made which will
all be new to him. When he walks
the streets and behoids sights that he
had never seen before. ana listens to
sounds that had never before fallen
on his ears. he will feel like veritable
Rip van Wrinkle. It VIII doubtless be
interesting to get his Impressions Of
some Of the things he saw and heard
when he nrst got into the open air
again. -
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26
RAlLROAD cONS7RUcYON

being tried by various roads. but I'm
neither instance has complete YER
dict in their favor been arrived at. To
meet the situation another tie has been
brought out It 10 . steel tie with a
socket at esch end for q block OF
wood some ten inches across and per-
hsps twice ~ long. The rail rests on
this block ~ on the ordinary wooden
tie. These wooden cushiona are said
to overcome ali the objectionabie fea-
lures Of the steel and concrete ties, and
the steel part overcomes the ob5ect1on-
able features OF the atwood tie.
Another, new Improvement on the
railroad right-of.way IL a friction nut
for fish plates. Many OF the accidents
Of railroads come from the working
loose Of the fish plate nuts. The
thread Of the new bolt and nut IL Just
= little waved. BY It's use II IL abso-
iutely impossible for the nuts to work
loose. as they can be removed only
with wrench. $3.50
The railroads are rather holding on
on the terminal question Just now.
Some Of the leading raflroaders be-
lieve that the future will pronounce It's
verdict against the one big terminal
and In favor OF number OF smaller
way stations, especially In big cities
where II 10 many miles from the out
hold that electrifcation will solve the
problem Of the loss of time frequent
stops involve
Unexpected tests of strength are
sometimes developed on railways. The
little town Of East Branch, New York,
was recently treated to. q novel sight.
A new railroad had not been paying
some Of its obligations. so the sheriff
levied on one of It's engines. He and
Dis deputies padlocksd Ii to the rails
with log chains and plastered its sides
with notices. The superintendent OF
the road and fifteen men, with two en-
gines. went to the rescue OF the Inn
pounded Iron horse. Hearing that they
were coming. the sheriff fired It up
ANA thought he was ready. BY the
time they arrived steam was up. The
railroad man attached q three-link
chain to the drawhesd and opened the
throttles OF their two engines. But the
sberiff's engine, with the reverse lever
thrown and tts throttle wide omen.
added to the aid given by the Iog
cnains which held II fast. was able to
stand it, ground. The superinten dents
chain broke. but they backed IN ana
tired II again. This time q long ana
steady pull severed the log chains and
with mock goodbye the crew hurrfed
the struggling engine away.
kin.) :.
ToHorrow--catAoIie si.terhoods.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26
should Revise Pension List.

Baltimore Sun.
Would 1t not be a wise movement
for the Republican Party to take un
the question OF pension revision. to
eliminate the thousands who have no
1nst claims and confine the bounty of
the Government to sthe deserving? II
this were done. there would be no me-
cessity for Congress to search for new
articles to tax. for new burdens TO
put upon the shoulders of the toilins
Not one deserving person should be
deprived of the pension he Is receiv-
Ing. Not one Of the gray-haired vet
Grams who are now descending into the
vale OF years and who have not q COM
potency, not one OF their helpless or
dependent children or aged and help
less widows should he deprived of the
aid they are receiving from the Gov
ernment> But II the names OF all the
wealthy pensioners. who do not need
help: II the names of all the fake SOL
diers, tho deserters and camp follow
ers, of all the widows who married the
aged soldiers in order to get pensions
If all these were taken from the
rolls She pension list would then be a
roll of honor and the United States
would save enough money to build sew
eraI Dreadnoughts each year. and SO
shortly become the first naval power
in the world.
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26
WILL BE AMAZED.

AS an evidence of how this rapid
moving world of ours will drift away
from one who is shut out of it. and
leave him almost hopelessly behind, the
case is cited of a Pennsylvania man
who was recently set at liberty after
close confinement of nineteen years.
His remark" says The Pittsburg
Post, that he VIII now see a street
car operated by electricity awakens a
partial realization in our minds of the
amazing advancement that has been
made during the last two decades. A
trolley car. AS though that were the
only remarkable invention that has
The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1909-04-26

ANoT1zER CURE ron CONSUMPTION.
William T. stead. the English jour
na.list. has cabied an excited Telegram
10 New York paper. describing q
new cure for tuberculosis discovered
by an Engiishman. II all that Mr. /.
stead says Of the new cure Is true,
and Il 10 10 be hoped that it IL true.
. great medical discovery has been
made. But in the past the English
journalist has shown more enthusiasm
and cleverness than he has soundness
and stability. and the new discovery
win have to awaitNa cooler endorse
ment than that Of Mr.. Stead.
william Doig, represented by MI.
Stead as the discoverer OF this remark
able cure, is a rich English publisher.
He retired some years ago and devoted
himself exclusively to medical science.
q favorite hobby Of his. In this study
he specialized tuberculosis and now
he IL said. by Mr.. Stead and others,
TO have contributed to medical science
the fulfiliment of that great but long
deferred hope. a cure for consumption.
It Is to be noted here that discoveries
of infailible remedies for consumption
have been made in others years. but
in some way they never came up to
the expectations aroused by the men
whe discovered the remedies and the
men whit. proclaimed them to the
world.
Mr.. Dogs remedy according to the
description cabled to New York by
Mr.. Stead is that poultiee of acite
and chloride. the proportions Of which
will be announced later by Mr.. Doig,
Is placed on the body OF the patient
as near as possible to the organ or
membrane that has become a prey to
the tuberculosis bacilli. In about a
week an ulcer is formed--connected
by what 10 called ray OF infiamma-
ton. with the diseased organ. This
forms a kind of duct through which
the mucus pus Is drawn out OF the
system. The ulcer needs to be care
fully dressed twice day with a salve
which is, also the discovery of Mr..
Doig. II this Is neglected according
to Mr.. stead. the ulcer spreads, be-
comes black and the patient dies. But.
IL IT IL properly attended to. the ulcer
steadily works of all diseased matter
from the lung until in. from four to
six months. complete cure is effected,
Doig declares that the remedy has
never faffed on single patient on
whom 1t was tried
The treatment has, attracted some
attention in London. The American
ambassador had studied 1t. London
physicians have examined 1t. test is
being made on six tubercular patients
from a London hospital. The fate of
the new treatment. notwithstanding
the praise and enthusiasm of Mr.. Stead
win depend upon the result of the test
under the care and observations OF
physicians