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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-02-12

Work on the addition being
built onto the rear of the Cy-
clone store is progressing rapid
ly. 1t will be a one story addi-
ton back Of both the clothing
and the dry goods departments.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1909-02-12

Hutchinson doesn't believe in
having the common every day
kind of safe blowers who make
their escape on hand cars. The
robbers who blew up the safe in
the Missouri Pacific depot the
other night, made their get
away in all automobile.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25
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Farm Telephones.

In some parts of the country tele-
phones are becoming very CONNER. 1t
seems that once a telephone is e5tab-
lished in the family it is there to stay.
Other sections of the country are very
much behind the times in this respect,
probably because no one has gone
ahead with the preliminary arrange
ments.
A farm telephone is not only great
luxury, but it is fast becoming an alb
solute necessity. With the addition of
more business to the farm every year
and the scarcity of labor anything that
saves steps is worth money. When
YOU get accustomed to doing business
over the telephone you realize it's
great value.
A short time ago l heard farmer
order 100 bushels of seed oats by
phone from another farmer about ten
miles away. He had seen a sample
at the fair last fall and made the ne
gotiations accordingly. The business
was transacted in about five minutes
while the farmer was sitting 1t his
desk after reading his morning mail
left at the box by the rural delivery
man. 1t would have taken him all
day to get his mail and drive to the
other farmer and buy his seed pats.
But there is a social side t. farm
life that is fostered by the telephone
1t often happens that a woman IS left
alone for the day and she car easily
make arrangements to have neigh
Dor call and spend the time p easant
ly, instead of feeling lonely. Then it
is so easy to make social arrang ements
for evenings or to meet friends as oc
casion requires.
There are always people in neigh
borhood who are public spirited
enough to go ahead with the necessary
arrangements to establish telephone
service. Others should encourage them
promptly by subscribing to the fund
required. Everybody is benefited, be
cause the arrangement is mutual in
the neighborhood. - Ayr cultural
Epitomist.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

about 80-odd per cent after cholera ap-
pears in herd, and larger per cent
If vaccinated before the disease is in
troduced. Time will demonstrate the
practicability of this method. The
bacteriology department of the Kansas
State Agricultural College is also
working along these lines, but is not
yet ready to announce anything but
progress.
When symptoms of cholera appear
in herd, it is wise to dip the whole
herd, disinfect their quarters thor
oughly, give them slight change in
feed, and add to this about five drops
of tincture of prickly ash for each
hundred pounds of hog once or twice a
day The old remedy of wood ashes
and salt is good in many instances A
little powdered sulphate of copper.
dried sulphate Of iron or charcoal
given daily when the animals are not
perfectly healthy frequently does much
good. After all, the old adage, an
ounce of prevention is worth a pound
Of cure, holds good here
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25
Earnings of Good Cows.

To demonstrate that all the good
COWS are not confined to any one breed
and to show that the net proht per
year is from good cow attention is
called to the records of the best t1ve
COWS at the Wisconsin experiment sta
ton as follows: Johanna, Holste1n,
13,186.2pounds milk, 444.96 pounds fat,
average test, 1862 per cent, net profit
1851; Marcella, Jersey, 1881
pounds milk, 442.33 pounds butter fat,
average test, 56S per cent, net profit
$80.01; Margaret, Guernsey, $685.
pounds milk, 40325 pounds fat, aver,
age test, 4.66 per cent, net pront
$3.50; Christiana, Ayrshire, 9,O374
pounds milk, 3665S pounds fat, aver
age test, 4.06 per cent, net profit
s66.21. The cost of feed at market
prices has been charged to each COW
and the figures represent the sale OF
butter fat less the cost of feed. The
Skim milk, calf, and manure are pro
ducts in addition.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

He bought a hoe, a rake, spade,
( Some little seeds to SOW,
At last he got the garden made
And saw the green things grow.
He work'd the rows and beds each day
Each little plant he knew,
And as he smiled and sweat away
Oh, joy how fast they grew.
No floods came down to wash things out
No frosts to kill or blight;
No neighbours chickens scratched about
No kline strayed in at night.
Each seed he planted did its best
And not one did rot
No other garden, East or West,
Such vegetables begot.
But still this man did not enjoy
There vegetables so new,
For every night a neighbours boy
Stole what the garden grew.
Puck.
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PLEA FOR OPTIMISM.
By Rev. Ernst A. Tappert.

by Rev. GrnSL a. AaPPe1L.
For what is your life.-James 4: IA.
Latin proverb says: Art is long,
life is short" But life itself is an art
which must be studied There are two
schools that teach the art of life, the
pessimistic and the optimistic.
Pessimists arrive at the conclusion
that life is hardly worth living. That
however, is not the Christian idea 81
life. True Chris ans as Oh lmists ana
believe that "a things worE together
for good to then that love God.
In the royal gardens OF Fotsdam
there is an old sgn dial which bears
the inscription I count only The
pleasant hours. One might envy it
for this preroga i've that recor is none
of the dreary hours, bEL only tAe sum
ny and pleasant ones.
There are some per one thai r re
the faculty of overlooking 4aa toIsel.
ting the disagreea6le features Is
and noticing ORR the peasant sltes'
Such sunny mind Is stain }Y 8 greaf
blessing and there is 10 ason NF1y
every Christian sBoH3G 800 haXe 1t.
There are hours oa 7srIeeG -api lisess
in everybody's Ii hours hsca r7F
burse for years OF srIer4ng and woe
the memory OF W Efaass Aflef
lightens the woI MY hapPs
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hes long The Stats should be nailed

inches long The Stats should be nailed
to a crosspiece about one-quarter the
distance from the top. A couple of
nails are driven through the box and
into the crosspiece to swing on. Half
way back, on the inside, narrow
piece of board is nailed, back of which
the nest is made.
To set the trap simply raise the
Stats inward from the bottom 8 or 8
inches high and place a small stick
under one of the Stats. AS the hen
enters the door is raised off the stick,
which falls to the floor. There should
be about five Stats for box 10 or IA
inches in width, Stats close against
inch strip at bottom.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

1t is interesting to trace the origin
and hear the story of some phrase that
has become most popular, though those
who use 1t may not have even re-
mote idea Of how it originated. Take,
for instance, THE Lost Cause" now
most familiar and used as we'll by
the people of the South as we'll as Of
the North 1t originated in this way:
The late Edward A. Pollard-one of
Virginia's prominent literary men
after the war wrote a history
of it, of course from the South
ern standpoint. He wrote before
his death, in an article in Apple
toms Magazine that he offered his pro
posed history to a New York publish
er who thought we'll of it, but objected
to the title, History of the War;" etc.
The work thus entitled might be con-
founded with some other inferior mem
cries of the war which the writer had
already composed, mere annals-"First
year Of the War;" etc. Gould not
some title be found more unique and
captivating, and not quite so heavy?"
The writer promised to think of such
a title. The next day he presented
himself to the publisher and said:
Il have thought of name for the
work i design; it is The Lost Cause
You see, the bulk of the people in the
South were persuaded that we really
contended for something that had the
dignity and Importance Of cause
the cause of constitutional liberty.
think there is something of proper
dignity in the word Cause; then The
Lost Cause is an advertisement OF
something valuable that is gone; be-
sides, the associations of the title are
tender and reverential-there is
strain of mourning in it. How do you
like it?" "Excellently well, replied
the publisher; it is just the thing"
The title proved an instant success,
and the phrase has since become ma
tional
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

a. rod that leads to the handle Of the
bucket, controls the flow. The top OF
the rod is connected to a crossbar,
which runs under the handle of the
blcket. This bar is in close reach,
aid, when resting on the top of the
bicket the valve is open. To close the
vilve the operator merely extends a
f1hger and lifts the bar, thus shutting
OF the fertilizer. The valve flares at
tie bottom, spreading the fertilizer in
abroad, fine stream. For small farms,
gardens and lawns this device Is OF
great convenience, and is money,
saver.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25
Wafer for the Chicks.

Rke an ordinary baking pan and
49, the tinsmith rivet on an ear"
: Y @.pne side for mailing to tree.
sEaEfe him also make a hole in the
Ggs ON in one corner, that the water
S-,n be let out every day and the pan
be kept clean. Nail the pan to tree
about twelve inches from the ground,
so the chicks can drink without get
ting into it with their feet The birds
will soon discover that it is a fine
place from which to get a drink on
hot days. Sometimes they find, too,
that it is a convenient place for a
bath, and this of course makes the
water dirty But it is not much trou-
Die to refill the pan with clean water,
and this should be done two or three
umes day. Chickens and birds re
Qulre a great deal of water, and they
OFTEN suffer for lack of it. Don't neg
Iect them-Boston Herald.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

Judge Garnett Andrews Of Wash.
cession, but made no objection to his
sons going into the Confederate army
In '"rhe Wartime Journal Of Geor-
gia Girl his daughter, Miss Eliza f
Andrews, describes the night when the
news came that Georgia had seeded.
"While the people Of the village were
celebrating the event with bonfres and
bell ringing and speech making writes
Miss Andrews. "my father shut him
self up in his house, darkened the win
dows, and paced up and down the
room in the greatest agitation.
'FNow and then, when the noice OF
the shouting would penetrate to our
ears through the closed doors and win
dows he would pause and exclaim,
Poor fools! They may ring their
bells now, but they wiring their hands,
yes, their hearts, too, before they are
done with It,
'This scene made deep impression
on my mind. Ny sister Meta and |
were pouting in a corner because he
would not allow us to go and see the
fun. My two brothers. Henry and Gar
nett, were taking an active part in the
celebration, and I myself had helped
to make the flag that was waving in
honor of the event.
"My brother Henry, who was about
as hot-headed a fire eater as could be
found in the South, had brought the
material to his young wife, Cora, and
we made 1t on the sly, well knowing
that our Bonnie Blue Flag would soon
become q conquered banner or rather
confscated one, If father should get
wind Of what we were about.
st consisted Of large fve-pointed
star. the emblem of state rights, and
was made of white domestic, on a field
Of blue The star was afterward
ripped off in the strenuous days when
cur boys were following the Stars and
bars, and the blue field field was
used - inc the blanket of a Confed-
crate soldier What was left of it
when be came back is still preserved
In the family"
n Miss Andrews journal another
entry contains reference to her faith
er's loyalty.
Washington is now thoroughfare
for both armies" she writes. about
noon to-day body of Yankees went by,
going east There were several COM
panies Of negroes among theal, and
their hateful flag floating in triumph
over ~teir head.
= l@Rs SO enranged that / said I
w3shAlI the wind would tear 1t to
pieceh Then father took me by the
shoulder and said that If / didn't
ehauEe ny way Of thinking about the
flag Il ny country he would send me to
iilF I3om and keep me there week.
" Aad never known anything but
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25
Studx Fertilizer.

few simple fertilizer maxims are
so important that they should be
sxod in the mind. Per cent is only
another way for saying parts in 100.
FERTILIZERS may be direct or indirect
in action. The former contains need
ed nlant food. the latter enables the
nlant to get food from soil or air.
Lime is not plant food under common
conditions; it corrects bad condition
of soil-sournes s-and unlocks soil
materials. Sulphate of iron "copper"
as), sulphate of copper (blue stone),
sulphate of magnesia EPSON saits)
ard sulphate of lime (gypsum) are
amonam these indirect fertilizers.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

smiles. But the pleasantest aC re
not always the most profipD d it
is true indeed what is the
Nineteenth Psalm, thaf ife's
strength is labor and g here
are many of the ples sir hours
which we might just as 4 forget
and there are many anon ne dark
hours which have left behi lasting
blessing. The most fruitfl md valua-
BILE hours, those which Civ most i'm
petus to the inner life FIRE rs a rule,
not the pleasant hours enjoyment
and mirth, but the gra nd serious
hours, days of woe and gGts of tears,
times of struggle an( rlvation, the
memory of which one olld not part
with for any price
The holy scripture IS life a SOW,
ing of seed" and sa Whatsoever a
man soweth, that he also rear" "
A selfish life, the it be clean, is
without charm a. aauty A sinful
and contaminate' is still worse
remorse and sci dsation make it a
hell on earth.
The only liff tn living is the one
Of which Chr ST as left us an exam
pie. Devoted t. he service of others,
full of that 2 conquering love that
is strong as q III, it brings light and
happiness 1nC dark places and bears
that sweet blessed fruit which is
promised l. Such a life Is neither
riresom ever a cause of regret.
but fines &c before God and man
May W. al ~ to master this wonder
full art zr life will become more con-
tent, M interesting, more produc
tive OF s0oa from day to day until at
last it becc mes a sweet, harmonious
song 5hz glory of life's Creator
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Civil War Stories
To an Old Battle Flag,

0 Flag of olden glory, with your strikes
all battle-marred
All ragged with the conflict, and your
staff SO bullet-scarred,
And spotted by the manly hands, that
carried You ahead
That comrades brave might follow on
Where'er their banner led
Unfold to me the story; tell me of the
battles crush
A great advancing multitude, the ardor
and the flush
OF bravery upon the cheek, the wildness
of the eye,
Of noble ones so strong of heart, who
never feared to die.
| gaze at you in wonder, and | ponder
Ger the past,
hear the din of voices, and l see the
boys enmassed;
The fife and drum are playing, as they
grandly march away,
While mothers weep, and children cheer
them onward to the fray.
l hear the blare of bugles, and the thun-
Ger OF the guns;
The rattle of the musketry l see the fall
len ones
The thinning of the ranks of blue, and
you still flying on
Amid the night of battle, as triumphant
as the dawn.
And now you seem to drop from sight !;
your bearer fell to die;
But comrades in defiance spring and
fling you toward the sky;
Again your tattered form Is there-the
same Red, White and Blue!
While eager soldiers cheer you on and
follow after you.
0 the screaming of the shot and shell !!
the wounded sick with pain
And little rivulets of blood that flow like
summer rain;
The rushing of the cavalry the smoke
above the fray,
That almost hides your glory from the
brightness of the day
But now encased in glass you stand,
where ne'er a breath may touch
Your sacred folds of memory; nor yet a
hand may clutch
The staff that heroes carried in the days
of battle strife,
OF plumber, hate and courage, when man
gave life for life.
Old Flag, amid the silence, the battles
all are DER;
Of them / dream, though peace supreme
prevails from shore to shore;
And softly through the marbled halls,
the sons Of men come down,
And bare their heads to you, old flag,
to honor your renown.
For Time has turned the crimson page
and laid the sabers by;
The nation grows in peace, and foes are
friends beyond the sky;
A tide of blood has ceased to flow; s.
food of tears to fall;
One hope, one Flag, one country and God
watching DER it all
George r. Harrison, Valparai Ind,
in Indianapolis News.
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

General Grant and His Son.
General Frederick Dent Grant, ED
est son of the great Civil War com
mander, recently described to a report
er Of the Philadelphia Record his own
first battle" He had left Memphis,
where his mother and the children
were to join his father
| left her, and found father on a
gunboat in the Mississippi river We
slept on the deck One morning he
was missing and General Lorenzo
Thomas told me he had gone to Port
Gibson. | was to remain where | was
until he came back General Thomas
was pale and looked worried Every
little while we would hear the firing
of cannon.
Some troops were being formed on
the bank to march away to battle, and
rabbit ran along the line between
them and the river. | asked General
Thomas to let me go ashore and catch
the rabbit. The rabbit had disappear
ed of course; but | got on land. Dis
obeying orders, started for Port Glib
son, some seventeen miles distant.
Having no horse, | we ked
| the afternoon | battery thatt
was getting ready to 90 into action.
stopped for a while, but artillery fire.
didn't interest me very much. Severa.
regiments of infantry were fighting IL
the low ground below, however, and 4
went to them. NJ
Presently the climax of the battle
occurred l saw our troops rush for-f
ward and knew the enemy had given
way. Night came on and l walked
among our men in the moonlight. II
followed four soldiers who were carry
ing a dead man in blanket.
Soon | was at little schoolhouse.
that had been turned into a hospital
Surgeons were tossing amputated arms'
and legs out of the windows. The yard
of the schoolhouse was filled with
wounded and groaning men, who were
waiting for the surgeons. L picked
my way among them to the side of
the road and sat on the roots of
tree. l was hungry, thirsty and worn
out, and worse than all, didn't know
whether my father were living or
dead.
No boy was ever more utterly
wretched. l had seen my first battle.
Then an orderly, who had been carry
ing messages, for my father, rode up.
He took off his saddle, gave 1t to me
for a pillow and covered me with his
saddle cloth In a short time he re-
turned and took me to father, whom l
found sitting on camp stool back of
the schoolhouse, drinking a tin cup
of hot coffee. I expected to get a
sharp reproof for my disobedience.
How did you get here?" he asked,
II walked"
then said, II guess you will do" And
there was no anger in his face. May
be, I was mistaken, but | half-believed
he was not sorry that I left the gun
boat.
The next day | was given IAN enor-
NOUS horse, grown white from age"
as my father says in his memoirs, and
rode back to the gunboat. Charles A.
Dana, then an officer of the war de-
partment, and afterward editor of the
New York Sun, riding a rawboned
mate of my horse, went along with
me.
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pretty penny. Then came
along a Virginia man and
invented the hand fer.
tilizer dropper. This de.
vice consists of an odd.
shaped bucket, running
to a point at the bottom
and having a small open.
ing there, through which
the contents filters. A
hinged valve. operated by
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

oram consists of two sets of fiues, one
set to admit the fresh air, the other to
furnish an escape for the vitiated air.
The inlet or fresh air fiues should be
nlaced not more than ten feet apart
ond located in the exterior walls of
the barn. The outlet may include one
or more flueS.
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IMPO- Gle OF HABIT.

l..
By rev. De Witt L. Pelton.
Teacl roe o Lord, the way of Thy
statute ea4 | will keep it until the
end.-F 1898
Our are habits as much as
our vi Honor courage, purity,
punctus prayer and kindness are
habits 1Ch as are swearing, drunk
enness { ing. When this truth is
once pc t,e it makes a revolution
in cond1 Morality with many con.
sists in ing to correct evil habits
rather t. / striving to form good
ones. II E'af life is largely automatic
We are ~ rec ity walking bundles CT
habits" ach sort of impression
we have ltomatic ready-made re-
Spouse.
. The sc habits we are forming
is thereto the greatest Importance,
and we )rming habits of some
kind VIII Aaw we attend to them or
not We RI Id strive, therefore, to
acquire abits as will strengthen
and imp ur natures.
This IL organism of ours,
which is ay which, by continual
reiteration is gradually shaped along
lines VIII 1ally control the ordi-
nary acti 4s life. Impressions made
upon the Gus structure of the
brain tel sy repeat themselves until
Well-trav Dads are formed along
which il 'equently passing make
highway he soul. These are hab-
its and control the life.
Bad habits may be checked and good
habits formed by making what we de-
sire habitual in our lives. Prof. James
enumerates two rules in the formation
of habits-first enter upon the forma-
ton of such habits with as much de-
termination as possible in order that
the initiatory force with which habit
Is launched may be as great as posi-
BILE; secondly, never suffer an excep-
ton to occur until new habit is Sc
curely rooted in the life.
The religious life, like other desir
able things, should be put under the
domain of habit. How can we prog
ress reIigiously if we live heller
SHELTER in hit-or- miss fashion? Right
thoughts, right emotions, right deci-
sions in the religious life as in the
daily life of bushes, must be made
habitual. Habit should be the rule in
prayer, in church attendance, in the re-
ceiving of the holy communion, in
times of meditation, in acts of kind
ness, in deeds of service. Only so
shall we become fit followers of Him
who lived in habitual prayer and
whose life was spent In doing good.
Contemplation of the power of habit
should not make anyone despair. Even
in the worst cases there is hope His.
tory is full of examples from st. Paul
down in which the HABITS of lifetime
have been broken under a supreme
compelling impulse. The power of the
Divine Spirit is omnipoient in human
affairs The worst predigal can re-
form Behind all our Efforts there is
the power of God. Withsall His power
the habits of lifetime can be broken
and a life of new habits begun
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

peace and security and protectio1
der that flag. he said, as long as
remained true to it. 1t made me tn
of that night when Georgia seeded
What would father have done if he
had known that that secession flag was
made in his house? 1t pinches my con-
science, sometimes, when l think about
it"
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

The King System of Ventilation.
Ventilation for stables and barns is
now regarded as one OF the essentials
to be provided for in construction. The
Kinp system as illustrated in the dia-
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A Tran est.

The accompanying plan of rap nest
is quite simple and can be made from
a box of suitable size. 1t should be
y or IA inches square by 20 or "a
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1909-06-25

The following list will show the gar
dener how long after planning the va
rious common vegetables will mature
their growth and be read for use: