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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
COULDN'T FIND THE MONKEYS
Auntie Was Rather Poor Kind Of
Guide for Her Little Wis
ting Nephew.

The young nephew had come in
from the country after the harvest
days were over to get a peek at
some OF the sights of the great city.
Uncle was busy at the Office, but ne
young wife took him out the first day
for visit to the geological gardens.
We'll, Charlie" said the husband
to the youngster on their return, how
did you like the monkeys? Were they
funny?"
why, we didn't see any monkeys, 4"
was Charles mournful reply. Aunt
Marjorie couldn't find them any,
where"
mo, Henry" said the wife, 81
couldn't, and we almost walked our
legs off looking for them, too. But,
Henry, there's one queer thing. Why
does the director of the ZOO have his
house right in the middle of the me.
nagerie?"
Il didn't know he had" was Henry's
surprised reply.
We'll, there's a building with a
sign on it, 'Primate's House. Now,
'Primate' is French or Spanish or
Italian or English or something that
means director I'm sure"
Henry loved her too much to ex.
pose her ignorance either publicly
or privately; but Charlie saw all the
monkeys next day under his uncle's
guidance.-The Sunday Magazine.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
The American Girl

/. Many others besides Mr.. Henry
James have remarked upon the absurd
position held in American society by
young women. The ruinous indulg.
ence of children ought at least to be
confined to the home circle, and not be
carried into a world where age, intel
ligence and experience should have
precedence and should form the stand.
ards. The reversal of values, so as to
make the debutante the point of in.
terest in social season instead of the
accomplished matron, is as though
society should have foresworn its func.
lions. This would be true even were
the manners of the debutante all that
they should be in Difference, suavity
and tact. The experience of Washing.
ton, where society is fairly representa-.
tive, goes to show that much is still
to be desired in these respects in the
general education of American girls
From an Editorial in the Century Are
We Ashamed of Good Manners?"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
The Worlds $4,000 Plays.

Mr.. Reginald Clarence, the we'll
known photographer Of dramatic data
has been working for twenty years on
Stage Cyclopaedia which will con.
tain a photography Of plays, of which
II has been possible to find any record,
from B. C. 500 to A. D. 1909. In order
70 bring his remarkable work to com.
letion Mr.. Clarence has delved among
ancient records and musty manu-
,cripts in the British Museum, he has
studied the numerous works In the
suldhall Library until his book con.
aims particulars Of nearly $4,000 plays,
covering the whole range, Of stage pro
ductions-dra1nA. comedy, farce. opera
and comic opera
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
Hands and Other Hands.

when | read about the beauty doc
tors" said the East side woman, "and
what pains they take to make their
hands beautiful, putting pincers on
the finger tips, bathing them in mix,
| sometimes go down to the pushcart
market and take a look at the poor
little pushcart hands. You ought to
see them. Dark as can be and shriv.
eled from staying out in all sorts Of
weather, the hot sun, the rain, the
snow, the wind, the stormy weather.
The nails uncared for, stubby, broken,
the wrists thin and miserable looking.
Those poor little hands working all
day long taking care of the fruit, plac.
ing it, putting it in bags for people,
those little, unprotected, weather.
beaten hands.
There's a lot of unevenness in the
world somehow" said the East side
woman.-New York Times.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
A Woman's Sacrifice,

Proud although the old-timer may
be of such records as Igoe's and Fair.
child's, it is not until you come to
acts of heroism performed during his.
torical catastrophes that his eyes grow
a shade darker and sparkle. There, for
instance, was Mrs. H. NJ. Ogle, a sold.
ier's widow, mother Of two grown
daughters, who stuck to her key dur.
ing the Johnstown food, saving thous.
ands of lives by sending warning after
warning to fee into the city, and de.
liberately sacrificing her own life.
"Good-by, this is my last message,
she telegraphed Manager Charles o.
Rowe at the Pittsburg office. Then
the waters closed over hef.-A W.
Rolker.-Everybodys .,.i...' xa'
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
The Man Who Must Be Kim.

In no class of engineering work,
probably, is the engineer more depend.
ent on his own resources than in the
case Of a mine in a remote district,
far from the ordinary means of trans.
portation and the conveniences of civ.
ilization, writes H. W. Edwards in En-.
cheering Magazine. Although the
great bulk Of the mineral production
is derived from a comparatively small
number of large mines in complete
touch with civilization, yet far the
larger number of individual mining
engineers find their work far removed
from the conveniences and facilities
of the large and more established
camps. Scattered over the American
continents from Cape Nome to Cape
Horn are many petty kingdoms. as
it were, in which the mining engineer
has to be the sole source of all knowl.
edge in his little district; his respon.
sibilities are without limit and his
duties comprise everything. He is
called on to exercise a more or less
profound knowledge Of surveying. me.
chanics, hydraulics, electricity, miner.
alogy, assaying, metallurgy, construc.
ton of roads, and to know all there
is to know about wire rope, explosives
pumps and geology and now concrete
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
NEW COTTON P|Cf--..
LONG BEEN AN URGENT NEED OF
THE SOUTH.
Many Machines Have Been Invented,
But None Proved Successful; One
Recently Patented Promises to FIJI
the Bill In a Satisfactory Manner.

A practical cotton picker has long
been one Of the most urgent needs Of
the south, and many devices have been
Invented to satisfy the demand. None
has in the past proved successful; but
recently patented apparatus de-
scribed in the Inventive Age is said
by those who have seen it to be so en-
tirely satisfactory in its operation that
fortune may be predicted for the
lucky inventor. The machine consists
OF frame on four wheels, with two
chain elevators mounted on the frame
at an angle Of is degrees. The ap-
paratus is drawn by horses, and the
forward movement is compensated for
by the backward movement CT the
elevator chain, and these two partly
reverse movements create the third
or perpendicular movement for the
pickers. These stroke the cotton
plant directly upward. The chain ele.
Vators are made up Of a series of
tubes, in each of which a picker is
concealed. These pickers are shaped
like bayonet, with horsehair teeth
on their edges. AS the apparatus
moves forward, the chain passes
around the sprocket wheels, and at
the bottom of the elevator a cam,
placed across the chain, catches the
pickers and pushes them out of the
tubes into the lower part of the cot.
ton plant. Each picker is provided at
its base with small gear wheel which
engages a toothed rack and revolves
as the picker comes out of the tube. At
the top of the elevator a second
cam catches the pickers and forces
them back into the tubes again, this
movement also stripping them of the
cottcn and dropping it into a con.
Veyor. the picking spindles, with their
horse-hair teeth, seem to search out
the ripe bolls and take the lint from
them, leaving the unripe and inflicting
no injury on the fiber or plant. In
operation, the machine straddles a cot.
ton row and the pickers revolve rap.
idly through the plant from the bot
tom upward. The moment they touch
a ripe boil they pull the cotton out.
The ease and thoroughness with
which the machine operates have very
strongly impressed and interested
parties who have had the opportunity
of seeing it in action, and it is fair to
assume that it will shortly be enjoy.
ing an extended field of application, the
expense of installation being very
soon overcome by the increased speed
attained.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
FOR BUILDING HOG HOUSE.
Plans for the Construction of a Shec
for the Swine with Well.
Lighted Interior.

1t seems to be the consensus of opin.
ion of farmers ond hog breeders is in
favor of placing hog houses so that the
largest dimension of the building
faces the south. This arrangement
saves windows, which is a point worth
taking into consideration and still
gives a well-lighted building at all
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
Outline Of Hog House.

parts of the day. There is also a great
amount of unnecessary roof in a dou.
ble-decked building. This can be cut
out by facing the house south. The
solid lines show the end of a house
suggested by our correspondent. The
dotted lines show how the plan may
be reduced, when the house is given a
south face.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04
Big Laramie Valley
Lands In Wyoming

Ihe land here and the the water
here and can applied the land You will you are
favored this than Others The rainfall rainfall states
amounts inches That
would be crop failures here had that rainfall adjust
yourself to the rainfall which does and the should
from the nTigaung dtches
This section troubled by washing qualities
leaving the soil impoverished the rich
and productive that the same kind of may be year.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-02-04

Every member Of the union should
study the necessity of organization
and discipline; and the principles Of
cooperation. The farmers can have
their rights Il they viii only 90 about
It In the proper way.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
ARTHUR BUCHANAN

James BMress member of the work mems union and known as an anar- chist. This being known both Sted- man and the workman are ordered from the house.
 Later Grace calls on Stedman to beg him stop the fight as her family are on the verge of ru1tn and she Is met by the daughter of one of the work men who Is also in love with Sted- man. They quarrel and the working girl out of revenge telephones the fam fly of Grace that she is in Stedman's s rooms. Her family arrive to find the working men planning to call out all the men the following day and the two girls are hidden in another room. Burress demands the girl to show herself and to save her the other girl steps out. Having the opposing forces together Stedman shows thern that the only way to rule all classes is by love truth and justice and the play ands happily. Mir. Ince will be Stockwen will have the role of Grace Crosby. The other parts are in the capable hands of the members of the players aided by several of the original company including Theodore Marston who was seen here in The Man of the Hour and Adolph Lesctina a famous character actor
 Between the acts Jack Altman and the singing ushers will sing the latest songs and the Poli electrograph will show new views
 Monday afternoon the handsome tur- quoise and pearl necklace will be given to some lady in the audience. Seats for the week now ready.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
To the Board of County Commission
 CTS for Fairfield County:

To the Board of County Commission
 CTS for Fairfield County:
 I hereby apply for Druggists h. cense to sell Spirituous and Intod- eating Liquors, Ale, Lager Beer, Rhine Wine and Cider, at 5S2 Penn broke street, Town of Bridgeport. Dated at Bridgeport, this 18th day of July, A. D., 1910.
 MASON P. GRAY,
 Aplicant We, tke undersigned, electors and taxpayers, as defined by law, of the Town of Bridgeport, hereby endorse the application of the above named Mason P. Gray, for such license and we do severally certify each for him. self that we are taxpayers owning real estate situated in the Town of Bridge port.
 Dated at Bridgeport, this 18th day of July, A. D., 1910.
 John P. Gray, Bridgeport; Henry c. Stevenson, Bridgeport; Louis A. Kornblute, Bridgeport; Henry E. shannon, Bridgeport; F. R. Irwin, Bridgeport.
 I hereby certify that the above nam ed endorsers are electors and taxpay- CTS, as defined by law, of the Town of Bridgeport.
 Dated at Bridgeport, this 18th day of July, A. D., 1910.
 WILLIAM THOMAS, r. 16 b 6 Town Clerk
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
BUILDING PERMITS.

The following building permits were issued last night by the board of building commissioners:
 Harris Construction Co.,. brick apart ment building. Congress and Chapel streets.
 Charles Beach, two family frame dwelling. south side of Summerfield avenue.
 George Zunstag, two family frame dwelling Wood terrace.
 Nichloas Poito, repair veranda, south side of Hanover street. August Chevalor. one story frame dwelling, north side of Button ave nue.
 Stefan Kamuk, three story frame store and tenement block, west side of Pembroke street.
 Pequonnock Commercial Corpora tion, repairs after fire. west side of Kossuth street.
 Pasquale Grucci. cellar wall to move old house on. east side of Hallett street.
 Abrahm Sherman, new store win dow. north side of Railroad avenue.
 Albert Pulver. one family frame dwelling, south side of Woodside ave nue.
 c. T. Hawley. frame balcony, east side of Harvard street Alois Kirschner. two family frame dwelling west side of Carroll avenue. ] AkKre<a*e vaf1e Ss7s34e.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
THE MONEY SENT
 OUT OF BRIDGEPORT

Editor of the Farmer:
 Never in the history of the country has business been so stagnated with out anyone to offer any suggestion as to the cause.
 And as we must first ~-~artain the cause before we can remedy conditions I simply call attention to Postmaster Marigold'S report of the business done in the international moc~v order de- partment of his office Gu, Zg the year last past, as 1t arDears iT the Bridge port Evening Farmer issue, Wednes- day. July 18th, as very strong agra Vatfon of the present conditions-Viz: For the fiscal year ending June 3O,- 1910 there was sent out of Bridgeport by international money orders s3O3,- 447.4," which in itself when we con slider the profits that would have ac- crude to the different mercantile in- terests has been a a very severe hand icap to business.
 But when we add the amounts that have been taken out of business cir culation by registered letters, express, cables. checks, drafts. bills of ex- change on the persons of those who have returned to their native country with their savings and other ways, we would find by a very conservative estimate a loss to business interests we'll up in the millions of dollars in this city alone.
 I will not offer any remedial sugges- tionS at the persent time but simply call attention to the facts and leave remedies to the business public.
 A. A. AKIN
 229 Stratford Ave
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
Pope Makes Catholic Church Extension
 Society Canonica]

Pope Plus x, has issued a brief mak- ing the Catholic Church Extension Society a canonical organization under the guidance of the Vatcan and caus- ing many changes in its internal oper- ations. The brief practically makes the society @ province of the archdi- ocese of Chicago and fixes that the Archbishop of Chicago shall hold in perpetuity the office of Chancellor of the organization. This is the highest office in It's gift.
 Cardinal Martinelh has been ap- pointed by the Pope to be the Cardi- nal Protector. Another change effect ed by the brief is directed at the meth cd of selecting the active president Beginning with October IS, when the board of managers will present three names to the Pope, just as is done in the selecting of priests for Bishop rics. Prior to this the board elected a president. The very Rev. Francis C. Kelley occupies this office and there is every indication that he will be the unanimous choice of the board to suc- ceed himself
 The society is less than five years old and in beginning was nothing more than a private activity formed under the direction of Archbishop Quigdey. It built 450 churches. introduced the chapel car for the Catholics living in hamletS scattered along the railroads of the West. built a seminary for stu- dents for the priesthood in the PhiI- pp1nes, and established teaching orders in Porto Rico and Hawaii
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
NEW HAVEN ROAD CONTRADICTS ITS
 OWN ARBITRATOR
Takes Exception to Clarence Deming's Charge of "Blind" Reports at Trol- ley Hearing

With regard to the statement of Arbitrator Clarence Deming at the hearing of the trolleymen's appeal that the reports of the Connecticut company were decidedly blind," the press bureau of the New Haven rail- road, to which a pertinent question was submitted makes the following reply. AS will be seen, 1t hatly con- tradicts the statement of MT. Deming and tacitly intimates that he fails to intelligently read the reports, which are sufficiently definite to give full information
 The company's reply follows:
 New Haven. July IA. 1910.
 Question: The New Haven Union asks if there is any truth in the statement made by MT. Deming, the roads representative on the board of arbitration, that the report of the Connecticut trolley, company is
 Answer: MT. Deming did not say that the Connecticut company's re- port was "doctored." He said that the report did not show how the earnings of the company had been disposed of, and therefore that an investor owning stock in the Connec- ticut company could not know it's real condition.
 It was shown this morning that the only stockholder of the Connecti- cut company is the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Com pany, whose accounts show the dis position of the earnings received by the Connecticut company and turned over to the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad company.
 If there was any indefniteness in due to the fact that the Connecticut company is only one of several troll ley properties owned by the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road company and that it has not been necessary or practicable to Haven company the stocks and bonds which represent the property of each company. All of these figures ap- pear in the accounts of the New Ha- ven company sufficiently definite to give full information to the New road company's stockholders.
 MT: Deming was asked this morn ing if he would make any further statement concerning the "blind re- port" of the Connecticut company which he criticised so pointedly dur ing Mondays session.
 He said that the printed reports of his remarks misquoted him in some particulars, but that they were cor rect in attrfbuting to him the asser- ton that the railroad report in cer- tain particulars, was blind" and con- fusing inasmuch as it transfers the net earnings of the electric company over into the accounts of the steam railway company, where it is lost.
 Technically such a system of ma nipulating accounts is correct" said MT. Demfng, "but from the stand point of informing the average stock holder it is wrong"
 This method of preparing reports, he said, is exceptional with the com pany, although it had been resorted to before, and he had criticised it in the Railway Gazette, of which he is an editor. It is a method that will be at once remedied, however, as in the future the Connecticut company will render its own reports, separate ly to the railroad commissioners. en- tirely independent of that of the New York, New Haven and Hartford Rail- road Co.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16

New Haven, July 16- As the result of the crashing of a heavily laden trolley express into a regular passen- ger car. both bound toward this city on the Derby line. yesterday afternoon at least 21 persons were more or less badly injured and three of them rather seriously. The crash occurred just be- yOnd the station known as Shady Rest on a straight line of track that follows severe curve in the road and only a short distance this side of the spot where the crews of the cars are chang ed.
 Aaron Albert, Miss Lena Fissler and Phillip DOtricin are probably the most seriously injured of all those who were in the accident, but it Is not ex- pected that any one of them will die bility of internal injuries and Miss Fissler was on her way to this city to be treated for spinal trouble and the wrench her back received may cause serious trouble to set in.
 The passenger car left AnsOnia fol this city in charge of the regular Der by crew. Conductor William Moran and Motorman Patrick McCartin took charge of the car at the crew chang ing place, a short distance from the place where the accident occurred. The car then started for this city and was under good headway when one of the
 passengers lost his hat and the car was stopped to enable him to get it While the car was stopped the express car was seen travelling at a good pace around the curve not far away from the standing passenger car. Motor man McCartin started up his car, in the idea of getting away from any chance of a collision, but could not get enough speed up before the heavy freight car crashed into the rear of the passenger.
 Albert was seated on the rear seal of the passenger car and was pinned | in between the wreckage so that ii took quite a long time before he could
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-07-16
THE THEATRES
POLI'S

Tonight will mark the last presenta- tion of Glittering Gloria the highly successful comedy so ably presented by the Pon players all week and 1t will also mark the last appearance under the Poli management of Miss Alice Fleming in leading roles To night Miss Fleming retireS from the cast and Manager Poli has engaged to replace her by one of the most tal- ented stock women of the present day Mary Coxe Stockwell. Miss Stock we'll is of commanding appearance and stauesque beauty and is of the Max inc Elliot type.
 tation in the dramatic world her father being l.. R. Stockwell the famous ac- tor manager and her mother Ethel Brandon loved and honored as the most popular stock leading woman who ever played on the Pacific coast. Miss Stockwell has been on the stage since she was three years of age and has won enviable fame for a woman young in years. She has played leads in many of the Proctor companies in leading American cities was star of the Belasco stock in San Francisco Brooklyn last winter in one of the Percy Williams houses with Miss Fleming playing leads in the opposi- tion house. Opinion in Brooklyn as to the popularity and talent Of. the two leading women still remains a mat ter of argument.
 Next weeks production will be Daughters of Men the powerful play by Charles Klein author of the Lion and the Mouse, The Third Degree, The Musical Master and other successes and the story of the play deals with an old theme. capital and labor. in a new and novel dress
 The plot centers about John Sted- man, young attorney, who is attrac- ted to the work Of bringing together millionaire owners of the large Feder- ated workmen on the verge of a strike which will throw thousands of men out of employment. Stedman's inter- est is not mercenary but rather is it of the sympathetic order he having pity for the families of the workmen. He makes several speeches in public and at one of the meetings where he speaks he interests Grace Crosby the sister of one of the rich owners of the company. a girl who is interested in charitable work.
 The girl falls in love with Stedman, takes up his side of the cause and as she is worth a million in her own right renders material assistance to the workmen and brings humiliation to her family.
 Stedman calls at her home to ask the consent of her brother to their marriage which is refused and while he is at tha hoz1sa is called unon by