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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-12-30

Ills, where he was called a faw
weeks ago by the serious iIlnas
of Mrs. Firms father. Mrs Finn
and the children will remain there
for some time longer.
Ira H. Clark was out in Rush
this week, and says that while Inc
wheat out there is mighty back
ward this year the same as here,
yet it seems to still be in good
shape. o..
Miss BesSa Clark is viSitHg
with relatives and friends. in New
ton.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-12-30

eS rub their eyes. and a section
of country, whenever it may be,
that makes a record. like this has
a right to be heard. It is a re-
cord impossible. to. a region not
/ fruitful, and rich in lis soil and
in its citizenship.
Part of the increase may be
accounted for it is true, by. the
higher prices for. farm produce
but TIE chief caHss are better
farming, the growing. use Of. gas
cline and Steam ROVER. larger euE
tivatsd. areas. and more than all
else, or at least very fundamental
ly cOntributGrv. is. the knowledge
of soils and cOrdTi'rr, GuA ccO"s
and systems fer which thew are
best adap+ad. TIE value of pur-
suing methods taught by. exper.
fence as advisable is S,rikinely
illustrated by the % years diver.
sifi9d farming of one. man, who
says of his wheat: II can recall
but one year when the yield has
been as small as the state aver
age! The usual yield has beer
20 bushels to the acre and up
wards!
The story of western Kansas de
element chronicles the conversion
Of a. praSuppOSed 'desert" into E
land of profitable farms and hap
-py homes. Eighty per cent Of
the. land in these counties is a:
yet a stranger to the pillow, but
the recent soil survey by the q
nited States discovers that prac
tically the whole is adapted tt
agriculture, and hence capable
of supporting a large population
This gives emphasis to what thOS
well informed. have long conten
ded were the facts, and is i'm lint
with prospects based on the ex
perience of those who have al
ready achieved success. An a.
Weakening to the opportunities at
tOrded by the comparatively low
priced lands there has already at
tracted considerable population
as witness the net gain of So PEE
cent Within the past decade, tire
counties reporting five times tn.
inhabitants of 10 years ago, Other
twice as many or more, while al
record substantial growth.
Naturally the increase in popu
Iation has resulted in appreciate,
enlargmg the acreages devoted t
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-12-30

crops. In fact, the percentage OF
gain IN land sown to wheat, for
example, amounting to 2l2 pei
cent, is, as will be seen, far m ex-
cess of the gain in inhabitants
Thirty years ago this portion Of
the state sowod only 1865 acre, 4,
20. years ago 100000 acres. 10
years ago 572.UO0 acres, and IN
1910 1926 acres, or more than
i fourth of the States total area
SOwn to wheat and more than was
,levOted to wheat in the whole
Ssate. In 1889, or almost any year
preceding. SOM of the counties
showing the most S,r'king IN
'creases are Ford. from 23,4l6 IN
1900 to 1875, 375 a r sin 1910; Ster.
ems 8 acres 10 1900 10 $3.50 IN
1910. Seward. 1856 f. 40.4SO acres,
Meade 1914 to 7S;,4S5 acres, Clarl
l13O to $500, Gray 1923 TO 55,-
BAT, Morton 16,S2O'to III, 564 De
catur 34.1O5 to 117.533, and Gram
IRON nothing to 1000.
Larger areas likewise are being
planted to Indian corn Kafir corr
alfalfa, oats, barley and the sOr,
gums. Barley seems a particular
favOrite and useful field crop, be-
ing an especially aceep allie sui
stitute for corn as a grain for live
stock Practically all of thu
states barley is grOwn'in wSS err
Kansas, although numerous cOun.
ties outside raise a little, Every
county too grows more or IS
alfalfa, and some, as Decatur, FIJI
ney, Ford, Graham, Meade Nor
ton, Sheridan and TregO, are a
mong the prominent producers
Conditions there favor the matur
ing of the seed and this is an i'm
pOrtant crop apart from the for
age and pasture the plant affords
The Importance of alfalfa to tht
counties of this. REGION is empha
sized by the fact that prior to it
introduction they had no depend
able hay plant.
While making no pretens.on,
that the region is suited, as
whole, year in and year out, fcl
corn, the land devoted to corl
growing increased from 616,1S.
acres in 1900 to 942,711 in 1909
Scrgums have nearly trsbled il
acreage in the same time, and tn
West now has about As per cen
I1t the states sOrgum plantings
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-12-30

Ed McGinty, of Macksvillp,
gladdencd the heart of the editor
this week by sending in a check to
boost IN his Subscription a couple
of nOtcheS. Would that about a
Thousand more of our subscribers
would do Likewise.
Ed Finn, of Albion township,
returned Tu sday from Virginia.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-12-30


The Democratic candidates Of
1910 presented Fred zutafern,
chairman Of the Democratic Gem
trail Committee with a handsome
gold headed cane as "a Christmas
gift, in appreciation of his ser
vices during the late campaign.
On the. cane was engraved "TO
Hon.. Fred Zutavern, from the
Democratic candidates, 1910"
The gift is a handsome one, and
one highly appreciated by Mr.. III
tavern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
GIRL BURGLARS CAPTURED

From the Washington Post.
 Girls who turn burglars are certainly unusual" said G. L. Marshall of Chica- go, at the Shoreham. 'Yet this occurred recently in Saltwater, Minn., which was annoyed for long time by a series of mysterious housebreakings. The police force worked itself to frazzle trying to discover the perpetrators of the bold bur glaries. Finally, suspicion led to the ar rest of a 13-year-old girl, who confessed that she and her pal another girl, 15 years old, who was visiting her from St. Paul, had committed the burglaries. It was discovered that the pair had entered and robbed nine houses in Saltwater with in three days.
 "When the home of the Saltwater girl was searched. great amount of loot of all kinds was found. This was restored to the owners. The St. Paul girl had re- turned home, but was brought back. and confessed. The father of the Saltwater girl was arrested, charged with teaching his daughter to be burglar Both the girls will be sent to reformatories, and the father probably to the penitentiary. Never before in the history of the state were girl burglars detected"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
Investigating Schedule K

The most notorious schedule of the Aldrich tariff is known as Schedule R." It is the schedule dictated by the woolen mills of New England cooperating with the sheepraisers of the far west. This schedule discriminates against the man with large family and small income in amounts to 143 2-3 per cent. On the finer, priced grades of flanncls, worn by the poor. the tax imposed by Schedule K' amounts to 14s 2-4 per cent. On the finer, softer flannels, manufactured for the rich, the tax Is 80 per cent. The tax levied under this schedule on the cheap grades of carpets used in the small homes of the poor runs from 140 to 15o per cent. The higher priced carpets and rugs purchased by the well-to-do are taxed about 60 per cent. The lower priced blankets, which the poor must buy if they buy any. pay duty amounting to 1sO per cent.
 The heavier taxation is imposed on those of small means because there are more of them, and they are unorganized, and they can be made to pay prices up to tariff limits.
 This schedule is, it Is said, to be in- vestigated by the tariff board. The re- publican party begins to see that Sched- ule K must be unloaded. or at any rate modified. But the investigation begun in Ohio does not touch the discrimnations of the schedule. It relates to the cost of producing wool In this country by the use of tariff-enhanced articles, and thus piecemeal revision becomes impossible.
 The determinations in Schedule K could be abolished without all the fuss and feathers that the tariff board is mak-
 ing. That tariff board means indirection and delay, and the people are in no mood to stand either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
TAFT'S FUTURE
the New York Post,

From the New York Post.
 President Taft cannot fail to read in the election returns a severe rebuke to his administration. The rebuff Is fully as marked. as that given to Pres generally accepted as indicating, now as then, the election of a democratic successor. Yet MT. Taft may well con- slider himself lucky that his person. ality was made so little of in the cam paign. His friends have all along felt a pronounced relief that he was so largely tout of it." Indeed, it is said that he himself has privately remarke ed, with shrewd humor, on his good for tune in having a robust volunteer step forward to shoulder the chief respon- sibility for the party defeat. which the President clearly saw to be im- tending. And now that the great dis aster has befallen the republicans, their wisest heads will confer about the best way to pull themselves together and prepare for the critical struggle of 1912. The inevitable tendency will be to rally to the President and make him the candidate two years from now unless he declines the contest. A par tial victory yesterday would have left the future action of the party in more doubt than does the overwhelming de- feat If 1t Is hazardous to change generals on the eve of battle. 1t Is even more so to do 1t in the midst of q rout
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
The expectancy and rose of this fair state. Hamlet
Mobiles Rank As a Port

The building of an inter-coastal canal from St. Georges sound in Florida to the mouth of the Rio Grande would pro- mote the development of this district, and possibly the general government will yet be induced to build the proposed canal or protected waterway. The times seem to lean to waterways as the coun- try increases in population and wealth. trict in the rlchly-endowed state is more Interested in the development of Mobile, the only port of the state, than in even Is engaged in dredging the channel and river at Mobile to depth of 27 feet, and when this depth is obtained Mobile will be able to accommodate any steamer plying the gulf. 'In the race for su- premacy," says the Mobile Register, s.Mobile has suffered the handicap of railroad manipulation, sending vast quan- titles of freight to other ports that should have come to Mobile, but the future of this port Is assured against any odds that the railroads may impose, by reason of the rapid completion of the lock sys- tenn on the rivers converging here, which will eventually make the entire state of Alabama and a part of Mississippi tribu- tary to Mobile and make railroad rates subject to water competition. What this means to any seaport even a tyro in commercial knowledge understands. No other gulf port has such opportunity In the future and all now depends on the ability of Mobiles citizens to grasp the opportunity, to make seaport that will impose the least burden on commerce. to defeat all attempts at further railroad manipulation and to strive for the com mercial supremacy of the gulf that all the conditions seem to point to-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
Combating Cholera In Europe

Rigorous measures have well-nigh stamped out cholera in Italy, but in the southern provinces of Russia the plague Is constantly spreading. About 1000 new cases a week are reported, and the nor tality continues to be about 50 per cent
 The ignorance of the Russian people Is not easily dealt with. If troops are sent into the infected provinces they, too. would become infected. The Rus- sian doctors are not altogether ineffi- cient, but they can do nothing with a population that cannot De induced to boil its water or be careful to avoid cholera germs in articles of food The Russian people know nothing about dis ease germs or the means of avoiding them. When the disease breaks out in . Russian village the people hasten to the village church to get supplies Of holy water To sprinkle over their houses. This water Is taken from the nearest brook. and as a rule 1t is alive with cholera spirilla. Neither the priests of the Russian church nor the people can be induced to accept the methods of modern science, and the result is the disease will go on until it burns itself out.
 It Is not a disease that cold weather will destroy. and it Is believed 1t will continue to devastate the southern prov inces of Russia until fully 5Oo,Ooo lives are lost. The authorities of St. Peters burg see the danger but they see no way of dealing with dense ignorance and wholesale uncleanliness. No health off, fcer can do much without Intelligent assistance from the ranks of the peo- pie themselves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
THE WOMAN MANAGER
the St. Louis Times.

From the St. Louis Times.
 Long ago Mrs. John Drew successfully conducted famous theatre in Philadel- phia. Madame Bernhardt, too, has shown talents for management. Other women from time to time have directed public amusement efficiently.
 Of interest in St. Louis just now Is the managerial newcomer, Miss Alice Martin. who is responsible for the first appear ance in St. Louis of the marvellous Rus sian dancers, who performed at the Odeon last night before the most bril- liant audience of this season. The fact that the Russians brought an entirely new art and a magnificent set of extra ordinary pictures to our attention is hard ly more significant than the other fact of feminine general management.
 We are not particularly interested in suffragettes or the suffragette move ment, but we are quick to write an ap- provaI of the high-class efficiency which often characterizes feminine endeavor in large way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
Public Schools In Alabama

The annual report of Superintendent of Education Gunnels does not show that much over one-half of the school children in the state go to school. There are 71s,- Ooo children of school age in the state, about 100000 of whom are enrolled in the public schools. The summary at hand of MT. Gunnell's report does not show the average attendance in the schools. which is after all the real test of their work.
 MT. Gunnels does not, however, con- sider the school system perfect. He urges the legislature to make these improve nents in 1t:
 T. The appointment of a commission consisting of members of the house and senate, the incoming superintendent of education and a superintendent who had served before. the purpose of which com- mission shall be to prepare a code of the school laws of the state.
 "2. The one mill school tax, instead of being paid directly by the tax collector to the county superintendent, should be paid into the state treasury and be dis bursed as state funds.
 "3. Establishment of uniformity among the state normal schools, in so far as graded work is concerned.
 A. Submission of an amendment to the constitution permitting local districts to tax themselves for educational purposes.
 "5 Amendment of state statutes so as to guarantee to every county and dis trict the best of qualified supervision.
 "s Passage of law for compulsory education"
 A law providing for compulsory edu- cation should not precede the right in a school district to get ready for 1t through local taxation. It is difficult to see how any material gain in public education irl this state can be accomplished until the right of local taxation is granted. When that is done all of MT. Gunnel's recommendations will become as feasible as they are desirable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
DEMENTIA AT CARDS
m the New York World

From the New YOrk WOrlu.
 The contest of a will in the surrogate's court has brought up new and subtle question of mental unsoundness on which it is desirable to have the testimony O. the best alienists. Does inability to re- member the trump in bridge constitute insanity, and are there paranoiac symp- toms in the habit of looking at turned trick?
 Allegations to this effect are made in the suit to break the Crerand will on the ground of the testator's incompetency, and the verdict will be of wide social con- sequence. Are the drawing rooms of New York full of insanity of a form pecu- liarly affecting the feminine mind? And granting that these practices are proof of 1t, are there other unfavorable symp- toms in the neglect to follow the heart convention when no-trump hand is doubled? Does discarding from strength or weakness connote any relation to a corresponding mental condition?
 Bridge has been held responsible for many sins. If it is now to figure in alienist testimony and players sanity made to depend on his manner of play, no time should be lost in providing prece- dents to enable players to conform their game to the medico-legal requirements If they follow Dalton as against Elwell or Street, or vice versa, is the fact pre- sumptive evidence of mental bias? In view of the general increase of insanity and the new danger of bridge dementia to which irregular methods of plav may conducf, it is important to have the game standardized by means of court de- cisions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14

From the Chicago Record Herald
 The report of the interstate com merce commission for the year ended June 30, 1910 shows, as compared with the previous twelve month, an increase in railroad accidents and in resulting death and injuries. The increase Is de- plorably heavy-more than 1000 in the number killed and 1S.454 in the number injured.
 The figures cover passengers, em- ployes. and others. The record Is the more surprising since the use of safety devices has steadily grown and the sub ject of railroad safety has been under active public discussion. No doubt an increase in traffic has contributed to the result but there are other factors in the situation.
 There Is but one lesson in the new figures, and that lesson Is old. The way to make travel and railroad operation safer and safer is to pay greater and greater attention to safety--to enforce discipline, punish disobedience of rules and orders accelerate the rate of in- troduction of Improvements, add to the trackage where that step Is necessary and advisable. With our intelligence, skill, and enterprise, preventable acci- dents should be few and far between.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
GLADSTONE AND DISRAELI
ohn Morley in the London Times.

John Morley In the London Times.
 is a curious thing that the adora
 tion of political England should all ! this time have been divided, though not in equal proportions, between two flustrious men and governed first by one and then the other of them, neither of whom she more than half understood or even pretended to understand. Palmerston, for instance, was one of the most plain headed men that ever became prime minister. In his two suc- cessors political fortune brought ex- traordinary paradox. MT. Gladstone, from the day when he resigned about Maynooth, offered to his most ardent friends endless puzzles. He would have scQrned to call himself by any name but Catholic, and amid all his vicissi- tudes was ever the most devoted son of the Church of England Yet he was the idol of Protestant ultras the politi- cal hero of Scotch Presbyterians and English independents, not to name the small but ardent band of Rationalists, some of whom were his stoutest hench- men to the end.
 Disraelfs apotheosis was Just as strange. MT. Gladstone used to tell how one day, sitting on the bench while Disraeli was making a strenuous speech for the removal of Jewish disabilities, Lord John Russell whispered: Look at the fellow, how manfully he sticks to it, though he knows that every word he says is gall and wormwood to every man who sits around him and behind
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
FOR REVENUE ONLY

From the New York Evening Post.
 From the very center of southern man. ufacturing industry, from Birmingham Ala, the Pittsburg of the south, comes a clear pronouncement for a tariff for revenue only" In addition to declaring for this principle, Representative Under wood adds that in his Judgment such a tariff would cover "the difference in the labor cost of most manufactured articles at home and abroad" As for protecting profits, MT. Underwood declares that he Is opposed to 1t, "believing that to protect profits means to protect monopoly" His position .as ranking democratic member after Champ Clark, the leader or the party-both in the committee on rules and the committee on ways and means, gives special importance to this statement of position, made so promptly after the election which gives the democrats the next House by large majority. That matter of the difference in cost Of pro- duction, which the republicans are now using as the second line of intrench- ments for their tariff system, has got to be tackled before long by the demo- crats. It Is therefore worth noting that In this early utterance on the subject by a man in a position of great influ- ence in the House and representing a district which may be supposed to be more protectionist than any other in the south, two points are made that look away from the revised republican doc Urine. In the first place, MT. Underwood indicates that industries must take their chances under the tariff-for-revenue plan: 1t is only most manufactures" for which the difference in labor cost would be covered by the tariff, and the others must make the best of what they can get. And secondly, he declares that produc- ton of profits is not entitled to any con- sderation at all.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14

him." It took him a generation to country gentlemen. He was regaled with host of nicknames from every quarter indicative of mystery and leger- demain. Yet after some i've and thirty years of it huge majority of English voters at last hailed him for first min- ister. The strange riddle stands over
 Meanwhile we do not forget that one who began his career by so much lit- erary extravagance as the present vol tune recalls, yet when he came to the great business of his life, the creation and working of a powerful political party. showed himself cool, shrewd pa tient, far sighted, practical, full of tac- tical resource, 8 consummate master of the fatiguing art of managing men, and those, too, the kind of men to whom he was not by race only but by tempera- ment and deepest habits chartered alien. He grew larger, and not less, as time went on, even down to the days of disaster and overthrow in 1880. Those who were in confidential relations with him at that baleful hour have recorded, as the present writer has said else- where, how the fallen minister, who had counted on very different result, faced the ruin of his government, the end OK his career and the overwhelming tri-A umph of his antagonist with an un- clouded serenity and a greatness of mind worthy of a man who had known high fortunes and filled to the full the measure of his gifts and his ambitions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-11-14
A Great Beer Town

Georgia and Alabama got into the pro- hibition column about the same time," said Arthur Pendleton of Washington, D. C., but the Cracker state soon made an exception in favor of beer, and Atlanta is today, l am told, the largest consumer of malt beverages of any city of It's size in the United States. Well, can readily imagine that it's beer traffic is uncomnonly large, because the beer habit is encouraged, while whisky drink ing is restricted. I rarely drink anything stronger than beer. but do drink bot tie or two of that mild hut satisfying beverage every day, when I can get 1t
 without too much trouble.
 'I have not been to Savannah in re- cent years, but I am informed that whisky Is sold there openly in viola ton of the so-called statewide prohibit ton laws. It may be that there was more public sentiment against prohibition in Savannah than in Atlanta Be that as 1t may, the people of Atlanta seem to think they are working out the liquor problem along temperance lines by en
 couraging the brewery trade and confin-