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Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-05-13
CoMANCHE.
By Special Correspondent

q o o o o o o o
Miss Maude Hagen came down
from Great Bend Saturday morn
ing to visit with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Louis Hagen. She re-
turAed to Great Bend Monday ev-
ening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jake Batchman
entertained a number of their rel
atiTeS and friends at their home
slast Sunday afternoon.
Jake Haggar of Stafford, was
in OOmanche the first of the week
visiting friends and relatives and
traRsacting business.
August Christensen made a
business trip to Great Bend last
Msnday.
Mr.. and Mrs. W. E. Koch en-
tertained a number of friends in
a SsCial way last Sunday after
nosa.
Gus Koch made a business trip
to Great Bend last Monday.
Hr. Robert Partridge Of Macks-
vile, was in COmanche last Fri
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-05-13

Mr.. John Havas' cars arrived
from EllinwoOd last Saturday anc
the neighbors were busy helping
him move his furniture and nipple
ments to his farm, which he pur;
chased Of Charles Hermann. We
welcome Mr.. Havas and family
into our neighborhOod. -Kinsley
Graphic.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-05-13

II gives me pleasure to endorse
Doan's Kidney Pills"
For sale by all dealers. Price
so cents. Foster ilburn Co., Blu
falO, New York, sole agents for
the United States.
Remember the name-DOan's-
and take no other.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-05-13
CHAPLIN.
From The Clarion.
o o o 0 o 0

Al Mackey is confined to his
home with a case Of measles.
Mrs. F. L. Herthel and Mrs. W.
II. Gundy spent a couple of days
last week visiting friends at Nc
Pherson.
j. A. Schneiweis was in town
Monday and reported that the hal
storm Of Sunday night broke out
six dollars worth Of window lights
at his place.
Ora Hiestand and family came
IRON Yates Center the first of the
week and will take charge of the
Cottage Hotel Sunday morning.
Louis Palmer returned home
the. first of the week from a
couple Of weeks visit at Pretty
Prairie and other points.
Jpo. McNutt left Tuesday morn
ing for Preston, Macksville and
other points where he will visit
> for several days.
Peter Krier and Ferdinand
Kug, accompanied by DR.. Embry
left the fore part of the week for
Hot Springs, where the two form
er will take treatment. DR.. EN-
bry will return as soon as he gets
theA located and started on
their treatments.
. Robert Grizell last week sold
a team of horses to Herman BOrtz
for $50, and S. SOeken reports
the sale of three mules to a horse
buyer for $705. There ought to be
pretty good money in raising hOrE
es and mules at these prices. To
our notion it would beat raising
so much wheat.
. . F. A. Wesley of HOlyrOOd, is to
open new photograph gallery in
!Claflin just as soon as the neceSs-
airy arrangements can be made.
He has purchased a lot on Main
street, between the Ruch garage
and Crows carpenter shop, and
will soon start the erection of a
two story brick building which
. will be 25x5O feet. The second
= story will be equipped for a first
class photograph gallery, and we
understand that the first floor
will be for rent.
. NJ. A. DowSe came down from
the farm near Yates Center the
first of the week and has been
spending his time getting ready
to move his family. The DOwst
family have made Claflin their
: home for a good many years and
many regrets will be felt to see
Them, leave here and their many
friends will all join in wishing
them success and happiness il
their new home. They expect tC
start Monday.
. F. A. Galway, formerly resi-
dent Of this community, but now
living in the vicinity of Burton
was here couple of days the pas
week. He reports his family a.
all enjoying good health and says
that they all like their new home
which is situated just south o.
the town of Burton and only {
few blocks from the public SchOO
He says they have lots of frui
on their place, but that it ha'
been pretty badly damaged by tn
frOStS this season.
Last night as N. L. DOnglinger
Gee. Freeman and L. j. Schmid
were returning from Hollywood il
the formers auto, the steering
gear went to the bad just as the!
crossed the railroad in the cas-
part of town, and the. machin,
took a header for the ditch, ant
when it struck the bank Nick tool
header for the ground. No on
:. was hurt and there was no damag
done to the machine other thai
tie steering apparatus.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-05-13
For Sale by
c.. E. Holmes,
Druggist
NIGHTS OF UNREST.

No Sleep, No Rest, No Peace for
the Sufferer From Kidney
Troubles.
No peace for the kidney suf-
ferer-
Pain and distress from morn to
night.
Get up with a lame back.
TwingeS of backache bother yOl
all day.
DULL a;hmg breaks your rest at
night.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1910-05-13

j. L. Cox was in Lyons on bus
mess Tuesday.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
Producing Rain ArtifeiaIIy.

The aeroplane farmer has arrived. He has no fear of drouths. When na- ture falls to make rain he takes water up in his aeroplane and lets ft fall on the growing crops. The water requires no parachute in returning gracefully to the earth The story reads a bit like a joke, but that it is merely natural to the first attempt of that nature to overcome the drouth conditions. George T. HulsiZer of Livingston, N J.. is the up-to- date farmer He had two acres planted to late crops and the drouth of the last few weeks in that section troubled him But he is an inventor as well as farmer. and made a bipiane glider, put an engine into it and hitch ed the airship by means of a rope to the earth attached to a windlass load . ed the airship with water tanks and sent it up into the air When 1t was over the right place on the farm the rope was made fast, the bottom pulled out of the water tanks and down came the rain through a sprinkler. The crops have done well since that and the aero plane farmer is laughing at his less cnterprising neighbors while their crops dry up. The shower by aviation may be one of the institutions of this country by and by, and then there will 'be no smiles about the eccentricity of the man who first dared to do It. Worcester Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
SKY LEGISLATION.

The courts of New Jersey have an airship- damage suit to consider with but very little law upon which to base judgment.
 One ofthe persons injured by a fall ing aeroplane at the Asbury Park avi- alton meet the other day has filed suit for damages
 The action is commonplace enough in its way says the Newark News. Tt would provoke no special comment, either, but that it opens up a most interesting field of speculation This has to do with aviation in it's relation to law and lawmaking. 'In a word, our whole body of law deals with man in his relations to creatures and things upon the surface of the earth or beneath it.
 With suddenness almost startling g
 we face aerial highways and bounda- ries There is no question but that in a few years the upper air will be navigated by hundreds. perhaps thou sands. The aeropIane is likely to be-
 come as popular as the automobile. It
 may be that the airship will rival the yacht No one can say that it will not compete. with steamboat or even ocean liner. It's usefulness in peace and war. however vaguely defined to day. is certain to be considerable.
 Very evidently legislation must look skyward-and the sooner the better
 The aolest legal minds are consid
 ering this subject France has a spe- ciaI commission now engaged in for
 nulating "air laws" Its report will be awaited with interest by the entire civilized world. Germany, too. has taken some steps in the same direc tion Everywhere legal minds are earnestly wrestling with this question and it is to be hoped that protection for property and the people will keep pace with the progress made in air flight.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
AN EQUIPMENT OF INTEREST.

The free rural mail carriers in all parts of the country will be interest
 ed in the Philadelphia experiments to be made next week to determine the superiority of the automobile for the work over the horse. Each day two new routes will be selected. covering Q distance in every case of approXi- mately eighteen miles. Few of the routes in any part of the country are shorter than this and many of them are longer. The time allowed to make the trip and deliver the mail is about three hours and a half. In most in
 stances at present the mail carriers daily task means all day on the road. The use of the motor would at least cut it in half In some cases this would enable the carrier to take care of two routes instead of one and in
 crease his salary, the smaliness of which is now a matter of common complaint among the men of the serv- ice. The cost of a machine at the start might seem formidable. but a very small and inexpensive one, if strong would answer. As it is now, the carrier must provide his own cart and usually two horses, the work be- ing too wearing for one. At the end
 of the year. he would be likely to find
 his expense account in favor of the machine. He could be reasonably sure of fair roads over which to run it, that
 being one of the conditions of the es-
 tablishment of a route. If the expect
 ed results are realized, the governm ent could afford to do so much better by
 the carriers that they could afford to run an $500 machine and they would
 find their work easier and pay better.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
GENIUS IN POLITICS.

It has to be admitted that the shrewd politician is always more or less of a genius, for he has to keep in touch with the people in various ways. Big Tim Sullivan, the New York congressman, is such 8 man. When he gave one of his annual treats to about 5000 newsboys the other day he made the following laconic speech to them:
 Boys, when I was a newsboy 35 years ago a newspaper was as good as a library. and it is today.
 Don't none of you ever drink or tell a lie. And always keep one of your papers by you to read, and read it trough
 He doesn't forget his point of be- ginning and he knows it is the point nearest the human heart. He made this speech to 1000 newsboys-it has touched 100000 human hearts and it has given him popular political strength which seems to be incidental to such a kindly deed and such words of wisdom. This speech doesn't take up much room in print but 1t will loom for years in the heart of the boy who remembers and honors these words The daily newspaper is an ed ucator and the source of a liberal ed- ucation
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27

ing the dahha patch the other day, and I cannot imagine what he can find except beauty to pay him for his pains. He is the Danias Archippus of Fa.bricious. popularly known in some sections as the MIX Weed butterfly He may be a Monarch among Cana dian butterflies. for that is where he is most generally known as the Mon arch. He isn't as large as the Tiger butterfly, or as pretty in the mature form. In infancy and youth he excels in beauty other species. The pretty zebra caterpillar of the rnilkweed is his child; and when it is in the mid dle or pupaI stage, which compares with human youth, Ire Is in appear ance an emerald green, almost trans lucent eardrop. decorated with black and golden lines. He is the most in teresting of all butterflies to study in his pupal case, because 1t finally be- comes so thin that the red and black wing colors can be seen through it before it opens and the Monarch emerges. He makes his bow to na- ture in the winged state early in the morning, and flies away about twenty minutes after his second birth.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
WHEN THE STORY IS ENDED

should be as old as we are to-day, years older than our young father was the night he passed into the unbroken silence The next instant, as though the fragrance of my birthday carnaL- tions filled every breath, it came to me comfortingly, that our years are as nothing. In my heart, I shall all ways be the same little child I was the day father found me far from home, lost and bewildered in the great city, and saw me a l6ng way off, and came to me, and lifted me in his arms. God grant me to keep the childlike heart.
 I'm glad you urged me to write these simple records. brother mine When began them my heart was heavy, too heavy to break. But as I went on, some measure of the load was lifted, and. indeed, much of the writing has been done with delight. I have loved with the flowers, played pretty plays with the little ones, danced at the baby parties, made music with father and merry with mother, and cuddled down to sleep beside you every night in our twin nursery beds. Little by little. as I remeTn bered and wrote, the heavy ache began to go out of my heart; little by little, the weary ed and lifted. Slowly, too, began to see that all life is one, that the eternal essence that breathes in me is one with the flowers and the birds and the stars, one with the mountains and the vastness of the sea, one with all love, the live that expresses itself through lover or child-from God.
 was thinking of all this when the children came. and laughingly, loving Iy, scattered over me their gift of carnations. When they had closed my door, and I hurried to dress for brealSfa st, listening all the while to the sound of their scampering feet on the stairs, and the music of merry child voices floating back to me on the sweet air of home, suddenly there came to me a new interpretation of life. l wonder if I can put in words pre- cisely what I mean. hope so, for I would not have you misunderstood. All at once I seemed to get a larger look at life and at what life means. My own life work stood out to me from a totally different point Of view. seemed to see that all I have been laboriously, always conscientiously, and many times doggedy, because things had to be done, has never been my true life work, but merely the lit tie daily tasks that have come to my hand as I journeyed along. Like the made home spots in the wilderness, tended old age and infancy, brought up children, written and worked, play ed and slept and dreamed-dreaming ever of greater things. These all have been my duties, my privileges, my op- portunities, within which i have found my utmost happiness. Yet-can you understand2 In that flash of birth - day light came the illumination that not one nor all of these things I have been doing all my life is my real life work What is it then2 What is mine, and yours. and that of the children we love- and that of all the world |? Simply this: The life work of each in- diViduaI soul is to learn it's own re- lation to the Eternal. When the les son is learned, the story is ended.
 THE RECLUSE.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
(written for the Bulletin )

I've written you volumes of letters, brother mine, more than would fill a book I have tried to do what you asked me to jot down on paper all l can remen Der of the incidents of our childhood, the slight happenings that mean nothing to any one but ourselves, but so much to us. Here ends this simple record of our early child life together
 Later, many things happened. Father died, and our home was broken up. We went to live among our mothers s people, making new friends, and widen ing our small eyed views of life But we do not forget the old home, brother mine, nor the sweet old days we were little together. Shall we ever forget our last day, there, in our dear fathers that we were leaving? It was bright, crisp day of October. The house looked strange and unhappy, as though feeling itself dismantled and soon to be reserted. Carpets were up and curtains down, and all our house hold goods were standing about in crates. Even now I can see mothers face as it looked that day, the cheeks painfully flushed, the eyes brilliant with the pain of parting the mouth dropping at the corners in a pathetic way it had after father died. The moment came when the last load had been sent off, the last corner swept, every bit of paper and twine picked up,
 
 fastened. Then we all filed out, while mother bravely turned the key of the door and handed it over to the house agent The brave mother. She had been the queen of her home, the central heart about which the home hearts revolved. Every nook and corner held for her the tenderest as sociations. The very heart of her life had throbbed within that home. made beautiful by her for him who had left us and for the little chil- dren. hers and his. How could she do it, brother mine? And how could she keep so brave? I did not see a tear in her eyes. but only the fevered flush of the lcheeks and the gentle head held high. How she must have ionged for an understanding glance or word from us, or even a touch of the hand to assure her that we, too, felt what she was living through Instead, we stood about, now on one foot, now on the other, in travelling dress, with travelling bags in hand, large eyed, open mouthed, experimenting dirnly in our dumb. childish way, but too young, too inexperienced, to understand. Then came the carriage that was to convey us to the station. We drive away we the mother and her little children, out into a wide unprotecting world and that chapter in our lives was closed.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
rHE EVASION OF LAW.


 The Bridgeport Standard appears to think that The Bulletin needs lectur- ing upon the necessity for respecting the law when 1T doesn't. The Bulletin has no idea that the successful evas- ion of law excuses the act but so long as communities ind 1t profitable. if not respecta ols, they seem to put their moral sense in their pockets and 10 do the thing which pays. This is not peculiar to New London county coruuuities as The Standard must have observed. for violation Of law by certain privileged classes is just as common in Bridgeport as in other cities Of the land Corporations do not Hks- laws which operate to abridge their privileges any more than towns do. and even high and ux ghty" in civtduzls in most New England cities have q way of showing their superior fly to the common herd by browbeat- ing boards of relief or paying little attention to necessary and wholesome police rules
 All Of these had examples do not answer as an excuse for the habit which is against both morality and good citizenship; and The Bulletin 1TRes to see The Standard standing for something better; and it believes most weH conducted newspapers dO-
 And when these evaders of the law turn to the press and inquire what 1t snten5s 10 do about it. ali it can say Is Stand for righteousness, and let the tnriEhteous dance"
 The Bulletin isn't inconsistent, Mir. standard but along these lines of vir- tre 1t has to confess it is in the mi norfty and the law evading majority points to results, not to the ten com -nazdTuents
 T. would be well were 1t otherwise. bzr there appears to be no Immediate hope of it's becoming so
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
Harmon,s EIisht Across the Sound.

c. B. Harmon has crossed Long Isl- and sound quicker than any other man
 but he did not touch the water He sailed in his bipIane 2S miles in 90 minutes Boats are sailed or steamed in a straighter line than that, but they cannot make so fast time. It is not the most remarkable trip that has been made in the world but it leads in American flights in some particulars, and it must be of unusual interest to Worcester people because 1t was made over salt water which they have to cross in going direct to New York and which they will surely cross when they go to the big city in their aeropIanes next year or a few years later. Har-
 mon left Garden City at 6.35 o'clock at night to ride across the sound to the home of his father-fn-Iaw at Green wich Conn, and this is the way he tells the story of his flight: The wind was aft of me and blowing about 15 miles an hour. increasing during the flight to 25 miles. In the flight to Roslyn I traveled over bad country, and when I reached the water I felt as if someone had just given me quarter million dollars Once over the plane went up and down like a boat, owing to the cross winds, l was able to keep it going in a straight line. my al- titude varying from 400 to 1000 feet. It was a struggle to keep right side up crossing Hampstead bay. but reached the Larchmont club at 6.55. Coming up the sound from Larchmont I had the breeze with me and I went the 10 miles in 10 minutes-60 miles an hour. It was dark when I reached the island just in front of my father in-Iaw's estate, so I went on few hun- dred feet to Sandy beach just acrOss the inlet and came down in tall grass In all the distance travelled was about 28 miles, and from the Harmon experi- ence over the water may be gathered a good deal of the sport that is coming to the people of New England when they get ready to fly down that way
 Worcester folks should be able to fly to New York in three hours at a mils a minute rate.-Worcester Telegram.
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
INJURED FEELINGS.

It must be admitted that this is an era of injured feelings. and the su- perviSor of the census takes no heed when he gives out his report of pop ulation to cities whether the inhab- 1tznts Writhe or dance With most cities there is a feeling of sadness prevalent when the expected fails to happen It looks now as if the little city of Flint. Mich, which has made a gain of 1sz2 per cent. an automobile notwithstanding town. was going to win high line in the nation
 Tcledo is disappointed because it has fallen 1s.0oo behind Columbus, which 1t led by 6,o0e ten years ago: and if Boston doesn't loom up higher shan St Louis her lip wall fall, and vice wersa-
 The wiser cities are grasping the crUmb of comfort cropped by Mayor Gzynor of New York to an interviewer a few weeks ago. when he said, All slow growth Is good grUwth-'' For instance Norwich and New London have never flashed 9 new high figure upon the world in q census year: but they advance heeIthfly and are on the nap to stay The chief asset of most of these quiet little New ECns5s nd cities is their tion-iTsd us- tries that do not fail-a climate and scens-y always interesting
 Norwich ought 70 look better by several thousands than it did ten years ago. for if we have lost a few by mi grafton we have gained a large suburb by annexation; but x is 50 far down in the alphabet that it is likely to be some time before we get our figure.
 Norwich is not worrying, for ten decades of existence confirms the value of Mayor Gaynor's remark, that slow growth is good growthi'
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
Oldest living Woman.

Frau Dutkievitz. living at Posen, in Prussian Poland, has long enjoyed the distinction of being the olGest woman in the whole world, says a Vienna cor respondent of the Pail Mall Gazette. She was born on February 21 17S5, and thus was 125 years old last Feb ruary. However a Bulgarian peasant woman. named Babavasilka, and who has never quilted her native village of Bavelsko, has deprived the aged dame of Posen of her record of longevity, for the Bulgarian peasant was born in May. 1784, and is thus nine months older. For nearly one hundred years the Bulgarian peasant has worked in the fields; her descendants, who are nearly a hundred in number now make her a joinx allowance The old dame recalls events that happened at the beginning of the last century more easily than she can recall those of the last forty years
Norwich bulletin., 1910-08-27
ItaIy's Heroic Queen.

Helena, Queen of Italy, before her marriage was a Montenegrfnf Princess who lived an outdoor life among the mountains. When she was nineteen she visited Venice, where she met the King, who fell in love with her at first sight, and, despite the fact that his family regarded the match as a mes alliance. married her In her girihood sine was q great hurTtress and one of the finest shots in Europe. but she never shoots now, ezcep<ing at clay pigeons. fer with maturity she has anything