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The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-31
Church Festival.

There will be a festival in the
basement of the M. E. church at
Fort Littleton, New Years eve,
consisting of oysters, chicken
swallop, ice cream, cake, etc.
Everybody invited to attend, y
The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1912-12-31
Sale Register.

Wednesday, February "a, ia
cob F. Grouse intending to quit
farming will sell at his residence
2 miles north of Burnt Cabins,
horses, cattle, sheep, hogs, iarm-
ing implements, corn, potatoes,
and household goods. Sale will
begin at 10 o'clock. James M.
Chestnut and James j. Harris,
Auctloneers.
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= DEALER IN =

Nothing adds more to the refinemens of home than
good music To have good music you must have good
instrument There are good bad and Indifferent instru
ments, and to the unsked eye they look much alike.
The unprncpled dealer is likely to make you pay a
firs-cIass price for fourth-casS instrument have
lived IN this county my birth, am taxpayer and
in position to make good any business transactions.
Buy your piano, organ, victroa from me and If it is
not all right you can come back at me-
There are families in every part of this county that
have purchased instruments from me. Ask them about
me-
Perhaps you want to trade your organ for Piano.
OF Player Piano. or your PLAIN Piano, for Player See
me- Let's talk it over.
L. w. FUNK.
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Ye.Smoke Shop News.

BRING in coupon ticket No 67319
on or before February 9th II p.
m, and take with you the Bicy-
Gle; also nnm mbers 64O17, 67797,
and 652o4 for Sllverware prem
iums.
Ye Smoke Shop.
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"Waste Not; Want Not"

his oiiu AHi % hBNouPiS
lived snugly because Mr.. Young
couple had a good job. He pro-
vided literally for the table. His
wife did all her housework and
cooking. She did not keep a
hired girl. She said that the
cost of living was too high to af-
ford help. One day when she
was feeling a little "blue" she
sat down AND wrote to the editor
of her home paper and told him
that she thought it was a sin and
a shame for the Agricultural De-
partment to waste so much money
for printing advice to house,
keepers, unless the Department
told the housekeepers where to
get the money with which to
carry out the advice. She said
further, that if the Department
would send her some of the money
spent for printing, she would
show that institution that she
could live better. Well, let us
see if she could. The story we
have to tell will show whether
she could or not. She was one
of those "womanly women" who
read backwards by turning to
the last few pages of the story
to see if they married and lived
happy ever afterwards, and she
always lost the meat of the story
and the good hints it contained.
Her nearest neighbor was Mrs.
Thrifty whose back yard fence
joined hers. Mrs. Thrifty never
had any scraps left from her te-
BILE for the chickens, because all
of the perfectly clean left-overs
were made into dainty and whole
some puddings, custards, patties
and Hamburgers. Noticing that
Mrs. Youngcouple's garbage
can was always full to bursting
with good chicken feed, Mrs,
Thrifty asked for it. Mrs. Young
couple was glad to drop it over
the fence because, as she said, il
saved the fee to the garbage man
who hauled it away. What fol.
lows of this story you must never
tell, because Mrs. Thrifty told il
as a perfect secret. She sale
that the daily quantity of whole
rolls, great slices of good stale
bread, big chunks of meat, po'
tatoes, vegetables, fruit and soul
milk throw away was greater
than any family of three coulC
have eaten if it had not beer
wasted. And Mrs. Youngcouplt
kept on complaining at the De
partment for its extravaganza il
giving free advice.
Now, among Uncle Sans hun
dred million population, he knows
of more than two million othel
families just like Mrs. Young
couples, and it grieves hin
greatly that so many of his peo
pie have mothers who let theil
daughters grow up in such ig
norance; so he has started out
to catch the ear of one here. anC
one there, until all have learned
why it frequently happens tha'
times are so hard" We Amer
leans need every word of advice
on economy that we can get, be
cause we have been accustomed
to think that there is no end tt
the source of our supplies. w
"live good" which is right; bu
so do the French people; but re
liable writer's tell us that the!
live sometimes better than W.
do. but on much less money
Why? Because every motheI
teaches her daughters that it il
not lady-like in good society fo
them to waste anything. w
think, therefore, that Mrs. YOUNG
couple should not be so hasty il
denouncing her good old Uncl,
Sam when he does all he can t,
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Runyan's Optical Dates

Orbisonia. January 4th.
Three Springs, January 9Th.
Saltiilo, January 9th.
Other dates next week.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
THE AUTO ENGINE FOR FARM
POWER

Many farmers who own automobile.
would like to use the auto engine fol
churning, grinding or pumping. At
tempts to escure farm power by this
method have not been very success.
full.
The auto engine is built for high
speed. Considerable machinery is
necessary to transfer this high speed
power to the location and velocity re-
quired,. 1t. can be done, but the re-
suits are not very satisfactory.
Again, the auto engine is kept cool
by the speed with which it is rushed
through cooling atmosphere. Where
the auto engine is run as a station
cry engine this cooling effect is lost
and the engine will have to be cool
I d by some other process or greatly
damaged. The whole arrangement is
SO unsatisfactory that farmer who
can afford to own an auto would rath-
er buy another engine for his farm
power.-Missouri & Kansas Farmer.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
BASEBALL MAKES A HEALTHY
NATION.

so long as the little sons of Uncle
Sam play baseball" says Chief
Bender in the August issue of the
Boys' Life Magazine, I'VE are going
tC have healthy, clean, industrious
country, for as an exercise it is the
pest sport known. | shall not pick
flaws with other pastimes; it suffices
to say that baseball contains all the
points of running, throwing, skill of
the arm and the eye, cunning on the
bases, Judgment as to what the foe
is going to attempt.
For the American boy baseball is
The best sport because it is clean. It
trains the mind as well as the BODY.
and there is little element Of danger.
1t can safely be played by boys of
five and men of fifty. The heart. the
lungs, the legs, the arms and the eve
are all carried into play in every Sec
ond the game is on; that is why base
ball has been the favOrite pastime Of
the American small boy; it is a de.
veloper par excellence"
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
WHY CATTLE SELL HIGH,

The top price of $1,000 per 100
pounds for cattle is at last reached
on the Chicago market and the CORE.
spondingly high prices of meats, and
OF meals where beef is a part of the
ration, have set all classes of men to
inquiring into the cause, which has
resulted in frantic appeal from men
OF all sorts and conditions to the
farmers to grow more cattle. We do
not presume to be able to give all
the causes for this advance in price,
Tor that would require a volume in
stead of an article, but here are two
or three causes that lie upon the sur
face.
First, there has been a general ad-
vance in the price of agricultural
products and almost everything else
not merely in this country, but the
world over, which students are now
generally agreed IN attributing in part
to the increase in gold production
and the cheapening of the dollar.
We took that position some ten years
ago, and were regarded as somewhat
looney on that point. They are near
" all agreed on that point now. This
will effect the price Of cattle, but
lot more than any other product or
commodity.
Ten or fifteen years ago farmers
we're pretty well satisfied II they
could get a nickel for fat cattle
When cattle we're that price they had
10 trouble in buying feeders for three
and a half; and with corn at twenty
to twenty-five cents or under, there
was profit in fattening these cattle.
Feeders thirty years ago came from
he open prairies and were grown
largely on wild grass. When this
disappeared, they were obtained from
the range; but unfortunately, the
'ange has disappeared. The open
'ange is to be found only here and
here Even where there Is good
grass open ranging is not possible
IN account Of the great number Of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
On and About the Farm
LIVE STOCK MARKET.

Kansas City Stock Yards, Aug -.
There was further spreading of val
ues between hig grade and low
grade cattle last week. and the up
per crust became thinner as the end
Of the week approached. 1t was plain
that the market was being 1ndermin-
cd and a good sized run of cattle to-
day would have finished it. Dealers
expected break Of at least half a
dollar this week en- all but a few
prime cattle, but the run proved to
be small enough to save the situa-
lion, $4,000 head here, and light at
all the markets. Shippers evidently
knew a thing or two. Prices on all
kinds are steady to strong today, on
both killing kinds, md en- stockers
and feeders. Prime steers brought
$1,000 today, though there were no
real tOppy cattle here. Kansas pas
cure cattle. stopped at $500, and rang
ed downwards to $500. Quarantine
receipts today, 125 cars, market
STEADY on the good kinds. weak on
trash. Twenty thousand cattle were
bought for the country here last
week, the market holding firm all
week except for some clean up sales
Friday. More OF these classes should
have. been sold and there are plenty
Of buyers here today. Stoekers range
from $500. to $3.50, largely, feeders
$500 to $3.50. Some choice Colorado
Feeders, 100 pounds, brought $735
Thursday. Calves broke SO to Is
cents last week, steady today, best
yeals 1926.
Only $500 hogs came in today and
the. market is a little higher, top
SS.57,. bulk $3.50. to $3.50. Heavy
hogs advanced Is cents last week,
lwhile. light weights and butchers
gained % cents, packers showing a
preference for the lighter weights.
Sheep and lambs are at the bottom
Of the recent break, sales today on a
weaker basis, top spring lambs $3.50.
Run. is $500 today. Wethers are SELL
Ing around $500 and ewes $3.50 for
best. Packers complain of dull de-
mand fol. mutton despite the low
price. They asy retailers are hold
Ing the price of mutton up in an eff
fort to make profit that they cam
not make on beef or pork.
]. A. RICKART,
Market Correspondent.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
CHAPTER X.
Mahomed lauuha,

"o0neo Laughs.
Inc drawing back OF Ryanne's DOW
erIul arm was produced by the stimu
lus Of self-preservation; but almosI
instantly thought dominated impulse
and all indications of belligerency dis
appeared. The arm sank. relaxed II
was not possible nor polite that Ma
homed-ElGebel meant to take repris
al In this congested quarter. It would
have gained him no advantage what
ever. And Ryanne's perception Of the
exact situation. enabled him to smile
with the cool effrontery Of a man in.
ured to sudden dangers.
Well well! So you have found
your way to Cairo, Mahomed%
Yes, effendi," returned Mahomed
with smile that answered Ryanne's
In thought and expression, the only
perceivaNe difference being in the &C.
centuated whiteness of his fine teeth.
Yes, have found you"
And you have been looking fol-
me?"
Surely"
Ryanne, with an airy gesture. signi.
ned that he wished to enter his car.
rage. Mahomed, with movement
equally light, implied his determine.
ton to stand his ground.
IN a moment, effendi," he said
smoothly.
Mahomed spoke English more or
less fiuently. His career of forty-odd
years had been most colorful. Once a
young sheik Of the desert, Of ample
following, a series of tribal wars left
him unattached, a wanderer without
tent, village or onion-patch. He had
hrst appeared in Cairo. Here he had
Of necessity picked I'D a few words Of
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
RELIABLE. MARKET REPORTS

Nothing gives a newspaper a finn
er place in public confidence than a
well established reputation for accu.
rate and complete reports Of the
worlds markets. Business men
throughout the West have long es-
teemed the Chicago Record-Herald
for the uniformly trustworthy way in
which it covers the whole field of fl
nancial and commercial news. Wheth.
er you want to know what concols
are worth in London or what railroad
stocks are quoted at in New York,
what price corn is bringing in Kan
sas City or how wheat is selling at
Minneapolis or Chicago, you can al
ways turn to the financial and COM
mercial pages of the Record-Herald
with the certainty of getting the lat
, est facts in full and unbiased form.
The men who write the local live
stock, board of trade and financial
news for the Record-HeRld are ex-
perienced staff editors whose years
of trusted acquaintance with leading
men often give them inside tips on
important news in advance of other
papers. The only morning newspaper
in Chicago having its own special cor
respondent to cover the New York
stock market it the Record-Herald
George S. Beachel's daily telegraph
lie reports from the stock and money
markets Of Wall street are models of
insight. and accuracy. The Record
Herald makes it a point to cover in
full the financial reports of corpora.
tions and the banking activities of
Chicago and the West. The "Specu-
lative Gossip and notes Of Wall
street and 'LaSalle street happenings
are valued by the largest brokers for
their glimpses of real inside his
tory Of the various markets.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
The Carpet From
Bagdad
BY HAROLD MAC GRATH
Author of
THE Best Man." "The Man on the Box" Etc.
Illustrations by kettner
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK
CONTINUED FROM LAST WEEK

English; and from a iaborer in the cot.
ton fields he was eventually graduated
to the envied position Of dragoman or
guide. He tired Of this, being nonadic
by instinct and inclination. He tried
his hand at rugs in Smyrna, failed, and
found himself stranded In. CONSTANT.
nople. He drifted, became a steve
dore, hotel porter. burying his pride
till that moment when he could, in
dignity and security, resurreet II. For.
tune, hanging fire, relented upon his
appointment as cavass or messenger
to the British Consulate. After a
time, he became what he considered
prosperous; and like all fanatic pa.
gans Of his faith, proposed to recon.
struct his religious life by a pilgrim
age to Holy Mecca. While there, he
had performed considerable service
in behalf Of the future Pasha of Bag.
dad, who thereafter gave him a place
In his retinue.
MahOmed was not only proud but
wise; and a series of events, sequences
OF his own shrewdness, pushed him
forward till he became in deed, IL not
in fact, the Pasha's right.hand man in
Bagdad. That quaint city, removed as
1t is from the ordinary highways of
the Orient, is still to most of us an
echo remote and mysterious; and the
present Pasha enjoys great privileges,
over property, over life and death;
and it is not enlarging upon fact to
say that when he deems it necessary
to lop off head. he does so, without
consulting his master in CONSTANT.
nople. II is all in the business of a
day Next TO his celebrated pearls and
rose-diamonds, the Pasha held as his
most precious treasure, the Holy
fhiordes. And for its loss Mahomed
knew that his own head rested but in.
securely uDan his lean neck. That his
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
cows GET "soUsED" ON slLo.

Sterling, Ill, Aug. 15-Bessie Nc.
Coy, she Of the melancholy eye, and
erstwhile staid and sober, went to her
death here and led with her to the
same tragic finish seven Of her fe-
male friends The deaths Of Bessie
and the other seven came after and
as a result of an afternoon of drunk
enness and debauch. All eight were
drowned in the river that flows across
the Mccoy farm, and are being point-
ed to sadly as a horrible example to
all COW kind of what may happen
when the flowing silo" is looked I'D
on too freely.
They were the best Jersey cows a
man ever owned" said Farmer Nc
Coy, until today the proprietor of the
misguided animals. "And | never
thought would go and get themselves
drunk and then drown-ded."
The end of the entire eight actu-
ally was the result of drunkenness.
Through a break in the pasture fence
the COWS secured entrance to the in
closure of the farm Silo. Led by the
dissipated Bessie, they attacked the
open end of the cornStalk press and
soon all were sadly soused. The en-.
silage had fermented to such an ex-
tent that all of the animals actually
were Keeling in an excess of intoxi-
cation before they had imbibed more
than couple of quarts each.
Then craving for water attacked
the jewellers and jOyously they rolled
and zig-zagged their way to the river.
Bessie, in the sheer glory of her new
" acquired buoyancy, pranced en-
ahead and was the first to stick her
nose into the deep pool off the wa
tering landing The Jersey took but
one draft ard then toppled dizzily in.
tc the water. One by one the other
seven followed her. Within a few
minutes all eight were floating down
the stream, the victims Of inebrity.
Mccoy, who had rushed to the scene
was unable to rescue a single one.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23

ferent lines of railroad amounting to
eight hundred miles, through what
vas once a cattle country, We did not
see more than one head of cattle to
the mile, including milk cows. Where
;attle are still raised on large fenced
ranches, they naturally bring a high
price, because the breaking up of the
'anch has reduced the supply. This
vas inevitable, and we tried to guard
our readers against it for two OF
hree years by telling them to quit
Killing their calves and selling them
Tor veal, but instead to use a dual
purpose COW and raise their calves by
Gsnd' This, we take it, is the main
cause Of the high price.
The question will arise: Why do
not farmers grow more cattle? This
can be answered very easily. The
milk requirements of the growing
cities have induced farmers tributary
hereto, or within a hundred miles,
% go into dairying, and wisely, to
use the special purpose milk breeds.
The progeny of none Of these breeds
make good beef cattle; hence they
veal the calves. The calves Of the
Jersey and Guernsey are too small.
90 pronounced dairy type. The
iolstein does better, but does not
make a first class feeder; at any
rate cattle feeders won't buy them
md sometimes use bad language
when they find one or two Of them
in bunch Of feeding steers. This
narrows the country capable Of pro-
ducing good beef.
Another contributing cause is that
the price Of corn has been so high
for the last two or three years, that
men who are accustomed to growing
corn, skilled corn growers, prefer to
sell it on the worlds market rather
than convert It into beef or even
pork This, we think, sufficiently ex-
plains the high price Of beef.
How can it be remedied? That's
another matter altogether. Unless we
increase our supply Of beef cattle the
Atlantic coast and the Gulf states will
be supplied from the Argentine. We
see no possibility of avoiding that;
and We would not be surprised to see
a very strong movement for removing
the tariff on beef cattle, thus enabl-
ing the packers Of the United States,
who are also the packers Of the Ar
genuine. to supply not merely the
eastern states and the Guf coast,
but an extensive inland territory.
Corn growers will continue to grow
corn as long as it pays, and wheat
growers will continue to grow wheat
when they can sell 1t for eighty cents
a bushel. We do not look for any
great or permanent reduction in the
price Of beef until the exhaustion Of
the land through continued corn and
grain growing forces farmers to en-
gage in live stock growing. They will
have to go to grass" and then win
have to have something to eat the
grass; and this means cattle. A great
many farmers do not like to milk
COWS and as cattle are the greatest
consumers Of grass, they will go into
beef cattle. and especially into grow
Ing small beeyes. baby beef They
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23

watching the water.bubbles In their
Sheeshas.. or pipes.
A curious phase OF this class Of un-
der-world Is that no one Is curious.
Strangers are never questioned except
when they invite attention, which they
seldom do. So. when Ryanne and his
Quasi-companions entered, there wasn't
the slightest agitation. A bIowsy bar
maid stood behind the bar, polishing
the copper spigots. Ryanne threw her.
a greeting, to which, she responded
with a smirt that once upon a time
had been a smile. He, being master
OF ceremonies. selected table In the
corner. The four sat down. and Ryanns
plunged intrepidly into the business
under hand. To make a tool OF Ma
homed. II not an ally, toward this be
directed his effort, Half a dozen times.
Mahomed dropped a word In Arabic to
the other two, who understood little or
no English. g. -.
: so. you see. Mahomed. that's,ths
/ (cOntinpsd on Mex. Page) =
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23

W. P. FEEDER Of Great Bend, was in
Hutchinson today. For several terms
be has represented Barton county in
the legislature and has always stood
by Hutchinson. This year he is the
Democratic nominee for state printer.
He has a number Of friends here and
will doubtless get good vote at the
electfon.-News, August l6.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23
FARM LANDS.

$50 acres very fine land, two miles
from Dodge, 60. acres plowed fol
wheat, $4,000; time on about half. A
bargain.
$50 acres, unimproved, southwest
Of Dodge, near Ensign, on new rail
road, $4,000, on terms.
A. B. REEVES,
S4-S2 Dodge City, Kansas.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23

Don't use harsh physics. The re-
alton weakens the bowels, leads to
chronic constipation. Get Doan's Reg
ulets' They operate easily. 25c at
all stores.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1912-08-23

will produce these by using sires Of
beef type on COWS Of the dual pur.
pose type, letting the calves run
with the cows probably two to a
COW, for a good dual COW can raise
two calves and finishing them off al
about eight or nine hundred pounds
We do not see any other way.-Wal-
iacas Farmer.