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Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20
A Part Of the investment.

A farmers home is a part of his
investment, a part of his business. 1t
should be much more than that TO
him, but it is at least that. So for
business reasons only he should try
to make his home attractive. Beauty
is worth money in any form. A farm
adorned by beautiful home, not
necessarily costly one, is worth a
great deal more than one with merely
buildings on it. The house and out
buildings should be protected by
paint and good roofs. The grounds
should be neatly fenced to protect the
trees, shrubs, and vines which beau.
tify the place.-Farmer's Review.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

There's Just one Greatest Oxford
Sale. You'll find that in progress
now at Thompson's. All Oxfords,
RaIston and King Quality makes, val
up to s.. now on sale at 81 the pair.
THOMPSON & SON.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

q EVENTEEN million dollars
~ worth of damage to the wheat,
oats and corn of Kansas, last
year, was caused by chinch bugs. At
least 80 per cent of these bugs, &C.
cording to G. A. Dean, state entomolo-
gist at the Kansas Agricultural Col
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Mrs. VIM. Hoffman ad Miss Kate
Stevenson Left yesterday for their
home in Barnesville, Ohio, after a
ten day visit with Mrs. Carrie VIII
ey, Of this place.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

T. H. Boese was a business visi-
tor from Dundee one day the first
of the week. He will start cutting
wheat about next Monday, but says
that the crop will be very light out
that way.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

An incubator should be thoroughly
disinfected with a three per cent solu-
tion Of some coal-tar dip, W. A. Lip
pincott, head Of the poultry depart
ment, says, and then tested to see If
1t will hold a uniform temperature.
If it will hold q uniform temperature
Of 102 degrees +. for twenty-four
hours, it is ready for the eggs. The
eggs are washed in ninety-fve per
cent alcohol and then placed in the
machine.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Rev. J. W. Duckwitz, Of Albert was
in our city Wednesday and made a
pleasant call at this office and also
had his name placed among the new
readers Of the Democrat.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Mcdonald, Of
Kansas City, who have been here for
visit with their grandparents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. H. Clancy and other rel.
atives. returned home Monday morn
ing.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

James Rocks arrived home We'd
nesday morning from Kansas City,
to which place he accompanied the
body Of his wife for burial two weeks
ago.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

The last half Of taxes must be
paid by June 10th to avoid penalty.
W. H. Smith was in from Heller
on Tuesday.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Charley Schermuly was in from the
northeast Tuesday, visiting and on
a business trip.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Norman Ashbaugh proved his abil-
ity as a disciple of Weston by hiking
from Albert to Great Bend Monday
afternoon.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Speaking of Summer Footwear calls
to mind the fact that Big Clearance
Sale of Oxfords is now on at
THOMPSON & SON..
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Link Langford was in from the
Heller neighborhood Tuesday on a
business trip and for a visit with his
many friends.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Mr.. and Mrs. Ferd Selle were in
Kinsley Tuesday attending the Old
Settlers Picnic.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Eldridge York was a business Wis
itor from the Heller neighborhood
on Tuesday of this week.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Mrs. L. A. Johns was here from El.
linwood Tuesday on shopping trip
and for a visit with friends. .
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

E. E. Cook returned on Wednesday
morning from a three days business
trip to Kansas City.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

then working this into a fine dust.
Two deep parallel burrows are made
by dragging with a double trough. A
single furrow barrier may be made
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

Ernest Sterling retured to Pitts
burg Tuesday morning after a Wis
it here with his brother, Ed Ster-
ling and family.
Barton County democrat., 1913-06-20

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Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
THE OLDEST OF NEWSPAPERS.
Pekin Gazette Stops Because the Sn'
nese Now Have Free eress ane
Many Papers.

Yuan Shi-Kai now gives official news
directly to the press instead OF comm
uing the old custom of maintaining at
the expense of the government an oiiie-
ial e,rgan. The old custom doubtless
seemed to the Chinese quite as adVahc-
ed when it was inaugurated as does
yuan,s method of today. because the
old official organ, the Pekin Gazette'
was established certainly as early as
the eighth century and possibly as
early as the sixth century OF our e.a
from seven to nine centuries pelore'
the western world discovered the az.
of printing.
The pelxin Gazette. Whlch as soN
eminent organ is now aiioWea 10 iap'e'
is generally called the Oldest hewsPa
4. ner IN the world. This statemeht co''-
tains only two errors. First, it was MOI
tho oldest publication of its kind, anu
eaco,d twas never a newspaper Inc
| Oldest publication of this nature Wa
| 10 Ae.a Dinrna. or Daily Events, pup
liehed by the Roman emperors IRON
| tho aavs of Caesar, A. ID. 81, TO the
downfall of the empire IL cohtaiiie.
official proclamations. annoahcehiei'o
of births. of deaths. of tires, oi Saiiie'
and doubtless of victories. The feNii
gazette usually was limited % e'i'ci L.
nrocIamations and such coifimahica
lions directed to the emperor as ne ue
| sired to make public. But as the EN-
neror announced by proclamation nv
| onlv in,perial DEGREES but victories, HI
nortant births and deaths, ana uate'
of religious rites, as the Gazette usu
4 ~, ,,,s ti,,,;tad to official prOclaUld'
tons and such COMMUNICATIONS oii
ed to the emperor as ne desiieu y
make public. But as the emperor an
nounced by proclamation mol only I'M
perial DEGREES but victories, important
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15

impudence is becoming quite a prac.
teal difficulty in social life.
That which is forcibly. though
fear ephemerally, called Swank pre-
sents a new problem just now. Wher
fool staggered because he wore 8
crown, you could deal with the situa-
ton by removing his crown-if neces-
sary, with the head attached to ii
When a fool staggered because he
wore a sword, you could take away
the sword-or, better still, spike him
through the body with your own
When a man staggered because he
was a judge and wore wig, you could
pull off his wig, and see how he looked
without it. The transforms ton was
sometimes quite frightful When s
man staggered because he was 8
dandy and wore the Regents hat oil
BrummelFs coattails, you could pull
the coattails or knock off the hat.
1t is an old popular tradition to pelt
people for wearing things. But how
can we pelt people for not wearing
things? There is some meaning in {
crown or a sword or a wig; and you
can hit it because you know what it
means. There is no meaning at all i'll
linen tunic or disk; and it is really
difficult to deal with those who are
proud OF such things, precisely be-
cause one cannot make out what they
have to be proud of. Most of us wish
We could live in a shirt-especially il
this weather. Most of US would be
ready to throw sort of primitive
pike, called jayelin; that is, on tbs
condition that the old Greek ritual o.
the Had were omitted, and we did MOI
have to throw it at somebody wht
had pike to throw back. These
moderns have rather failed TO NEE
the whole ideal of Hellas. II is muei
easier to throw disk than to carve
Discebolus. And it is much easier t
throw javeln than to meet one.
But in that frivolous city on which
the Living F'rieze looks down from The
heights, men have been Sansculotte.
in a sense more serious than anything
associated with Grecian drapery. Ano
they have used pixies there, also moi
as one that hitch the air.-Londof
News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
TOOTH For APE.MAN.
Fitted Into the Skull of the PiItdown
Find-Almost the Missing Link.

Forward moves the search for the
missing link. Another tooth has been
found in England to go with the frag-
nents of the skull of the Piltdown
ape-man. which caused such a hubbub
tmong men of science when they were
irst discovered last August. Immedi-
ately paleontolosists went to work to
rebuild the skull, determined the ape
mans life history and add another
name to the forthcoming volume of
WHO Was Who in b. c. 9t13."
The name was easily chosen, Eoan-
thropus Dawsonii. Estimate of his
rank and social position could not be
determined with as much facility. And
rs for his brain-the authorities spit
wide apart as to whether it was great
or small According to Prof. Arthur
Keith of the Royal college of surgeons.
Eoanthropus might have edited a
newspaper. According to DR. Smith
Woodward of the British museum he
would have made a very poor print
ers devil" Now the new tooth is
'ound, and by it DR.. Smith-Woodward
is further convinced that the ape
mans brain power must have been
very low indeed.
The learned doctor dares say this
now, because the new tooth CORE
spends exactly to the model which he
made for the missing CANNES OF the
ape-man's skull. The skull which Df.
Woodward reconstructed showed a
small brain cavity, and very large
teeth. Everyone cried out that no
such teeth ever existed. Then anoth-
ar naleontologist found the additional
tooth. and it was just as DR.. Wood-
ward had said it would be. Pfef.
Keith chooses to measure the man Oh
the past by the standard OF te-oaS.
;iven certain fragments of a human
skull. he elects to reconstruct there
from the Uranium of an intellectual
Yiant. DIR. Smith Woodward takes
these fragments, and, in the light 81
their own evidence, essays his task oil
restoration. He has spent a hfetifhe
in stndving extinct animals. Eoan-
thropus is a fossil animal, ana must
ne measured as such. In one OF the
evening lectures at the BRUSH asso-
citation he gave spellbound audi
ence the reasons for the fath tfat
was in him.
Some slight notifications have re
Gently been made in the modelling oi
the skull. and a new cast OF the er3ilh
,ayity has been prepared by MI
Barlow. This has been submteo To
Prof. Elliot Smith. the great expert
m brains. He finds that it confirms
lis original report. There may De
some who still belons 20 the same III :
ljyiduaf But the law is obviously oil
he lowest type yet found containing
nrman teeth, and this absolutely
,prees with Prof Elliot Smiths YER
lict in regard to the brain, which, ne
saws. is, though human, of the loves.
fvne vet seen.-New York Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
TO TEACH ENLISTED MEN.
Believe Young West Pointers Soui'
Impart Knowledge to Army.

Washington, Oct. 1.-THE genera
nhvsieal standard of the enlisted mel
in the army would be materially aa
vanced. in the opinion of captain 10
j, Koehler, instructor OF physics
training at the military academy, II TN
graduates of the academy were re
ouired to impart to the men uhuea
their command the training they them
selves have received. He has suggest
ed that hte war department issue th'
necessary ordrs. ,,
At the academy the cadets are broush
to a high degree of efficiency in gymnas
ties. fencing, foil, saber, bayonet aiie
swimming exercises, as we'll as IN poAi'i'
and wrestling. 1t is believed the system
that has worked SO we'll at the ACADEMY
could be extended to army posts Tor tn'
enlisted men under the tutelage OF I'M
younger officers.
Colonel Townslep. superintendent o.
the academy in commenting on tht
suggestion, says that While the mel
at present take enough exercise IN tn'
course of their drills to insure heaill
they fail to acquire that all arouhe
development physically that resuits
from regularly planned exercises.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
Bird and Game Refugees.

Unusual activity has been displayed
in the establishment of bird and game
refugees this year. BY executive oraer
four national bird reserves have been
created, the Alentian reservation, cen-
tanning the entire chain of Aleutian
islands in Alaska, ana the smaller
reservations of the Walker lake in Ar
kansas, Petit Bots island on the coast
of Alabama. and Anaho island of Pyfa-
mid lake. Nevada. thus bringing the
total number of national bird reserNa-
lions up TO sixty four. An item in the
act of March 4, f9lS, contains an appio-
nriation for the completion and NAM
tenance of the elk refuge in Wyoming
No less than eighteen state game
preserves, net to include more tat.n
three townships in q county, ana inc
authorities of Michigan Ohio and YER
mont were authorized to establish
game preserves by contract on private
Hands. The Pennsylvania commission
| set aside preserve in Center couaty
| for the protection of elk, deer and 9TH
er came. and the reservation has al
rady been stocked with herd OF ten
| elk obtained from q private preserve.
Montana created the Sun river game
preserve in the Lewis and Clark ma
tionai forest: Oregon and imnaha, Des-
lehutes, Stems mountain, Sturgeon
lake. Capitol and Grass mountain pre-
serves south Dakota created 4 pre-
serve in Custer county and appropri-
ated $l5, 900 fer fencing and stocking it.
Utah set aside the Strawberry valley
and Fish lake state game preserves;
Washington. preserve near COM
meme ement bay. on Puget sound. and
| Wyoming modified the boundaries oil
| the Teton and Big Horn preserves and
stahlished three new refugees known
as The Laramie. Pope Agile and Sho-
shone preserves. In Canada, the It'd
| ing mountain. Spruce woods. Turtle
mountain and Duke mountain game
preserves We're created in Manitoba.
Several important changes have been
|, made in provisions protecting big
game. Colorado and North Dakota
prob. bited all killing of deer for term
of years, and Saskatchewan has pro-
vided a close season throughout the
wear for all big game south OF latitude
SO degrees.
Laws protecting does at all seasons
-
wyosning, but South Dakota repealed
a statute of this kind enacted IN 1911.
wyoming and Montana, heretofore
aforaing the principal hunting Tor Elk
and sheep have recently limited the
hunting area to few counties IN each
state. where the seasons generaiiy nave
been shortened. Wyoming has adopted
the innovation of allowing the Killing
Of female elk only under ordinary resi-
dent licenses and requiring to obtain
special $l5 license TO kill bull or an
additional cow Montana also pro
hibited the killing of ewes and LAMBS
other states in which elk or sheep We're
iproteeted for term of years or by
perpetual close season are NeVaua'
oregon, Utah and Westinghouse"
! York Times.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
Highway Ensineerinf Handieaps.

The American people who want goa4l
roads need not expect to see their
whole highway practice resolutionizeal
this year or next year. The .srecalg
of a public official may he excellent
where his Incompetence is well estall
lished, but to Jail a road officer fal
every stretch of bad road is ton much
like the Chinese custom of beheaalng
every local official who incurs The dis-
pleasure of Mandarin on his inspec-
ton tours.
We do not of course. defend neglect
of duties by those responsible for Their
discharge; but anyone undertaking the
maintenance of large mileage OF
highways in the United States today
will of necessity fall far short of per
lection in his performance. He will
have to deal with roads more or less
of With have been poorly built and
poorly maintained in the past and
which are being subjected to traffic
which their buildings never fcresaw
He will have to work with an efgafti-
Zati0n in which more or less of ignor-
arce and graft and political manipula-
ton mas been the rule. To expect per-
feet results under such conditions il
to expect the impossible.-En Engineering
News.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
NEW ART STYLES In BEoLAM.
rhe uunatic Artists Are Cublsts, fu'
turists and That Sort.

There Is an exhibition OF pictures
1t the Bethlehem royal hospital, Lam
beth, all painted by lunatics. Amons
hem one finds the bundles of straigh'
ines of the cubist. the dauos OF the
eost -impressionists and the lneoher-
mt eonglomeration of the Iulafise-
rhe exhibition has not only a huiilor-
ms side Parts of it-for those whose
memories go back some years-afe
extremely sad. There are, 1of III
stance. one or two almost eAquisie'
COMPOSITIONS by an artist whose vi ain
becomes deranged.y 1t would not pe
air to mention his name; sufi'ce IL u
;av that watercolor. pastel, ana >peh
md ink sketches are all shown pear
ng his signature.
The very phrases of his INSANITY
perhaps to an expert even the audi W.
# the moon-can be told from one Sc.
# his paintings. They are descripeu
as sketches to illustrate the various
PASSIONS. One, Battle of Vengeance
{ superbly carried out and snow
Tho most delicate treatment. In II
.,niohts are seen in their glistenlns
,rnor. and he must have been quile
sane when he eXeculeu H.
From "Raving Madness one can
only imagine he must have been IN ,iie
same condition as the picture lhipnes'
r. shows a most horrible looking indn
chained up in a cell with straw streWi
,bout A brightly colored view u az
,ld castle is the work of one Oh .,'e
most famous English comedians ol Wv
last century, who lost his reason
Anart from these the pictures dh.
nostlv either ludicrous in the extreme
~ hear obvious evidence of an ihsahe
mind AS might be expected, many
len;ct chastity or unpleasant lncloeii.s
One. for instance, shows man W."
ais head across some raliroau -,
\ train is approaching, ana tWo ~
,irls. too weak to move hini' are "''
ming away to obtain help.
rban there is a drawing OF an east
arn city inscribed This drawlhs
presented bv Queen Anne to one Oh 'ns
uanbistopheles Kings (Aborlslhea,
others are utterly incompetence.
Others again, were obviously eNeoa'ts
nv a man who had been accus.oiiieu
drow for newspapers. lie gives ~.
strrct;ops TO the block maker am
states the dimensions 10 wii'en
block is to be made orf
Representations of skeletons So a.. :,
hearts MERGED by arrows are aiso =
ma seen. Some bear scripturai IT,
tions. Some cartoons are -.
roinst the lunacy acts of lsso. YIN
aenicts a lunatic holding CONN III
sor;hoa This is a misfit. coiiias a.
cheap to-day. He is reauins ,natics
tice which reads, "Wanted-hu''ao.-,'S =
cheap board and lodging 1or q Acc
them: 10 per cent. commission 10 w. ~,
tore introducing the same. ~ .is sis,
cases the artists write after theii s,e
nat,res the letters .R. A. -i'esiiN
Republican.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
PHILIPPINE HOME RULE.

Washington, Oct. 14.-Carrylng ou'
the policy of the administration u
extend to the Filipinos the creates
measure of home rule, the America,
emploves of the bureau Of intefnai
revenue in the islands have peeh re-
duced almost half within six months
according to the annual report OF VIII
liam r. Noting, revenue collector re
ceived by the bureau of insuiar al
fairs, Monday. incidentally, Mr.. Noit
ing reports that in the fiscal year. emu
ING June 80 last, the receipts from III
ternal revenue were $ll,392,3S2, an IN
crease of more than 100000 over the
previous fiscal year.
The great item collected was from al
coholic and tobacco products, althousi
there was decided increase in the take
derived from the increased output
manufactured articles. The greater par
of the work of levying the revenue du
ties was begun by native assis.a'i's
While collector Noting started out a
the beginning of the year with % Amer
can assistants he replaced 81 oil thes
with natives with results that nav
been better than was hoped for
one condition evinced by the tax re
turns says Mr.. Noting, is the CRAFTY
ing falling off in the importations 9
| opium, the duties having been one-fourt
| less than the previous year. In view G
| this decrease, the collector says, the TIM
| is at hand when the opium evil Will .
| effeetually eradicated among the Chimes
| residents as it has already among tn
| Filipinos."
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15
Steamer DevOnian
Arrives in England,

Liverpool, Eng, Oct. 1.-THE Ley
land Line steamer Devonian, COM
manded by Captain Trant, arrived
here, today, bringing 50 survivors from
the wreck of the steamer Nolturno.
On board the Devonian were many
remnants of families crazed with grief
and terror at the great tragedy
through which they had passed. Ernest
Hermann, passenger. asserts that
he was the first to notice the fire in
the hold of the Volturno, and that the
flames even then had made such pro-
gress that it was impossible to subdue
thtm.
Among the rescued was baby which
the historical mother had flung into
the sea. Arthur Hazelwood. a seaman
of the Devonian sprang overheard and
rescued the mite.
| Another pathetic figure was that of
a tiny girl of four years, whose ma
tionality even as yet is unknown. She
stood among her fellow sufferers be-
wildered, unrecogniZed and unclaim-
ed.
Many small children were among the
survivors on board the Devonian. and
the stewards and stewardesses of that
vessel completed their kindly services
by carrying ashore one family of five
children who had been separated from
thei; parents and were not aware
whether they had persisted or not.
Some parents on board had similarly
been separated from their children and
were ignorant of their fate.
| CAPTAIN Trant of the Devonian says
the screams for help uttered by the
passengers of the Noiturno made the
night hideous to the would-be rescuers
who were unable to reach them The
first survivors to reach the Devonian
was q man who had jumped into the
boiling sea and had managed to gel
near t. the liner. He was taken out ol
the water unconscious.
AS soon as il was possible for the De-
woman to launch boats and 10 proceed
10 the Nolturno, the women ana emil
drcn were removed first. They were
swung along in coal baskets and low
ere i To the boats and the men follow
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-15

] their kindness to the rescued passengers
| Engineers, crew and myself with fitting
| us out, including everything with US
Following are the names of the steam
ers that came to our assistance:
'Carmania, Grosser kurfurst. La Tou-
raine, Asian, Narragansett, Seydlitz,
Minneapolis. Devonia. Car, Rappahan-
mock, also one other steamer without
wireless. The ship was abandoned in
Lat 1870 North. Long. 3i57 West
Capt. Ineh's story came by wireless,
tonight, from the steamer Kroonland,
which is bringing him and other sur
viyors she picked up to this port. The
Kroonland may not reach here, until
Thursday or later. as she has had
mishap to a shaft and is proceeding
slowly. The captains message was
sent to the press through the Uranium
Steamship Cos. offices here, having
been prepared and sent for that pur-
pose at their request. The Red Star
Line officials co-operated in seeing
that the captains story was promptly
transmitted
1t is possible that the total dead in
the disaster may shrink slightly when
L
ger Agent Fourman of the Uranium
Line, here, said that his figures show
ed that 657 persons sailed ON the Vol
turno, including "A cabin, 539 steer
age passengers and "a crew. His lists
showed that ZIG persons had been ac-
counted for leaving 131 on the list of
missing.
1t was announced, tonight, that the
NORTH German Lloyd steamer Seyd-
litz, bearing A. survivors of the Vol
turno, will stop at Philadelphia before
proceeding to Baltimore and that she
should dock ut Philadelphia some
time Wednesday. on the steamer
Grosser Kurfurst, with l05 survivors
on board, is due here, tomorrow morn
ing. The Red Cross committee will
take charge of them.