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mm WHERE RAIN SELDOM FALLS GOLDEN AGE OF SPINSTERS BELOIT TIME TABLE. MISSOURI PACIFIC. Eastbound. No. 604 Passenger 6:00 a.

m. No. 602 Passenger 10:60 p. m. No.

664 Red Ball express. 12:01 p. m. No. 696 lo.

frt, ar. lv 9:30 a. m. Westbound. No.

601 Passenger 6:26 a. m. No. 611 Passenger 7:10 p. ra.

No. 673 Red Ball express. 2:00 p. m. No.

696 Local freight 3:30 p. m. J. B. Varner, Agent.

UNION PACIFIC. No. 132 Passenger, It 8:15 a. m. No.

179 Mixed, ar 2:00 p. m. No. 180 Mixed, It 12:30 p. m.

Trains Nos. 179 and 180 run through to Junction City. Trains Nos. 132 and 131 run to Sallna. R.

T. Smith, Agent The Farmers' Union Annual Picnic AT M. F. EVANS' PARK will be held on Thursday, July 31st 10 miles south and 14 mile east of Glen Elder; 6i miles north of Victor There will be all kinds of Amusements Good Speaking Plenty of Refreshments and Water EVERYBODY COME AND HAVE A GOOD TIME "Tex" Griffin attended the big celebration at Glen Elder today. Mr.

and Mrs. A. R. Loop loft this morning for a visit at Manhattan, after which they will go on to Lawrence, at which place Mr. Loop will attend school for a short time.

W. W. McCracken went down to Simpson this morning on business. Mrs. Emma S.

Masshall, one of the officers at the Girls' Industrial school, left this morning for Kansas City. Mrs. J. R. Weiss went down to Simpson this morning for a visit with Mr.

and Mrs. K. C. Weiss. Mr.

and Mrs. J. M. Caldwell and son, Henry, of Glen Elder, were In town this morning between trains. They were on their way to western Colorado to see if they can find a cool place.

Ed Basse of near Glen Elder went down to Solomon this morning on business. William McCudahy Downing, who has been holding the job as operator at the Union Pacific for some time, left this morning for Joplin. Mo. Alfred Squire of Glenwood, has taken his place here. Blllie Vickers was a business passenger for Sallna this morning.

Mrs. J. D. Ottman and daughter, Miss Bertha Bohning, left this morning for West Cliff, for a visit with friends. Frank Ingram left this morning on his return trip to St.

Louis, Mo. He lias been here for several days visit'ng with the home folks. G. B. Borin left yesterday for Grand Valley, to join his wife, who is there with Mr.

and Mrs. H. H. Wynkoop, enjoying an outing. H.

E. Mann of Scottsville, agent for the Kimball Piano Co. in this territory, was transacting business in Beloit today. Labor News and Notes. There are mills and factories in the United States.

A joint conference will be held next year to make a new wage scale for the competitive states for coal miners. Oshkosh, steam fitters are demanding 50 cents an hour. Nearly 1,500 brewery workers in Buffalo and nearby towns have received $1 a week additional wages and an 8-hour day. The San Francisco Dishwashers' union has 700 members, 100 of which are college graduates. The Socialists who have been advocating a strike of English postmen in case the recommendations of the commission which is investigating the tonditionB of the service should Two Thousand Miles of 8outh Amei lean Coast Line Almost Absolutely Water-lets.

For 2,000 miles the coast, as more Americans than are at present Informed will doubtless discover as soon as the Panama canal develops mors nelghborllneBi between the North Atlantic and the South Pacific, one need not carry an umbrella except to keep off the sun, the Providence Journal observes. In Peru, on the sea side of the An des, they build out of mud what seem to be magnificent palaces, and clapboard effects are popular also, though wood is worth Its weight in gold, Stucco, a paint brush and a lively fancy serve for this stagy decoration, but there 1b not even the pretense of cultivating lawns, though that might be Indulged In, too, with the help of a pot of green paint. Rain enough would not fall In a generation to wash the green off the front yard or the patlo. That stretch of coast Is one of the most remarkable of all nature's demonstrations of waterless desolation. It is an elongated Sahara.

From Co-qulmbo, one-third of the length of Chile below the Peruvian border to Guayaquil, In Ecuador, vegetation Ib unknown. An agreeable effect is to relieve the equatorial heat along the coast and the slope of the Andes of humidity. MAKE A TEST OF STRENGTH Peculiar Contest Waged by Elephants In Dispute Over the Companionship of Female. When two male elephants compete for the companionship of a female, says the duke of Montpensler, In Wide World Magazine, they do not forget their dignity so far as to fight for the lady. They simply face each other BQuarely.

Then one of them pulls down a branch from a tree with his trunk and lays It at his feet. The other takes a larger branch, or pulls up a big shrub by the roots, and also lays It at his feet. No. 1 then tackles a still bigger branch, and this strange com petition goes on, turn and turn about, until at last the contestant try to puli down trees wholesale, and the one who falls to uproot his tree in turn is abandoned by the lady elephant, who has been an Interested spectator of the strange duel. She departs with the possessor of the largest tree, and the vanquished elephant retires shame faced.

This trial-of-strength species of courtship Is very remarkable when contrasted with the ordeal of battle of most Other animals, and shows the highly developed Intelligence of these enormous creatures. Saw for Newlyweda. Many of the small towns in Europe have distinctive wedding customs which must be observed, and of these the old mountain town of Wildermann, in Germany, claims one that is partic ularly Interesting and quaint. On the day before the wedding the young men interested In the couple place a saw horse on the top of the house where the bride is lodging, usually upon a chimney, and the bridegroom has to take It down before the wedding On the wedding day the couple find a rope barring their way after they leave the church, and they are not al lowed to pass until they have Bawed in two the knotty log lying upon the horse. The inhabitants of the town gather around to watch the sawing which Is supposed to show whether or not the couple will pull well to gether.

Popular Mechanics. Rabelais Always Humorist. Rabelais was a monk long before he wrote bis drolleries, but that he was a humorist first is evidenced by the many practical Jokes which brought down upon him the punishment of his spiritual superiors. In his case the priestly profession became too confined for his talents and he made a better doctor of the body than he had been of the soul, but It was his career as a wit that brings fame into our day. His Gargantuan stories stand as his record, and their grim, grave hu mor reflect the man; that they read coarse to us Is merely the accident of their age.

Rabelais hit hard, but he was returning blow for blow and fierce irony was a necessary weapon of the time. Coal Was Used 3,000 Year Ago Greek writers 500 years before the Christian era mention coal in their works, and It was no uncommon thing in Egypt BOO years before that. A long gap apparently comes after that, and coal 1b not heard of again until In England, somewheres about the time of William the Conqueror In the eleventh century. Records are found granting the privilege of mining for It to the people. It was not until well along in the sixteenth century that coal was used to any extent In Paris, and In Germany the date of ita beginning was even later.

Ounce of Prevention. When little visitors come In to play with the children mothers will do well to put certain toys away, such as whis tles, horns, and any musical lnstru ments that must be placed to the lips. It Is unsanitary for general use to be made of such toys. An unsus pected sore throat or mouth may trou ble one of the little visitors or entertainers and the aliment be thus transmitted. It Is a good plan to sterilize such toys occasionally, using borax in hot water, drying in the oven to pre vent rust.

At This Day, and Hour In America, It the "Antlent Mayde" to Be een at Her Very Beet That this Is the golden age of the spinster no one will deny, and that America furnishes the loll In which these hardy plants put forth their finest bloom Is equally indisputable, writes Agnes Reppller In the Century Magazine. How many years have passed since the "antlent maydes" of Boston which term Included all unmarried women older than twenty-five were pronounced by John Dunton to be a "dismal spectacle?" How many years since a few "acute and Ingenious gentlewomen" in colonial Virginia had the temerity to remain single and cultivate their own tobacco plantations, for which unnatural behavior they were subjected to repeated "admonishments Now the "antlent mayde" flaunts her freedom in the faces of those who are patiently doing their duty to the world. Now If a woman runs a successful apple orchard or dairy farm, her exploits are heralded far and wide, and other women write exultant papers about her, intimating that the day of the man agriculturist Is virtually over. I am not sure that the attitude of our great-grandfathers, who JealouBly and Bomewhat fearfully guarded their pre-grogatlves, was not more flattering to my sex than this enthusiasm evoked by achievements which In a man would not be found worthy of notice. NOT ALTOGETHER PIOUS WISH Gardener' Appeal for the Elevation of Mr.

Stows Did Not Mean Desire for Her Happiness. Recalling the days when the literary colony at Hartford, was acqulr- lnf fame, Dr. Joseph H. Twichell used to tell an amusing incident In the friendship of Harriet Beecher Btowe and Mark Twain. The Stowe and the Clemens prem- Ises were separated only by a fence, close to which, directly In the rear of the Stowes' house, was Mark Twain's large conservatory.

Mrs. Stowe, ever a passionate lover of flowers, availed herBelf thankfully and liberally of his Invitation to make free with Its contents, much to the an noyance of the gardener, for she had a careless way of breaking off flowers from the stalk that vexed bis soul. When he made complaint of this habit Mr. Clemens had numbers of pairs of scissors put at Intervals here and there on the conservatory shelves, trusting that Mrs. Stowe would see and use them on her visits to It.

But they semed to escape her notice, and she continued to go on as before, till at length the distressed gardener begged Mark Twain to lock the door and keep her out. But no; he told the poor fellow that whatever she did the place must al ways be open to her and her liberty In It unrestrained. At that the much tried man fervently exclaimed: "1 wish the old lady was In Heaven!" Disclaimed Responsibility. A Dutchman was going to cross a bridge. He was riding in a little cart drawn by a goat.

The toll man came out and said: "Here, you've got to pay toll before you can pass this bridge." "What, to pay toll?" "Yes, five cents to cross this bridge." After au argument the Dutchman paid the five cents and went on. In the afternoon he came back again only this time he had the goat sitting on the seat, and he was dragging the cart himself. Out came the toll man and said "Here, you know you've got to pay five cents." The Dutchman shook his head, and pointing to the gcat, said: "Don't talk to me ask the driver." Shortest Statutes on Record. The old parliament of the Scots was noted for Its short and pithy statutes. Apparently Scotsmen in the olden tlmeB, If their critics are loth to credit them with wit and humor, believed that brevity was the soul of legislation.

For Instance an old Scottish parliament passed an act which said simply "no man shall enter any place where there Is hay with a candle unless It be In a lantern," which is probably the shortest statute ever passed. In fact, one small volume is enough to hold over two centuries of Scotch legislation, and one has never beard that the country was the sufferer thereby. One Mother Too Many. A pleasant adventure, one that Is usually reserved to much younger laughters, has happened to Mile. Mis-' inguette, of the opera, Paris, France She has been reclaimed as a long-lost daughter by a woman of Bergerolles whose daughter disappeared sixteen years ago, and whom she affirms she recognizes In the distinguished artist.

Mile. Mistinguette has a good heart. She would like nothing better than to recognize the maternity of this honor able dame, but unfortunately she al ready has an authentic mother, and at this time of life cannot accept the luxury of a supplementary mamma. Broken Screw. To remove a screw with one side of the head broken off, place the screwdriver against one side of the head and with a small block press tlruily against the screwdriver, at the mine time turning the screwdriver and the block.

The screw will come nut almost as easily as If the head vas intact. Beloit Library South Room, rtrsf Hoof. City Hall Bldg OPEN EVERY rRIDAV AND SATURDAY from a to 3 p. m. Arrivals -Departures Miss Margaret Adams arrived last evening from Springfield, for a visit with Miss Kenneth Keys.

Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Cavender went up to Glen Elder last evening for a brief visit Mr.

and Mrs. J. W. Nelson of Simpson were In town last evening on their way to Glen Elder. Miss Irma Nixon came down from Jewell City last evening to attend the Chautauqua.

While here she will be the guest of Miss Louie Hill. Mrs. Cliff Conley and two sons, Harold and Dewayne, went up to Glen Elder last evening to attend the celebration which was held today. Earl Hoy visited at Cawker City Inst evening. Jack Kreamer went up to Cawker City last evening for a visit between trains.

County Superintendent Philip Louthan transacted business at Glen Elder last evening. Mrs. John McCauley visited with friends at Scottsville yesterday. Sheriff Dan Michael transacted business at Glen Elder last evening. Mr.

and Mrs. Thomas Carey returned last evening from Clyde, where they have been on a few days' Visit. Misses Gladys Draher and Ruth Smith met their music classes at Scottsville yesterday. C. Draher went up to Glen Elder this morning to attend the celebration.

John Butler left this morning for Howard, to look after some business, after which he will go on to Wichita. Otto Wapler returned last evening from Palmer, where he lias been visiting relatives. Mrs. Paul Tonsing returned to Atchison this morning, after about a four weeks' viBit with Mrs. Dan Koch.

P. H. Stilley was a Gilbert Station passenger this morning. Roy Harris went up to Glen Elder this morning to attend the celebration. Mrs.

O. Barta of Barnes was in town this morning on her way to Glen Elder to spend the day. While here she was the guest of Mrs. Sam Fulton. Mrs.

C. H. Hogan was a Glen Elder passenger this morning. Miss Thressa Bollman went up to Cawker City this morning to meet her music class. Mrs.

S. E. Elder returued to Glen Elder this morning, after a visit with friends. Miss Pearl Bell went up to Glen Elder this morning for a visit with Miss Emma Nunn. A.

J. Emahiser went up to Glen Elder this morning to attend the celebration. J. H. Parks attended the celebration at Glen Elder today.

County Treasurer Dan went up to Glen Elder this morning iu niwuu me celebration. Sheriff Dan Michael went up to Glen Elder this morning on business. Chautauqua People! Wc are prepared to furnish all kinds of fresh fruits and vegetables in season to Chautauqua campers, and such other knick-knacks as they may relish. We run our own delivery wagon. Call 113 for your Chautauqua Supplies.

A. DAUGHERTY ULSTER, GARDEN OF IRELAND Writer Pays Hlah Tribute to the Scotch-Irish Who Have Made the Country What It Is. It would not surprise me in the least If the late J. P. Morgan had the blood of the Ulster-Scot In his veins, as your correspondent hints at, says the writer of a letter to the editor of the New York Tribune.

The Scotch-Irish were even more Scottish than the Scotch themselves stern, shrewd, energetic and thoroughly reliable. When James VI. of Scotland James I. of England offered facilities for the settlement of Ulster, thousands of Scots availed themselves of the chance, and by their energy helped to transform that district Into a garden Ireland. Belfast, one of the most peaceful and prosperous cities in the world.

Is nothing more or less than a second Glasgow. To Scotland, indirectly, to Ulster directly, we are indebted for Buch men aB Andrew Jackson, James K. Polk, James Buchanan, John C. Calhoun, Chester A. Arthur, T.

A. Hendricks, Horace Greeley, C. D. McCutcheon, James G. Blaine, Charles Foster, Samuel H.

Grey and many others who helped to make the United States what she 1b today. Robert Fulton, though an Irishman of Scottish descent his father being forced out of Scotland in Cromwell's time Ib scarcely an lister-Scot. But, then, If it were not for the Livingston family, who were descended from tfte kings, nobles and lords of Scotland, I'-ulton could never have accomplished what he did. HELPLESS IN SNAKES' COILS Fisherman In Order to Escape Threatened Death From Reptiles Rolls In Fire. George Ensor, a business man of this city, while fishing near Mountain-dale, a Piedmont, W.

dispatch to the New York Herald states, waB at-lacked by snakes, which came from a rotten log on which he was sitting, and before he could bent them off the reptiles had entwined themselves ibout him, binding his arms, hands and feet. The snakes, more than a dozen in number, measured from four six feet in length. Mr. Ensor, after vainly endeavoring work his arms and feet loose, had lie presence of mind to roll down a hill into a fire he had built to cook his breakfast. His clothes caught fire ind the snakes, scorched and sizzling, ntiviiied from his body and made for he old log.

Mr. Fnsor ran to the tituiu and threw himself Into the extinguishing his burning clothes, lis body, arms and face were severe-y burned, but he mntiaged to make his way to Mountaindale, where phyBl-dans say be has a chance for recovery, A Parable. A man who never amounted to much once got a job running the engine of a Bawmill. He was greatly Impressed with the Importance of his position and wanted everyone to know that he was the man who made all the wheels go 'round. The first morning he steamed up the engine he jerked the whistle wide open and made the welkin ring for miles around and said to himself as the echoes bounced over the hills: "I am certainly the big noise in this part of the country." Just then the foreman started the force on a big day's work, and discovered that there was not enough steam left to start the machinery.

He of the big noise was promptly canned and the job was given to a hobo. Moral: You can't saw wood if you use all the steam blowing your whistle. Anon. Musings of the Village Deacon. The early bird may get the worm, but I wouldn't trade two hours' sleep in the morning for a dozen worms.

A young man may be the champion checker player, but you will always find the champion euchre player to be an old man some ancient duck who thumps the table good and hard with his knuckles when he makes a play. It doesn't take a very bright person to find a good excuse for staying away from church if the day happens to be tolerably warm. I find that it takes a man a long time to learn to control himself sufficiently to mind his own business. My friend, you have worked hard during the past thirty years and have accumulated a pretty good bank account. You have plenty to keep you in ease and luxury the balance of your days.

Are you going to stop toiling now and enjoy it, or are you and your wife going to slave on? You want to leave a lot to tho children, do you? Well, let's see. Aren't the boys now much better off than you were at their age? Or perhaps you think the boys are of Inferior caliber and can't make their way In the world. Don't you know that is putting a premium on laziness? Why don't you and the wife pack up and take a trip back east to the scenes of your childhood? Or if you don't care to go there, what's the matter with a little juuut to the mountains? People are beginning to call you an old tightwad and to won der if you think you can take your money with you when you cross the dark river. You really don't know what it is to have a good time. Blow yourself a little.

Be a sport and have a few things you will live ten years longer. Some fellows are constantly trying to beat another man at his own game They get Btuck every time, but their own bump of egotism refuses to allow them to admit it. The next morning they are ready to tackle another sure-thing game. Always give the other man credit for knowing a little something. You will have more money and friends in the end.

The last person the hypocrite in the church fools Is the minister. The people are easy in comparison. The man who takes no interest in and knows nothing about the political issues of his country doesn't amount to much. But then I guess he stacks nn nrettv well with the fellow who knows It all. Nature made several mistakes when man was constructed.

He Bhould have been made to lose his meanness instead of his teeth at 60. Bert Walker in Osborne Farmer. Extra I Crawford "Is the postscript alwuyi the Important part of a woman's let ter?" CrabBhaw "It Is when it's from your wife. That's where she al ways mentions how much money she wants." Judge. Way of the World.

Two little girls were playing "house" with their dolls and having a lovely time. little seven-year-old boy watched their play laughingly for awhile and then said: "Ain't you bids got no use for a father?" Serious Matter. Boss "What are you handing la four resignation for?" Messenger "Well, boss, you called me down twice dls week, so 1 thought I'd better git out before I'm tempted to make things unpleasant for de firm." Judge. -Dave Coughlin and two sons, Robert and Edward, were Beloit visitors from Concordia yesterday. -N.

C. Else of Osborne was trans acting business in Beloit yesterday. Howard Kurtz of Alton was num bered among the Beloit visitors yesterday. Lloyd James is back from a sev-ral weeks' stay at Denver. J.

L. Brokaw of Glen Elder was a Beloit visitor last night. I'ses for Old Newspapers. Old newspapers may not seem like promising subject on which to base helpful suggestions, but, nevertheless, the papers will prove time and labor savers in so many ways that only a few from the list may be mentioned. few of them caught toeether to form a "sheet," and placed just under the upper cover on a bed, will furnish much warmth as a auilt.

and hn much lighter. A folded paper slipped between the coat and overcoat, or be- between the coat and vest, across the houlders and chest, will Drove com fortable when driving in cold weather. i couple of thicknesses wrapped round the front of the foot before putting on overshoes will prevent frosted toes in even the severest weather. A piece crumpled up and put in the heel of the rubber or over- under the side of the shoe heel that is worn or run over, will keep the rubber from crushinE at everv step and breaking through at the heel belore worn at other places. Spread on the table when working with vegetables, when arranging flowers or even when dressing poul try, they save a lot of cleaning up aller the job is done.

Spread on the floor when sewing or rionlne. thev catch the threads that are so hard to sweep from the carnet. and one slipped under the treadle of the fresh ly oiled sewing machine may save the trouble of cleaning a bad grease spot from the carpet. One or two spread on the floor nea the baking table will catch the bits of flour that often call for a mon when cleaning up after a big job of baking. the papers that are Btitched.

like magazines, are fine for use on table or near sink, where kettles and dishes are to be placed. When nn or two leaves are soiled thev can torn off and clean ones are left, ready lor next use. Every housewife knows that print ers' ink is hated by moths and makes use of newspapers when pack ing away woolen clothes and fnra an, ror putting under carpets. Whatever use the papers are put to or however soiled they may be. thev are nuleklv burned and every vestice nf llttor done away with.

Rural New Yorker. Christian Church. Bible school, 10 a. m. Miss Wapler and Mr.

Howse, the captains in our local contest, are especially anxious to see their adher ents on time with a studied lesson Preaching, 11 a. m. only. We adjourn for the Chautauqua in the evening. No Endeavor for the same reason.

The Junior congrega tlon meets at 11 a. m. in basement. All are cordially invited to meet with us especially visitors in our city. Ben D.

Gillispie, Pastor. Itching, bleeding, protruding or blind piles have yielded to Doan's Ointment. 60c at all stores. adv. rove unsatisfactory, have been overwhelmingly defeated.

The Kingston, branch of the Journeymen Stonecutters of North America was organized in 1900, and since that time the wage scale has been advanced from $3 per day of 10 hours to $4 per day of 8 hours, without resort to strike. United States Consul General John L. Griffiths of London believes that no more effective agency than tile government labor exchange has ever been devised in England to relieve the congestion of labor by securing for it a more even distribution. The Sacramento Federated Trades council has increased its dues to 8 cents per month per capita on the membership in each union, in order to meet running expenses and pay a business agent $27 a week. Unions having less than 13 members will pay a flat rate of $1 a month.

Threshing Extraordinary. Antony Heinen, who is running a Nichols Sliepard threshing machine north of town, separated 2,546 bushels of wheat from the straw on Wednesday of this week in eleven hours. Mr. Heinen had eight pitchers at work on headed grain in the stack that was yielding 29 bushels to the acre. This was the second time in the course of the week that Mr.

Heinen's machine made better than 2,000 bushels as the day's run, and be is hoping that if good luck holds with him, to make a clean-up of 12,000 bushels as the week's work. Mr. Heinen's pitchers are paid a bonus if the machine makes 2,000 bushels or better In a duy's run, and they have demonstrated that they can earn it on several occasions the past few-days. Every minute of the eleven hours that Antony Heinen's threshing machine was running on Wednesday of this week it was delivering wheat into the wagon boxes at the rate of 3.86 bushels to the minute. Doan's Regulets are recommended by many who say they operate easily, without griping and without bad after effects.

25c at all drug stores. adv. WANTS Too 1 cite to Classify FOR RENT The east half of the Bohner building on Court street, now occupied by the Hubbard Electric will be vacant August 1. See me on the ground. R.

D. Hamilton. 22tf FOR SALE One team of bay horses, 3 years old, weight about 2,100 lbs. the team; price $225; can be seen in Frank Hlner's pasture, 3 miles south of Scottsville. Apply Elmer HIner, Asherville, Kas.

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