Smith County Pioneer from Smith Centre, Kansas • 1

Society SMITH COUNTY PIONEER. SMITH KANSAS COUNTY PIONEER BULLETIN, ESTABLISHED ESTABLISHED 1871. 1000. CONSOLIDATED 1890. SMITH CENTER, KANSAS, FEBRUARY 22, 1900.

Vol. 29. No. 18 THIS AND THAT. Don't Worry.

It the things of this world are not coming your way, you worry; Keep a stiff upper lip, luck may strike you some day, Don't you worry; If your money is shy and you can't pay your due, Let your creditors travel the floor if they choose, It will not help you out to be having the blues, Don't you worry. If domestic affairs are not keyed up to Don't you worry. There is greater discord when you're both out of key, Don't you worry; If your wife is addicted to wagging her jaw, If you can't get along with your mother-in-law, Quit your chewing the rag, let the women folks chaw, And don't worry. If political clouds cast a shadow of gloom, Don't you worry; There is nothing can stem the Republican boom, Don't you worry; With progression in hand and expansion on tap, And general prosperity right in your lap, You have nothing to fear from the Bryan claptrap, So don't worry. If the English reverses are not what you like, Don't you worry; There is always an end to the longest turnpike, Don't you worry: If you side with the man with the prayer book and gun, Who would steal what another's industry has WON, You will likely regret when 0om Paul has to run, Don't you worry.

A. A. ROWLEY. A western Kansas sheriff recently received a card offering a reward of $25 for the recovery of a stolen horse and $50 for a runaway wife. Who says pros perity has not struck us.

A Burr Oak man shipped a thousand bushels of pop corn recently. It brought 60 cents a bushel. A whole train of fat cattle was made up one day last week between Mankato and Courtland. It is now no longer necessary to throw in the halter in order to sell a horse. Three years ago the halter was worth more than the horse.

Phillipsburg citizens are congratulating themselves upon at last securing a good supply of pure water. We can sympathize with There was a time several years ago, when this city was troubled over the water question the same as Phillipsburg has been recently, but it is so long ago that many of us have forgotten the circumstances. Who weeps with you when you are sad, and laughs with you when you are glad, and swears with you when you are mad? The editor. Who has to be both kind and wise, and never (hardly ever) lies, and when he does creates surprise? The editor. Who owns a heart as well as cheek; is possessed of spirit proud and meek, and lives on 40 cents a week? The editor.

-Ex. Mankato is enjoying a lecture course this winter by home talent. There is better lecture talent lying dormant in town in Kansas than many of the every traveling lecturers display. A Beloit man who claims that during his life time he has drank liquor enough to float the largest ship ever built, has sworn off. He has stood the test for 30 days and claims that all the powers of the globe would not induce him to touch the vile stuff.

This is the kind of liquor habit cure that cures. The city council of Beloit has approprieted $100 to the Ladies Library Club. A truly commendable action. The Norcatur Register bemoaning its sad fate says: "There has nothing happened this week except a few blizzards and the sending and receiving of valentines, and how to make a newspaper out of that is a part of the trade that we have not yet learned." A man who claimed to be too, poor to take his home paper, according to the Hoisington Dispatch, read in a down east cheap advertising sheet that for $1.50 a receipt would be sent to prevent horse from slobbering. He sent the a $1.50 and received in return this information: "Teach your horse to spit." The following item from the "Kansas topic" editor of the Kansas City Journal, is respectfully, but firmly dedicated to Lew Headley and John Conway, who imagine they know all abont poetry: "A Butler county woman says her boy can't plow a straight furrow, is too lazy to run a rabbit, can't play marbles, skate or spin a top, can't sing or do figures in his head, don't know poetry from prose; and she thinks he ought to be an editor or a preacher.

The Council Grove Republican would like to have Rev. Sheldon run a country paper awhile and figure out what Jesus would do when his subscribers did not pay up. It is now but a question of a short time when Smith Center will be on speaking terms with Missour. river towns. Only a short distance of line to build between Belleville and Mankato and Mankato and this city, when the whole thing will be accomplished.

The following is from the Concordia Kansan: "The Telephone company has made arrangements and will goon have in operation telephone connection with Rice, Ames, Clyde, Aurora, Miltonvale and Lamar. Hollis, Talmo, Belleville, Rydal, Scandia, Courtland, Republic City, Yuma and Jamestown. The last named 1 will connect at Jamestown with the Beloit line and the Clyde station will connect with Missouri River towns. The Telephone company is to be congratulated for its enterprise. The connection is already made with Rice and the workmen are putting in the remainder of the lines as fast 'as they possibly can do so." Real Estate Transfers.

Hello! Hello! ending February 21, by Chas. S. Uhl, abstracCenter, Kansas. WARRANTY DEEDS. For week as furnished ter, Smith E.

L. Conrad, et al to John O. Conrad 80 acres Harlan Walter C. Harriman to Geo. A.

Fernald, 160 acres Center Andrew Cleman to L. Beegles, 3 lots Charles Gilbert to W. E. Baldwin, 80 acres White Rock Geo. A.

Fernald to J. E. Werts, 160 acres Center H. H. Springer to Frank sI.

Samuelson, 2 lots Springes 2nd L. A. Helm to Noah Weaver, 40 acres Oak G. A. Tomlinson to Thos.

Williams, tract of land Oak J. Criss to Wm. Schoen, 160 acres Webster S. S. Hite to The Kansas Town and Land 1 lot Smith Elizabeth Topliff, et al te W.

H. Cary, 40 acres Banner P. A. Atkins to Jacob Hawkins, 80 acres White Rock D. Hughes to John Benscotter, 160 acres Martin township- $2500.

D. E. Fulton to W. H. Nevill, 40 acres Cora P.

Meadows to Phebe Parker, 160 acres Banner Geo. Raming to Henry Kuhlmann, 160 acres Harvey B. Swift, et al to T. A. Greaver, 80 acres Garfield Anna E.

Nelson to W. G. Johnson, 160 acres Pleasant QUIT CLAIM DEEDS. Alfa Walter to Heirs of L. K.

Walter, 440 acres Swan and Cedar townships J. C. Walter, et at to A. S. Walter, 160 acres Swan PATENTS.

U. S. to B. F. Morgan, 160 in Pleasant township--H.

E. FINAL RECEIPTS, U.S. to Elmer E. Greaver, 80 acres Banner township--Timber entry. Total value of sales for week ending February 20, $17, 139.

Obituary. By Mrs Ida Hardesty. Died, at her home near Ohio postoffice on the morning of February 11th, 1900. Ida, wife of J. H.

Cline, aged 43 years 4 month and 10 days. The deceased suffered intensely for several months, but trough all with Christian fortitude. At the time of her death she was a member of the Christian church. The funeral services were held at the house and the remains were laid to rest in the Fairview cemetery. She leaves a husband, nine children, an aged mother, two brothers and a large circle of friends to mourn her loss.

Earth's dearest friend has' left us, A mothers love and care, As on through life we journey We never more can share. We'll miss her kind and loviug voice, We'll miss her gentle hand How can we spare that noble one Just taken from our band. How different the darkness That hangs o'er our home No wife and no mother, In sorrow we roam. Dear she friend, is laid how we from us sadly away, miss her, But we hope in Heaven fo meet her At the close of one bright day. Que of Grant Shaw's latest tions, which may or may not be true: "A large tree was recently cut down in McPherson county, and in it was found a human skeleton well preserved.

There was no opening in the tree, and the body must have been placed there many years ago, as the opening had entirely closed by the growth of the tree." -Children who are troubled with worms are pale in the face, fretful by spells, restless in sleep, have blue rings around their eyes, bad dreams, variable appetite, and pick the nose. White's Cream Vermifuge will kill and expell these parisites. Price 25 cents at Rinehart Slagle's. FOR OUR GIRLS. Why Girls are Failures as Wives and Mothers.

Every Girl in Smith County Should Read It. The following sensiple advice to girls, is from the pen of William Allen White, of the Emporia Gazette, which shows why "loves young dream" is not what it was expected to be when "Mary and John" have married, settled down and begin to hustle for themselves: "The Emporia high school, which is a worthy institution and is the most powerful agency for good in this community, not excepting the Normal and the college, turns out annually a dozen or two Emporia girls, most of whom begin life with no other preparation for the world than they get in the high school. In the course of one year, two years or five years these girls find places in the mosaic of the town life- either as wives and mothers, working women, or society people. None of these girls ever find a prince. Most of them within five years from the time they blush over the footlights with their essays on the 'flaws of our governmental system of find themselves either alone or married, facing the problem of bread and butter, which after all is the serious thing that faces the world.

These girls have learned in the high school many valuable things about the Victorian poets; they have ascertained much that is curious about logarithms, they have acquired a familiarity with amo amas-amat, and they can with reasonable distinguish the salient points of difference between a metaphor and a hole in the ground. But how many of these girls can wash a baby? How many know where a porterhouse comes from? What percent of them can run a wrecking crew into a pullet and remove the debris without breaking the gall bag? How many can pick out a roast of mutton and know how to dress it and serve it so that it won't taste like a rancid nightmare? How many can make their own underwear? How many know how to save the scraps of meat and potatoes and bread and cake and vegetables and make soups and stews and croquets and puddings and things out of them and save half the grocery bills for a man? How many know how to brighten up a home, with the thousand little touches that make the home something more than four walls and a roof? Yet these are the important things of life. This knowledge is far more important to happiness, than a knowledge that the square plus 'y' is square plus two xy plus square. The average girl in the course of time marries. And she doesn't marry a millionaire; she marries a man who is making at the time of his marriage very little over or under $10 a week.

He goes out six days in the on week digging for that ten. It is the girls part of the partnership to save it for him. But if she doesn't know housekeeping further than baker's bread fried beefsteak, the chances are that the family will always be poor, that the men will quit shaving more than once a week and the woman slomick around in a wrapper and the tow- head dirty-faced kids will go ragged and sick; that the doctor will take all the money the grocer leaves and that love's dream will soon be over and the devil will be sitting beside the battered 98 cent alarm clock in the dirty bedroom holding his sides and laughing at what a pudding he has got. then when the high school girl sees her graduation essay tied with blue ribbon in the bottom bureau drawer, she will sit down and bawl while her bread burns and she will wonder where all her high ideals have gone. Here's where they've gone: The butcher has taken part of them because the girl could not buy meat intelligently, and save in making hash and stews and croquets and things with the left over parts.

The grocer has had part of those ideals because the girl lives on canned truck which is the most expensive food in the world, and would bankrupt a king. The dry goods man has taken some more ideals, because the girl buys ready made garments that she doesn't know how to make. The doctor will take a lot of those ideals, because she doesn't know how to cook wholesome food, to keep a sanitary house and to preserve a sound body. Then if the girl is like the average of her kind she will begin to toy with debt. She will keep her husband's nose to the grindstone.

He will lose heart. He will smoke more tobacco because he can't see that he is any better off for the saving when his wife blows him for every cent he lays up. And then they will jaw and row and people will say. he used to be such a nice boy, Or, 'And she was such a sweet girl, too, before she A boy who ties himself to that kind of a girl stands DO more show than he would with both legs off Of coure, he may win. So may an armless man.

A silly girl who can't keep house is a worse curse to a man than a flirt. As many men are ruined by do-less women in their own homes as are ruined by whisky. And the thing that the mother of a boy should fear is not so much the lady who annoints her bed with frankincense and myrrh, as the girl who leaves her bed unmade all day and who lets the breakfast dishes go until noon while she pins on a street dress and lights out for town. That is the kind of woman that the boy should be saved from. And she is lying in wait for the boy in a hundred parlors in this town every night.

Now all this is not the fault of the high school which has done much for the girl. But it is the fault of foolish mothers who think the high school does everything. Given a good home training in the homely useful things of life, a high boon. school education is a ens and sweetens the character; but if a a It brings happiness. It broadgirl can only have one kind of education let her take her diploma from the kitchen and let books go hang.

Now this doesn't agree with what Mr. Ruskin says. But it's what your good, sensible, bald-headed daddy will say, or your nice, happy, fat mother will say, and they have lived life. They have been through a good deal. They have seen good deal.

It will pay to listen to them. From the Chicago Times-Herald. business has been good during the past year or two," a man reflected; "I have had excellent health; nothing has occurred to make me unhappy, and I feel that I ought to do something to let God know that I am grateful for all the blessings He has seen fit to bestow upon me. "Ah! I have it! I will go to church next Sunday and put a $5 bill in the contribution plate!" and he did so. He inclosed the bill in an envelope, with his business card, so that nobody else would get credit to which he was not entitled, and there was satisfaction in his heart when he walked home after the It had been a good sermon.

"Cast thy bread upon the waters and it will return to thee after many days!" That, as nearly as he could remember it, was the text. "I have cast my bread upon the waters," he said to himself. "Now we shall see if it returns," On the following day his business rival around the corner came to him and said: "There i is not room here for both of us. You have a larger establishment than mine, you have more capital, and because you buy in greater quantities than I can you are able to undersell me. For the past year I have been struggling to keep from sinking, but you have beaten me.

I have arrived at a point where I must give up the fight." Then the man who had prospered bought the other man out at a third of the actual value of his possessions, because he was in a hole, and the man who had conquered knew it and applied the screws, and after the deal was completed and he had marked up all of his goods 20 per cent he said: "Yes, it is true, Heaven is on the side of the righteous. The bread that is cast upon the water will return- sometimes before many days. I wi'l try it again." Let us remember, however, that things sometimes happen by chance. Death of Joshua S. Fairchild.

Was the Lord to Blame? Joshua S. Fairchild, living in Smith county, died last Sunday. Funeral services were held at 10 o'clock a.m. Monday from the Progressive Dunkard church in Portis, Rev. Hixon officiating, and interment was made in Fairview cemetery.

Mr. Fairchild was born at Buffalo, New York, October 14, 1813, being therefore at the time of his death 87 years, 8 months and 7 days old. April 18, 1843, he was married to Frances M. Steel. He was the father of ten children, four of whom preceded him to 1 the better land.

He leaves an aged wife and six children to mourn his loss. He united with the United Brethren church in 1859 and was for several years a minister in that church. In 1884 he united with the Christian church, in which he remained a faithful member until death. He was a zealous worker in the Sunday school and a great friend to the young folks. -Portis Correspondent in Osborne Farmer, Feb.

15. A Sad Death. Earl, eldest son of Thomas and Emma Reed of Washington township, died at Manhattan, Kansas, February 17, 1900. Earl and his brother Harry went to Manhattan January 1st to attend the Agricultural college. He had finished the February examination, passing with great credit to himself, when he was taken down with measles about two weeks ago, this disease became complicated with pneumonia, which proved too much for him to overcome.

He was born in this county August 27, 1881, having passed his eighteenth birthday. He was a bright, gentlemanly young man and had already made a host of friends, who will sympathize with the parents in this their sore bereavement. The body was brought home Sunday and was laid at rest Monday in the cemetery near this city. Rev. Platt conducting the funeral services.

Spreads Like Wildfire. When things are "the best" they become "the best selling." Abraham Hare, a leading druggist, of Belleville, writes: "Electric Bitters are the best selling bitters I have handled in 20 years. You know why? Most diseases begin in disorders of the stomach, liver, kidneys, towels, blood and nerves. Electric Bitters tones up the stomach, regulates liver, kidneys and bowels, purifies the blood, strength the nerves, hence cures multitudes of maladies. It builds up the entire system.

Puts new life and vigor into any weak, sickly, run down man or woman. Price 50 cents. Sold by Rinehart Slagle, Druggists. Odds and Ends Of Shoes and Underwear This is the season when we are very anxious to clean out the remnants and broken lines before invoicing. We have a lot of good 40, 50, and 75 cent underwear that we will sell you at 25c Each.

Also a bunch of Shoes, worth from $1.50 to $3.00, that we have put into 2 lots and you can take them at 95 and $1.25. They are on our front table where you can look them over at your leisure. Will you buy a good thing for a little money? COOLIDGE CO. Trees For The Prairies. The Division of Forestry U.

S. Depart. ment of Agriculture, has decided to investigate early next summer the extreme eastern distribution of the Rocky Mountain trees. The information will be for the benefit of tree planters on the western plains, for the success of planting in these regions must largely depend upon introducing the trees which are naturally adapted to them. Heretofore a large proportion of the trees planted upon the plains have been eastern species, the effort of planters having been gradually to force the eastern species westward.

There is reason to believe that a number of Rocky Mountain trees, accustomed to an arid enviroment, will be apt to sucdeed better in the more western plains region than the eastern species. This is particularly true of trees which grow naturally on lower elevations and which follow the streams for some distance into the plains. The work will be done largely by collaborators of the Division who are familiar with the region. To each will be assigned a certain area, in which, following the trees eastward, he will study their habits of growth in varying situations. The offer to give advice and furnish working plans to persons desirous to plant forest trees, made last August by the Division of Forestry, has received immediate response from farmers in every part of the country.

Although but a few months have elapsed since the offer became generally known, one hundred and eighteen applications have been received, and plans for thirty-eight of these will be completed before the time for spring planting to begin. A still larger number have asked for written advice, which does not require field inspection by the forest officials. The treeless States have been quickest to avail themselves of assistance, the number of applications being as follows: Kansas, '38; Oklahoma, 19; Nebraska, 12; North Dakota, Iowa, Indiana, Texas, Minnesota, Colorado, Washington, South Dakota, California, Illinois, New York Ohio, Missouri, 1 Delaware, 1. The majority of plans are for tracts of five to ten acres, intended by prairie farmers to afford wind-breaks and fuel supplies. A few plantings of 1,000 and 2,000 acres are being made in experiments in raising forest crops for market in regions where such material is scarce.

After considering these applications in order, the Division of Forestry has sent experts to study the conditions of as many as possible of localities which offered the best opportunities for object lessons to the public. Plans will be sent without delay to each owrer, instructing him in detail how to plant, and recommending the species best adapted to his tract. 7 Jacks For Sale. I have seven jacks for sale at a bargain, if taken within 15 days. They are good size, good bone, good color, well bred from Kentucky stock.

All of the best type and blood Not one drop of Spanish blood in them. They are from 3 to 6 years old. Address D. J. SUGGETT, Linden, Clay County, 18 1t Missouri..