Cawker City Public Record from Cawker City, Kansas • 3

1 THE PUBLIC BECORD. COSTS MUCH MONEY U. W. DOCKSTADEU. C.

W. President. KELLOGG. J. G.

McCLUN, Vice- President. Ctwhiej Farmers and Iflerctiaijts State Bank, Because a traveling evangelist roasted the traveling men at Atchison, the latter are sore. The game is not worth the candle The man, whether a traveling evangelist, or an itinerant horse trader, who denounces traveling meu as a class, is unworthy of notice. For they are of the highest class of business men, It is necessary for them to be so No traveling man who proves himself unworthy can hold his place They must not only bo moral men, but they must be scrupulously honest. No wholesale house knowingly employs a dishonest traveling represents tive No reputable house will send a man of low morals on the road for it.

Lawrence Gazette. CAWKER CITY, We Solicit Your Business and Extend Every Accommodation Possible. KANSAS. Dr. Spossard is arranging to leave Glen Elder in the spring' to locate at Oklahoma City.

Halley's Comet. Dr. Ephraim Miller, Professor of Mathematics and Astronomv. at the University of Kansas, has been giving especial attention to Halley's comet, and (also to Dcrake's comet which has been observed recently by the naked eye. The article is too lengthy for our columns.

Prof. Miller says Halley's comet cives great promise of being a remarkable sight. Its last appearance was in 1835 seventy-five years ago, since which it has traveled millions of miles beyond the the orbit of Neptune. It can be seen by the naked eye sometime in April. It will he nearest the sun on the 19th and move with its greatest speed.

At present it is moving westward Jnthe direction of the earth, but April 24th its motion will be toward the east. On May 19th it may be seen as a magnificient object ap pearance shortly after sunset, and get higher in the western sky each succeeding day. This comet appears in periods of 75 or 76 years. It was first noticed 12 13. C.

and next in 60 A. D. $50,000 Mystery Is Solved. lkloit Gazette, Jan. 27.

That $50,000 worth of stock that Mitchell county ha3 in the Central Branch railroad has been found. After a "mysterious disappearance" of years, the resurrection of the certificate among some old papers, is a most interesting climax to a mystery puzzling the county officials for decades. The story of the finding came to County Attorney Amzie Jordan in a most unusual manner. He has been searching high and low, near and far for some trace of the stock certificate. He has written letters to all the ex-county treasurer back to '78 and the nearest trail he could locate was that years ago when Andy Hicks was county attorney, lie was to ascertain whether or not the certificate had any value.

Mr. Hicks it is recalled by some at that time reported the stock was worthless. The other day Mrs. A. G.

Tolbert of North Hersey avenue, while looking over some old papers belonging to the estate of her father. Abner Jordan, she ran across some old stocks in a package labeled, "worthless." Among them was a railroad stock certificate for 50,000,, issued to Mitchell county. Mrs. Tolbert took the certificate to County Attorney Jordan, who is her cousin, and he immediately saw that it was the long lost and much sought certificate. The papers were among those left by Attorney Hicks, and in all of them, with the exception of the stock certificate, Abner Jordan had been interested.

Attorney Hicks did considerable legal work for Abner Jordan, and probably accidentally put the certificate among these papers. Evans Farm Sold. John Ilerrnou of Independence. Missouri has purchased the Roll Evans firm near Cawker for $2,500, the sale being made in settlement of tho divorce case brought against Mr. Evans, in which Mrs.

Evans was given $200 temporary and $1200 permanent alimony. The people in the Central Branch train near Concordia last week say that they did not know the cars were derailed until a farmer drivincr by said to the engineer "Say mister your cars are off the track." The engineer looked back and said 4 well so they nre by jove," after they had gone on the ties for three hundred yards. Will Measure Even Kansas Earthquakes. An instrument to measure the vibrations of the earth is to be mounted at the University of Kan sas. The importance of the obser vations thus taken is likely to be scientific rather than practical.

At times of great earthquake disturbances the records from widely separated stations assist in an understanding of the phenomenon. Such records, continued through a period of years, will lead to a better knowledge of the causes and occurrence of earthquakes. The seismograph for the University has been shinned from Germany and on account of its delicacy will not be unpacked until it reaches Lawrence. A cus toms house officer from Kansas City will be present at the unpack ing. The Kansas City Market.

Special to the Punuo Rkcord: Kansas City, Monday, Jan. 31, 1909, Cattle prices declined rapidly lust week. Today tho supply is 6000 head, smaller than on lust Monday, and it became the buyer's turn to show anxiety. Everybody was riding hard as long as tho supply lasted and prices today were 10 to 15 high-er on all kinds. Most dealers bolieve that the boycott has spent its force, although caution in marketing in still urged.

Nothing priuie is here today, best steers offered gob gat J50.65, cows at $3.00 to 5.25, heifers $3.50 to 5.75, calves $3.75 to 8.50, bulls $3.50 to 4.90, stackers $3.25 to 5.00, feeders $1.00 to $5.25 Ilog receipts were hoavy first half of last week, and the market went down fast. Supply today 8000 head, top, Jt8. 40, bulk $8.10 to 8.35, weights under 200 pounds $7.90 to 8.27J. Deulors bolieve that prices will be regulated by the inevitable law of supply and demand. The supply end of this law is more or less definitely known, and if a million pur-sons should stop eating meat it would still have only a temporary effect on prices, considering the tremendous shortage in the supply.

Bheopand lambs 15 to 25 cents higher today, yearlings up to $7.00, ewer $4,50, wethers J5.00. J. A. Rickart, L. 8.

Correspondent. REBUKING A BORE LIKK THE WORM, OLD GENTLEMAN TURNED AT LAST Dsiorlptlon of His Improved Condition Raised High Hopes In Listener, Until the Last Sentence of His Talk. To a hotel noted for its baths for the cure of rheumatism came a woman, who at once made the acquaintance of every person, apparently for the sole purpose of tolling them her Imaginary ailments, hearing thorn toll about tholr own, and discussing nt great length the curative properties of the springs. She umilo a particular victim of an old man, who, being of a somewhat retiring, silent temperament, was extremely annoyed by her questions and oft-repeated tales of woe. Finally, one morning, when he was taking a sun-bath on the terrace surrounded by a few congenial acquaintances, the woman approached, Inflicted upon him a renewal of her tiresome conversation, and exhausted his pntlouce.

Ills opportunity for revenge came quickly. "Mr. Ladd," said she, settling weakly into a chair, "we have had so many pleasant discussions about our Bufferings and yet not half so pleasant as they might have been, because I've been so frightfully racked with these terrible pains. Why, I looked into the glass this morning, and you have no idea how pale I was! I scarcely knew myself. Hut what I wanted to ask you was this: What do you think of these baths? Have you any faith In them.

And this climate par ticularly, and this air?" "Madam," replied the old man, "I cannot speak so surely about the baths, but there Is no doubt about the climate and the air. I can truthfully say I feel at home here. Why. when I first came here I weighed less by more than 50 pounds. "I could hardly raise an arm above my head.

I could not sneak an tntelll gible word. I never left my bed with out being lifted from it by strong arms, and my hands were bo useless that I could not pick up a knife and fork. Most of my days I spent half- conscious or asleep upon my back, and I did not take any Interest In the conversation of my nurse. "You can see now that I have a lit tle hair. When I came to this town there was not a spear of it on my head.

I needed attention night and day. I was so weak and helpless that a child of four years might have chok ed me to death without Its being In my power to resist. That was when I first came here." "Gracious!" cried the woman, ex citedly. "You give me so much hope! How long have you been here? When did you first come?" "Madam," answered the old man, solemnly, "I was born here." The Nation's 8kull-Maklng. Scientists, like poets, can be dlth-ramble and rhapsodical, and lead governments Into publishing works of notion in the guise of reports of Investi gations.

So while admitting to the full all that the American environ ment does in affecting and modifying the Inner being, mental outlook, and octal eustoms of the many races which come from abroad, it will be with considerable skepticism that ethnologists read the latest report of the immigration bureau on quickly attained physical modifications, noted Immlgrapts to this country, or at least that portion of the report which seems to show that structural changes follow mere living in this country, owing to better nutrition, etc. Of course where there are intermarriages and a blending of types ia parents It It to be expected, and la visible to the most careless observer. But, after all, what we are more concerned with Is the Americanizing of the contents of the skull. American hatters and milliners can be depended on to produce hats to fit any shape of head. Dr.

Glennen's Repartee. Perhaps among none of the thousands who will shake the archbishop's hand and extend felicitations on the occasion of his sliver Jubilee in the priesthood, are there any more loyal friends than the newspaper folk. Few of the craft, when, on occasion, the exigencies of the profession have made their curiosity in affairs of state embarrassing, have not been dispatched genially and tactfully with a Joke. It's the archbishop's way. Whether he is "Jollying" a crowd of the guests at Father Dempsey's hotel, "kidding" a congregation of little newsies or "taking down" the Importance of some grave and reverend father, or "Joking" the affected dignity of some captain of industry, or "teasing" the supercilious small talk of some fashionable maid or matron of society, or laying genial encouragement on the distressed and pious old lady by laughing her out of her trouble, the archbishop of St.

Louis never lacks for his repartee. St Louis Republic. 1 Prepared. Master Joseph, aren't you ashamed to get Into such a condition. Suppose anyone found you outside like this.

Servant It's all right, sir. I always have one of your cards on me. Reminded Him of Her. She What does the sea remind you of most? He Of you. She (flattered) Why? 1 He Because If never still.

L.L.ALIUCH, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER. PUBLISHED EVERY THURSDAY THUHSDA FElUiUAli 3, WO. Entered a nwoud-diun mull matter at tb Cawkor City potuttli, Deontuber US. 18X7. Trlbuue, entiil Ki-ho Fra I'rmt Trlbuue, entiiblUhod 1878 1S76 1(78 l'UULIC KllXHD 1M3 Subscription Rates.

Oae dollar a yeur, 11 paid lu advance. When not paid lu advanrc, rata In $1.25 a veur OUR 'PHONE NUMBER. 127 is the IIkcoud Olllee. 58 is the Editor's family residence To the Republicans of the Sixth Congressional District. Although it has been known lu a generul way tor sometime, that I am a Republican candidate lor CoDKriwa, I now make thU formal aunouncemeut of my candidacy, which nhiill continue until the end of the August primaries.

I am a Republican and believe lu the principle of the party which baa always been progressive, that platform promises should be sacredly kept, aud that the party will settle all Natlouul questions right, and nominated and elected, I Bhiill fearlessly do my part, strive to obey the lubes of my constlt ts and protect the lutereats of the Individual citlsen In this district against all unjust burdens Imposed by the organlted private Interests. Later, I shall, by public addresses, statements nd otherwise, discuss the public questions that are up tor solution in this campaign, Kespectfully, I. D. Young. Political Announcements are payable in advance.

An auto school is to be opened in Salina. The only war heard of since the appearance of the comet is between the editors of the Mankato papers. Ira Stoneburner of Palco claims the championship among corn huskers; he says he husked 130 bushels in nine hours. Col. John Brennan last week cried the biggest sale ever cried in Kansas.

It amounted to 47,821 and took place southwest of Caw ker. "Dad" Griffith is dead, are words that will cause numbers of those who traveled on the Santa Fe to drop a tear of sympathy, as he had been in their employ since 1871, always trustworthy. The Philadelphia North American gives an account of the wedding of Miss Stella daughter of Henry Rothschild to Wm. Sommer of Dayton, her brother Jacob being best man. Miss Stella is a niece of Jacob Rothschild of this city.

Wm. Power visited Stockton last week and closed a deal for land also wired to headquarters for material to erect a building and a system of tanks for an oil station to distribute to other nearby towns. The Kansas farmers can substitute for meat with their own chick ens, eggs, milk, cream butter, and if they are vegetarians they have plenty of potatoes, turnips, parsnips, carrots, cabbage with their own canned fruit in place of imported luxuries. A young man in Pratt was arrest ed for playing poker some years ago. Recently he applied for a job in another city which he was competent to fill.

His poker record blocked his way as the employ er had heard of his arrest and re membered it. Salina Journal. Enough water has gone to waste the past week to have matured a corn crop. Sedgwick Pantagraph. And enough arms have gone to waist this winter to have culti vatedit.

Jewell Republican. And Palmer with his pencil for a husk ing peg has "shocked" all in the community. Mrs. Agnew and Mrs. Bandt entertained the ladies of the Bap tist and Presbyterian societies at the home of Mrs.

Bandt last Friday making a pleasant place in their memory. Cards were passed and each requested to write a scripture quotation begin ing with the letter of her name, which was read in response to roll call and were used as place cards when seated at the small tables. Mrs Andrew Blanken ship gave a beautiful solo and a delicious three course luncheon was served. The usual offering was taken up and wiselyexpended as the ladies always make wise provisions. EXPENSE OF LAUNCHING DEBUTANTE IN NEW YORK SOCIETY.

To Do tho Thing in Style. Will Set Papa's Bank Account Back a Few Thousand Dollars at the Least. New York has a tradition that alt debutantes must be brought out In November and December. There must be no left-overs for January, which Is the month of the ball and the dinner dance. "In London or Tarls there are sometimes six or seven dances In one evening during the season," says a writer in Vogue.

"People pass from one to another, showing themselves for a few minutes here, having supper there, and perhapB appearing at another place before going home. "In Paris I believe the dances given for debutantes are called bals blancs, and at them there are many chaperons, for a French girl as a rule Is seldom left alone with a man. However, to-day I hear that the rules are less rigid than they were In the last generation. "The bal blanc is not as tiresome, perhaps, as the reception invariably held in New York in the afternoon but the last-named entertainment Is at least a meeting place for old friends. As a rule there are too many invited, the rooms are apt to be close and the refreshments are somtimes on too liberal a scale.

"Champagne is a wine to be taken moderately at dinner, at supper or at wedding receptions; otherwise It Is not the best form to serve It before candles are lighted, when punch, orangeade and mineral waters are quite sufficient. "The luncheon for debutantes is a new idea, and novelties are not as thick as autumnal leaves In a Val-lambrosa. Each city has Its assembly or its aeries of dances, and years ago girls who came out only in this way, that Is without any special entertainment being given for them, were said to have made their debuts by subscription. It was a cruel way of putting It, but at any rate every girl Is now determined to have a separate entertainment, whether it is a simple tea, a large crush reception with the usual dinner and theater to the receiving party, or a dance. "It is naturally quite an expensive undertaking, because there are so many items to be considered, especially In small households when a force of extra people must be called In to provide an awning, music, flowers, refreshments, a man to call carriages and footmen or special servants.

And when in addition to this a party to the play is given, with dinner before, supper and dancing afterward, extra motors and other expenses, it ia difficult to bring out a young girl well, that Is to say in the best New York fashion, without spending a few thousand dollars. And this does not include gowns." Gibbon on Fame. Edward Gibbon, the historian, was not one to underestimate the pleasures of intellectual occupation or the value of literary fame. "I have drawn a hlga prize In the lottery of life," he wrote la his autobiography. "I am disgusted with the affectation of men of letters who complain that they have renounced a substance for a shadow, and that their fame affords a poor compensation for envy, censure and persecution.

"My own experience has taught me a very different lesson; twenty bappy years have been animated by the labors of my history and Us success has given me a name, a rank, a character in the world to which I should otherwise not have been entitled. "D'Alembert relates that as he was walking In the gardens ef Bans Soucl with the king of Prussia, Frederick said to him, 'Do you see that old woman, a poor weeder, asleep on that sunny bank? She is probably a more happy being than either of "The king and philosopher mayspeak for themselves; for my part, I do not envy the old woman." -Youth's Companion. Will Women Abandon Love? Gertrude Atherton, the novelist, baa been writing for Harper's Bazar on "The Woman In Love." In her first two papers Mrs. Atherton discusses those women in history whose love episodes have been the most striking thing about them. In her third paper, however, not yet published, she makes some predictions concerning the place that love will take in the future.

Mrs. Atherton does not go so far as Mrs. Belmont, who predicts that there will be a war between the sexes, due to the fact that men will not give women the suffrage. Mrs. Atherton believes and states, however, that from now on the love element will be a far less vital thing in women's lives than It has been heretofore.

She thinks that the broadening out of feminine interests, the entrance of women Into new fields, the intellectual development of women, are all factors which will fill women's HveB to the comparative exclusion of that other factor which heretofore has been supposed to be "ber whole existence." His Money. "How did he make his money?" "Out of several important inventions" "I didn't know he was an inventor." "He isn't He employs a lawyer who can draw papers that seem to mean what they don't" Sad Fatal Accident. County commissioner Geo. R. Dawes was felling a tree, on his farm in Logan township, that had been bioken in a windstorm last summer so that the upper portion of the trunk was beut over, one end resting on the ground.

Mr. Dawes thought the two parts would remain in that position until he could cut the main trunk to bring all down together. But he miscalculated and the strokes of the axe jarred the top loose, falling on him. His yourg son Orin was with him and succeeded in removing the tree but could not get him in the wagon so wns obliged to leave him alone while he went to the house half mile away, where he met a neighbor, Robert McKim, who returned with him but the rough roads caused him much suffering while taking him home. Dr.

O'Brien and Cook of BeloU, and Shafer from Simpson, were summoned but the drive took four hours on account of rough roads, and on their arrival they found his ankle broken, with the thigh torn away from the spine. Mr Dawes told them that death was near and after lingering twenty hours passed away Sun day noon. Mr. Dawes was an early settler of Logan township where he has always resided and been considered a model farmer. He was elected county com mis sioner in 1902 and again in 1906 when he had no opposition, and being honest and thorough having the respect of every one he was chairman of the The court house was closed Tuesday, the officials attending the funeral in a body, the services conducted by Rev.

A. Moore of Concordia and the interment in Green Mound cemetery. The widow and eight children have the sincere sympathy of every one in this sad bereavement. Blue Hill Brevities. The corn wagons were rattling in the early morning the past week.

It is reported that Wm. Dashler of this place and his brother-in-law A Notoway of Victor, have bought the Dudley Livery barn in Glen Elder. Mrs. Ruth Thurston is very ill and under constant watchcare of neighbors and loving friends. Mr.

and Mrs. Paul Patterson are on a visit to friends in Lincoln county. Rowland Chapman's DeLaval Separator exploded the other morning scattering cream and flying missiles all through the cream house, one piece of the bowl barely missing Rowland's head. The roads are the worst on record. About every day we hear of teams getting down and loads stuck in the mud.

The snow was nearly gone but a new supply came Saturday night though it did not last long Sunday. Mrs F. D. Chapman was tussel-ing with a severe case of lagrippe all the past week. Warren Sherbundy got into a washed out culvert crossing Salt creek and had quite time getting out Thursday evening.

Several of our young folks attended spelling school at Excelsior Friday night. Samuel Burger has an offer of $10,000.00 for his farm two miles north of Blue Hill. Distance from town cuts but little figure in price of land in these days of airships, automobiles and free rural delivery CRONK GARRETT, Tor CkEWARTTGLOVES and OVERALiIj UNIFORMS Our stock of is more complete than ever. Chicago Lumber and Coal Co,.