The Meade Republican from Meade, Kansas • 1

Meade, Kansas, Wednesday, March 26, 1890. No. 4, Vol. IV. PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

HISTORIC GROUND. M. CLABAUGH, Attorney at law, Police Judge and Justice of the Peace. Collections promptly made. Office east side square, Meade Center, Kansas.

PU11LISIIKD EVKKY WEOSESDAT, AT MEADK, TKANSAS. si. 50 per annum, advance. passing, but they gave way to bet-er times, and were followed by seasons of prosperity which seemed all he brighter by contrast with those trying ordeals through which all states pass at different periods. What has appened in the past will be repeated to the future, and the season of depres-ion from which Kansas is even now-merging is likely to be succeeded by a general revival of the material interests of the state which ill be all the more protracted because of the accession of knowledge wh ch the people of the stale ve gained in the hard -xperience.

-Kansas City Star. PROHIBITION IN IOWA. IMtking Up. A. HEBER, President.

E. F. PIEMAN, Cash it r. O. L.

STEVENS, Vice-President. (3853) MEADE COUNTY National Bank, lXCATIO, BUSINESS AND SOCIAL ADVANTAGES. MEADE, the county seat of Meade county, is beautifully situated a little north of the center of the county in the Crooked Creek valley, so noted for its artesian wells, there being now (.1389 1 over aoo, at depths from 45 to 150 feet. Mead has three banks and is the head quarters of the American Mortgage Trust the Title Land and Town Lot the American Sugar and the Southwestern Sugar with plants at Meade, Arkalon and Liberal. The city has fine school and city buildings.

It is located on the Rock Island railroad, and by it is the gateway to No Man Land and the Pan Handle. Other railroads have been surveyed to and through the city and will be built at an early day. Its business men and citizens are enterprising and liberal. Its social advantages are unexcelled there are no saloons or gambling dens, so common to new towns of rapid growth, and the officers of the law, backed by a zealous public ill not suffer them to exist. There are four church organizations already formed, as vrill be seen by cards elsewhere, good schools and a disposition on the part of the people to mould and maintain society in its very best condition.

There are yet R. W. GRIGGS, COUNTY ATTORNEY. Prompt attention given to all business intrusted with me. "Oflice in City Hall, Meade, Kaxs.

What a Kansas Republican Saw in the "Old" and "New South. The L. N. Railroad the Great Highway- of that Region. Special correspondence Republican.

Topeka, Kans. March 25, 1890. It is doubtful if there have been as many Republicans in Nashville at one time since "Rap" Thomas' army left it as were called together there by the National Convention of Republican League Clubs. It was an irruption that the native Bourbons did not know what to make of, and a Hood that the native Republicans found unspeakably refreshing. "It seems mighty good to have you'ns dow heah," was the whispered greeting that came to us from behind "Old Shady's" barber chair; while the time-tried white Republicans declared that "the sight of all you fellows is a balm for sore eyes." And it was a great sight.

More than 700 men, representing nearly every state in the Union, (not forgetting one lone delegate from Alas -OF It io impossible for a person to trav I through Kansas and mingle with it-people without realizing that the situation there is improving and that looking up. There is apparent a spirit of hope and confidence, which contrasts cheerfully with the accounts which appeared from time to time in the papers regarding the financial em barras-sment under which the state has MEADE CENTER, KANSAS. coal and iron tells the story. Twelve sjreat blast furnaces, several rolling mills, foundries, machine shops small nance for the old ways and old ideas keep alive in such an atmosphere. It is as if a section of Pennsylvania had ceen dropped down "in the land of cotton." And Birmingham is not the only city that has felt the change.

Sheffield and Anniston and Decatur have all experienced the new birth, and are "getting a move on them" that means more in every way than could be told in many letters. Brielly stated, it means that Bourbonism must go. Bourbonism, whether it be in politics or business, stands mighty little show-in a contest with blast furnaces. But this letter has already overreached its limit, and no room is left for the remainder of the journey, which took us over the historic ground of Lookout Mountain, Mission Ridge and Chicka-mauga, and through the romantic and beautiful scenery of East Tennessee. In just a sentence, then, let it be said that the whole trip was one of continuous interest and pleasure.

Without leaving the splendidly equipped and courteously manned Louisville Nashville Railroad on which we started, we had been carried to the heart of the Old South, to the center of the New South, and over ground made forever memorable by battles that won and sealed the perpetuity of the Union. The best wish we can offer to the readers of these lines is that they may some day have the good fortune to make the same journey. D. O. McCray.

DISTRICT COURT. Hon. Francis Price, Judge. Louis Bolder, Reporter. Court convenes 1st Tuesday of January, April and xtratts from Gov.

tarrabee's Message. We delight to publish statements made by Iow a's recent exectutive, as when Prohibition was adopted he was one of its strongest opponents in the Capital paid in, Surplus, $50,000. $10,000. senate. After four years as C-overnor he says: Thousand'- of those who voted against the Constitutional Amendment BOARD OF TRADE.

Regular meetings first Tuesday in each month at 7:30 p. m. Board of Directors meet each Tuesday evening. E. F.

Seeberger, Secy. Wm. K. Palmer, Pres. T.

J. Palmer, Treasurer. in the belief that such a law would prove a dead letter, are convinced that it can be enforced, and demand its retention. Sioux City, Des Moines. Cedar good opportunities to engage In many lines of busineee, though most mercantile interests are represented.

The town is surrounded by as fine farming lands as can be fonnd in the State. Meado connty contains a population of about 8,000, mostly Americans from Iowa, Illinois and other middle states. It is well watered by Crooked Creek and its branches. Excellent water, almost soft enough for laundry purposes, is obtained at from to 65 feet deep, according to the elevation. But little snow falls and the thermometer seldom registers below zero.

The days are warm but the nights delightfully cool, producing heavy dews which take the place of rain during the dry seasons. The altitude is 2427 feet, rendering the air beneficial for asthma and lung affections. Apples, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, cherries and small fruits grow abundantly, as also vegetables and grains. Land is yet very cheap, though little government land now remains and farms can be secured at very reasonable prices. Politically the A general Banking Business transacted.

Buys and Sells Foreign and Domestic Exchange. Directors: E. J. Hill, A. H.

Heber, E. T. Brawley, G. L. Stevens, E.

F. Rieman. COn RB8PONDElrT8i Hanover National Bank, New York City. Maverick National Bank, Boston, Mass. National Bank of Commerce, Kansas y.

American National Bank, Kansas, Mo. Finney County Bank, Garden City, Kansas. ka.) clean-faced, bright-eyed, gathered in the very stronghold of Democracy to talk Republicanism. And they had a band along, too, that played "Yankee Doodle." and "The Star-Spangled Banner," and "John Brown's Body," and "Marching through Georgia." Small PUBLICATION NOTICE. U.

S. Land Office at Garden City, Kansas. Feb. 11, 1S90 been represented as laboring and the distnss which the farmers have been described as suffering. It is true that prices are lower than thy have leen for many years, and are not sufficieni to afford the farmer an adequate return for the labor expended in producing his crops, but the bountiful yield of last season lias furnished food inabui -danee for man and beast, and the general conditions are more favorable than they have been when partial or total crop failures have enlarged the demand for farm products and increased the price.

The people of Kansas, with a few exceptions in the remote western counties, are in the enjoyment of all the personal comforts which plenty brings, and were it not for the indebtedness which hangs over the state there would be little cause for complaint The mortgages constitute the chief cause of the trouble in Kansas, but the loan agencies report that the paym ent of interest has been more general and prompt than usual this year, and taxes are more fully paid up in most of the counties of Kansas than they have been for a number of years. Auot'ier encouraging tok is the inclination on the part of the farmers to pay up rather than contract new obli Rapids and Ottumwa have banished the saloon and yet are among the most prosperous cities in the state. "The benefits which have resulted to the state from the enforcement of this law are far-reaching indeed. It is a well recognized fact that the crime is on the increase in the United States, but Iowa does not increase. While the number of convicts in the country at large rose from one in every 3,442 of population in 1850 to one in every 860 in 1880, the ratio in Iowa is at present only one to every 3,130.

The jails of many counties are now empty during wonder that the few Bourbons who occasionally wandered within hearing distance, went away sorrowful, with ears tingling. But the doings of the convention have been reported, and it is not the purpose of this letter to repeat what has already been told. Your readers may be interested, however, in a rapid sketch of some of the thi gs that a Notice if hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to n.ake final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Judge or in his absence the Clerk of the District Court of Meade county, Kansas, at Meade. April 11th, 1890, viz: Amos Jacoby, final H. E.

No. 1521, foi the southwest quarter of section 4, in township 31 south, of range 30 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said hmd, viz: L. P. Fisher, Henry Boarardus, John Blair of Mertilla, Kansas, and J.

B. Browning of West Plains, Kansas. D. M. Frost, Register.

SHALLOW CULTIVATION. connty is Republican by a small majority. There are no better opportunities for investment or obtaining homes in the Great West than right here, among an excellent people, in a beautiful climate, alike free from the extreme cold of the north and the torrid heat of the south. Correspondence with any of our land agents, whose advertisements may be seen elsewhere, or with the editor of the Republican will be cheerfully and reliably answered. aper read by John Ridcnour before the Foi County Farmers Institute.

rom the Dodge City Globe-Republican. After eleven years of experience i DON FERGUSON. JAS. M. MARTIN.

brief trip through the late Confederacy reveals to northern eyes. U. S. Land Office at Garden City, Kansas, Feb. 11, 1390.

a good portion of the year, and the OFFICIAL DIRECTORY The splendidly equipped Louisville outhern Kansas, I have come to th conclusion, that for spring crops dett lowing, and then followed by shallov UNITED STATES. President Benjamin Harrison. ultivation is the proper thing for thh number of convicts in our penitentiaries has been reduced from 750 in March 1880, to 604 on July 1, 1889.. It is the testimony of the judges of I have been trying shallow Vice-President Levi P. Morton.

ountry. Ferguson Martin, POPULAR GROCERS! Notice is hereby given that the following settler has filed notice of his intention to Make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Meade county, Kansas, at Meade, April 11th, IBM, viz: Robert' A. Harper, final H. E. No.

1451, for the northeast quarter of section 23, in township 32 south, of range 28 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of paid land, viz: K. E. Steele, C. If.

Rice, J. B. Klmk and Black, all of Meade, Kansas. D. M.

Frost, Register. ultivation for several years with th Nashville Railroad is to the South what the Kock Island is to the West a highway that points in whatever direction you may jvant to go. Meeting you at St. Louis, it takes you across southern Illinois ''Egypt" across a corner of Indiaua, across the whole breadth ot Kentucky, and up the heavi our courts that criminal business has been reduced from 30 to 75 per cent, Secretary ot State amea j. iMame.

Secretary of the Treasury William Wisdom. Secretary of War Kedfleld Proctor. Secretary of the Navy Benjamin F. Tracy. Secretary of Interrior, John W.

Noble. Postmaster General John Wanamaker. Attorney-General W. H. H.Miller.

Secretary of Agriculture, Jeremiah Rusk. U. S. Land Office, at Garden City, Kansas. Feb.

15, 1890. est grade in the United States, to land you in Nashville. From there it radi The Largest Stock of STATE or KANSAS. and that criminal expenses have diminished in like proportion. "There is a a remarkable decrease in the business and fees of Sheriff and inwyers, as well as the requisitions and and extradition warrants i- ed.

We have less paupers and less tramps in the State in proportion to our population than ever before. "Breweries have beeD converted into U. S. Senators ates to Memphis, to Chatta nooga, to Atlanta, and from there to the sea, to New Orleans, and so on around all the points of the compass. Finding himself thus, as it were, in ion frame live tooth implement, am.

ust spring I sent to Mendota, 111., am got one of the Towers Bro's. surfac cultivators, which gavs me very good satisfaction. It thoroughly stirs the surface from one to three inches deep. I took pains to ascertain how deep the corn roots were. I dug down at one hill and at about two inches deep 1 struck a root and then 1 followed it across to the other row and it never went deeper than three inches.

Now it follows in this dry country especially that if we cutoff or bruise these roots, it takes so much of the life of the plan and every time we cut and injure the roots it stops the growth of the plant, because it has to send out new roots for John J. Ingalls. B. Plumb. E.

N. Morrill. E. II. Funston.

B. W. Perkins. Thomas Hyan. John A.

Anderson. E. J. Turner. S.

R. Petess. J. Crawford. A.

H. Horton. Members of Congress, Notice is hereby given that the following settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate udge of Meade county, Kansas, at Meade, April 15th, 18H0: viz: Charles C. Barker, final H. E.

Ho. 18603, for the north i of the northeast and east of the uorthwest of section 14, township 31 south, of rang.1 '-IS west. He names the following witrj 'ssps to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Robert P. Cooper. Geo.

B. Allen, George Gray and George Edwatds of Meade, Kansas. Also at the Same Time and Place, viz: Elizabeth Dumond, final II. E. No.

735, f. jr the east 1 of the northeast section 30 and the west of the northwest i section 21, in township 34 the center, the writer of this could not State at Washington Chief Justice Supreme Court Staple and Fancy Groceries in the County. See our Goods and Prices Before Buying. M. Valentine.

i Associate Justices, resist the temptation to follow out at least one of the radii, and so procured a ticket to New Orleans, with stop-over privileges. Leaving Nashville in the evening in the midst of a driving snow W. A. Johnston. U.

Humphrey, south, of range 27 west, she names the following Governor Lieutenant Governor. Secretary of State Auditor "of State Treasurer of State Andrew elt. William Higgans. Tim McCarthy. James W.

Hamilton. witnesses to prove her continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Chris. Sihmo-ker, William C. Schmoker, Charles Buck and William Campbell, of dee. Kansas.

D. M. Frost, Register. L. B.

Kellogg Attorney General. Supt. Public Instruction oeorge state Printer C. C. Baker.

Secretary Board Agriculture William Sims. Secretary Historical Society F. G. Adams. Superintendent of Insurance W.

J. Lea: Librarian H. J. Dennis. Adjutant General A.

B. Campbell. West Side Square. Meade, Kansas. MEADE COUNTY.

Representative A. II. Heber. Judge District Court Frank C. Price.

Clerk District Conrt D. B. Stutsman. i J. II.

Randolph. Commissioners E. D. Smith. C.

M. Plymell. Conntv Clerk L. E. Brown.

Sheriff A. J. Byrns. County Attorney W. Griggs.

I'robate Judge W. D. Hudson. Countv Treasurer C. S.

Rockey. Register of Deeds Moses Black. oatmeal mills and canning factories and are operated as such by their owners. The report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction shows an increase! school attendanceftliroughout the State. "The poorer classes have better clothing, better schooling and better houses.

"The deposits in banks show an unprecedented increase, and their are "very-where indications of a healthy growth in legitimate trade. Merchants and commercial travelers report less losses in collections in Iowa than elsewhere. It is safe to say that one-tenth and orobably not one-twentieth as mucb liquor is consumed in the state now as was five years ago. The standard of temperance lias been greatly raised, even in thore cities where the law is not yet enforced. Many a man formerly accustomed to drink and treat in -aloons has abandoned this practice in deference to public opinion.

Our Courts show a marked improvement in dealing with this question, nearly all of the judges being now disposed to enforce the law, whether they are in sympathy with it or not. In those counties here ti law is not enforced the fault lies almost invariably with the executive officers. U. S. Land Office at Garden City, Kansas, Feb.

11, 1890. Notice is hereb- given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the I'robate Judge of Meade countv, Kansas, at Meade, April 12th, 1890, viz: Winneld Wolfe, final H. E. No. 10643, for the west half of the southeast quarter and thi west half of the northeast quarter of section 17, in township 33 south, of range 27 west.

He ames the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Albert Hill, Dennis Callaghan, John E. Roberts, and William C. Garre of Meade, Kansas. Also at the Same Time and Pla e. viz: Alexander Livingston, final H.

E. No. 12R3, for the southwest quarter of section 1, in township 35 south, of range 27 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: John F. Parks, Charles Thompson, Willi mi Wilson and William S.

Parsons, all of Lak 'land, Kansas. Also at the Same Time and Plaw, Superintendent of Schools 11. -Mendenliail A. If. HEBER, President.

GEO. L. STEVENS, Vice-Pres. HUGO LUNDBORG, Treas. G.

L. STEVENS, Secretary. John G. Fonda. William Lake.

Surveyor Coroner Mayor F. W. Fick. William Grady. Joseph Barr.

William Rule. Edgar McDaniel. J. R. Graves.

Councilmen. M. Clabangh. TITLE LAND AND TOWN LOT Citv Cleric viz: Demetrius C. Watkins, final H.

E. Ni 1458, for the southwest quarter of section 35, in township 33 south, of range 26 west. He names the fol i ity Treaeurer CO. Casteen. Marshall Stillman Truax.

lowing witnesses to prove Ins continuous resi -OF- dence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: George W. t'tnberger, Jasper W. Coward. Wil liam Krmg and I nomas m. imams, of a alma.

CHURCHES. Kansas. D. M. Frost, Register.

Meade Center, Kansas. (INCORPORATED) Capital, $50,000.00. Presbyterian Preaching every Sunday at the church at 11 a. m. and 7:45 p.

Sunday school at 3 p. m. Missionary meeting last Tuesday in month at 3 p. m. Rev.

B. Mills, D. D. Pastor. gations.

The disposition to economize and limit expenditures to the actual necessities of life has never before been so universal, and it shows that the emergency which the Kansas people have been called to face has not been without its salutary lessons. The rage tor borrowing has subsided, and has given place to desire for paying. Resources which have hitherto been neglected are receiving attention, and are bein utilized as aids in the creation of revenue Ext r.tvagance has met with an effectual check, and necessity has imparted an impetus to many wholesome and needed reforms. The exigencies through which Kansas has been passing have been, without question, instructive to the people and valuable in their moral results. They are not wholbj past, but the better times are not wanting to cheer the hearts of such as are interested in the material prosperity in Kansas.

Despite the low price of corn and has not been for many years so great a demand for farms to rent as this spring. This is the general testimony of real estate agents in ail of the productive sections of the state. Then has been a suddeu rise in the price of pasturage, and grazing lands are being leaseil for double the amount which they commanded last season. The cattle interest is looking up all over the state, and is again becoming profitable. Thousands of feelers are arriving in Kansas every day from Texas and other states to fatten upon the cheap corn witn which the state abounds, and this influx is bound, sooner or later, to advance the price of that cereal.

An ex-peri need real estate and loan agent said the other day that an advance of a dollar a hundred weight on all of the cattle in Kansas ould raise the price of land there 85 an acre.and hepredu ts as a result of the revival of the cattle trade a general infusion of vitality into all departments of industry in the state. The fact that the state immigration bureau has already received over 4,000 letters of inquiry in regard to Kansas and its opportunities inspires the hope that there will be a large movement of population to that state during the present year. Colonel Johnson, Land agent of the Santa railroad, says ai many communications of the same character have been received by him, and he regards the promise of immigration to Kansas this spring as better th in it usually is at this season of the year. The low price of farms at the present time is attracting the attention of capital, and investments are being made in the expectation of an early advance. The home seeker may safely follow the speculator and take the tide which leads on to fortune.

The winter has been favorable to the wheat in the ground, and the soil is in admirable condition for spring planting. The earth is full of moisture and the streams and springs are well supplied with water. The promise of toother big crop in Kansas this year is as Mire as anything in the future can be, and the rapid multiplication of hogs and cattle will place the farmer in much better shape to dispose of his corn at a fair profit than he is at the present time. Taking everything together, the coi, dition of Kansas is by no means as discouraging as it has been pictured. Tue people are awake as they have never been before to the urgency of Methodist: Services every Sunday at 11 a.

m. and 7:15 p. at the church. Class meeting 10 a. tn.

Sabbath school at 3 p. ra. Prayer meetings Wednesday evenings at 7 p. m. Rev.

J. S. TuU, Pastor. LT. S.

Land Office at Garden City, Kansas. Feb. 15. 1890. Notice is hereby L'iven that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make Final Proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Meade countv, Kansas, at Meade, April 14th, 1800: viz: Jacob Strohl, D.

No. 12731, for the southeast quarter of section 8, in township 30 south, of range 30 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence tipon and cultivation of said land, viz Frank Miller, James W. Unsell, William A. McCord and Andrew Gillick of Mertilla, famuli Also at the Same Time and Place, viz: Frank Miller.

Homestead Entry No. Ifi899, for the northeast quarter of section 15, in township 30 south, of range 30 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Jacob Strohl, John T. Strohl, William A. McCord and Frank Newby of Mertilla, Kansas.

Also at the Same Time and Place, viz: Edward E. Fisher, final H. E. No. 1490, for the southeast qnarter of section 1, in township 31 south, of range 30 west.

He names the following witnesses to prove hi9 continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Jas. W. t'nsell, Wilbur F. Newhouse, Isaac B. Moore and John Blair of Mertilla, Kansas.

D. M. Frost, Register. Parents often wonder who or what has ruined their boys Thev have been in school every day, but the lessons of deportment and morality inculcated "here seem to have been wasted on barren ground. The truth is the boys are allowed to be on the streets from the time school closes until late at night.

The street corner, the best place in the world for teaching vice, profligacy and crime. Neraly all the bad language and idle, vicious habits which boys acquire are learned on the streets late at night. Teachers may be able to accomplish a little in counteracting the evil influences, but much of their labor is in vain until parents co-operate with them by keeping their boys off the streets at night. Farms and Farm Lands, Town Lots, Acreage Property, and additions to Town Sites. Pays taxes for nonresidents, furnishes Abstracts of Title and transacts a general Real Estate and conveyancing business.

Titles Guaranteed. CORRESPONDENCE SOLICITED. Office 1st Door West The American Mortgage Trust Company. Christian: Preaching at the church first and third Lordsdays in each month at 11 a. m.

afftl 7:30 p. m. Social meeting alternate Lordsdays at II a. m. Prayer meeting on Wednesday evening.

Sunday School at 10 a. m. Elder Newby, Pastor. Roman Catholic fourth Sunday in each month. Chnrch in charge of Father Healy.

food and moisture before it can keep on growing. It would be just as sensible to cut off half of the leaves and then expect it to make a full crop of grain. The thing to be accomplished now is to prevent anything from interfering with the operations of nature, and to prevent anything but the crop from drawing upon the fertility of the soil and from crowding or shading the plants. Weeds and drought are to be fought. The soil being plowed deep in spring holds the moisture.

Tht original preparation fitted it to do so, nid in the great drought it will drav moisture from the air, and if th surface is kept in proper condition capillary attraction will draw the moistur. to the surface, if what we term th-pores of the soil are kept open. It will readily be observed, however, that deej cultivation can have but one effect so far as the moisture is concerned, anc chat is to expose the soil to a mud greatar evaporation, and hence literally imbed the roots in a dry powdery soil, so deep that the moisture below is noi drawn to the roots and tne elements ol plant growth are utterly wanting. If on the other hand the soil is not stirret; at all it becomes hard, the pores beiiu closed, and there is no circulation ol moisture or fertilizing gasses. Clearly the proper method for cultivation is shallow level culture.

If tin soil is kept stirred and finely pulverized to the depth of an inch or two, thi tinely pulverized surface acts as a blanket which prevents evaporation and en-tbles the soil to hold the moisture. And another advantage of shallow cultivation is that you do not have s-many weeds to contend with. Deej. cultivation brings new seeds to the surface every time you work your crop With the surface cultivator when you have killed the seeds two or three inches deep the rest do not germanate that season. Now last summer when it was so dry that those who used the old style cultivator could not find any moisture, by digging down three inches deep in my corn field you could find soil damp enough to pack or ball in the hand.

And another adantage of surface cultivation is that it leaves your fields level instead of in ridges so that your crop obtains the benefit of light showers. For cuttings and young timber, shallow cultivation is just the thing, last summer several of my neighbors found that they were killing their cutting- with deep cultivation, came and borrowed my shallow cultivator and saved them. Shallow cultivaton also leaves the soil perfectly adapted for seeding down to wheat or rye. for it has been my experiance in this country that the best way to grow wheat is to have your soil finely pulverised to depths of two or three inches, but not so deep but what the roots can go into solid ground. It retains the moisture better and prevents freezing out in the winter.

I think a very good plan for this country is to list corn very wide, so that after you are through working it hat the center between the rows will be the highest so that the water will run towards the corn, and in this way you will get the benefit of light show ers. storm alas for the "Sunny he awoke the next morning deep in the "piney woods" of middle Alabama. Here and there a turpentine camp, and once in a while a saw mili; but for the most part and all the time an interminable, unbroken forest of yellow pine, growing out of thin, yellow soil that doesn't look to Kansas eyes as if it could raise anything; and, as a matter of fact, it doesn't raise anything but pine trees, until it is fertilized. The wealth of the country is all in the trees. They are tapped for turpentine, and its residue, esin, four or five years; then they die and are cut down and hauled to the mills, and the land lies worthless until enriched with phosphates or guano.

As Mobile is approached, the country seems to be mostly under water. Broad, muddy, sluggish streams every few miles, and between them cant-brakes and impenetrable swamps, crowded wirh all sorts of semi-tropical vegetation. One shudders to think ot the slimy creatures that must infest the dark waters, and wonders how the pioneers ever found courage to force their way through such jungles. Such thoughts are forgotten, however, when Mobile is reached, tor it is a beautiful city. A typical southern city, with long avenues of magnolias ana live-oaks, spanning the whole width ol the street, till one can drive in their shade for miles; with stately, porticoec mansions, relics of the old regime, But our time is limited, and so we make a hasty trip to the beautifuj Magnolia cemetery, where the mocking bird is singing over countless graves, visit the National and Confederal cemeteries hard by, hurriedly inspect the shipping wharves, and by 2 o'clock are again on the train, bound for New Orleans.

Some more swamps. Some more pine forests. Then the hazy, gray waters of the Gnlf. Then health and pleasure resorts. Then the Crescent City.

And a strange, wonderful, fascinating city it is. Down the middle of it a splendid street, wide as Kansas avenue in Topeka. On the right of this other wide streets and maguilioent blocks ol business houses, and long rows of handsome homes. On the left of it, narrow, tortuous streets, with the queerest jumble of oddly shaped houses, with high-pitched roofs and ponderous doors and barricaded indows. One is American, the other is French.

One is nineteenth century, the other is seventeenth. It would take pages to point out the differences, and then they would have to be seen to be appreciated. Besides these contrasts, there are plenty of things to see in this, the greatest city of the South. Pleasure and health resorts on Lake Ponchartrain, cemeteries, parks, statues, and miles and miles of ships. To give anything like an adequate description of any part of it would far exceed the limits of this letter, and so we leave it all with the single admonition: Go and see for yourselves.

Going down we saw the "Old Soutn." Coming back we took a look at the New. And there is no longer any doubt that there is indeed a "New-South" when one steps onto the streets of Birmingham. They call this town the Wichita of Alabama, and the term is a compliment to Marsh Murdock's Peerless Princess. The discovery of at W. C.

T. U. Meets every Tuesday evening hree o'clock, at chnrch designated. Mrs. J.

S. Lynn, President. Mrs. S. L.

Palmer, Secretary Earnest Workers Meets alternate Thursday at 2 p. m. at residence designated. Mrs. E.

F. Relman, President. Mrs. II. Heber, Secretary.

Mrs. H. W. Brown, Treasurer. SECRET ORDERS.

A Bombay paper relates an incident illustrative of the sagacity of the elephant. A battering train had to cross the sandy bed of a river which at the time contained but a shallow stream of water. An artilleryman who was seated on the timbrel of one of the guns accidentally fell off, and would have been run over by the wheels had not the elephant, which was stationed behind the gun. instantly, without any warning from its keeper, lifted up the wheel with its trunk and kept it suspended until the carriage had passed clear of him. U.

S. Land Office at Garden City, Kansas. Mar. 13, 1890. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Meade County, Kansas, at Meade, May Kb, 1890, viz: Hiram Phelps.

D. S. No. 12,932, for the northwest '4 of section 23, in township 30, pouth of range 28 west. He names the follow.

ng wit-nesses to prove bis continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Wiiliam G. Hawkins and John W. Luttrell. of Spring Lake, Kansas, Charle3 H. Small and N.

T. Small, of Joash, Kans. Also at the Same Time and Place. viz: Orrin A. Vandeusen, Final H.

E. No. 481, for the southeast quarter of section 11, in township 34, south of range 27 west. He nam the following witnesses to prove his continuous 1 esidence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: A. Graham, Chas.

Gale. R. M. Painter, W. Campbell, of Lakeland, Kansas.

D. M. Frost, egister. JOHN R. CARR G.

A. R. Meade Center Post G. A. R.

No. 388. Regular meetings 1st and 3nd Saturdays in each month. Visiting comrades are cordially invited to attend. -DEALER IN- J.

F. Armstrong, P.O. M. Wightman, Adjutant. XT TVT T3 TH T3 A.

F. A- M. Webb Lodge, No. 275, A. F.

fc A. M. meets on the first Saturday evening on or before full moon of each month. Visiting brethren in good staning fraternally invited. D.

H. Bryant, W. M. C. O.

Casteen, Secretary. TTT- 1, J. 1 1 1 1 1 1 vv ii cx yiaucu ct Ucll iUfctU. Ul VtJIIU 17 111 K. VV I i A I 1 I till I I I I I I I 111 I fill I AT w.

It is a law of good society in china that young widows never marry again. Widowhood is therefore held in the highest esteem, and the older the widow grows the more agreeable does her position become with the people. Should she reach fifty years she may. by applying to the Emperor, get a sum of money with which to buy a tablet on which is eagraved the sum of her virtues. The tablet is placed over the door at the principal enterance to her house.

KNITHGTS OF PYTHIAS. Manaroya Lodge, No. 40, K. of holds regular communications every Monday evening at Castle Hall. A full attentendance is requested Jl ,11 A A A.

getting down to business basis and of from resident members. Visiting nights cordi-! ally welcomed. John H. Wagner, C. C.

Sam Lawrence, K. of R. fc S. prices. U.

S. Land Office at Garden City, Kansas, March 4, 1890. Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make Final proof in support of his claim, and that said proof will be made before the Probate Judge of Meade county, Kansas, at Meade Center. May 15th, 1890, viz: Bernard Otte Final H. E.

No. 1:173 for thp southeast of section 9 in townshij S3 -outh, of range 30 west. He names the folk wing witnesses to prove his continuous resid- nee upon and cultivation of said land, viz: Jeremiah R. Sencenich. John Green, George H.

Losey and John C. Dalton, all of West Plains, Kar sas. ALSO AT THE SAME TIME AND PLACE, Thomas; H. McWilliams Final H. E.

No 1785 for the northwest quarter of section 16 in tr wnship 33 south, of range 28 west. He names the following witnesses to prove his continuous residence upon and cultivation of said land, viz: William Simons John Simons, William Kring, Samuel A. Maffitt, all of Jalma, Kans. D. M.

Frost, Register. a. o. r. w.

Meade Center Lodge No. 247, A. O. U. mtets every Tuesday evening.

Visiting brethren are cordially invited to attend. Jesse Summers, M. M. Clabangh, Recorder. Also a large invoice keeping close to shore until they see smoother sailing.

If they follow out the line of retrenchment upon which theyarenow operating and make the best of the opportunities which the magnificent soil and climate offer, they can not fail to triumuh in the end over their difficulties and reap the reward to which their unfailing allegiance to the state and their courage and faith in the midst of discouragements entitle them. Kansas has known many darker days than those through which she is yellow pine dimension. Prof. Wiley gives the values of the chief cereals in the order of their nutritive qualities as follows: First, wheat; second, sorghum: third, maize; fourth, annulled oats. Sorghum-seed furnishes a tlonr like buckwheat, that makes passable bread, and is coming into considerable use.

P. E. O. SISTERHOOD. Meade Center Lodge Chapter A.

B. meets regularly on Saturday at 7:30 p. m. May Veatch, Cor. Secy.

Lnra Cones, Pres. Jennie Mill, Rec. Secretary. Peaches are reported considerably damaged by the recent cold spell. Other fruit is all right.

W. B. BOSS, Manager.