The Southwest Farmer from Wichita, Kansas • 9

I i 'J i --i fmrfh hrtjWrlwtouftliWaffl THE AGRICULTURAL SOUTHWEST 9 A GREAT RAILWAY YEAR. Get Right A Sermon by a Non- 5 With Yourself Secterian Layman V. loss of time and money extends all along the line and is at last laid at-the door of the carrying facilities. Our readers will understand that the local jobbers will hurry along the shipments as fast as the roads will receive and ship them. It might be said in passing that the business of the railroads of the United States during the past year has been stupendous.

In this year of unrivalled 1 activity traffic has been greater thah ever before. With the one exception, when the Great Central Route was plunged the hands of a receiver as a rcsulc of financial juggling, there were virtually no bankrupt railroads of America. The construction of new railroads is being pusned with more zeal now than at any time in more than a dec-acie. This will doubtless have an important effect upon the earnings pei mile of the roads of the future. There is promise that the 1907 spring trade in fancy cottons will eclipse all previous records, both for domestic and imported fabrics.

Buying of this class of goods has been large, and already orders are in the hands of the manufacturers that will cover the product up till the close of the spring, season, and into the summer months. On higher grade fine dress ginghams, all grades are sold up. There Is plenty standard staples to supply the demand well into March. During the week there lias poea a big call at primal markets for prints, chambreys, madras, zephyrs and like fabrics from southern and -southwestern jobbes. Never has the fawy goods1 market been more active.

1 Prosperity Seems to Have its Inconveniences, but Every Department of Trade Should be Considerate and Bear fith Other Departments. Car Shortage the Greatest Menace. In every line of manufacturing and jobbing trade the car shortage cry is heard. The Inconveniences of this shortage effects every department of our commercial life. The manufacturer of course is the first to feel the inconvenience, then the jobber, then the retailer, and lastly the consumer.

In turn the inconvenience is again felt in getting the raw materials to the factories to convert them into the finished products. The reason all this delay and worry seems to be the fault of no one In particular, but must becharged to the enormous volume of business liurled upon the railroads and which they have not been able to handle for want of equipment. Railroad equipment is a matter which cannot be Increased to meet demands easily. It usually takes years to ar- range equipment and' service to meet speedily changing demands. AVe are referring to this matter this week in order that some of our readers may understand the position of the jobber and manufacturer who arc trying to cater to their needs.

In every line of local trade the conditions are the same. The jobber is being urged to hurry along goods that werejjrder-cd sometime ago. The jobber in turn Is insisting upon the maker who in most cases have the goods ready for shipment but whp is up against the matter of getting car So the and unsung, but though it may not be recognized they leave the world a better world, and the influences of their pure lives will go down through all time unconsciously feeding and strengthening the souls of others, as does the unseen oxygen of the air give the beauty and the freshness to the flowers. Get right with yourself, and the God of all will assist you. You will be doing His will, and will be right in His sight.

Be right with yourself, and you need never (fry from the housetops or the rostrum Get right with God, for you will be a living example that will teach all whom you come in contact with, that there is goodness, beauty, peace, happiness and a divine contentment in being right. All the glories of the world are for the ones who are right with themselves. The songs of the birds, the splendor of the fields, the perfume of the flowers, the thousands of things an Almighty Power has given unto mankind, will all hold their greatest joys and pleasures for you. Get right with yourself, and you will be in "harmony with alt the universe, and with God. The storm this week is said to have caused a serious loss to the cattle men of the Indian and Oklahoma Terri- toriesf.

Whether the evils of sensationalism do not overbalance any good that may temporarily accomplished is a quesi tion. There are a number of so-called evangelists traveling throughout the west and southwest, whose cry is Get right with God! This semi-slangy admonition, though of. scriptural oiigin, may be effective in attracting attention. but it has a repulsiveness about ir. that caused the refined inind to think that it would be well for the criers of the phrase to "get right with themselves.

Be right with yourself, and there is little danger than you will be otherwise than right in the eyes of the Almighty. It is opr own sense of rightdoing, Of justice, of morality, of high ideals that counts, and if we will endeavor to get right with ourselves we will come very close to being right without, our fellow men, and with nature and with the God of the universe. True to ourselves; true to all. Each of us should strive to feel that there is more satisfaction in a knowledge of right doing, of practicing all that is good and ennobling, than that honor and fame be thrust upon us, and when we close our eyes In nightly slumber jt is with- the consciousness that we are mere whitened sepulchres Jf and unworthy of that which is accredited vto us. Better he an untutored peon with a consciousness of well-pei formed duty towaid God and man when your couch is readied at night, than a millionaire with all worldly honors and a mind filled with the loath- someness of debauchery, unjust gain and all that Is dishonorable and igno-bl "Get right with understand your frailties, and know your strength, and develop that power which In you to distinguish that which is eil, and that which is good, and to avoid the former and practice to the fullest the latter.

In all nature here are two processes continually working; one a building up and the other a tearing down. There are two forces at work In the mind and soul of man; one for good and the either for that which is the opposite. Mental and moral exertion is ever necessary to combat the evil impulses. the ex-Yrcise of these moral and mental forces, man Is enabled, raised higher day by day, his views broadened, his sense of justiee'and honor quickened, and there comes a feeling of ease that i the perverse and the careless can never know. Get right with yourself, andx it matters not what vocation you may follow that Is honorable and if you are right you will not be in any dls-- honorable employment you will reap reward by attaining success.

The world as well as God loves an honor-, able man, an honorable pure wo I man. Noblest souls may go, to the grave unknown, unwept, .4 jpfffir ii 11 0:191, iW-nSl litessFi! I Vxfl- New Beet Sugar Mill at Garden City Which Was Formally Opened for Business Last Week. KANSAS MADE SUGAR. It will probably run about 200,000 pounds of granulated sugar daily and even at this rate It will require four months to use up the crop of beets raised in Finney county. The company Is now contemplating the erection of another plant In the vicinity of Garden City, with ono 16 miles further west at Deerfield and another at Lakln Just across the line In Kearney county.

Plant One of Moat Perfect in World. Eastern experts who have examined th Garden City factory pronounce It one the most perfectly constructed and best equipped plants of its kind In the world. First Car Sold in Oklahoma. About a week ago the fatcory was started and run for a few hours as a test of the machinery and 40,000 pounds of sugar made which was shipped to a purchaser In Lawton, O. who months ago ordered the first carload of sugar refined.

The factory has a capacity of 800 tons of beets per day which means three carloads of th best grade of granulated sugar dally when in operation. The refinery Is run to Its capacity during Its cam- paign which lasts from ninety to one hundred and sixty days and is limited by th supply of beets and the climatic conditions. I Will Convert Kansas Sugar Beets into the Refined Product in Sufficient Quantities (to Supply the Needs of Half the Continent. The Jlrst sugar beet factory In Kansas was finally opened last Thursday. atGarden City the fcugar beet center Governor Hoch dedicated It, with a brief address to several hundred people who gathered' from section uf Kansas to celebrate the birth of a new industry, "which will make western Kansas a garden.

The factory, which has been running for several weeks on test was started ln full blast..