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ABIE-VB WEEKLY BLI LKCTOH 3 UJENT, KAXS., OCTOBER 20, 191r.
COTTONWOOD IS GOOD LUMBER.
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at th po.totfice at Abllen., Kanaaa.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF PICKINSON
COUNTY.
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County.
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1910
v REPUBLICAN TICKET.
Governor... OVilSiiSS.
Meat. Governor B. J. """T1""
hrrr " ""-.fr
'. . . . . . . . Mark Tulle,
rf..T General Ommnm
iSZK&TSk::. . . . . t. 1;
Slat. Printer W. C. Amll
:?:.; SS"":::.Z
11.1 Joed "omml..loner., Joan V. WMIe,
iM.4iojtai ...Silas Porter J. wwi.
SS HU . K. '
Heereacnlnllv. 'h w Mi
Treasurer -.
Pr.fc.le jus.......
m.trtrt clerk J.
Aur.r".' ..... .....
Hijr.vi a. v. j.t. c.
H. tMm, r. m. n
CsmtaJaaMner '
STEES FOB SUPERINTENDENT.
The 'school Interests of Dickinson
county are especially fortunate In
having in prospect ao excellent a
county superintendent aa Prof. W.
O. Bteen will make. Ha ha been
a teacher in thl. county many years
all the time with promotions in post
.. ....
- rnents aM bo one except me sawn-
for six years at Solomon na. r.ne - .- -
. . -a. - ...
of institutes ana na. suo- i - - ... conver.a.
laritr with modern methods in eau-ia""" -catlonC
fit. him to .dm.ul.ter U or4o, .ny
UMUllioi 1 I til K
,h. affair, of the county .chool. " w- -""'" "
well. He ha. progre-.lv. Idea. In the p..w.rd ,n u.nsnurg.
education and the Republicans wnen
hA nominated hfm unanimously se-
lected iplendid material for the place.
He will be a model officer.
AIUNG POWDER
MAKES THE PERFECT
HOT
BISCUIT
Also Rolls and Muffins
Crusts and Cakes
$4 ' ' Crusts and Cakes JM
Mm Send fo, Royal -stSHx ' 138 '" 3fc Mfflvfc
MM c pY"k fe
caalntt the council give thank, that
you are not a dweller In Dl'.lxbt'rg,
Penn. In the current number or the
inral naner annears this as a part of
the borough council's proceeding..
"In the future It will also be con
Mrd a crime to push a wheclbar-
try people and others do not congre-
Leavenworth Times: Gum vending
machines have been ordered out of
Abilene. Evidently, when the town
of Abilene waa bad, It was awful.
of '.it way of decent peopl). Horc
li a .ample of their actions: At the
'a m of Edwin Hoffnell, south of
iown, last Sunday roornln, a ging
of the gypsies capped. The horws
run ILiough the coinftelds and over
t'le u'falfa at thelt own swtct will.
Mr. Hcffnell ordeied the men to
gather up their horses but they
would not. Flnauy Mr. iioffno'.l
rauEht a horse and put it in hi.
liarn and would mt allow them to
take It until they paid for wue of
the damage. The children of the
gypaii'S played on Hoffnell'. porch
a. I morning. Mr. Hoffnell got pret
ty tired of It and telephoned to town.
Theu It waan't long until tho band
nt tn Ita way. They stoprod then
at the Shepherd xrbool house and
wore later ordered on by the sboriif.
It Is time to get rid of them.
J, R. YOUNG FOR SHERIFF.
The Renublican. have In J. R
vni a candidate for sheriff of
whnm thev may well be proud
.Lok" Ynuna- has filled the office for
two years and has made a record for
ffiriAifrr In wh ch any orncer may
take satisfaction. The position 7
one that calls for tact and wide awakr"
hiiltv. both of Which Mr. Young has
shown In a marked degree. He ia ac
commodating, faithful and courteous
and every detail of hi. office has been
r.rriod on with the greateat 01 nae
iiv Snrh a aherlff deserves a second
term and the voters of Dickinson
county will give him the handsome
malorltv he deserves. It Is pleased
with his fine service and wants it to
continue. 1
AIISW AXDK1WON FOR RKOIHTKR,
The Republican nominee for regiB-
tnr of deeds. Mr.. B, C. Anderson
la excellently equipped for the posl
tlon. She ha. been an assistant in
the office for six yeara and knows
the work perfectly. She has the wide
experience that insures that every
paper that goes through the office
will be made out and recorded with
out flaw and that is the kind of ser
vice that counts. She has an ac
nnalntance all over the county and
her election by a large majority Is
assured.
Sermon by the Atchison Olobe with
facts slightly exaggerated but cor
rect In Its lesson: Cashier Flack,
of Abilene, wbb a "good fellow."
and a high liver. The president of
h bank. I. 8. Hallam. bad practl
cally reared Flack, educated him, put
him Into his bank, and kept him
tbere. In .pite of rumor, which pos
sibly he might not have heard. Just
prior to hla' disappearance, Flack
had finished, furnished and moved
Into a very elkhorate home. As a
sample of Its appointments, one of
Ita bedsteads Is said to have cost
500. After Flack's disappearance,
his benefactor went to the new home
to Investigate. He was an old man
and had lived In Abilene many years.
The embeulement and flight of his
"son," the lots of his fortune and
bank which he had been a lifetime
i. biHMina. was too much for him.
He gaied hopelesaly around the beau
tifully appointed home, every fr-
nlshlna reminding him or tne cot
of Its purchase: 9 put his band to
hla head, atanered forward a .tew
ttps enl almost before friend, were
w.ra of It- the a led friend, father
and banker lay dead oa the 5e
bed.
Are too a "good fellow?"
While yoa are registering kick'
To the Toneka Capital: Do you
favor the selection of legislative com
mlttes by a committee or by the
speaker? It the latter, why? '
To the Emporia Gasette: Do you
favor the selection of the committees
in the legislature by a committee or
by the speaker? If the latter, why?
While the Santa Fe is getting
close to the people It might send an
. in wind Hill. Lawrence, to
see what kicks are registered in, that
locality.
Oomer Davles. of the Concordia
Kansan, said something when he de
clared In forty years of fairly active
business life, be never knew a person
to make a dollar through buying
stock of wily, smooth-tongued agents.
The New York Sun Is too "ornery"
for any use. Hear It: "The Colonel
says a great many good qmd original
thlnea. The only trouble is tnat
the good things are not original and
the original things are not good.
One of these days the mothers of
town who have small children are
lolne to mob the city ceuncll for put
ting the streets in a condition where
a baby buggy has about as much
chance for traveling a. a motor car
I does of climbing a telephone pole.
The steps from curb to paving will
be eight lnchea when the paving Is
completed and In a town like .Abilene
with short blocks ft Is going to be
excellent exercise for the mother's
muscle, to wheel the baby down
town.
A Varrevllle preacher announced
a. the subject of hi. Sunday morning
sermon not long ago: "Are you a
reliriou. standpatter or a rellg.n'in
r.roeresslve?" Now come, a Sallnt
ore.cber who praises one of his mln
lsterlal brethren as "A Standpatter
f.,r Rlahtnouaneaa." No urfubt It
would rejoice the heart of the l it
Mr. Horle to know that a phrase
borrowed from his favorite game had
at last received the Imprimatur or
the clerrr. Incidentally the Sallna
cleric seems to have got at the real
gist of the matter.
Why doe. a civilised state allow
gypsies to pester Its Inhabitants?
Bands of worthless loafers who ought
to be oa the rock pile roam thi coun
try making life a burden for every
body. The gypsies are as mnrh s
nuisance a. a Joint aid they do as
mneh karat In teachlag youth lie'
t Is possible to lire wlthoet wt-klar,
it doe any lawbreaker. Why doe
tl the Mate see to It that thay gr- to
Jail or else go to work and gel out
THE VILLAGE DEACON.
Bert Walker in OsborneFarmer.
Has Stood fpr Over SO Tears In Kan
sas Barns and Dwellings.
The value of Cottonwood lumber
for farm buildings Is well Illustrated
in a barn In Pottawatomie county
Kansas. This barn which is 30x70
fAet. was built In 1877. Every stick
of material in this building Is native
lumber. The siding Is Cottonwood,
said to have been sawed from a single
tree. The lumber was thoroughly
seasoned before It waa put In the
building and the siding wa. painted
as soon as put on, hut has nev3r
been painted since. The building
stands today In almost ' a perfect
state of preservation and has been
In constant use since it was built.-
Wlthout doubt this is an excep
tional case where the cottonwood Iiob
withstood weathering. Howe ;er, It
takes the exceptions- to prove r.tn
value of any material, anu mis in
stance proves the . value :'f cotton
wood for building purposes when
nrnnerlv handled. The Cottonwood
Is more satisfactory and serviceable
fnr Interior ourposes than for use
n ihn exnosed nart. of a building.
The lumber la' light when seasoned,
.trnne and tough. It wears well
when used for barn flooring. It is
exceptionally serviceable for parti
tions between stalls, criba and other
like purpoaes It is an excellent
wood for dimension stuff, planks an
beams when used in the dry.
Another feature about the cotton
mnnA that Increases it. import
ance as a tree In this state is that
It grows more rapidly than any other
n.tiv. anaeles. In 16 year, from the
time the one-year-old seedling, are
planted the tree, have reached mer
chantable .lie, often measuring from
20 to 26 lnchee In diameter at tne
i.,mni When Dlanted in grove.
where the tree, crowd one another
they develop a .tralght clear trunk.
t.ii .nmiah to nermlt cutting log.
of any desirable length up to 20 to
24 Inches.
enttonwood Is well suited tor
planting on land that cannot be ued
..rieiiltural purposes. It reaches
Its best development on low ground
where the water supply Is not more
than five feet below the surface. This
permits planting on ground that fre
quently overflows and of practically
n wnrth for other purposes than
growing timber. A. a tree it is not
r..tMinii. In reaoect to 'the kind of
soil It grows in, growing practically
as well on sandy river channels as
on the richest bottom lands.
Can a real conscientious photo
grapher enjoy a lucrative business?
The great trouble with the people
who Insist on listening to the story
of the agent Is that they can't get
the Idea Into their heads that the
agent is not In business for his health
I have done hundred, of foolish
thing. In my time, but I sincerely
tru.t no one will ever catch me out
trying to make the welkin ring
js Jl
Even in these modern times you
occasionally run across the old fash
ioned man who thinks he can give
vouna- alrl advice on -whom she
should keep company with and mar
ry.
Coming right down to brass tack.
there 1. but one real soul-stlrrlng and
glorious sight In all the world, and
that Is a swell circus parade.
jl Jl
Mary Shiftless, oldest daughter of
Old Bill, always had nice dark hair
until recently. But she sent away lot
a recipe and has been washing It in
some kind of dope that la causing
It to turn a lighter color. The toys
are all giving Mary the horse tough
but she can't s'e it, and Imagines
aha Is surely turning Into a Real
I Queen.
Jt Jl
The energy that Is wasted talking
politics on the street corners v.ould
keep a good many fields of com clear
of weeds. 1
Jt
If you will look around a little
you will notice that the fellow, who
really do the country some good are
the fellow, who have made a fair
success of their own business as the
year, went by.
j Jl
Easy Hark waa talking -to me the
other day boasting bow he had talked
l V KaW . m ..11 I. .... -
with a book agent a full half hour
that morning and hadn't bought a
slneie aet. "But." he added sadly.
'the agent Is coming back this after
noon.
Jl Jl
Another Impossible thing for a
woman to do Is to convince a man
that her watch Is right
Jl Jl
We have some of the best neigh
bors la the world la our commoner
but yoa can never go by their place
wlthoet seeing something that has
bee borrowed.
imt as Quick as a Gas Stove
you are going:
cook a steak,
rs. House-
&MMJt Keeper, you whjh
a tire, rinn'r. vonr
out loss of time or fuel. It
doesn't take much longer than
gas range. ' : ,
The reason you can't do this,
with the old fashioned steel range
is that the seams in sjrch a range
open up from the expansion and
contraction of heat and, cold,
and let in the outside air to
deaden the fire. ' . ;,;' r ' , .
In the Monarch, the sides are
And you want
It rieht awav
you don't care to let the rest of
the meal get cold while you wait
for the fire to burn uo.
ui '" -
- . " .. . ... , a M'.r,4 in Malleable Iron
Well, here's a range tnat wm " .Til " " t, thf.
eive vou a ouick. hot fire with- frames extending all through the
out waiting. , )
And when you are through
you can bank it down and save
your fuel.
Because you have perfect con
trol of the fire-box.
The Monarch Range Is so
tightly constructed that no "air
leaks" can get in to make your
fire slow when you are in a
hurry.
The Duplex Draft, which lets
in a current of air from each end
of the fire-box, makes the fire
burn evenly and regularly. One
handle operates both damper
doors at the same time, and you
can open tnem as mucn or aa
little as your ore v
Sa wrrTMl VOH J
want quick fire
you get it, with
. o "J
,,,-,. There, ore Malleable Iron
frames around each opening ,
the Draft Doors, Pouch Feed
Door, Ash Door, etc.
So the Monarch remains tight
as long as you use it it is the
real '.'stay-satisfactory" range.
A $1.00 Cook Book Free
The Monarch Cook Book, written by Mra.
Helen Mar Thonuon, an acknowledged aa
thority on domestic ecience to a Real Book,
. not a cheap circular, 144 pelfeibouiidin cloth
on boanl cSrere-a book that would coat i.oo
at the book Korea. '
It contain! 5M ledpea, many of theranew,
aU simple, eay to make awl inexpensive.
Has practical menue for the whole year and
many valuable hints on diet and marketing.
. Toil can get it without coat If you Intend
buying a range or cook atov within a year.
BOW TO GET IT. Cut out thla edver.
ttmarmni m.lllttAtha
MeUeabterroa Range
ComBeny.BeeverDam,
Wis., and tell them
WHBHIetatlngsseoUi
41 i ,rwi-i-yy-
1
Aa the edition
OWlStaySaitsfasrtorTTaJaJs
Wa wiil sell vou a better Range
for less money and throw in Free
more cooking utensils than any other
firm m Dickinson county. &ee us.
L1ICK & TAYLOR
GIRL STUDIES FARMING.
MIes Ethel Vanderwllt Will Manage
..Her Father'a Farm. Then.
n.. r. - ("ill., atawt A nv nl an D
1 m. . ... 1 , 1 ne AHuaaa dm
There are thousands of acre, of coIumn 0f, well-deserved praise to
. k- nnwkl and I ... . , . II. -t 'Qnlnmni,
Miss uiinei vanuwiwuv u, Hiuu,.
tA lands along tne ereeaa
rivers within the state that can be
very profitably utilized for the grow
ing of cottonwood trees.
Another feature of the hardiness
who is studying agronomy and sur
veying at the -Kansas State Agricul
tural College In Manhattan. Says
Another feature 01 me tne mar;
of the cottonwood Is Its ability to u taKe. a whole lot of nerve for a
withstand the driest weather. It is glri t0 gtudy farming. There really
a tree that in It. natural range is lsn't any reason under the sun why
found from the Atlantic coast west ne ghouldn't learn a. much about
to the foot-hills of the Rocky moun- tnat bu.Iness as any boy or man that
tain.. In the semi-arid regions of waiks.- But It i one thing to have
Western Kansas and Eastern Colo- tnie disposition and quite another
rado it ,1s found growing ouiy s to marcn in to ciawe. wiui
. j, .ti.nn.u TTnder u..AnA hnn tha nnlv alrl there -
the creea auu rw -"""-- uuuw.cu ww- . ---
cultivation It grows well in the dry- accompany them to demonstrations
cr situations, but does noi re or one sort or anuuier, sms v,..u-B..
large a size. - the lectures and. incidentally, do
Th. .mount of lumber that can be some of the muscie-Duiming siu..u,
. . oK..or.nln arrove of cr to which the students in this brancn
tonwood is much larger than the av- are assigned sometimes It is suffl-
eraite cut of our native pine forests cienuy iniereauns -of
the Southern state.. One hun- girl really ha. taken the farming
dred tree, per acre yielding one log course and is going ahead with Jt
each 16 feet long and 16 mcne. .n nut now "
diameter at the small end will give name happens to be Ethel? Isn t
a yTeVd of 15,000 board feet board that going some? Mis. Ethel Van-
a derwllt notice the difference, please
measure per am. " -
basis of the price of lumber at our y.nderw.. not blU
local yards this gives a handsome re- 11 is one u. m. -
local yarns 10 . 1 g w o( txpUna.
turn inr i nfl use ui m." " . .
. llharal discount for cutting, tlon. Other girls had trlea agron-
- 1 it,, manatvmant fir
nrt ..wine the lumber. omy tarmmg, w. -'
r ... .. . a .1 ..n.nnin hut soon naa
COltonwooa muiiren -- . . .
wood lumber, warp, badly un-es. It dropped out Either bey lost ln
,. thoroughly seasoned In the Urn be- Vest or they eouldn t stand the
fore, it i. sawed, the log. .honld .oversbadowmg pre-- "'
be peeleo and piled on skids that wll Not two m ten o. , , be condctlng her
t JT.h.m from touching the grcund friends supposed for a moment that wort. " ,, m.,hm,.
, ,... .1, .v- ,.,u "atlck to ber cnosen piece on diuc - -
and permit a free clrculatHn of a r " .hlnki ., ,t pay. She will know
around them. When pllr-d in in., stuay "T"" " :"kv .ofed'bow to buy live stock and when M
.ay It.requlre. from II to 15 months only of a bustling kukr, "j , -att .t paying
for tb. log. to thoroughly .-..on. girl of :"!Ar0 Bhe wl kn0w which are
If the lumber Is saweo frt.m green a business na. to . v'- - ' pr0dncers, which hens lay
,og.. tt should be Piled atra-gH and but l;"dne;,.B0Jnu:t '. , Z n the wlnUr. and which are .u,table
even, with two or threo lnchee of "ng only for meat; she will be competent
.pace between each tier shd a rl attractive t I direct crop pUntlng .0 that the
of batten between each lay,, of h. woman, n the bt of health
board, to insure a good etrcu-uon parnc. - off her o rot.tIon. gh. win be able to tell
.a- .1, whan the nlle ia com- if necessity arises, to taie on u 01 mh.t
- . . v." i. -a alnrklncs and Me,II tut eao i urn j
pleted the top boards should then be shoes nd val-l.ment and how much ah. warned-
welghted down wltk rock, or other throngh . field 0 mtnj fann.r. ca. do ttatf
keavy materia, to hold the lumber ley M J. - frm w(h er he.d,er
in place. When piled in mis way "(n ---
requires from eight to ten monm. i wer
thLugh rom'y
Tii beat results are ootainrn wnm on "j - , .
The best reauit. r v.a Bute Alfrlcultural Col-
the lumber la Sfaaoaea nnuer . , k ...
Lf of some kiad U. keep off th.leg. at lUnhjtt Ka. having
didn't brag about It!
Miss Vanderwllt doesn't expect to
plow or dig or harrow. She won't
have to do that. She went after,
this knowledge because she needed
It and knew It would be Valuable
when she went home to her father's
place probably to have charge of the
two hundred acres her father had
cultivated so well and so long that
he didn't have to worry any more.
It i. a farm equipped with excellent
buildings, strong fenoes, an orchard
and other thing, that make a com
plete property. The daughter never
has worked In the fields. She never
has had to pitch wheat to the thresh
er, she ha. been saved all such tasks.
But she has been known to take her
dinner pall and go down to the bend
nf the Smoky a distance from her
home, and stay all day In her garden.
She has ridden colts tnat wouiq
friirhtpn most alrls off the premises;
she Is and has long been interested
in chickens, and she knows a lot
more than half 'the men about the
general run of farm live stock. It
hi her Intention to farm sixty acres
this summer after college, but her
parentB spent the summer away
from home and Miss Ethel had to go
home and be housekeeper and gen
eral boss of the place. The domestic
.ioo h had learned at the Kansas
State Agricultural College had equip
ped her for such duties. - 1 ne om
folk, enjoyed themselve. on their
vacation, but no one ha'f a. liincn a.
Mlsa Ethel enjoyed herself at home
in charge of the place.
It i.n't hard to see how Miss Van
derwllt will have an advantage over
other women who have to do farm
rain.
It a . "
gone In she went through succeesful
ly took all the Industriala, Inclodlng
surveying, and cam. out of It with
several "K's" to her credit, the blgh-
brains. It will require a rather onsa
and up to annff husband to keep
eves with a wife Ilk. that And the
qoeeree thing about the ease is tnis.
Miss Ethel hasn't a word to say about
farming. She Just goes oa studying.
trlfl. with a eold la good ad- " v j, ti. hlh- "My child terror
XXTr ... grade Pbl. to obUi. U the at ' Ecleetrl. oa
nT.o bt.rS. Cr-.mb.rlaC. n.ge. A.d.ayb. nt, was. tTh. ,, and -Co!?.
Remedy for eo.ah. and eold. pr0B(IBd p.rh.p. her father, a rMo . reetfel
,, "iidre.- It I. f d .ura. tor 0. . Smoky. M. Hanson. Hamburg. N. T
lt by U deahm. j