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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14
KANSAS FARMING.

The citizens of Centralia, Nemaha
county, are organizing stock company
for the purpose of starting q canning
factory on large scale.
Crushed oats makes the best feed for
horses. Old horses cannot easily masti-
cate whole grain, and the crushing of
the oats consequently adds twenty & ve
per cent to their value.
Sumner county leads the list on wheat
for 1885, with an average annual product
of l.240,978 bushels for the past five
years. She is No. on oats for 1885,
with l,l3l, $50 bushels to her credit, and
No.2 on corn.
Mr.. Alfred Pray, of Banner township,
Dickinson county, this year raised and
sold at an average of 81 per bushel ! 900
bushels of fine apples from ten acres of
orchard.
A COW should always be taught to
allow any one to milk her, either man
or woman, and for this reason it is best
to change about in milking occasionally,
80 that the COW will not become too much
accustomed to one persons attention.
Have measures and scales, and learn
how much difference there is in the
yield of your cows, and then figure out
the loss in keeping poor cow. Do not
take some other mans word for it, but
do it yourself. Then you will remember
1t.
Seneca Tribune: When H. G.. Settle
was in Graham county last May he pur-
chased three quarter sections of land.
He has since sold two of them, one net.
ting him $500 clear profit and the other
$3.50. They cost $500 per quarter. He
can sell the remaining any time Tor $1,000.
Centralia Journal: Qrite number OF
peoplewho have not seen it seem to
doubt that we had q squash at the Gen.
tralia fair that weighed one hundred
and seventy.seven pounds, but it is q
fact. 1t was raised by Mr.. Cline seven
miles southeast Of here and it is now on
exhibition in this city.
Marion Record: Five years ago Mr..
Hunsperger bought quarter section OF
land fifteen miles north of Marion for
which he paid at the rate of five dollars
per acre. A year ago he bought another
quarter, paying therefore at the rate of
eleven dollars per acre. A few weeks
ago he sold his land for twenty dollars
per acre, cash.
An extensive prairie fire occurred
lately on the range about sixty miles
south of Dodge City. The Harwood cat
tie company's range, Forbes & Gray's
range, and the range west of the west
line Of the Tarbox range to Wagon Bed
Springs, for forty miles. Thirty families
living in the vicinity suffered loss of hay.
They are left in poor circumstances.
Chetops Advocate: Mr.. e. G. Gordon,
who lives few miles northwest of town,
has 5000 bushels of apples, 5000 of
which are Missouri pippins-a never
falling crop. Several varieties constitute
the othsr 1900 bushels. He mas built
eight tanks for cider and vinegar, each
Of which viii hold 1000 bushels.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14
Bob Inxerson,s Larest.


Colonel Bob lngersoll drops into 10 hn
Gavlt's vaults, in the basement of No. II
Broadway, every now and then. He haa
come down from old rye to beer as 8
beverage. A little while ago saw him
there playing pool. He beat his OPP
ponent every game-then treated the
house, told this story and vanished:
when I was up in the Northwest" said
he, II noticed that the men cut down
trees, and the women folks RATED them
down stream"
II should think the men would do
that, too" observed Sam Hazard. "Its
not women's work"
60" said Colonel Bah, II, for my part,
do not believe in he-rafters."
Ae escaped with his life by way of the
back window.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14
KANSAS NEWS


The stats convention of the Kansas
Z. u. G. A. was in session ut Emporia
Last week.
The government disposed of 5000, 846
acres of public lands in Kansas during
the past year.
An organization. has b. en- effected in
Manhattan for the purpose of building .
street railway.
A new Touring III with q capacity of
1oO barrels per day, recently began OPP
erations at Harper.
A Chicago packing company will soon
commence business at Wichita, slaugh.
tering 100 hogs daily.
A town company has been organized
ct Wichita to Law out and build a county
seat tow in Scott county.
Over $1,000 has been raised already
toward the erection Of q monument to
Gen. Grant at Leavenworth.
Thieves blew open the safe in the
Santa Fe depot at Sedgwick City, the
other night, but secured no booty.
w. E. Baker, of Independence, Mont
Eomery county, was run oyer and killed
by the cars at that place last week.
Operations have been commenced at a
new packing house just completed st
Atchison. Fifty hogs per day are being
slaughtered.
Hall Nungesser, near Goodrich. An
derson county, was thrown againet post
and killed by a runaway team few
days since.
Owing to mistake in drawing the
jury in Barber county, court was ad-
journed last week, aud no court can be
held until next year.
Gu. Weidrick committed suicide at
lola, Allen county, last week by shoot
ing nimself through the head. Domes-
tic difficulties was the cause.
EFT. F. Thompson's house, two miles
csught FIRE last week and burned to the
ground. Nothing was saved.
George W. Wells. appointed some time
since supervisor OF public buildings at
Leavenworth, Kan, and afterwards sus-
pended, has been reappointed.
Albert dolcomD, OF klngman county,
had his left shoulder dislocated for the
fourth time last week. His right shoul-
der has also been dislocated twice.
A son of Hon. J. S. Carlisle, speaker of
the national house of representatives,
will soon locate in Wichita, Kan, where
he will commence the practice of law.
The safe of G. L. Skinner, hide and
fur dealer at Emporia, was blown open
one night last week and SIS or $40 in
cash taken. The safe was completely
ruined.
A little child of Mr.. and Mrs. K. H.
Barrett, of Glen Elder, Mitchell coun-
ty, last week set its clothes on fire with
matches, and was burned 80 badly that
death ensued few hours after.
Orders were received at Newton last
week from headquarters to suspend work
on the new railroad from there towards
Mcpherson, and also to declare the cleo
ton of Garden township off for the pres.
emit.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14
MORMONlsM In ILLINOIS.
A Well-to-do Widow Sells her Farm to Fit
Ont Colony For Utah.

A Wen-to-d0 Widow Sells her Farm to Fiji
Out . Colony For Utah.
George Ramsey, full-fedged disciple
of Brigham Young, and a Jealous ex-
FOUNDER of the Mormon doctrine, has re.
Gently worked up considerable bad blood
in Dennison township, Lawrence county
Ill. Ramsey was we'll TODD farmer
and for q number of years, has been
preaching secretly Mormonism and poly.
gamy to his neighbors, whom he would
invite to his home. During these "pro-
tracted meetings real, 1--we Mormon
elders, detailed by the head of the church
at Salt Lake City. would be present to
ofEciste. Their pilgramages from Utah
to Lawrence county, within the past few
years, have been very frequent, but, from
all accounts, Ramsey and the elders have
only succeeded in converting thirteen
people in the whole county to the faith,
all of whom have taken their departure
for Salt Lake City, and are, no doubt, by
this time familiar with all branches OF
the religion.
Among the neighbors who were al.
ways invited to Ramsey's house to zee
the elders was Mrs. Dean. whom every
body in the township regarded as a
strong-minded woman of the highest re-.
epectability. She is the mother of five
children, and the widow of a gallant
soldier, who contracted diseases in the
late war and died one year after receiv
ing an honorable discharge. Years after
the death of her husband, Mrs. Dean re-
ceived a pension amounting to about ST.
600, with which she purchased desir.
able farm, and seemed to be living hap.
PLY and contented thereon with her
children, until Ramsey began to impress
her by day and by night with the "bles-
sings" in storo for her if she would en-
brace the iniquitous teachings of Nor
mopism and accept the doctrines as he
had done. At last she yielded, and dis
posed of her farm to aid in defraying the
expenses of the colony to Utah. Her
children knew nothing Of her intentions
until she got ready to start, and when
the time of her departure came, all of
them except two-a weak-minded son
and a aughter-refused to go. The
colony was composed of Lewis Ramsey
blind) md wife, George Ramsey and
wife and daughter Mollie, charming
music teacher; two sons, aged Is and II
years, and three younger daughters; Mrs.
Dean, son and daughter.
Ramsey was unable to sell his farm,
hence his anxiety to convert Mrs. Dean,
for without her assistance the colony
could not have gone. The feeling in
Dennison township is very strong against
the Mormon elders, and should they
ever return to Lawrence county for fresh
recruits, as predicted, they will meet
with q warm reception.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14
Lady BARRIERS I'm Now York.

The practice of employing lady BARRIERS
in the fashionable tonsorial establish.
ments is extending, and the time is evil
IDENTIFY not far distant when the leading
hotels will include lady barber among
their list of attractive features, Brooklyn
is the possessor of the prettiest lady bar
Der in the country.
She is charming blonde of 20, with
blue eyes and enough golden hair to make
wigs for q whole ballet. She is the pro-
prietess ofher own shop, and is rapidly
acquiring fortune by the dexterous use
of the razor and the lather brush. At
all hours of the day bald headed men
with an eye for beauty crowd the shop
and listen impatiently for the fair artist
to shout "Nextw
When she does shout there is rush
for the chair which threatens to end in
riot. The lucky man lays back in the
chair with q seraphic. smile Illuminating
his countenance, while the dainty fin
gers OF the lady barber softly travel over
his hardened cheek. Lots of the young
men wander into the shop in q timid
manner, but rarely pluck up courage
enough to make q dash for the chair.
The bald headed men have the call in
that establishment, and they will allow
no Infringement upon their rights.
The once large force of lady barders in
New York has evidently dwindled down
to one solitary bone handler. She is as
pretty as picture, but it's q very poor
picture. This lady does not enjoy the
patronage which her Brooklyn sister
revels in. In fact, most Of her customers
are men who try q shave just to see
what it feels like at the hands ola lady.
They rarely return second time, and
few declare they would rather be shaved
by q circular saw.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14
Great Salt Lake.

0fe1t Salt Lake.
CoEnhM Magazine.
Great Salt lake is in fact not . branch
of the sea at all, but mere shrunken
remnant of q very large IS cab water lake
system, like that of the still existing st.
Lawrence chain. Once upon . time
American geologists say huge sheet of
water, for which they have even invented
definite name, Lake Bonneville, occu.
pied . far larger valley among the out
hers of the Rocky mountains, measuring
300 miles in one direction by $50 miles
in the other. Beside this primitive Su-
perior lay great second sheet an early
Huron-(Lake Lahontan the biologists
call it) almost as big and equally of fresh
water. By and blythe precise dates are
necessarily indefinite some change in
the rainfall, unregistered by any one
temporary, made the waters of these big
lakes shrink and evaporate. Lake La
hontan shrank away like Alice in Won
derland, till there was absolutely noth-
ing left of it; Lake Bonneville hrank till
it attained the diminished size of the
existing Great Salt lake. Terrace after
terrace, running in long parallel lines
on the sides of the Wahsatch mountains
around, mark the various levels at
which it rested for q while on its gradual
downward course. It is still falling in
deed, and the plain around is being
gradually uncovered, forming the white,
salt-encrusted shore with which all visi-
tors to the Mormon city are 80 familiar.
But why should the water have becmoe
briny? Why should the evaporation of
an old Superior produce at last q Great
Salt lake? Well, there is small guam
tity of salt in solution even in the fresh
est of lakes and ponds, brought down
to them by the streams or rivers, and, as
the water of the Hypothetical Lake
Bonneville slowly evaporated, the salt
and the ether mineral constituents re-
manned behind. Thus the solution grew
constantly more and more concentrated,
till at the present day it is extremely
saline. Prof Geikie Ito whose works the
present paper is much indebted) found
that he foated on the water in spite of
himself; and the under side of the steps
at the bathing places are all encrusted
with short stalactites of salt, produced
from the drip of the bathers as they
leave the water. The mineral constitu-
ents, however, differ considerably in
their proportions from those found in
true salt lakes OF marine origin, and the
point at which the salt is thrown down
Is still far from having been reached.
Great Salt lake must simmer in the sun
for many centuries yet before the point
arrives at which las cooks say it begins
to settle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14

Clay Center argus: +. n. Tompkins,
of Exeter, is the boss sorghum manufac-
turer of this part of the country. He
put up ], 800 gallons Of extra fine molas
see this year from . few acres Of cane.
His molasses is the standard sorghum in
this market, and finds ready eale.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14

about six veoks asn, where Mir Do
Lacy and Mr.. Gfifath's friend occupied
. box. Tho young lady va pointed out
to Mr.. Walters, who fell in love with her
at first sight. They were introduced Of
ter the play, and the party went to Dell
monico's. Mr.. Walters, who did not
know who she was, and knew nothing
of the terms of the will visited her after
ward, and they became engaged to be
married. Then the lawyer explained
the little plot to Mr.. Walters by which
they had been brought together, and
,old him about the will. MI. Walters
was pleased. and the wedding will take
place next Friday.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14

Doooriptaoa ~ Ono Who sHv Hin q


Mai. Gen. Yakovitch, Of the Russian
who saw the great Nepoleon on . hattie
field. The old general saw the French
emperor ct BOrodino. At the battle
Yakovitch, then nero boy, served with
. battery in the grand redoubt which
was th, center of the Russian line. He
gave . vivid description Of the battle.
When morning broke . sea Of gray mist
shut out the field from voiew. The vices
of the enemy were heard, tho neighing
of their horses: and therumblingo of artil-
lery wheels. Then came the thunder Of
cannon, making the very earth tremble.
Three times al the Russian gunners
were killed, and three times new men
took their places. Bullets few thick .
hail, and men dropped dead or mangled
every moment
At last Q strange sound was heard in
the distance like rain pattering on with
er, d leaves. 1t grew louder and louder,
until it filled the air like the roar of .
stormy sea. All at once great wave
Of bright swords and helmets and horses'
heads came surging up over the brest-
works. It was the Imperial guard. Be-
fore the shock of that mighty wave the
Russian center crumbled away, shattered
wrecks! When Yakovi, oh came to his
senses and opened his eyes he saw around
him the corpses of his father and com.
rades. Suddenly the tramping of boots
called his attention to group of gayly-
dressed officers, and Napoleonk staff
came riding over the field. The young
Russian peered anxiously into their faces.
In his graphic language:
There were the hard faces of Rappand
Darn and broad chested Sebastion, and
Nanscuty, with the sabar scar across his
cheek, and the low, broad forehead and
bulldog jaw Of grim old Ney, the brav-
est Of them all. There, too, was Murat,
with his white plumes, and his braided
jacket, his long, dark curls hanging
down his neck, and his riding whip in
his hand, Just like 9 circus rider. And
then the group parted suddenly, and
there was the man himself in the midst
of them, with his face hard and immov-
able as marble amid all that blood and
agony, and far-away look in thoee cold
gray eyes of hie, as if he saw Moscow
somewhere up in the sky, and could see
nothing between. "A glorious victoryp
cried Murat, waving his hand. What .
stir there'll be among the good folks in
Paris when the bulletin arr. vesp We've
lost half of our army in doing it, thought
growled Ney. Hadn't we better fall
back little and wait for their reinforce
mentsP Then Napoleon turned bis head
slowly, just as the statue might do, and
looked him full in the face. Thou adj
vising retreat, Michael? That is some
thing new, indeed! Mono falling back
now. must date my bulletin from
Moscow. As for the army, you can't
make an omelette without breaking q
few eggs.'" Yakovitch says that when
he heard that he knew that God had
forsaken Napoleon, for no man save one
doomed to destruction could have spok-
en- 80 highly of the slaughter of thous.
ands of brave men.
In three months from that day the
French emperor was flying for his life
across the border with the Cossacks ct
his heels like hungry wolves.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14

The positive and unsolicited testimony OF
Psople from every section who hare used
DR.. Bull's Cough Syrup confrrs every
claim made for Its wonder.ul sfeoacT.
Price % cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14
A Mystery and Wonder that Bames All

A Mystery and Wonder that BAmes All
Harper Daily Graphic.
A citizen of Harper, who has a claim
three miles from Meade Center, came IN
to this office the other morning and I'M
raveled one of the greatest mysteries
that has ever been heard of in the an
nails of earth eruptions.
Last week he was quietly walking over
his claim, when he was startled by q
rumbling sound resembling distant
thunder. He stopped walking and dis
tinctly felt the earth culver under his
feet, that, to use his own language,
made the cold sweat gather on his fore
head" All at once Kissing sound was
heard coming from small knoll or
raise in the ground about two hundred
yards from where he stood, resembling
the sound peculiar to ten thousend sky
rockets going off at once. A vast cloud
of steam, vapor and dust arose and as
cended in the heavens, looking not un-
like ponderous balloon starting ona
trip to the moon. Birds that flew into the
mass in passing, fell lifeless to the ground.
Large chunks If rock, salt and sod were
thrown several hundred feet into the air,
and fell scattered for hundred yards or
more over the prairie. Immediately
following the eruption, steam was seen
rising and following the first black cloud.
The rumbling noise had ceased, and
the lone witness of that frightful scene
stood riveted in his tracks, and scared
almost to death. He said, 81 knew not
which way to turn, or what to do. Ny
first thought was that it was the Begin
ming of the end of the world. I stood
gazing at the rising stream for at least
twenty minutes perfectly mystified and
terror stricken. I woke up however and
went to my cabin and laid down."
On going out of his cabin Tuesday
morning, he was astonished to see the
steam still rising from the knoll. He
ventured to approach it, and his sur
prise can be imagined when he cav be-
fore him q round hole about 100 feet in
diameter, filed to within eighteen inch
es of the surface with water. He put
his hand into it and found it almost
scalding hot, and that it was strong, salt
water. He tied q rock to forty feet of
rope and threw it in the new pond. It
sank but struck no bottom. He after
ward attempted to test the depth of the
pool with $40 feet of rope, but still no
bottom was touched. It is quite evident
from the hot water and salt there is
no bottom to that rupture in the earth,
reaching no doubt away down for miles
into the fire that is known to exist at q
certain depth; be that as it may, can
any one givs an explanation, or assign
any cause for such phenomena on the
open prairie of southern Kansas? Oul
informant came to Harper and gave uf
the above report. Our readers now
know as much about the strange event
as we do. We, of course, cannot vouch
for the truth Of the story, yet it comes
from reliable source, and investigation
will probably prove its truth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-11-14

Have tested Tongalins In neuralgia. II
IL very seldom that I give laudatory no
tice o. praise Of proprietary medicines,
but Tongaline has given mo perfect sat
iGfac3ion.
Ga 0st.ndse. Il n. 1sitbuy.m
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
lowed to the celebrants. In Central,

lowed to the c%elebrants. In Central
China it is almost sacrilege to use music
at q second marriage, al the sound ia
universally believed to bring back the
phantom Of the departed spouse. Sec-
ond marriages in that part of the EN-
pire are conducted very much like the
visits of credulous folks to haunted
houses. In several well-authenicateo
cases where the brass band was called
In at the second nuptials the indignant
ghost has been known to strangle both
offending parties.
1t is hardly fair to stop here, while
law and custom are as stated. They are
based merely upon the idea of love. Tho
duty and affection a wife owes her hus-
band ever if dead are the cardinal ele-
ments in the social and legal plexus
which tie her hand and foot. This re-
cognition of love goes even further. A,
young girl who has lost her betrothed
or died Immediately after their mar
riage declares her intention to remain
cellbate the rest of her life. This vow
may be made before her parents, the
magistrate or the village elders. Hence
forth she is regarded with the same
generation as a sister OF charity in ul-
ira Catholic lands. When she has kept
her VOW faithfully at the age of sixty,
the Emperor DEGREES the erection of :
triumphant arch near the place of her
birth and on its face a memorial in
scription in her honor. 1 fancy woman
is the same in China as in the United
States. as the number of arches con-
structsd to date is exceedingly small.
Wong Ching Foo, IN Brooklyn IN.
~ Eagle.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-07-03
WOMEN'S HEALTH,

Outdoor Life and Activities Important
Factors In Its Conservation.
The redemption of women's health, I
am more and more convinced, depends
on their taking to outdoor life and ac-
t%lvities. Reading high class memoirs
which are in every ones hands nowa-
days, OF the Carlyles. the sterlings and
+. d. Maurice, one is disguised to hear
the continual story of weak health, and
women who, brought face to face with
the realities of life, Immediately droop,
languish and are a long time dying.
If they have a house to keep and a
share of the actual work, like Mrs.
Carlyle, at Craigenputtock and Chel-
sea, they sicken mYsteriouslv, and THEN
life is o time of wrestling with house.
hold affairs, alternating with refuge on
the sofa, or months in the DOCTORS
hands, in that wretched, unimprovable
state which justified the sigh OF a much
tired husband who wished his wife
would get better, Or something!" Have
1 not. through the ignorance Of our day
and generation, wasted life enough in
attacks of the familiar household
demon, nervous prostration. which
only vanishes on turning the patient
outof doors. Twice and again, friends
have looked pityingly on me as, good
as gone, but taken out of doors ten
hours a day. as good for nothing else,
sun and wind wrought their spell Of
healing, and health came again.
Henceforth no more indoor life than
must be for me. and l would urge other
women to fashion their lives so as to
spend them moro in the oven air, -
Vick's Magazine.