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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
a NEW AID TO JUSTICE.

Composite Photography as Means of
Testing the Validity of Signatures.
Philadelphia Press.
A'novel application of a recent scien-
tiic discovery was made before the Or
phans' court by DR.. Pesifor Frazer. Dur
ing the audit of the account of Samuel
Clark, Jr., as administrator of the estate
of his father, who was large mill-owner
in the northeastern part Of the city, some
questions of checks and charges upon
partnership accounts arose in connection
with which it was necessary to settle the
validity of some signatures.
Instead of resorting to the aid and un-
satisfactory method of the testimony of
handwriting experts. DR.. Frazer was in
duced to try the principle of composite
photography. This principle was dis
covered recently by an Englishman NAM
ed Cation, and consists in producing a
photograph which is an embodiment OF a
number of originals. It Is done by tax
ing photographs of each subject sepa-
rately, giving each plate, however, only
an apportionate amount of the time requi-
site for its proper development. In this
way only the features which are in all of
the originals appear distinctly in the
composite, while the exceptions and IT.
regularities are lost. The discoverer
obtained remarkable results in securing
types of criminals, persons afflicted with
pulmonary troubles, family licensees
etc.
DR.. Frazer was given eighteen checks
admittedly signed by the decedent, which
he divided into three groups, according to
the size of the handwriting. Some checks
were used in two groups, so that each
one of the three composites was made
up from about dozen checks. The re-
suit was that in each one of the plates
the signature "Clark & Co." was quite
distinct, the only indistinct and superfu-
GUS lines being about the first two letters.
Judge Hanna, before whom the audit
took place, said that the plates we're GER
tainly trustworthy guides, and that he
the discovery as very impor-
tant one in connection with the identity
of handwriting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
They Really Wanted Tea.
Washington Star.

| Washington Star.
sTea for two," said one of two stran-
gers who had just taken seats in one of
the capitol restaurants. The order was
given in commonplace sort of tone, and
the waiter was puzzled. He looked at
the stranger for moment-a comical,
inIuiring look, but received no respon-
sive glance of intelligence. The young
men waited for their order. The waiter
turned, then hesitated again, and finally
went up to the counter and gave the Or
der in hard, stony way:
''Tea for twor'
Then he turned his head away to avoid
the face of the man behind the counter.
"Tea?' repeated the gentleman inquir-
ingly. Then he waited for some look or
word of response. The waiter moved
not muscle in his face, and the man be-
hind the counter stood looking at him
and then at the strangers, who, uncon-
scious of anything out of the ordinary,
were engaged in conversation.
"Hot or cold?" finally gasped the be-
wildered head waiter, standing with one
hand on the knob Of the ''ice box" and
the other on the rope of the dumb waiter
that leads to the kitchen below.
''HOt or cold?" cried the waiter, turn
ing to the strangers.
''Oh, either! Only don't keep us wait
ing all day." was the young mans impa-
tent response.
The confusion of the man behind the
counter and tho waiter was increased by
this reply, and the two strangers began
to get interested. The waiter looked as
if he would like to run, but finally recov-
cred himself, and called out "Hot tea for
two!' and let go the door of the ':ice
box"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
LIFE IN LIBERIA.
a.rashsps in a Land that is Quite Unknown.

aardships in a Land that is Quite Unknown.
A correspondent at Brewersville, Libe-
ia, writing to the Gate City (Mo. Press,
eays: This place, Brewersville, is if-
teen miles from Monrovia. It is fifteen
years old, 1t is the largest settlement in
Liberia outside OF Monrovia. All the
people who have emigrated out here in
the last ten or fifteen years have settled
in this place. The people in the settle
ment are poor, and one isn't able to help
the other In business sense of view.
There are no horses, no mules, and no
oxen in the whole settlement. They have
to do all the farm work with the hoe, the
rake and the Ak. I have been out here
now six months. People are in a suffer
ing condition for something to eat and
for clothes to wear. There isn't any
doctor in this settlement; the settlement
is too poor to support one. The inhab-
itants number $50. Calico il. 25 cents a
yard. A common laborer, when he can
get work to do, receives 25 cents per day.
Picked pork is 25 cents per pound,
shoulder meat 25 cents per pound. All
the -four and meat used here is imported
from England and America. Corn meal
is 10 cts per quart. Common -four is
$15 per barrel. This is the greatest
place for sores ever saw. There is here
an insect; its name is jiger; it is very
dangerous. have seen grown people,
and children, too, with their toes eaten
of. Shoes are more needed here than
in America. 1t is necessary to wear
shoes all the time SO as to protect your
feet from these insects, The people are
unable to keep shoes on their children all
the time, and good many of them have
to wear sore feet all the year round. Ny
boys feet have been SO sore he could
hardly walk.
The only way the settlers have to
make any money here is by raising and
selling coffee. 1t will take new conner
like myself from five to six years to get
a coffee farm in trim for selling coffee.
The public schools are in poor condi-
ton. There is class of people here who
do not want the true condition of things
written back home They say if the
people want to know how times are over
here, let them come and see for them
selves
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
How to Feed Out Sorghum.

A correspondent of The Breeders Ga
zette writes: I have been using sorghum
for number of years, and in that time
have tried number of varieties. Ihave
finally settled upon the red amber as
best suited to this section and my use.
I plant it as early as possible after the
danger of frost is past, thus giving it
abundance of time to be ripe for feeding
by the latter part of August, or certainly
in early September. That is the time
we are apt to need it the most. For
nearly annually we suffer from drought,
and sorghum proves an excellent substi-
tute for grass. As soon as the seed be-
gins to turn dark the saccharine matter
is abundant in the stalk, and begin to
feed. The cattle eat it to the last shred,
leaving not the least vestige of any kind.
I never chop it except for young calves,
for which it equals ol-cake. The COWS
not only fatten on it, but it improves the
milk in richness and increases the butter
yield markedly. 1t is also excellent for
hogs, mules and horses. 1 pillow as for
corn, four-foot furrow, and drill in the
seed not too closely, leaving four or five
stalks to stand together. At the time I
begin to feed the stalks are usually about
three fourths of an inch in diameter.
The yield very large. On four acres I
have raised enough to carry forty to
fifty cows for three months. I place a
very high valus upon it as an article
of animal food, and I am more and
more confirmed in this opinion every
year. If it did not do more than exc
out our summer grass I should value it;
if it did no more than take the place of
oil food for calves it would be important
to me, but it does both, and moreover,
is easily raised, is an abundant crop, is
highly relished and greedily eaten by the
animals. And if your correspondent
could see it fed he would not long doubt
if the cattle will eat it stalk and all.
There is an idea more or less prevalent
in the country that the saccharine mat
ter contained in this plant is injurious to
breeding COWS. My experience is deci-
dedly the other way. My COWS have
never been more regular in their breed
ing than when fed ON it, and some have
even seemed to improve in regularity
upon it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
Why he Went Down Stairs.


1 heard story the other night about
an actor whose name is supposed to be
known to every one who can read print.
I will call him Smith Smith was room
ing at the Sturtevant house, New York,
last week. He came home at about 2 a.
m. Very full. As he rolled into the Of
fee the porter asked him if he would not
take the elevator.
"No (hic), no. Tie walk (hic) up
stairs. But 1 vanish you to be sure an
call me at 10 o'clock to-morrer mornin,
shure."
Smith commenced to go up the marble
stairway. He arrived at the tenth step all
right, when he slipped and landed on the
floor below all in heap. Not at all dis
concerted, he picked himself up, walked
deliberately to the desk, and said, with
q profound drunken solemnity:
Il lust come down sthairs (hic) ex-
preshly to tell you (hic) to b'shure an
call me (hic) at 10 o'clock t'morrer."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
The Drift Toward Universities.

Last February's debate between the
presidents of Harvard and Princeton on
student freedom in studies and conduct
had barely ceased when there ensued
review and newspaper battle, conducted
with more vigor and animation than had
been devoted to any college issue for
years. The number of journals arrayed
was also unusually large. In fact it
would be hard to name one of eminence
whether religious OR secular, from the
daily to the slow quarterly, which did
not participate in the contest. AS this
gradually came to close and the sound
of it had died away from public hearing,
it began to be seen that the combat was
merely preliminary to something greater
even if less claimant contest over
the American university question. All
the threads of the "New Departure" de
bate tie up here. Once settle the real
nature and functions of the American
university and you settle in advance gen.
eral principles which determine the ma
ture and place of student freedom. That
there should be freedom at some stage of
education is conceded, and that the uni
versity is the place for this is also con-
coded, but what makes a genuine univer-
sitv and how to construct the American
university is not so clearly seen. The
sum of opinion thus far, however, is APP
parently this, that if we have genuine
university students in genuine universe
ties thew should he free. If not, not.
AS the question energies into clearer
view, leading thinkers are directing their
efforts hither. Not few indications of
this have already appeared both in print
ed arguments and specific university
movement We may cite as especially
noteworthy the running sketch Of posi-
BILE solutions drafted in Prof. Patton's re-
view Of the 'sNew Departure President
McCosh's addresses at Woodstock on
What an American University Should
be-" the summer discussion at NEWPORT
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
HOUSEHOLD HINTS.

II every boy treated his girl friends as
he would like other boys to treat his sis
ter, there would be better code of morals
when they were grown up.
One pound of burnt lumber Cora pound
can already mixed) with two quarts of
boiled oil, can be applied with brush
or cloth, and will cover up stains and
slivers. never show nail-marks of shoes,
like varnish paint will and will never
1scome up and spoil the carpet" 1t will
~wash up easier than oil cloth, be as
c1eanly, and cost but trifle.
Chestnut sauce to be used with turkey
Hssl the chemuts and pour boiling
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
ABUNCoED MILLIONAIRE.
Deceived and Swindled of Thousands by the
Bogus Son of an Earl

Deceived and Swindled of Thousands by the
Bogus Son of an Earl
Philadelphia Times.
A. few years ago, in 1877, Andrew
Carnegie, the distinguished Pittsburg
iron baron and proprietor of the Edgar
Thompson plant at Braddock, was on his
way home from one of his fyi.g visits
across the big pond to''his ain countrie, -
Dumfernline, where he was born and
which place he was endowed with a
5000, 900 library, when met in London OF
on the steamer westward versatile and
accomplished young man who played the
''bunco" game on him in way that was
peculiar and bland and has history in
the present relation. The young man,
who was accompanied by his wife, a
bright and not unhandsome women, in a
quiet and semi-confdential way let Mr..
Carnegie gradually understand he was
lord Ogilvy, you howT" Eldest son
of the Earl Of AirIe, :" "Sent abroad, you
know, having earned the displeasure of
the old earl, you know, for marrying
without his consent" The iron-master,
though an expert on all the Bessemer
and basic processes and decillionaire
through his Scotch shrewdness in build
ing the Edgar Thomson, was not very
good Judge of lords and took the bait
What tuft-hunting American would
not?
Young Lord Oglivy was invited to
spend few weeks at Mr.. Carnegie's
summer home on the summit of the APP
palachians at Cresson. There, althoug h
urging on his host his desire to be sin
cognito, you know, until the old earl re-
Tented little" Mr.. Carnegie introduce
ed him to the swell Pittsburg cottage
crowd, to whom it was gradually i'm
parted that there was real live lord
among them. No highteas were too Ella
borate nor whist parties too recherche
after this for the young couple, one of
whom at least could trace his blood back
to the reign of the royal old fool for
whom jamestown was named, while
the oldest Pittsburger could not carry
his pedigree beyond the time when
Forbes flew the red cross above the feur-
de-lis at the forks Of the Ohio.
Lord Ogilvy and his spouse visited
Pittsburg and the former was given the
entree of the Du Quesne club, while the
latter enjoyed the Inequalities of the
Carnegie mansion in the East End. The
bogus lords exchequer ran low; the
iron master ''cashed a draft for few
hundred pounds, you know, until letters
from the earl with remittances come,
you know" A number of Mr.. Carne-
gie's rich iron acquaintance also cashed
drafts for the young lord. 1t was the
old story. AID Industrious chevalier and
a quick-witted and rather pretty mate
striking golden notes on the harp of Gre
dulity, for after little they disappeared
in the direction of the star of empire and
Mr.. Carnegie was out several thousand
dollars-as he lifted his noble friends
paper in the hands of those to whom he
had introduced him--and the affair, al
though attempted to be quietly hushed
up, was long standing joke in the
Smoky City.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
KANSAS HAS.

Edorado Republican.
A good name;
A central location;
A small It tie debt;
Two million cattle;
Pure air and lots of it;
An industrious people;
An occasional blizzard;
A prohibitory liquor law;
A fine climate-in spots;
italian skies occasionally;
A law-abiding population;
A reasonably dry climate;
An orchard ON every farm;
Two and half million hogs
Eleven unorganized counties;
Fifty two million acres of land;
Thirty-three daily newspapers;
Eighty-si organized counties;
Blue grass and clover pastures;
Seven thousand school houses;
Eight thousand school teachers;
Eight hundred thousand sheep;
Million acres of homestead lands;
A true valuation of $685., 100000;
Millions of bees and tons of honey;
Plenty of quail and prairie chickens;
A moderate municipal Indebtedness;
Twenty seven millions taxable acres:
First-class building stone everywhere;
Possums, paw-paws and persimmons !;
Six hundred thousand horses and mules;
Fourteen million acres under cultiva-
ton;
Forty-eight thousand colored popula
ton;
Seven millions worth of school prop
erty;
A record of eleven successive corn
crops;
Twelve cities with over 5000 popula-
ton;
But one-fifth of its area actually under
pillow;
Two thousand five hundred church
buildings;
Four thousand manufacturing manu-
featuring establishments;
A million and a quarter state school
funds;
Six hundred miles of railway under
contract;
A very few buffalo in the extreme south
west;
Farm products last year valued at
$73s, 100000;
One hundred and fifty towns with over
500 population;
Three hundred and thirty-five thou
sand school children;
Five hundred and eighty-one newspa-
pers and periodicals.;
One million two hundred and sixty
eight thousand population;
One hundred and seventeen million
dollars worth of live stock;
One hundred and ninety-four million
bushels of corn, or last years crop;
A smaller per cent. of her people who
can't read or write than any state in the
Union;
A people who are ready to ''arise,
shine and make known the beauty and
glory of this great state upon every pos
sible occasion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13

and Saratoga, and the quite recent Cur.
riculum revisions made by some Of our
stronger colleges with the university in
distant or nearer view. The drift of
such indications is all in one direction
toward the university. It is not yet here,
but is surely approaching. It is still
some years, perhaps in most places a
generation, distant. Elsewhere it seems
close at hand. When it does come it
will be to take prominent place in edu-
cation and in our American life. We
may as well dispense at once with any
attitude of mind that will not recognize
this actual situation.
THE DRIFT Is THAT WAY.
It is becoming general. It is acceler-
ating, and no sign of a positive adverse
movement has yet shown itself.
That this should be the state of things
is at once fortunate and dangerous. For
tunate because it reduces the broad area
of discussion by excluding the question
whether there will be universities or not,
inasmuch as this is already being settled
affirmatively by flow of events quite
independent of our arguing. All that
remains is to decide not whether the
universities shall come, but solely how
they shall come. This facilitates the
practical solution. If we regard them as
undesirable it makes only this difference,
that we should seek to have them insti-
tuted in their least undesirable form, and,
if desirable, in their more desirable form.
1t is also dangerous, for the movement is
spreading SO steadily and gathering
strength so rapidly, that the university
may come too soon or too crudely,
s'born out of due time," ill-considered
and half shapen. In such a transaction
where we may distinguish with tolerable
certainty the various forces operating,
but not SO easily their proportionate i'm
portance and rates of speed, it is ventur-
some to sketch at present more than
these meagre outlines. Time is filling
in the rest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13

DIR. Hartwell, of John Hopkins uni
versity, says that German soldier can
scale a twenty-five foot wall with his
arms and acoutrements, or jump an iron.
spiked fence without getting caught.
Gymnastics are compulsory in the Ger
man schools
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13

A remnant of the great forests which
once covered the south of Sweden was re-
GENTLY dug out of a bog at Kluneved,
consisting of a boat six feet in diameter
followed out of log. The tree from
which this boat was made must have
been at least twenty feet in circumfer-
ence. The wood, which was very hard,
had assumed . blue color. The boat was
so very heavy that two bullocks could
not draw It.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13
A WelI-WOru Bible.

Washington Special.
The United States supreme court has a
bible which has been in constant use
since 1908. 1t was printed at Oxford in
1899. On the fly-leaf is written, ''United
States supreme court, 1905" And every
justice of the court and every attorney
who has been admitted to practice before
the bar since that date has been sworn
upon that bible. It is a small volume
and the binding shows the marks of fire.
quent usuage, particularly where the
fingers clutch it in administering and
taking an oath.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13

A still further advance in barbed wire
is predicted
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-02-13

Toronto has club of forty tobogan.
nists
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-03
The following reports have been made:
The Fourth at the Reformatories.

The Reform School for Boys, at Plainield,
will celebrate to-day instead of Monday. Gen.
Manson and State Senator Campbell of Dan
vile, will address the boys this forenoon. In
the afternoon. the boys will give their annual
Fourth of July entertainment. There will be o
display of fireworks at night
The Female Reformatory managers have ar
ranged the following Fourth of July programme:
Opening chorus, by the inmates, ''My Country,
tbs of Thee prayer; song by the inmates. "Red,
White and Blue;" remarks by Miss Kelley, super
intendent; song, Good News. the Chariot's Com
ing" by the colored girls; recitation by Miss
Dora HARRISON; song, by the inmates, Hail Co.
lumbia;" address, by Mrs. F. g. Gilbert song, by
Miss Elder; characteristic song, illustrated,
Roll OFF and Heave the Cotton" by the colored
girls; song, "Star spangled Banner" The ex-
ercises will be held this afternoon at 230 o'clock,
and the friends of the institution are invited.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-07-03
TILE WORKS SALE CONFIRMED.
Claims Allowed and Twenty-F Per Cent.
Dividend Declared by Judge Walker.

| The offer Of SAG, 600 from s. A. Fletcher e Co,
for the Cooper, Landers and Pickens notes on
| deferred payments in their recent purchase of
/ the tile works came before Judge Walker yes
terday. for final action. He accepted the offer
and confirmed the sale of the works, ordering
the title to be quieted in John J. Cooper, Jack
son Landers and John Pickens The following
claims against the old tile works company were
| allowed. those on notes, some Of which have
been reduced to judgments. being in favor of
| Walter Wright 1852 IS; Lydia B. Harrison,
| $7,437 II; John OBrien, So. $50; John j. Cooper
| $50, 800; Desdemona Rowland, 81 063. SO; William
s. Barclay, $3.50 &c; Adeline f. Hanneman
| $S,O46 rs: Merchants National Bank, 100000
| Orphans Home, So, 800. 3d. Matilda Gresham, ST.
| 100 Al; Lucinda NJ. Morton, 1850; Mauch- Chunk
Bank, $lO,2 6.67 William FL Leavitt. $40 $780,
Q. Byfeld. trustee, SOC, 800 Sc; Corn Exchange
Bank, 500. $50; j. Pickens $15, 433 49, The claim
of John Pickens on an additional note for 81 900
| and that of Nicholas McCarty We're continued
| until next term.
Porter. administrator, $1,000; Hubbard & An
derson, $l3.13 Noel Brothers, $40 90; Indiana
Paper Company, $552 G. H. Noting, $685.
| Indianapolis Sentinel Company, $51. 80; Hide
| brand d Fugate, s24 80; Drew e. WATSON Mining
| Company, $848. &c. e. e. alexander $33 SO; Tan
ner d Sullivan, $751; 5; Alfred Burdsall, Sill 10;
John Caven, 1896 5l7 Webster Fire brick and
Tile Company, $l9l. 20: Alphonse lie Jeune, 1895;
Harrison, Miller q Elan, $400; Brunson %
| Springer, $l0.3O Inland Publishing Company,
| $l2 30; L. Feuchtwanger & Co., $l11.75; F. M.
Dell, $l4.5 80; W. j. Holiday 6 Co., $2S. Al Thos.
Arrowsmith, 1892 46; Nordyke g. Marmon, $15;
! w. W. Herrod. $500; A. G. Harris, $780, Indian.
apolis News, Sill 80; Townsend Brothers, $l2 90;
Hetheringtou & Berner, 1882 %
| The judge ordered the receiver to pay on these
| claims dividend of % per cent out of the
| funds realized from the recent sale. 1t is ex-
pected that 80 or 40 per cent. will be the aggre-
| gate dividend