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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

An opening (E) twenty inches wide and
of height of stall is sufficient for the
horse to put his head in manger to eat
Board up on each side of this so lie can
not shove hay out of manger under his
feet. A represents stall, four feet six
inches wide; B, manger, of same length,
two feet wide; C, feed box, in right bot
tom corner of manger; d, space under
manger. fifteen inches high; E. space in
front of horse, twenty inches wide, en-
tire height of stall, for horse to put his
head IN Manager to eat; F, ring to tie
horse to; g, slide door through which to
put hay and grain in msnger; d, room
in front Of manger to store the temporary
supply of hay and grain. l have used
this kind and proportion of stall for
years. and can recommend it. All styles
of managers, or racks compelling the
horse to pull out the hay, involve more
or less stirring up Of dust and are OBJ
jectionable on that account
Raising Fine Horses.
Raising good horses for the farm or
the road is q business which will be
likely to pay the careful and persever-
ing breeder. But the raising of horses
for the track is one of the most I'M
profitable lines of business in which q
farmer can engage. He has neither the
capital, the facilities, nor the experience
and skill requisite for its successful
management. 1t Is true that there have
beenoa very few fast horses bred on or
binary farms, but the instances are ex-
tremely rare, and even in these cases the
breeders have usually sold the animals
before their value was discovered, or
else they have paid so much for training
and caring for them that but very little
profit was left. We would not discour-
age our farmers from trying to raise
good serviceable horses. There is q
good field here for careful and intelli-
gent men, But we believe that the Or
binary farmer has a good deal better
chance of being struck by lightning than
he has of raising Sunol or Maud S.
american DdtTy1naYa.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

|nost my day X thsy sheess = -
thsir surplus 9rsin, oat11e nd hoesos
In III ysar 1891 this sosnty eo1(
over Loo hosDse and mules af . fu1
svoenGo az 80 eaoh. Thopo aro nov =
this eoanty shout 9.000 hossss. nu3ss
eta. There arc fully Is. 700 Of I'll kind
Of cattle and over $1,000 hogs. ct lsasi
100. 700 acres Of corn, . good crop d
wheat saved and in the bin or stack
We have . large crop Of extra good
vegetables and much moro fruit thar
can be used and marketed Tho farms
horses, cattle, hogs, hay, corn, wheat
vegetables, fruit, ETC., all belong t.
about $4,000 people that live on thess
farms.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26
THE HOUSEHOLD.
Look After Your Sle0p,

Look After Your Sleep.
Insomnia is rightfully regarded as ono
OF the marks Of an overweight or
worried nervous system, and, conversely
we may take it that sound sleep, lasting
for reasonable period-ssy from six to
nine hours in the case of adults-is .
fair test of nervous competence. Vari-
Gus accidental causes may temporarily
interfere with sleep in the healthv; but
still the rule holds good, and . normal
brain reveals its condition by obedience
to this daily rythmic variation. Custom
can do much to contract ones natural
term OF sleep, . fact of which We are
constantly reminded in these days Of
high pressure; but the process is too
artificial to be employed. Laborious
days, with scanty intervals of rest.
go lar TO secure all the needful con-
ditfons Of insomnia. In allo:ing hours
OF sleep, it is impossible to adopt
any maxim or uniform custom.
The due allowance varies with the indi-
vidual. Age, constitution, sex, fatigue,
exercise. each has its share Of influence.
Young persons and hard workers nat
urslly need and should have moro sleep
than those who neither grow nor labor.
Women have by common consent been
assigned . longer period Of rest than
men, and this arrangement, in tho event
OF their doing hard work, Is In strict &C.
cordance with their general physical
construction and recurrens in6rmitieA
Absoluse rule there t. none, and It Il Of
little moment to fix an exact average
allowance, provided the recurrence Of
sleep be regular and its amount sum
Gent for the needs Of given person. SO
that fatigue does not result in such
nerve prostration and irritabflity g ron.
der healthy rest impossible
1anes fsr tie 0s1soU1lA
PUCEs Of licoFice laid around WHARF
ants run = recommended
NxHMaUEs should be put on puddinee
after thsy arc slightly cool, q, e Is
pedding b hot. the egg win lqusfx.
Il cooking vegetables. always remanr
~ that boiling water evApoeateo eonanY
= - approach Of . storm q uhan g =
1oin11e. -.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

conservatory, n, II porches, I bathroom,
K closet. There could be small closet
under the front staircase, and II con-
servatory is not wanted that space can
be used for porch. The pantry has
doors to open into the dining-room with
drawers underneath to put all table linen
in. The second floor has four large
chambers, c, C. c, c. II, b, 81, 81 are
closets, E hall, S store room. B balcony.
A large closet could be made at the eud
OF hall where dotted line is.-Mrs. ". S.
Churchill In Farm and Home
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

links: Waite would b Q good man 10
start q church. Filkins: Why so7 Jinks:
He has sisten enough among our leading
families to Start good-sized congregation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

A seafaring life tends 70 develop the bel
ligerent tendencies. Not content with the
many SPAN they have on board ship, sail
Or are continually boxing the compass.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

'tOh, mamma" exclaimed little JOHNNIE,
''the trees in our yard are getting bald bead
ed"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

Call Chicago girl laree-hsarted and esn-
eroS IL you choose. but never refer to her -
biQ.eoled
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

When the seizure officers visit q saloon
they are generally on . rummaging expedi-
ton.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1891-09-26

county tells OF man VINO haQ some
wheat 90 poor that it would kill q man
to eat -four made from it He went to
q neighbor and purchased two bushels
Of IN excellent quality of wheat, which
he took home and distributed over the
tops OF number Of the sacks Of poor
wheat, which he brought to this town.
Opening his sacks he sold his wheat to
q grain dealer in this city at the best
market price on the merit OF the good
wheat in the top Of the sacks.
Osborne Farmer: In August 1890,
the number Ut pounds OF freight 10
ceived and forwarded from Osborne az
gregated 1881. 669, upon which the
freight charges amounted to s., 1886;
for tho same month this year the freight
handled amounted to 2.420, 339. upon
which The charges were $4.34a16
Thus it will b seen that tho freight
businsss has almost doubled in August.
1891 over august 1890, the increase in
pounds amounting to 1,138.67O. and
The charges footing up IN increase OF
11.91220
Paola letter: Miami county has about
$4,000 scres Of farm land q good
quality. It 10 doubtful il thsrs arc
eighty acres in one piece that u not
tsnosd and ussd for pasture. meadow or
ploving. The county win average moro
d. ono farm house for each leo acses
a hnd It u quite certain TIT 80 Per
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07
A Story of Gen. firngg.

General s. D. Lee, of Mississippi, says that few know how brilliant man General Braxton Bragg really was. His unfortunate temper" (says the New Orleans Times-DemocraD made him unavailable as narmy commander; but as strategist, tactician, and wit he had few equals in the army. An in stance of the latter occurred in 1858, at Fort Sumter. Bragg's staff was de- pleted to such an extent that he sud denly found himself post and battery commander end quartermaster. There had been several disputes as tosupplies, which had not been definitely passed upon. Bragg saw his chance and de- termined to force a decision. As Cap tain Bragg, of the artillery, he made acquisition upon ting-Quartermaster Bragg. This, as quartermaster, he re- fused, and sent back an exceedingly sharp note. Captain Bragg retorted Ill kind, and Acting Quartermaster Bragg then referred the whole matter to Post Commander Braxton Bragg. In this capacity he severely criticised both off cers for the personal nature of their remarks, and referred the whole matter to Washington. Floyd was Secretary of War, and at first was furious, but 1t was pointed out to him that the corre- spondence was officially correct, and that Bragg could not be held accoanta- be for any violation of army regula- tions. He was, therefore, obliged to decide the point, ignoring Bragg's ap- bearing in triple character, He af, terward habitually referred to himself as the concentrated inhnbitsnt.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

Congressman Bland, of Missouri, speaking of Cleveland and silver, says; "I do not see how the Democratic par ty can indorse free coinage and at the same time indorsa MT. Cleveland, nor do see how our party can do other wise than to demand free coinage in its national platform. The party is great CT than any one man. People may ad- mire MT. Cleveland's courage and hon esty, but l see nothing to be gained by our people by admiring the courage and honesty of man who stands in the way of their prosperity and rejects their demand for the money of the Constitu- ton, the free coinage of the metals so necessary to give us a healthful circu- lating medium now demanded, espec- ially among the agricultural classes The fight of the Southwest against Wall street is on, and MT. Cleveland can not stem the tide. l."
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07
The sheath Of Custom.

Every human being grows up inside a sheath of custom, which enfolds 1t as the swathing-clothes enfold the infant.
 The sacred customs of ones own early home, how fixed and immutable they appear to the child! It surely thinks that all the world in all times has pro ceeded on the same line which bound its tiny life. It regards breach of these rules as wild step in the dark, leading to unknown dangers The el- ders have always said that by this time of day everything has been so thor oughly worked over that the best methods of ordering our hfe-food, dress, domestic practices, social habits, have long ago been determined If so why these divergenees in the simplest and most obvious matters? And then one thing after another gives way. The sacred worldwide customs in which we are bred turn out to be only the practices of q small or narrow caste or class; or they proved to be confined to very limited locality, and must be left behind when We set out on our travels; or they belong to the tenets of a feeble religious sect; or they are just the products of one age in history and no other Are there really no natural boundaries? Has moi our life anywhere been founded on reason and necessity, but only arbitrary customs? Y The more we look into our daily life and consider the immense variety of habit in every department of it-eyen under conditions to all appearances exactly similar the more are We impressed by the absence of any serious necessity in the forms we ourselves are accustomed }o Each race, each class, each section of the population, each uait even, vauuts it's own habits of life as superior to the rest, as the only true and le- gitimate forms; and peoples and clas- ses will go to war with each other in their assertion of their own special belief and practices, but the question that rather presses upon the ingcnuogs and inquiring mind IS, whether any of us have got hold of much true life ut all? whether we are Lot rather mere multitudiuouS varieties of caddis-worms shufiIed up in the cast-oif skins and clothes and debris of these who have gone before us, with very little vitality of our own peroeptible at all? The caidis-hy leaves his tube behind and scars into the upper air; the creature abandons it's barnaele existence on the rock and swims at large in the sea. For it is just when We die to custom that, for tue first time, we rise into lhe true life of humanity it IS just when We abandon all prejudice of our own su- periority over others, and become con vincod If our entire indefensibleness, that the world opens out with comrade faces in all directions, and when We perceive how entirely arbitrary is the setting of OCT own life, that the whole structure collapses on which our apart ness rests, and We pass at once into the great ocean of freedom and humanity
 Home Journal,
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07
Flood in the Giia Valley, Graham County.

The Bulletin says: The damage to the people in this valley will be almost irreparable at this time of the year. Many poor people who had gone in debt for seed to plant crops will not only lose the chanceof raising anything this year on their land but will lose houses, fences, with everything in the way of clothing, blankets, and house. hold furniture. Tie dams have all been swept away, fences gone; many houses also, and ditches filled with mud. Many fields are badly washed or eov- cred with sand and mud, which will prevent seed already planted from growing.
 The Gila river was two miles wide ct Thatcher, ard water two to ten feet deep covered ranches in the valley.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

In reeet magazine article, Edwin R. Prichard advances the novel but reasonable theory of restitution for crime. Mir. Prichard argues that if . burglar break into a mans house and steal, say one thousand dollars worth of property, it is very poor satisfaction for the victim to see the thief convic- ted and sentenced to five or ten years in State prison. Mir. Prichard suggests that the convicts be put to work at hard labor, and from the results of this la Dor, be compelled to pay not only their expenses to the State, but in so far as is possible, to make restitution to their victims for tho money, or its equivalent, of which the z inc hae deprived them
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07
Flood NGtcs.
Florence Enterprise.

Florence Enterprise.l
 It is reported that Hayden's mill al Tempe went down with the floods.
 Editor W. l.. Vail of the Tucson Citizen had his contemplated trip to Globe cut short at this place by the floods, this week.
 The Tweed bridge, crossing the Gila river near the San Carlos Copper Com pany's mines, can likely be found in the Gulf of California, as its timbers went down by the first flood of last week.
 The flood on Queen Creek took out the pumping works of the Reymert mine. The boiler now lies on tho des- ert miles below, and the other machin- cry is scattered along the course of the waters.
 The entire southern approach to the Gila river bridge at this place was car ried out by the flood, and the channel of the river was changed nearly two hundred feet south, leaving the main bridge structure upon dry sand bar.
 The prospects of a long interruption of communication with the outside world caused quite run upon the pro- vision stores in Florence this week and the entire four supply was soon ex- hausted There is, however, a large reserve held in Casa Grande which will be drawn npon and the danger of a bread famine is hardly probable unless a succession of disastrous floods follow, which is not likely.
 The late food took away the old sta ton house aud corrals at Riverside and closely approached the eatiTy house. The Globe mail was ferried across and brought down Wednesday, but no mail has since crossed the river in either direction. Ii is also stated that T. W. Bates house at Dudleyville, standing close to the Gila river, was washed away and although the latest reports say that Geo. F, Cooks store was still standing, it is believed the subsequent foode have carried it away
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07
Taxation High and Iov Valuation.
Graham County Bullvtin.l

Graham County Bulletin.l
 Taxation Is q necessary evil; without it the government would cease, and the poor and weak ones of this land would be speedily euslayed by the rich and strong. No man is excusable in trying to withhold his property from its just proportion of taxation; the more he has the more he should pay for the priyi- leges and protection he receives. This applies to all alike, and until every mar gives in fair and correct assessment list taxation will not be equalized as it should be.
 We are a believer in the principle of assessing property high and making the tax-rate correspondin&ly low, especial ly in countries needing immigration and capital; 1t makes a much better showing away from home, and is calcu- lated to attract those who are seeking homes and investments. It is far bet fer to have our property assessed at 5 000 900 with tax rate of Si.50 on the hundred. than to have the properly assessed at $1, 800, 900 with tax rate of S3 on the hundred. To the one the home-seeker says ''6ot no property end taxes are very high;' to the other he says: "A county possessing much wealth with low taxes" This is true, and candid men will not differ as to which is the better policy.
 The trouble, however, in this county, and the whole Territory, is not in the rate at which property is assessed, but lies in the fact that abont one-half of certain classes of property is never given in at all If all the assessable property in Arizona WAS on the assess ment rolls, we would not be stranded with debt already exceeding the 4per cent limit; our credit would be gilt edge, and our bonds and warrants sought for instead of being a drug on the market.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07
scsrow fer ,ar aead.

Sorrow for the dead is the only sor- row from which We refuse to be di- yorced. Every other wound We strive to heal, every other afiliction to forget but this wound we consider it n duty to keep open, this afiiction we cherish and brood over in solitude. Where IS the mother that would willingly forget the infant that perished like blossom from her arms, though every recollec- ton ia 8 pang? Where isthe child that would willingly forget the most tender of parents, though to remember is but to lament? Who, even ill the hour of agony, would fOrgel the friends over whom he mourns? Who, even when the tomb is closing upon the remains of her he most loved, and he feels his heart crushed, would accept consola- ton bought by forgetfulness? No; the love which survives the tomb is one of the noblest attributes of the soul. If it has its woes, it has likewise its de- lights; and when the overwhelming burst of grief Is caIlned into the gentle tear of ecollection-when the sudden anguish and the eonyulsiye agony over the present ruins of all that we most loved is softened away into pensive meditation on all that it was in the bright days of it's loyeliness, who would root ont such sorrow from the heart Washington Irving.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

And the Revised Statutes will, tho Governor assenting, hereafter sell for paltry quarter-eagle. 1t has been con- sidered wise to cut prices in this line of goods, seeing that there are now 1900 volumes lying in the Seeretary's office and the present Legislature, before it's term of office expires will have repealed everything "but the cover" It is ex- pected that the innate love of the pub lie for bargains, however, will soon rid the shelves of these remnants and make room for new and seas6nable goods. Still it is sad that Ben. Goodrichs bible" should be subjected to such deg relation as cut of 75 per cent under cost price. Republican.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

A gentleman stopped at Benson the other night and becoming weary and thirsty offered to wager small sum that he could take billiard bali into his mouth. He found man to bet with, and without much difficulty suc- ceeded in getting the ball in his mouth, but Co get it ont was a different propo- sition. The more he attempted it the more his jaws seemed to close together. For three hours he suffered and at last concluded to send to Tucson for assis- tance, which he dId, and in nine hours after he had taken the ball in it was taken out, but not until six of his lower teeth had been extracted Tombstone Prospectur.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

In every age there have been men who have been timid about submitting beliefs of traditions to the test of truth There is true form of conservatism, but this Is conservation in its weakest aspect. It is so much easier to defend the traditions upon which we were reared than..to examine the grounds upon which they rest; it is so much easier for some 10 sit encushioned ill easy self-complacency than to trouble their brains to examine, investigate, and see if these things be so.-Chris- tian Register.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

The ratification of the agreement be- tween tEe mining companies on the Comstock and the Tunnel Company, by which royalties on ore are materially reduced, is very important change for the better. It is stated that other ex- penses of tue mines will also be re- duced, and this, in connection with the resumption of deep mining, should bring this famous mining section to the front again and show some profit Mining and Scientific Press.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

The saltesf piece of water upon earth is, according to Consul Genaral Stew art the Lake of Urumin, in Persia, sit uated more than f, ,000 feet above the sea level It Is much saltcr than the Dead Sea, the water being found on analysis to contain nearly 9 per cent. of salt. The lake is S4 miles long and 2imiles broad and its northern coasts are incrusted with border of salt gilt tering white in the sun. Ii is said that no living thing can survive in 1t, except a very small species of jelly fsh. It is very shallow.
Arizona silver belt., 1891-03-07

The custom of treating is one of the most pernicious and foolish that ever cursed society, and it's abolishment, if 1t were practicable, would be one of the greatest of public boons. The GUS tom Is said to have originated in the primitive days Cf the Nation, when the settlers had to resort to the mutual help plan, and when the neighbors gathered for barn-raising or log-rolling the host set 'em up for the boys. and upon similar occasions the compliment was returned But, whatever its origin, 1t IS distinctly an American custom. In no other country do men stand up to a bar and buy drinks alternately for each other until both become "tired." Two thirds of the drinking done, two-thirds of the money spent for drink, two-thlrds of the resulting wretchedness, are due to the treating system. Men take drink after drink that they do not want, and spend money to pay for drinks for other people, oftentimes men they hardly know or perhaps dislike. There is no more hospitality or generosity in the American treating than there is ill the giving of an Indian who takes his present back. Every man keeps a mean little tab in his head on his fel- lows, and the score is kept even all around. Minneapolis Times.