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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

so much higher and rougher that the
wayfayer, or he who's a-horseback
or in vehicle, will be glad to take the
side he now despises. The teamster
with a thousand of brick viii help to
make one or t'other of these sides
smooth before fall. If not, the COM
minuting and pulverizing qualities Of
Jack Frost, or good covering of snow,
may fix things before next spring.
Now such horrid slipshod business is
not at all characteristic of this farmer
on the farm. Ifyou go and look, you will
find that he has all the latest improved
farm machinery, good horses, blooded
cattle and sheep, and is in general a
rather eso-ahead sort of a man-al-
ways excepting that awful road in
front of his place. When he ''gets
around to it, am sure he will see that
this cry for good roads is not all in the
interest of those bicycle people. Any
how, what is the matter with the agri-
culturist getting a wheel for himself?
Once a Week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
vENT1LATING COVER FOR MILK PALS.

VENTILATING COVER FOR MILK PALS.
shapes and sizes to fit differe Mt vessels
used The invention is urged as par
ticularly applicable for use in dairies
for covering pans containing milk or
utensils from which customers are
served.
The arrangement represented by Fig.
1 consists of a wood or metal rim of
such size and shape as to fit closely
upon the top of the pan, and over this
frame is stretched a covering of wire
gauze, or other suitable material capa.
bic Of keeping out flies and dust with
out retarding proper ventilation or &C
cess of air to the contents In the
center of the cover or frame is fixed
second rim, forming an opening
through which the milk may be served
and which, when not In use for that
purpose, may be closed by hinged
lid. The idea is applicable to pitchers,
bowls, jam pots and all like vessels.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
PREPARING FOR WINTER.
Food Is the Real Source of the Flavor
Dairy Products.

Food Is the Real Source of the Flavor OF
Dairy Products.
The dairyman who wants good but
ter next winter should not miss to
grow bountiful crop of carrots and
parsnips. says the New York Times
The excellence of the Jersey cows is
unquestionably due TO the parsnips
which are fed to them, and for which
the soil and climate of the Channel
islands are so we'll adapted. These
roots are wholly free from any objec-
tionable quality, and confer a sweet
ness and aromatic flavor on the butter
which are gained by no other food.
1t is as reasonable to believe that
the food is the source of the flavor of
the butter as it is that of the flavor of
the flesh of an animal And this, not
withstanding the avowed belief of a
number of scientific persons-or per-
sons who claim to be scientific-to the
contrary. 1t is alleged by these per-
sons that it is the individuality of the
cow that gives the flavor to the butter.
Common people know better, and
no amount of scientific allegation
will make them believe that when
cow eats garlic in the pas
ture or cabbages or turnips in the
stable, it is the individuality of the an
imal and not the strongly favored food
that contributes the special taste and
color to the milk and butter. And so
it is the food to which the Jersey cow
has been used for hundreds of years,
and by which the milk and butter
have been gradually increased until
the large product from the food and
the ability to consume a large quantity
of the richest food have been fixed on
the race and have become an essential
characteristic of it. It is true that the
Jersey COW possesses an individuality
of her own, but this is a consequence
and not an intrinsic natural ability; it
is not an active, but passive, charac-
teristic, and nothing more nor less
than result of long training and edu-
cation, fixed by breeding. Any other
COW has the same possibility if the
same means are taken to form it and
perpetuate the distinct character. And
every dairyman should SO manage his
herd as to develop and fix this inn
proved condition.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
NOTES FOR DAIRY MEN.

NEVER keep cream in damp cellar.
If you do it will rot.
If the butter is bitter, it is likely the
cows are eating weeds.
IF there is rag-weed in the pastures,
look out for bitter butter.
IT is claimed that skim milk for feed
ing calves is worth 20 cents per 100
pounds.
As rule it is better to sell butter as
fast as it is made. Make good article
and let her go.
IF butter is kept in jars, the jars
should be glazed, as unglazed jars are
porous and admit air.
SWEET cream sho uld be churned at !:
lower temperature than sour cream.
About so degrees is proper. er.-Farmers
Voice
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
CONCERNING the First Caif.

When heifer is as good as three
years old, before her first calf is
dropped, and the sire is a well-bred
and fullymatured animal, the calf is
not to be despised, but in the. case of a
two-year-o heifer the situation is al.
together altered, and only under ex-
ceptional circumstances should her first
calf be reared. Such an animal, as a
rule, lacks size and constitution, and
in nine cases out Of every ten is sadly
deficient in flesh and hair. It's desti-
nation should, therefore, be the sham
bles, and when it is well fattened its
mother pays her way better than is
possible under any other system. IN.
Y. World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
FOR FEEDING CALVES.
Contrivance That Saves Considerable
Time Well as Feed.

Contrivance That Saves Considerable
Time Well Feed.
A trough fastened into pen is not
desirabl for feeding calves, as it can.
not be as thoroughly scalded out as it
should be. Moreover, pouring milk
into any receptacle in pen in which
there is calf is a hazardous business,
the operation usually resulting in
spilled milk. An arrangement with a
feeding pail is shown in the illustra.
tion. The back board is hinged to the
front of the pen on the side marked a.
The pail can thus be set into the
holder on the outside of the pen and
the holder swung a quarter of the way
round and hooked, thus bringing the
pail inside the pen. When removed a
button keeps the calf from getting his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
FARM AND GARDEN.
wDE-TIRED WAGONS.

Conditions in Which They Can Always Be
Used to Advantage.
A prominent manufacturing concern
has instituted series of experiments
lately to find out the conditions under
which the broad and narrow-tired
wheels could be used to advantage In
the experiment to ascertain the differ
ence in draft between wide and mar
row tire upon grass sod, the figures
arrived at were:
Weight of wagon and load d.......4, $50 pounds
Draft to start load with 1h-inch
tire, cutting into sod Ia inches
deep. .....................1,25O ,25O pounds
Draft to move at dead pull ....... $50 pounds
Draft to start same load on good,
hard roads. NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. $50 pounds
Draft to draw load on good, hard
roads ...................... $50 pounds
Draft with tire inches wide
same sod d.............. 1900 pounds
Draft to move load at dead pull
same SOD ....-........... 55J pounds
Draft to start load with 3-inch tire
on hard roads. ............... 700 pounds
Draft to move at dead pull on
hard roads Observation-Disclosures. $50 pounds
Draft at dead pull on hard pave
ment.. 125 pounds
Another experiment was with four
inch and MISUNDERSTANDING tires
respectively on block pavement, good,
hard, sandy road, good, level, gravel
road, and in each soft and deep mud.
The conclusions arrived at by the
committee were:
l. On hard roads. block pavements
and other permanent and substantial
roads, there is no argument, so far as
actual draft is concerned, in favor of
the wide tired, the effect being rather
against the wide tire.
2. In their effect upon hard roads,
the wide tire have the advantage, and
that this benefit is not sufficiently ap-
preciated by turnpike and macadam
road companies.
3. In soft mud, slush, and under sim
liar circumstances, under which even
the wide tire cuts in, the advantage is
against the wide tire and in favor of
the narrow
4. On soft sod and soft ground,
where the wide tire does not cut in,
and the narrow does, the advantage is
on the side of the wide tire.
s. In loading a team, draft of $50
pounds steadily applied is as much as
should be expected for days work,
and that on soft sod this may mean,
when a dead pull has to be taken, an
increase in the draft of 1000 pounds.
6. The difference in the latter case
between the regular draft of $50 pounds
and the increase of 1000 pounds is
equivalent to an addition of 1850
pounds to the load.
7. Or, in other words, the draft OF
the load being $50 pourds may be con
sidered as equivalent to load of 498C
pounds, and the difference from the
steady draft of the load in fair mo-
ton, and that of the same load started
at dead pull, is equivalent to doub-
ling the load
The committee closed their report
with: I'VE advocate wide tire for
farms, and narrow tire for good roads
and pavements."
Experiments at the Utah experiment
station demonstrated that a given
load on 1111inch tire drew Al. 6 per cent.
heavier than when on 3-inch tire,
the draft being on fairly stiff grass
sod; on moist but hard road the ~
inch tire drew 1877 per cent. heavier
than the 3-inch.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

tics of the bathers. The boys are as
pranl1y and as cranky here as they are
anywhere else. The officer in charge
is an Irishman and his wits are kept
busy by the boys. Thev must all reg
ister their names and satisfy the officer
of their age, before they can go in
swimming. Some of the little boys
boldly lie about their ages, some of
them claiming to be seventeen or eight
cen years old, when they are but ten or
twelve. The officer manages them
good-naturedlv and they all like him.
He says: II would rather support and
raise family of seventy than to look
after those boys; but I'm detailed for
this work and must do it. The boys
are regular water rats and it is only by
the greatest diligence that l am able
to keep them from being in the water
all the time. They will stay in until
they are blue in the face, hurriedly
yank on their clothes while they are
wet and run over to the monument,
where some one is always playing base
ball. They will perhaps be gone about
half an hour or just long enough to get
warm and then come sneaking back. If
| remember their faces as having been
in before l make some inquiries, but
have never yet been able to get an ac-
acknowledgement from any of them that
they have been in the water. They al
ways appear to be highly indignant at
even the suggestion of such a thing,
and invariably say: why, what's the
matter with you? 1 amt been in the
water this year Deed, you must mis-
fr1T al T
brother Jim must have been down here
He looks heap like me and he told me
he was coming down to the beach,
To man who either can't swim or
don't want to swim, it is very interest
ing to look at the motley sizes and
shapes of humanity parading the beach,
going down into the water and coming
up out of the water. There are fat
men and fat women, and lean men, but
no lanky women. The shadow girl
never sheds her laces and fluffy gar
ments to appear in bathing suit. She
is a sweet summer girl for the parlOr Of
the ice cream saloon; and she does not
exhibit her scrawniness to cold, cruel
and unsympathetic world. Some WON
en- at the beach are disgustingly fat,
and yet they have no guardians to
teach them that they would better
adorn their homes than parade the
bathing beach. where the moonlight
casts their shadows SO faithfully on the
sands that they look like giant turtles
wobbling along.
The men and women who can swim
have many games to play in the water.
There are two alright barrels anchored
a short distance from the shore which
afford the most amusement. Two or
three people will get on them and then
with the kindly assistance of some one
will be turned over so that somersault
is made. The spectators will wait for
the coming up and, according to the
distress of the swimmer and the amount
of water he has to get out of his
mouth before he can take breath or
speak word is the success of the
sport. The boys and young men try to
''duc1" each other occasionally, but
there is rigid rule against that sport.
Some fellows imagine that it is great
fun to push a friends head under wa
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y
ter and nolu it there q couple of min
utes. But there was a drowning case
last year, the result of such ''sport, y
and the young people are carefully
watched now to prevent further trouble
of that kind.
Some OF the most venturesome OF our
swimmers are young ladies who have
recently learned how to keep them
selves afoat. It is weakness of our
sisters that, where there is a man in
sight to be captivated. they will take
great risks to demonstrate their brav-
cry, which is another name for fool
hardness. They look very pretty
floating on the waters surface. near
the shore, but they excite alarm when
they venture beyond their depth. A
stalwart life-saver swan out to a
venturesome girl the other night and
warned her to go nearer shore, as she
was in danger of getting cramps and
drowning. She .saucily told him to
mind his own business. Thereupon the
life-saver told the young lady that he
would kiss her right then and there,
and started for her with swift strokes.
the girl screamed and hastily swan to
shore where she Indignantly told her
friends that she had been insulted and
demanded that the life-saver be dis
charged. The superintendent, how
ever, replied: Il am only sorry that he
not kiss you. I am sure that he will
next time. But I think you will be
inclined to obey regulations hereafter,
without being threatened with such
dire disaster as a kiss - f.
SMITH D. FRx.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
AGRICULTURALHINTS.
HERE'S A GOOD IDEA.
Get Farmers to Ride Wheels and the Road
Question Is Settled.


Question Is Settled.
1t is a typical American scene: The
harvest time that is now under full
headway in most of the states of the
union has its spare moments for the
thrifty farmer, though it is very busy
season. But even in these spare mo-
ments the agriculturist is busy with
his thoughts. The roadmaking is over
for now" On one side of this primi
tive highway great, rough ridges of
sod and clay have been plowed out of
the bottom of the roadside ditch and
scraped up to make the road. The
farmers cattle often coming home that
way know better than to walk in
these heaps while the other side of the
road is smooth. So does the country
swain riding home from meeting or
countryside dance with his best girl.
So does everybody. How, then, are
those rough ways to be made plain?
But just wait. The farmer looks in
nocent enough; and to judge by his
roadmaking, you wouldn't think he
knew much. These teamsters and the
general public may think they can
travel these highways for nothing, and
that they have what city folks call a
''cinch" on the downtrodden son of the
soil. As soon as harvest time is over that
other side of the road will be heaped up
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
scab Unknown in Australla.

In Australia the scab in sheep has
been absolutely wiped out by the per-
sistent use of hot baths of sulphur and
tobacco, followed by one of sulphur
and quicklime at temperature of 11o
degrees. However sound the apparent
condition of any imported sheep. down
it must go into this bath. There is no
more scab in that country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
THE POTOMAC BEACH.
1T Is at Last Becoming a Really
Popular Resort.
~rhe District officials Provide Lfc-Savers
and Other Necessary Conveniences
AS Fine Bathing Place as
There lis In America.
Special washington Letter.

Our boys are not being drowned in
such numbers nowadays as they have
been in summers past at the Potomac
Bathing beach. The beach is carefully
patrolIcd and the life-savers are always
Dc duty. They are brave, competent
fellows.
When the tide comes in the Potomac
water is brackish, so that our poor peo-
pie who cannot go to the coast resorts
and buffet the breakers of the relent-
less mighty ocean can nevertheleH"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17
MILK JAR covERs.

A New Device Which Is VentiIatOr of
Unusual Merit.
A ventilating yet freproof cover for
dishes containing edibles has been in
vented by an Englishman and shown
in recent number of the London In
vention. The patent consists princi.
pally of frame work made in various
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

THE great enemy of the currant is
the currant worm, but with care to
spray in good season it is easy to keep
it in subsection. Mulehing is bene-
fetal to cnrrants, and they do best IL
rich soil
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

THE separator ought to Se in every
dairy where there are dozen 2zssclass
COWS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-08-17

Rory cream is the result of an inn
perfect physical condition of the COWS.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-11
THEY ARE EARNEST.
The Ministers of Dallas Ask that
the Legislature be Called in Extra
Session if Necessary to Stop the
Prize Fight

Dallas, Texas, June 10.-The Dallas
Pastors Association met in the Young
..s..--.- ..saJc4aLIUu DulIulns
at II o'elck this morning with Rev. e.
L. Spraggins in the chair. The regu-
lar business was set aside and the Cor
bett fight taken up. Rev e. L. Sprag-
gins. of the Methodist Church, intro
duced the following resolutions:
Whereas, We learn with shame ana
sorrow that it is proposed to hold in our
midst a contest between two noted pu-
gilists; and
Whereas. Such contests are brutal
izing in an unspeakable degree; and
Whereas. Such a contest will concen-
trate in our midst a horde OF gamblers,
thieves. pick-pockets, thugs and har-
lois whose presence even scattered
tbroughout the country is perpetual
menace of the welfare of the commun-
itv. and when concentrated here, would
debauch our city and State IN an un-
limited degree; and
Whereas. We have the fullest conf
dence in the integrity, and aDlilty OF
onr chief executive, Governof Culber-
CON CON there is some doubt as to the ade-
ouacy of the statutes to enable state
authorities to effectually int9rpose TO
prevent the besmirching Of the fair
name Of our city and State in the eyes
Of the civilized world in this matter;
resolved. That We express our most
emphatic disapproval and aohorrence
If sncb an outrageous abominaton, and
Resolved. That We call upon the At
+orrev General of the State for an
opinion cTl n as to the power given in our
Tvs. I57rs to the executive in the prem
ST They then ask the Governor if he
ends the law inadequate to call an eX-
ira t-.e session Of the legislature TO pro-
hibit the fight. . ,ou
,,-a- ~ olmost to a man say the fight viii
come oil here as per arrangements.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-11
THE NEW WOMAN,
Compared to Portia, by a Philadel-
phia Divine---The Bicycle Girl and
Others.

Philadelphia, Pa, June 1O-The
New Woman" was compared to
Shakespeare's Portia at the meeting Of
the Presbyterian Ministerial Associa-
ton to-day. The contrast was drawn
by the Rev. VIM. T. Wiley, pastor of
the Second Reform Church, of this city,
who read a paper on A Study Of the
Merchant of Venice
"POrtia.' said he may be taken as
a representative type of woman at her
best. and how far she is removed from
the ideal woman much lauded in GER
tain quarters, you can judge for your
selves.
"It does not follow that there should
be no progress or only stereOtyped
editions of what has gone before. That
is not necessary. The feminine polit-
ical reformer. the temperance orator,
with the divided skirt, the mannlsh
woman with the tailOr-made suit, the
gum-chewing, bicycle rider, kicking
up her heels down Broad street on a
Sabbath morning between 10 and IL
o'clock is not a thing Of beauty is
joy forever.
'The imitation of POrtia by the mod
ern counterpart would probably be a
COPY of the vices rather than the VIZ
tues. as most limitations are. But we
may believe that wherever woman
leaves OF the bad man begins
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-11
OHIO MINERS ACCEPT.
a Majority of 74O for the 51-Cent
Rate.

Rate.
Columbus, O., June 10.-The vote or
the Ohio miners as to whether they
would accept or reject the proposition
of the operators to pay 81 cents for
screened coal per ton for mining re-
suited: For acceptance, 5051; against,
4,351; majority, 740.
The State miners officials say in
their circular to-day to the miners Of
Ohio: You will thus see that the pro
visiOnal agreement, made between the
operators and your delegates on June l,
1895, has been ratified and accepted by
the popular vote of the district. This
makes the agreement valid. Locals will
govern themselves accordingly. and
will resume work under the provisions
of said agreement.
1T must be borne in mind that, dis
tasteful as the terms of this agreement
are, we have hopes Of its being only
temporary. 1t is only binding in so far
as the circumstances continue which
forced its acceptance. In those circum-
stances change, which We are in hope
of, we expect that better terms will be
within our probabilities ere long"
Secretary McBryde, of the National
Association, says the Ohio miners acted
wisely in accepting the offer of the Op-
orators, and if the Pittsburg miners
will do as well they will be in posi-
ton to take an advanced step by the
time the fall trade opens.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1895-06-11
THE STORY OUT.
How W. H. Chapel Met His Death
at the Home Of James Ish--ISh was
Looking when Chapel Kissed His
Wife.

Omaha, Neb., June 10.-The mystery
surrounding the murder of w. II. Chap
pei, a machine agent, at the residence
of James Ish, last night, has been
solved, and Ish and his wife are in Jail
for the crime.
The husband suspected Chappell of
intimacy with Mrs. Ish, and secreted
himself in the house and shot Chappell
while he was in the act of kissing Mrs.
Ish. He has confessed the crime His
wife declared last night that she did
the shooting, believing that she could
escape punishment easier than her
husband.
When Mrs. Ish was informed that
her husband had confessed to having
killed Chappell, she broke down COM
pletey and said to Police MatrOn Cum
mings:
why did he tell this? It is true that
Jimmy fired the shots. We had fixed
up the story and agreed that we would
swear that l fired all of the shots. We
thought that l could get out of it bet
ter than he"
When Chappell came to his house os-
tensibly to fix the sewing machine Ish
was satisfied that he had come to meet
Mrs. Ish criminally.
Afterwards, when Ish left to go down.
stairs, he went only part way, return
ing Immediately to see if Chappell
would attempt familiarities with the
woman. Looking into the room, he
having armed himself with his revol-
yer. he saw the man attempting to
kiss Mrs. Ish He fired, the shot TAX
ing effect in the back of Chappers
head. Chappell attempted to use his
own revolver, but the shots went wild.
Mrs. Ish ran to the kitchen and ex-
citedly told the first conner that she
had killed the man for assaulting her
and on her prayer to save her name.
Ish corrobborated the story.