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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23

other Of like character, which, fear
would take up too much time to del
scribe here In this way they ut them
selves to become expert hunters by the
time they become young men. In athl
letic sports these boys excel, and a roll
down hill is for them the greatest fun
They generally find very steep hils
well covered with snow, and seat them
selves on the ridge, thrust their heads
between their legs, pass their clinched
hands over their ankles, pressing their
legs as closely against their bodies as
possible Thus they really become
great balls covered with reindeer hair.
And then away they go on the down
hill race, suddenly spreading them
selves out at full length at the bottom Of
the hill An amusement that requires
a great deal of muscular strength is a
peculiar kind of short race on the hands
and feet, the legs and arms held perfect
~ rigid. 1t is quite exhausting, and they
generally cover but two or three yards
at a time. They have many similar
ways of racing to tougher the muscles
of both legs and feet.-Sunday School
Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Hazing Is Deprecated.

We are glad to give circulation to the
following, taken from the Indiana
School Journal. The note refers to a
late case of haZing at Purdue Universe
ty, school which stands very high
and in which coeducation ought to have
a better effect on the boys.
Indiana has been disgraced by case
Of haZing' at Purdue. 1t is not neces-
sary OF desirable to describe the par
ticulars of this incident in which sew
eral young men laid aside all their
manhood and decency and seriously
maltreated a fellow student. 1t is a
standing wonder that young men from
good homes and good influences, will
at times make fends Of themselves.
The faculty cannot be too highly COM
mended for it's course in the matter.
1t instituted a searching investigation
and the result was that seven of the Of
tenders were expelled. 1t is pity they
could not have been sent to the pen1-
Tertiary. 1t is gratifying to know that
this semi-savage custom is not common
in Western colleges and is gradually
dying out in the East. At the begin
mug Oh ILLS SCHOOL year the SluueulS u
Princeton held a public meeting and re-
solved to discontinue the practice. In
Vassar College the upper classes give
receptions to the freshmen members
and take pains to introduce them and
make them feel welcome. This Is in
accord with all the better instincts Of
human nature. Why should not men
follow this civilized example set them
by young women"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Smut in Corn.

No remedy or preventive for corn
smut is known, except the partial one
of destroying all smut masses when
seen, and thus checking the spread Of
the fungus. No method of efficiently
and economically applying fungicide
has been found The special difficulty
arises from the fact that corn smut, by
means of it's spores, unlike most of the
other smuts, may find entrance into
the corn plant and set UP the disease at
any stage of growth. The smut of oats
and wheat can only gain entrance into
the tissues of the host when the plants
are very young, barely above ground,
and infection comes almost entirely
from the spores sown with the seed
grain. There immunity is secured by
killing the smut spores on the seed
grain, before sowing. Not so with
corn. Even if the spores on the seed
corn are killed, yet any time after the
plants show above ground, until the ear
begins to ripen, smut spores blown
through the air may lodge on the plant
and start q smut growth on stalk, leaf,
tassel, or ear If any suitable fungicide
could be found it would not only have
to be applied to the seed corn before
planting, but to the plants at frequent
intervals for the whole season, In order
to be effective. The outlook for fun
gicidaI remedy for corn smut is there
fore not ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Ga
Zotte
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Taught the Boy a Lesson.

AS the tree is inclined so it's twigs will
be bent received a vivid illustration on
42d street recently. A middle-aged
woman was about to get on street
car when a schoolboy pushed her aside
and mounted the steps. He was almost
at the door, when his father, who was
apparently a well-to-do business man,
quietly and gently drew him BACK and
to one side, holding him there until the
lady had entered. Not word had been
said. The lady looked pleased, the boy
astonished, and the father satisfied with
this little lesson in courtesy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
An odd Ceremonial.

One of the queerest of all the queer
ceremonies kept alive in Japan is that
observed by the descendants of a ma
tive millionaire, its object being the
worship of old straw sandals. They
have a special reason for generating
CASTOR foot-gear of this description,
they being the origin of the rise of the
family from condition of obscurity
to its present opulent state. 1t seems
that the founder of the house was
petty tenant farmer, who was at one
time so poor that he succeeded only by
dint of the most arduous labor in max
ing ends meet. After several years of
a hand-to-mouth existence he began to
make straw sandals in the brief inter
walls of his work a-field. To the sur
prise of the neighbors, he made no at
tempt to sell the produce of his indus
try, but he kept on adding to the slowly
accommodating heap of sandals For
more than two years he spent every
spare moment in this manner, and
finally had so many sandals on hand
that he had no more room to store
them He then hired a couple of
junks, and loading them both with san
dals, set sail for Sado. On reaching
the island the snrewd man applied 10
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The Truth About Apple Pie.

A conundrum club had been started,
and everyone was expected to come
prepared with a number of good ones.
81 have one" said Anderson, with an
unfathomable look.
F'What is it," Queried the rest.
when is an apple pie?"
He stopped, and everyone gazed al
him, but said nothing.
"Well," said a man across the room,
Ego on. What did you stop for?'
go on? Where? What for?'' he
asked, as if bewildered.
''Why, go on with your conundrum.
when is an apple pie whatY
That's what 1 said,'' he replied.
''Well, we know that; but what is the
conundrum?'
when is an apple pie?"
"There isn't any sense in that; what's
the rest of it?''
There isn't any rest" persisted An
derson. when is an apple pie?"
when is an apple pie what?" yelled
the others.
''Who said an apple pie what?'
'fYou did"
81 didn't didn't say anything about
an apple pie"
''You did"
ST didn't
You did"
81 didn't
Then the whole assembly sat on An
derson, and when the police came in
and rescued him it took half an hour tc
explain that an apple was pie when fl
was closed up with sugar and crust and
things. like any other pastry.
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"Ne11ie, Carrie, Susie, Mamie"

The attack on the pet names of teach
ers is reacting, and they are finding de-
tenders all along the line. Eugene
Field makes this vigorous defence of
pet names: ''When an American calls
Ellen Nellie he obeys noble, manly in
stinct; he loves to regard his sister as a
little sister, his sweetheart as little
sweetheart and this tender and beau-
tiful sentiment he expresses when he
employs the diminutives Nellie, Carrie,
Susie, Mamie, etc. A powerful argu-
ment in favor of the custom is the fact
that the girls themselves approve it. Z
believe in and stand for everything that
shall show to the world that our girls,
our sweethearts, our wives and our
mothers are our pets and are pettad."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
LITTLE DANGER ON THE SEA.
1t Is Just About as Safe as Staying
On the Land.

1t Is just About as Safe as Staying
On the Land.
Nearly 7000OO,OO0 people carried on
American steamers during the last ifs
cal year, and only 255 lives lost, of
whom but SO were passengers, is the
prominent feature of the new annual re-
port Of Supervising Inspector General
Dumont Of steam vessel inspection ser
vice, says the Marine Journal. This is
a smaller mortality among the same
number of people, we have no doubt,
than if they had all stayed at home and
went regularly to bed, to say nothing of
travelling by rail. It proves again what
we have often remarked that travel by
American steamers, under the system
of inspection now enforced, is the safest
that could possibly be devised. Thirty
five of the ninety-six passengers above
referred to lost their lives in one dis
aster, the sinking of the tugboat James
D. Nicol off Sandy Hook, on a Sunday
in June last, and Gen. Dumont states
that this disaster was due solely to the
fact that the tug was being navigated
by person wholly inexperienced.
1t is further stated in the report that
of the nearly 1000 boilers inspected,
accidents causing the loss of life have
occurred to but fifteen of them, defects
in upward of 700 being detected and
remedied. Also, that of 10O,274 new
life-preservers examined, only sixty
four were found deficient. This state
ment shows that as great care is taken
in the inspection of equipments to pre-
vent disaster as in the machinery en-
ployed to run them and the men who
man them. In regard to the latter, no
less than thirty eight applicants for
masters and pilots licenses were re-
jected during the year on account of
color blindness, although 1,544 passed
the tests. All of which goes to show
that the travelling public and the steam
vessel fraternity as well have every rea-
son to repose full confidence in the in
spection system as at present managed.
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Power of Judgment.

More definite ends, rather than more
brilliant methods. are at a premium in
the best school work. Among these we
would emphasize the need of the power
of Judgment There are some who
think that this power must be born
with one, and it is spoken of as COM
mon sense, in such a way as to have 1T
understood that the Lord has bestowed
uncommon sense in large measure. Like
any other endowment, it is great gain
To its possessor; but the power is capa-
HE of great improvement, and the
school is largely responsible for its
training 1t is one of the exercises of
mental activity and perceptive habits
that should begin early and be devel-
oped daily through school life, in such
\ way as to project it into real life. In
all object work, in use of numbers, in
geography, in composition writing,
there are special opportunities for i'm
Droying this power.
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Notes.

Miss Helen Gladstone has written q
defense of university education for
an English publication.
Doctors in some of the large cities OBJ
iect to the practice of using free text
books in the schools, on the ground that
they are carriers of contagious diseases.
William Miller, a 13-year-o1d school.
boy of Indianapolis, committed suicide
recently by taking poison. He had fail
ed to pass his school examinations and
had read of the suicide few days be-
fore of a Cincinnati Schoolboy under
similar circumstances.
If you wish your pupil to make good
showing in the examinations, have h9m
commit the lessons to memory and re-
peat over and over again until it is i'm
possible for him to forget. But if you
want him to grow strong, arrange his
work so that he can do nothing without
depending upon his reasoning and I'M
Outstanding.
A new course Of study has been intro
| duced in the Elmira Female College, be-
| ing a systematic study of manners. The
| Council of Etiquette formed in the col
lege is made up of representatives from
| all the college classes, and to this coun-
| ell disputed points are submitted. It
| looks up authorities, considers weight
| of evidence pro and con, and finally de-
! cides according to the best standards.
At the opening of the Teachers Col
Iege in New York City, President Gil
man of Johns Hopkins University, said
/ that one national Parthenon-one build
ing or buildings which will be typical of
us as a nation-will be "a university -
! Gus typical achievement will be a sys-
tenn of popular instruction such as the
world has never yet seen, based upon
common schools and terminated in var
led, complex and beautiful opportuni-
ties for the acquisition and advance
ment of knowledge in every kingdom OF
nature, in every domain of man. This
will constitute an acropolis-at once &
shrine, an ornament and defense"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23

A library. of however small preten-
sfons in the school-roOm, is great
Measure to all teachers. 1t is within
the reach of all. Place desk in front,
at one side. as your reading-desk. For
the bookcase secure a small dry goods
box. BY placing cleats in the interior
on each side you can have as many
shelves as you see fit. Now cover the
top aud sides with some pretty wall
Daper. A small piece of bright figured
calico suspended from top by wire, VIII
form a protection to the books as Well
as add to the effect. Place on your
shelves any books of reference you may
possess. Get your pupils interested in
the school library and books may be
donated by their parents. Even though
they are of old publication they can be
used as reference books. The pupils
VIII take greater interest in the library
II some Of the books are brought in by
themselves.
Place your school journals and any
good reading matter on the reading
desk.
Very useful books can be made by
cutting cloth in book form and filing
the leaves with short historical and
biographical sketches, pictures of noted
persons. etc This material may be
cleaned from all classes of papers.
Get the pupils to cut such extracts from
papers as they find interesting and
bring 70 you to make such a book.
have language book of my own manu-
facture, composed of pictures for
stories, descriptions, etc, reproduction
stories short language exercises, etc.
These / have taken from old copies OF
3Efferent teachers journals, and find
1t quite an Improvement on the old
method of searching over back num-
hers to find such work. Any old book
will form the foundation for the Ian
guage book.
At some time during the term you will
wish to teach time-telling to your chill
dren. Very likely no timepiece will be
found in the school-room, with the eX-
ception of the teachers watch. This
cannot be used to much advantage
Take a large piece of paStebOard and
cut circle from it. On this mark the
hours and minutes in ink. The figures
need to be large so the whole class can
see them distinctly. \ match end
dipped in the ink will do famously for
the lettering. In the center cut rather
large hole and the hands should be put
in loosely. They will be best cut out
of tin and so arranged that the children
can move them from hour to hour
The timetable will, of course, be taught
in connection with the work, and this
forms good busy-work. After the sub
ject is understood by them draw clock
faces on their states, then on card
board.
Very useful and neat pointers can be
made from we'll formed and dried corn
stalks They will last a long While and
cost nothing. Place a small tack III
each and suspend by string, one on
each side of the blackboard, thus keep
ing them out of the chalk dust and pre-
venting noise from accidental knocking
TO the floor
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Fan Industrious Mole.

Desiring to learn just how much tun.
neling a mole can do in q known num-
Der of hours, we caught a good large
specimen, and Immediately turned II
loose in the middle of a five-acre field
of clover. The grass was so thin and
winterkilled that the ground was prac-
tically bare, but not loose like the soil
of a cultivated field. Five seconds after
the mole received it's freedom, it had
burrowed out of sight This may seem
past belief, but the fact is vouched for
by the official timekeeper Sticking a
stake at the starting point, we retired
and left the digger hard at work.
The start was made at IL a. M, and
the direction taken was eastward By
6 p. m. the mole had dug % feet in a
zigzag line, but keeping the same gen.
eral direction all the time, and without
digging any side-galleries. BY II a. m.
of the following day the tunnel had
been driven 81 feet farther, with nu.
merous sidegalleries, and 4 feet had
been added at the extremity, making
68 feet of the main line and 3615 feet OF
branches, or a total of 104115 feet of tun.
nels, dug in twenty-five hours. The bot
tom Of the tunnels ran very evenly
about inches below the surface. Some
times the hole was elliptical in shape.
measuring ~ inches in width by 9
inches in height, and sometimes-it was
triangular, measuring 2 inches each
way. The surface of the ground was
usually cracked, and raised about an
inch along the course of the tunnel .
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
He COULD DRESS IN A HURRY.
Only Somehow He Failed to Do 1t Up
on This ParficuIar Occasion

Only Somehow He Failed to Do 1t Up
on This Particular Occasion.
All through dinner Mrs. Bittersweet
had felt that something was coming, so
che was not surprised when, on leaving
the table, her husband remarked:
There's a theater party going into
town tonight, and tiff, mind you, You
can manage to dress in three-quarters
of an hour we will co.
"Of course l can; why
Yes; know you once made toilet
in twenty-eight minutes, but that was
to see runaway wedding and history
never
But are the men to wear full dress,
dear?''
'They are; but l don't see"
''Then | shall have to hurry, for I
must lay out your things and put the
studs in before I dress myself
Leave that to me, if you please;
think l wore full dress few times be-
fore ever saw you. Only don't keep
me waiting. Stay, will leave the tick
cts here on the table, and the one who
is ready in time shall start for the
train, leaving the other. You hear me-"
"Of course l do. You'll see who"
the rest was lost on the stairs.
''Say, Ethelberta," called a voice
from Mr.. Bittersweet's dressing-room. q
few moments later, eff you have given
my evening clothes to an object of char
ity, say so, and L"
why, no, Alciades; look on the
third peg Of
Don't stop to talk. I've found the
things without-humph only one shoe;
did you think 1 had only one leg to
stand on? or did you think | would
look nice in one blue velvet slipper and
one shoe?"
Your patent feathers are"
DO stop talking; that's the way you
women waste time; no wonder the men
are always~ready first"
"Alciades, shall wear my"
Wear the first thing you can find.
I'd like to know what idiot bought
these studs?''
you did, dear; you said they were
all right, only didn't know how To-
You'd better not lose any more time
talking. 1t is 7:15 now, and at 100 1
start"
Ten minutes later Mrs Bittersweet
called from the lower hall: "Are you
ready, dear? I am
There was a sound of a drawer being
banged and then her husband shouted:
''Well if you've worn all my white
ties, just say so, and I'll put on that lace
and velvet affair you wore at dinner"
''Your ties are in the usual place in
the upper drawer; shall get them?"
"Get nothing. You just be ready
when l say start-I don't intend to
watt
AT 80 Mrs Bittersweet opened the
front door and closed it softly on the
outside. The train was five minutes
late and she passed the time at the sta.
ton door watching for her belateu
spouse
As the train rolled out she heard q
mighty shout, and looking out of the
car window she saw Mr. Bittersweat
dancing about on the platform. Over
one arm he carried his overcoat, in the
other hand he was waving q pair of
cuffs as a signal to the departing train.
Then she sank back in her seat with
a sigh: "It was a hard lesson" she muir
INJURED, "but after this don't think Al
ciades will complain quite so much
when I keep him waiting few min
utes''
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HAS a Good Record.

Since the close of the war Harvard
University has more than quadrupled
its resources in the sum of its endow-
ments and the number of its teachers,
and it's list of students has increased i'll
something like the same proportion. The
libraries of the university include
about $4,000 volumes, an aggregate
surpassed in this country only by the IL
Nrary of Congress and the Boston Pub
lie Library. The need of highly differ
entiated instruction has become so
great that the university has been com
PEELED rapidly to increase the number
of its instructors until the list of last
year included the names of three hun
tired and twenty-five such persons, OF
about one teacher to each ten students
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Hard Things to Say.

Probably you will be going to many
bright party this happy season Of the
year. Now, perhaps you cannot sing,
or play, or recite, but you would like to
do something to add to the general en-,
joyment. If so, just learn these funny
sentences which follow, so as to be able
to repeat any one of them six times in
succession rapidly. By asking your
young friends to do the same, should
there be pause in the games, much fun
may be obtained. Here are the SEN
fences:
Six thick thistle sticks.
Flesh of freshly fried flying fish.
Two toads, totally tired, tried to trot
to Tedbury.
The sea ceaseth, but it sufficeth us.
Give Grimes Jim's great gilt gig whip.
Strict, strong Stephen Stringer snar-
ed Sticky six sickly, silky snakes.
She stood at the door of Mrs. Smiths
fsh-sauce shop welcoming him in.
Swan swan over the sea; swim, swan,
swim; swan swan back again; well
swan swan.
A haddock, paddock, black spot
ted haddock, black spot on the black
back of black spotted paddock.
Susan shineth shoes and socks, socks
and shoes shineth Susan. She ceaseth
shining shoes and socks. for socks and
shoes shock Susan.
You all know the tongue twister Pc
ter Piper, but there are many other jim
giles which are harder. One of the ST n
plest and best, or worst, is linked bis
cults" Try saying that rapidly, and If
you succeed, say this, a sentence which
Londoners frequently have to use:
''Stop at the shop at the top of Sloane
street"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
The Sale of Pins.

A curious fact in the history of pins
Is that when they were first sold there
was such a demand for them that a
code was passed permitting their sale
only on two days in the year. :.
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Hin+s for Country Teachers.

A n Y teachers in
rural districts find
that they m Il 5 t
either get along
without extra APP
p a "a t u S in the
the schOol-room or
supply it them
selves. To such,
perhaps, the fol
lowing hints, Civ
en- by a writer in
the Norman In-
structor, may he
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Object TO saFads.n

The Introduction of instruction in
sowing into the schools of Chicago is
meeting with considerable opposition
from both parents and teachers. The
Intention was originally tG give lessons
10 those who desired it, on Saturdays,
when it would not conflict with the reg
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
EDUCATIONALCOLUMN
NOTES ABOUT SCHOOLS AND
THEIR MANAGEMENT.

The Ingenious District Teacher Can
often Invent inexpensive Apparatus
Chicago Parents and Teachers OBJ
iact to "Fads''-Hazing Deprecated.
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Three Little Owls.
ls41

Three little owls sat on branch
With large, round eyes,
Very solemn, very still,
Very grave and wise.
Or the stars pale light?
That they stare with large, round eyes,
Out into the night?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
The Baniak,s voice.

Said the While to the Banjak: 'Sir,
wish that you would tell,
Whatever in the world it is that makes
you sing so well?'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-23
Presidential Obstacles.

Teacher Willie, didn't tell you the
other day that only good little boys
ever became Presidents?
Willie-Yes, an if you hit me that