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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06
THEIR LIFE \ SAD ONE.

PitiabIe Condition of Thousands of
Labrador Fishermen.
An investigation recently conducted
into the condition of the fishermen of
the inhospitable coast of Labrador re-
veals state of things pitiable in the
extreme. During three or four months
of the fishery season each year $4,000
Newfoundland fishermen, With their
wives and children, make the coast
their home and live there in misery,
practically without civil, medical or
spiritual guidance" The fishermen
and their families, says the report,
must take this voyage to Labrador or
they will starve, and if there are not
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06
Test of the Teacher.

The test of the teacher is efficiency.
Not the showing he is able to make in
an examination. but the final result he
can produce in the character of those
who come from under his hand This
efficiency is not the sort that can &c
counted upon always to work an in
crease of salary. But to leave a last
ing mark on the mind and character of
a pupil is the unmistakable sign of the
real teacher And the source Of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

glass. Another feature is the two clos
cts, one on each end of the dresser top,
where ladies' and gentlemen's hats can,
be kept The fancy toilet set which
is used on this dresser is made of fine
butchers linen worked in violets, which
is the fashionable craze at present. The
toilet articles are of Dresden china.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06
Old Times VS.. To-day.

The Maine schoolboy who hanged
himself because his teacher scolded him
The ola way was to put tac&s in the
teachers chair or to lay for Linn be-
hind a woodpile with q half dozen
water-soaked snowballs when he went
home from school at night Boston
Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

A curiosity arrived in Baltimore on a
ship just from Hong Kong. 1t was 4
Chow" dog-said to be the kind the
Chinese raise to be eaten.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

this power lies not in the teach
er's requirements, but deeper in
the very fiber of his character.
words have weight when there is a
man behind them," said the prophet Of
Concord. 1t is the man or woman be-
hind the instruction that makes the
real teacher a great deal more than
mere Observation-Disclosures Eggleston.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06
NOTES ON EDUCATION.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO PU-
Pill AND TEACHER.

How the Voice of the Teacher May
Provoke Schoo1room Disorder and
Disobedience-State Uniformity in
Text Books Not Always Desirable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

Birds are covered with feathers be-
cause these combine the highest degree
CT warmth with the least weight
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

Money would be more enjoyable if If
took people as long to spend 1t as II
does to earn It.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

Praise a man, and somebody will tell
you something "on'' him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

How much plumbers kit resembles
a burglars kit OF tools.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06
KANSAS RAILROADING.
Santa Fe Earnings.

The earnings of the Atchison system
proper. excluding all lines given below,
were the for second week of March $541,-
814, an increase of 1861; for the
month to date, $1,073,239 an increase
of $39,280.
The earnings of the st. Louis & San
Francisco were for the week $109, 900, a
decrease of 1884; for the month to
date they were $224,672, a decrease of
Sc, $50.
The earnings of the Colorado Midland
were for the week $29, 500, an increase
of 4,091 for the month to date, $780,
052, an increase Of 1922.
The net earnings Of the Atchison sys-
tenn, all lines, were for the week S753,
1913, an increase of $21,986; for the
month to date, $1,421, 900 an increase of
$42,957.
All the earnings given are approx
mated gross earnings.
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Weir City is working to get the \
K. & T. extended to that place.

Weir OlLy IS WOTKIng 60 got JIG III
K. & T. extended to that place.
Capital: Quite a number of the
Santa Fe engines, which formerly were
brought to the shops at Topeka are
now being sent to Fort Madison, Iowa,
for repairs. Within the past week sew
eral have been taken to Fort Madison
from here.
Topeka Mail: Miss Fannie Nesbitt,
night operator at the Union Pacific
depot, has received a handsome gold
medal from her fellow operators IN ap-
probation of her services in refusing TO
be held up by robber at Bonner
Springer last fail.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-06

go through an elaborated logical proc
ess of mind in order to free ourselves
from the prejudice SO engendered-
fortunate if we can succeed in our en-
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21

Among the different investigators
of the horticultural department of the
state university, under the charge ct
Prof. w. R. Lazenby, has been the
testing of farm and garden seeds to as
certain their purity and vitality.
At different times during the past
ten years many hundreds of tests have
been made, and the results have been
equally interesting and profitable.
First, as to method. The three es-
sential conditions for testing the vital
ity of seeds are, access of air, an abund-
ance of moisture, and a certain degree
of heat. 1t is the free oxygen of the
air that is requisi e, and the supply OF
of this element usually regulates itself.
The oxygen comb chemically with
the substance of the seed and is just as
essential throughout termination as it
is throughout the future growth of the
plant.
Water or moisture is the important
factor in testing seeds. In a general
way it may be stated that the amount
of water required is just what the seed
will absorb. This varies within wide
limits, depending upon the percentage
of water already present, and the
character of the albumen. The best
temperature for termination varies
considerably in different species.
While variations in temperature eX-
ercise less influence than variations in
moisture, it is important that the eN-
tremes of temperature should not be
lat, bo I'M hnl n
which termination will not take place,
and the maximum above which it will
not take place, there is an optimum or
best temperature.
In vitality tests that temperature is
regarded as best at which termination
begins most speedily. In order to Sc
cure the above mentioned conditions or
requisites many different methods Of
seed testing have been adopted. All
good appliances fer this work are
constructed upon the principle that
proper amount of moisture, an equable
temperature, and good ventilation are
necessary.
The apparatus which has given Us
the best satisfaction consists OF
small hemispherical copper boiler
l2 inches in diameter and inches deep,
fastened to the bottom of galvanized
iron pan 4 feet long, 9 feet wide, and
5 inches deep. The water passes from
the copper boiler into the pan above,
through four small holes. and is made
to circulate over every part of it by
guides like those in an eyaporating
pan. These guides make channels
about ] inch deep and inches wide.
and over them is another bottom firm
ly soldered around the edges. Through
this bottom a tube passes for fliing
the boiler and bottom pan. AS the
water in the copper boiler is heated it
circulates freely and is conducted by &
return tube back to the boiler.
The. heat is furnished by a large
kerosene lamp, small oil-stove, or
gas jet from a Bunsen burner The
boiler, pan, and heating apparatus are
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21
MARvAL0US RESULTS

From a letter written by Rev.
J. Gunderman, of DiamondaIe
Mich, we are permitted to make
this extract: 81 have no hesitation
in recommending DIR. Kings New
Discovery, as the result were al
most marvellous in the case of my
wife. While | was pastor of the
Baptist Church al Rives Junction.
she was brought down with Pneu-
mona succeeding La Grippe. Ter
rible paroXysms of coughing
wonId last hours with little inter
ruption and it seemed as if she
could not survive them. A friend
recommended DR. Kings New
Discovery; it was qnick in its
work and highly satisfactory In
Its results" Trial Bottle free at
+ Hariington's Drug Store
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enclosed in n boy-l.ke frame about -four
sliding ventilators at the sides.
The sand. muck. loan, or other ma
terial in which seeds are to be placed
is put either in the upper part of the
large pan, or for convenience in
making observations and removing
germinated seed, it is placed in small
galvanized iron pans ~ inches long,
inches wide and n inches deep.
The seeds are simply pressed into the
soil so that the uroer part of each seed
is on a level with the surface.
The soil is kept near the point OF
uration, and the air being continu.
ously moist the effect is about the same
as if the seeds were covered.
IL making vitality tests, n represen-
tative sample of 100 seeds is usually
taken.
The seeds are said to have germinatr
ed when the radicle has pushed
through the pericarp and ruptured the
root sheath. 1t is well to bear in mind,
hawever, that there are two quite dis
tinct stages in complete termination:
First, that marked by the appearance
of the first rootlet, and second, the ap-
pearance OF the plumule and the de-
velopment of the crabryo into an inde-
pendent plant.
One of the first points of interest in
testing the vitality of air dry seeds is
the rapid increase in weight and vol
ume from the absorption of water.
In four hours after placing some dry
peas in the tester they increased over
Is per cent. in weight and so per cent.
in volume, and at the time of germina-
tion-36 hours the gain in weight
was 1O3 per cent. and the gain IN volume
154 per cent.
The average of eight samples of air.
dried field corn shows the following
rate and amount of absorption during
the process of termination: End of the
first hour, 9.59 per cent; end of second
hour, Ills per cent; end of sixth hour,
1871 per cent; end of twelfth hour,
2s SO per cent; end of eighteenth hour;
80. O5 per cept; end of twenty-fourth
hour, 3S.TT per cent.
The rapidity with which the process
of termination takes place, while de-
pending mainly upon the vitality of
the seed, is affected very materially by
temperature. The higher the temper
ature within certain limits not yet
clearly defined. the more rapid the
termination.
we have terminated corn at an aver
age temperature of AZ degree, but it
required ten days to do it. On the
other hand at temperature of 90 de-
grees the same seed germinated in 1s
hours.
In 1,4OO vitality tests of seed corn,
the average time till the first germina.
ton in 100 kernels, was e014 hours, the
extremes being minimum of 13 and a
maximum of 144 hours.
With radish seed of fair average vi
tality, the first termination frequently
occurred in 12 hours, the average time
being about 16 hours. With cabbage
seed the first termination sometimes
occurred in Is hours, the average time
being IS.
Two hundred and twenty-five vitality
tests were made of wheat, embracing
100 varieties. In these tests the mini
mum time till the first seed germjn-
ated was Is hours; the maximum time
e5 hours, average 17.6 hours. The
minimum time at which one-half ger
minated was is hours, maximum time,
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21

During the spring of lS93 timothy
held on the Ohio State university farm,
columbus, was plo.ved for corn. This
neld was divided into three series Of
seven plats each, tie plats being eight
rows wide and twenty-five rods long.
One plat of each series was treated
alike. the object of the experiments be-
ing. primarily, to discover less expen-
sive methods of cultivation and, sec
ondarily. TO compare deep and shallow
cultivation OF corn. One plat of each
series was mulched. The object was
~ see if the principal advantages of
cultivation We're not the saving of the
moisture. that the weeds would other
wise take. rather than the mere stirring
Pf the soil.
The following table gives the kind of
culture. the depth of culture, the yield
of stover and the bushel, of corn per
acre for the season of 1894 and the av-
erage Yields for 1893 and 1891:
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j. O. TIPTON

Will sell -four for 50 per Dbl. & up.
Good rice at cents per pound.
Good raishis al cents per 10.
Good crackers at 5 cents per lb.
Dried plums cents per lb,
Coffee A sugar 81 III. for 81.
Granulated 30 lb for Sl.OO
As we'll as all other goods at the
very lowest price.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21

The mulch of coarse, strawy manure
was applied the last week of June
when the corn stood from ten to fif-
1een inches high.
In 1899 the mulch was heavy enough
TO prevent. in large measure, the
growth of weeds, and the best yield
was obtained from the mulched plats.
In 1894 the mulch was lighter and the
weeds were not prevented from grow
ing, SO that while the early growth of
the corn was much larger than from
the others as shown by the excess of
stover. the yield of grain was much
reduced. The yield was also doubtless
modified by the fact that the mulch of
last year was plowed under, while the
other plats had no such manning.
The fact, however. that those plats
which were only narrowed once and
not otherwise cultivated also became
quite weedy and the yield was con-
hidera bly, reduced, would seem to indi-
cate that the reduced yield was chiefly
uue to the growth o. weeds.
All the cultivated plats were har-
rowed at first with tie Gould harrow
a harrow, triangular in shape. made of
scan:ling through which sixty.penny
wire nails were driven and afterward
bent little. 1t is drawn from one
side and not from the corner. The
traces are hitched directly to the har-
row and this gives it little horse mo-
tion which makes its work still more
effective. The corn was all drilled.
using the plow attachment, which
leaves the corn in the bottom of 4
small furrow and which. allows the pse
of the harrow during more extended
period The Gould harrow is drawn
by one horse and taxes two rows at a
time.
The Planet jr. garden cultivator
with stick, littl., shorter than the
width of a row, attched to the rear
shovels SO as to regulate the depth,
proved very effective and an eonomi-
cal tool. Once in row was sufficient,
the stick being just long enough to
throw little dirt around the corn.
The Tower cultivator was used with
good results both years. This cultiva-
Tor has two gangs of knives which
scrape the ground and cut the weeds.
The surface is left in nice shape form
ing a mulch one inch or two deep.
Its feature is that it can not be run
very deep.
The spring tooth cultivator was
used both as deep and shallow
cultivator. The greatest difficulty
with it is to keep it from going too
deep
The experiment, think, has salts
factorily solved the question it sought
to solve 1t shows that there are
cheap and effective methods of cult.
waiting corn. The fastening of stick
to the shovels of a Planet Jr., is an in
genious scheme that saves much time |
in doing the work. besides compelling
shallow cultivation. The results of
both years agree with many other ex-
periments as to the advantages of
shallow cultivation. The experiment
also shows that the primary object of
cultivation is to kill weeds and that
cultivation need not be any oftener
nor any deeper than is necessary to
kill weeds.-The Agricultural Stu |
dent
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-
A Troublesome Weed,

Prof. Wm. X. Lazenby. of the De-
partment of Horticulture. writes Agri:
cultural Student, a journal published
by the students of the schools of agri7
culture, Ohio State university, as
follows with regard to prickly lettuce:
One of the worst weeds on the uni
yersity grounds this season is the
prickly lettuce, Qactuca scariola.) This
pest is an introduction from Europe
and has been known in this country
for ut least twenty-five years. In 1878
* was observed at Toledo, and this is
believed to be its first appearance in
Ohio. One year later it was noticed at
Painesville, and was first discovered
here on the university grounds, in Co.
lumbus, in 1852.
1t appears to find the soil and eli,
mate of Ohio especially congenial and
grows with unusual luxuriance.
During the present summer / have
received numerous letters of inquiry
concerning this weed. and it is now
founl widely distributed throughout
the state.
BY several it has been mistaken for
the Russian thistle, very different
and probably more pestiferous weed.
The priclsly lettuce is leafy
stemmed plant, growing from three to
five feet high. The leaves are alter
nate and clasp the stem at the base.
The ars from four to seven inches
long. and average about one inch in
width. The irregular edges of the leaf
as well as the midrib are beset with
prickles.
The Russian thistle on the other
hand, has small, downy, green leaves,
and branches profusely, forming a
dense, bush-like plant. Instead of
prickles upon the leaves it has num-
erous sharp spines on the main stem
and branches.
Probably there are few of our weedy
plants in which the NATURAL provisions
for the dispersal of the seed are better
than in the prickly lettuce.
In the first place the seed is very
abundant. There is an average of
about ten fully matured seeds in each
head. An average sized plant contains
at least 500 heads. / have counted
over ], 900 on each of several different
plants. Taking the smaller number
will give 5000 seed per plant.
When we realize that on many of the
vacant lots in the city of Columbus,
these plants occupy almostever square
foot of the land, it is no wonder that
the university grounds have become
badly infested.
Again. each one of the seeds when
matured is furnished with a parachute,
or downy appendage called pappus,
by means of which the wind can read
lily carry it to great distance.
As the seeds ripen at different times,
and the wind blows in different direc-
tions. single plant if left undisturbed
may in one season seed an area of sew
eral acres.
The most practical remedy for the
prickly lettuce is consecutive cuttings
throughout the year. Cut the plants
off before the period of blooming, and
be sure to do the Yoek often enough,
and thorough enough to prevent any
of the plants from going to seed.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21

Mr.. G. Cailloue!te, Druggist,
Beaversville, ILL.,. says: "To DR..
Kings New Discovery | owe my
lile. Was taken with La Grippe
and lrled all the physicians tor
miles about, but of n" avail and
was gwen up and told l could not
live. Having DR.. Kings New
Discovery in nv store | sent for
a bottle and began its use and
from the first dose began TO get
better, and after using three
bottles was up and about again.
1t is worth its weight in gold. We
won't keep store or hOuse without
it, Get free trial bottle at +,
Hairlngtou's Drug Store.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21
A Horses DOn'ts.

Don't ask me to back with binders
on. l am afraid to.
Don't lend or hire me to some block
! head who has less sense than | have.
Don't make me go for hours suffer
ing for drink; water costs you moth
ing.
Don't think because l am a horse
that iron weeds and briers won't hurt
my hay.
Don't be so careless of my harness
as to find a great sore OH me before you
attend to it.
Don't hurry me down steep hill,
for if anything should give way /
might break your neck.
Don't compel me to eat the SINE
kind of food the whole year around:
give me change once in awhile,
Don't think because 1 60 free under
the whip 1 don't get tired; you would
move up if under the whip too.
Don't whip ME when l get enlightened
along the road, or will expect it next
time and may make trouble.
Don't compel me to eat more salt
than want by mixing it with my oats;
/ know better than any other animal
how much | need.
Don't keep my stable very dark.
for when l 90 out into the light my
eyes are injured, especially if snow be
on the ground.
Don't say whoa unless you mean it;
teach me to stop at the word; it may
check me if the lines break and save a
runaway and smashup.
Don't make me drink ice cold
water, nor put frosty bit in my
mouth; warm the bit by holding it
minute against my body or in your
hand.
Don't hitch me to an iron post or
railing where the mercury is below
freezing, and keep me there for hours,
while you are in warm place enjoy
ing yourself.
Don't forget to file my teeth when
they get Jagged and cannot chew my
food. When get lean it is sign
that my teeth want filling, for l will
eat if | can.
Don't leave me hitched in my stall
at night with a big corncob right where
l must lie down. Remember l am
tired and that cannot select smooth
place.
Don't put on my blind bridle, ifyou
are determined to make me wear such
a barbarous thing, so that it irritates
my eye, or SO leaye my forelock that
it will be in my eyes.
Don't trot me up hill, for have to
carry you and the buggy and myself
too; try it yourself some time; run up
hill with a big load, then you will
know how it is yourself.
Don't forget what the good book,
that is friend of all the oppressed,
saws, "a merciful man is merciful to
his beast" But if you will only pay
strict attention to the last Don't" |
will take nv chance and try to be
content Turf, Field and Farm.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21

The deepest or gravest tone that if
is possible for US to hear has thirty
two vibrations per second; the highest.
the shrillest, has about 10000. Mans
voice can scarcely go below sound
that gives 1G4 vibrations per second,
nor woman's voice higher then 2,Oss
vibrations per second; but children go
much higher than that in the shrill
cries they sometimes utter.
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1895-02-21

The Buckeye Flyer il the Business Mans
Train to Chicago, fitted with elegxnt Par
Tor Cars and the easy Pullman Sleepers.
Through Pullman Lrlace sleeping cars
on night trains to COlun BUS and Chicago.
The only linerunDIng through parlvr cars
between Toledo, and Colum bus,
seat fare only 25 cents.
Rates via the Buck ey Route are alWaTo
as low as via anv other line.
For rates, maps and other in formation,
call on g, w, Schwenke, Ag't. at Logan, o.
write W. H. FISHER General Passenger
and Ticket Agent, Room 81, Deshlsr Block /,
Columbus. Ohio