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The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-05-07

Lightning struck a gas well near Kot,o-
mo, Ind, destroying the macb;ne-v 90
lsnitlng the released gas. The fire RACED
Iuriousiy Tor two days, and dynamite had
10 De fesorted to to subdue the flames.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-05-07

Killed His Wife Through Jealousy
Albert Rieuliff, mulatto, shot and
killed his wife and then killed himself at
Seattle, Wash. Jealousy was the cause.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-05-07
Louisyille,s Offer to Ward.

John NJ. Ward, the base ball player, has
been offered 5000 to manage the Louis
Vile Base Ball Club both on and Off the
fold
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-05-07
Killed by a Fau from a Horse.

Robert E. Bradshaw, aged IS, a native
of Liverpool, England, was thrown from
running horse at Plainview and killed.
The Valentine Democrat. [volume] (Valentine, Cherry Co., Neb.) 1896-1898, 1896-05-07
ENGLAND is EXCITED.
EVIDENCE AGAINST JOHANNES
BURG CONSPIRATORS

Rhodes in the P1ot-London Times Ad-
mits His Guilty Knowledge-Char-
tered Company Furnished Him Arms
and Money.
The Washington bee., 1896-02-22

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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08

Thus exposed from accidental cont9e&
with light wires is therefore increasing
every year.
a great deal of study has been de-
voted TO the invention of devices which
would render such wires harmless in
case of breakage., Among these APP
plianccs is one designed by A. E.
Hutefins, of Detroit. AT public ex-
hfbition of its workings, a few weeks
ago, he took in his bare hand and
placed in his mouth the end OF fallen
wire, which, previous to. it's being cut
for the test was carrying a current
with an electromotive force o. 5000
VOLTS. He then walked baRefooted
into shallow pool of water, thus es-
tablishing about as perfect n contact
as was possible. Had the current still
been flowing through the extreme end
of the wire it would have passed
through him to the earth and killed
him ''as quick as a wink" His, escape
was due to the efficacy of his invention
This consists of provision for switch
ing the current down to- the earth by
a different route. On each pole carry
ing the wire and on each side of the
supporting insulator, Mr. Hutchins
places a Y-shaped piece of metal, con-
Meeting with ground wire running
down the pole into the earth, and there
carefully attached to a water-pipe or
other good conductor.
The Zine" wire is made to pass be.
tween the branches of this fork. but
ordinarily is stretched SO tight that it
~ III
wire is broken, it falls down so as to
rest in the crotch. If there be any in
sulative covering on the wire this is
scraped off for an inch or two when the
line is being constructed, SO as to leave
the copper bare where it is liable to
touch the fork, thus insuring perfecs
contact. And to prevent the wire from
getting outside of the Y, the upper end:s
of the latter are bent over so as to close
the opening overhead When this de-
vice comes into action, in emergencies.
the current flows down the pole, and the
dangling end of the line wire ceases to-
carry electricity. 1t is now no longer
"live," but dead" and harmless.
With the increasing use of electricity
which the future, the near future.
promises III all uehSeIy popuIdteu coun-
tries, the tendency will be toward higher
voltages than are now common. I'm
less lines carrying high potential cur
rents are put in conduits underground,
therefore, some such device as thar
here described will be needed. It will
add trife to the cost of line to use
appliances of this sort; but public safe
ty will demand and legislation will re-
quire their adoption.-N. Y. Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
A Curious Ca1ving Case.

A farmer who runs n dairy farm IN
the northern part of the village of Fem
ton, Genessee county, Mich, owns o
Jersey heifer not quite two years old.
Friday, September Is, she gave birth
to a fine heifer calf, but she did not
seem TO show a natural maternal feel-
ing for it, and it was removed and
placed with another cow. Saturday,
September 81, eight days later, she
gave birth to another heifer calf, even
larger than the first one; her milk
Immediately came, and she owned her
calf Both calves are now with her.
The case seems the only one known
among the oldest farmers in this
vicinity. The above is true state
nene and youched for by J. n. d.
Rural Sew Yorker.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
FARM AND GARDEN.
NEsTs FoR TuRkEYs.


4
An the Hens Want Is Place THAT Looks
Somewhat Secluded.
If turkeys are kept at all they should
be kept properly Instead, however,
they frequently getno attention worthy
the name. A writer in the American
Poultry Advocate calls attention TO one
serious neglect. He says that much
| time is annually lost and not a few good
turkey eggs by the hens making their
nests in far away isolated places, where
they are not readily found, except by
the willy crow, skunk or other sharp
eyed marauders. And this loss is all
the more ineXcusable as it can readily
be avoided by little ingenuity and
Judgment on the owners part. He
claims to know O breeder of quite a
strain of Bronze turkeyswhoseldomGO got
more than half the eggs laid by his ten
or twelve Bronze hens. There was a
large wood near his house into which
his hens regularly each spring plunged
and sought for nests. He complained OF
his loss from crows and other vermin
and when told how easily it could be
prevented, he expressed surprise, and
was willing to make the attempt to save
more of his turkeys nests. According
to our instructions he placed some
rough piles of brush about the corners
of the fence near the house and barn.
and in the orchard. He also laid some
empty barrels about i'm out-of-the-way
places, putting straw and leaves in
them, and some brush ON and about
them. This was done In February and
again in April, all his hens were laying
and all the nests were inside his own
ground. The work of finding the nests
was reduced about three fourths and all
the eggs saved
All the hens want is place THAT looks
somewhat secluded. They do not care
for far-away nest especially, but like
a place that gives some promise of mot
being prominent public curiosity If
a loose pile of brush is thrown in any
out-of-the-way place, say behind
clump of shrubbery and near fence, in
corner of the fence, d barrel covered up
with brush, one end only visible slight
ly, few boards leaned against the
fence and covered with rubbish. etc,
will any or all make desirable place
for madame turkey to deposit her eggs.
1t is best to not disturb the nest too
much when once the hen has begun
laying. Let her have her eggs. If the
nest has proper quantity of straw or
leaves in it the hen will keep the eggs
covered sufficiently to keep them from
freezing. Some hens will not mind
having eggs taken out of their nests,
but others will soon look for some more
secluded place, the chances being in
favor of being placed away out in some
field or along the hill or mountain deep
IN the wood. Of course if the hens get
broody before they are wanted to set,
the eggs must be taken out of the nest
and the hens broken up for the time be-
ing
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
HINTS FOR FARMERS.

Milk in any form is good food for
hens.
New corn is apt to produce looseness
of bowels.
Corn is poor food for young stock
of any kind.
Any sudden change of diet is sure to
make trouble.
Cold, dark henhouses are inconsist-
ent with good laying.
Chopped clover sprinIxled with bran
is excellent for fowls.
Give the pullets low, broad roosts and
so avoid crooked breast bones.
Sawdust makes excellent bedding
for pigs, but it must not be green or
wet.
For colts, calves and pigs combina-
ton of bran, oats and oil meal is always
excellent.
In England the Tamworth and York
shire breeds are now preferred to the
Berkshire and Suffolk.
The Wensleydale, a long-wooled sheep
somewhat resembling the Lincoln, is
the latest English breed to be intro
duced into the United States
Straw may be fed even to mich cows
proftably when other feed is scarce by
cutting it into short lengths, wetting it
and mixing it with meal, bran or mid
dlings.-N. Y. World.
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:BRODD; PENS
DRIVEWAY F:
CRANARY
U'X2F
THE GROUND FLOOR.
GRIP.
R'X2T

runts. We use ground corn and milk
shorts for feed and give about all they
VIII eat clean. When grass comes
about May 1, the whole outfit is large
enough to go to grass, and with lots
OF feed they thrive. We usually have
$50 to 200 pigs each spring. OF course,
a few would get killed, and at weaving
time the runts were sold, so that the
bunch was left at about 125 to $50 OF
one-sized pigs. With plenty of grass
and feed they were kept granting and
growing all the time. They were fed
all they would eat. In midwinter the
best sows were bred to a high-gradc
mate and the barrows and culled sows
put in the fed pen about February 1.
This feed pen was small, with a self
feeder automatic water supply and
large shed. About May this batch
is sold, and as soon as the pigs are
weaned from the brood sows they are
fed with self-fecders, and September 1
are turned upon the market. We never
sell habitat hogs; they have got to
be fat or we would feed them for 4
year. Don't try to get two pounds of
pork out of one pound of corn, or don't
try to top the market with scrubs.
Don't buy cheap breeding boars. Get
the big-boned, long, well-bred fellows.
james Pearson, in Farm and Home.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
FATTENING FOWLS.

NO Way in Which Corn Can BE Fed to
Better Advantage.
<How can best fatten fowls for mar
-ket?''
This is a very simple matter, and one
mot requiring any special tact or skill.
1t is a very profitable proceeding, too,
for fowls that are thin and light can be
made to put on the heaviest possible
weight in very short time if they are
properly handled.
Fowls fatten best in confinement, and
these which are to be sold should be shut
up in rather close quarters, and fed all
they will eat of corn meal coarsely
ground. We have tried various mix
lures for fattening fowls, but never
found anything superior to coarse corn
meal and plenty of pure water. just
these two things will make tough,
thin old hen plump and tender in two
weeks, and when she comes to the
table her flesh will be as sweet, juicy
and tender as a spring chicken.
Fowls that are sent to market fat ami
plump always bring the best prices, and
this because they present an inviting
appearance. There is no better way in
which corn can be fed to advantage than
Go use it in finishing lot of thin fowls
Ia preparation for market. The fowls
should be sold as soon as they are well
fattened, for after this is accomplished
IL is waste of food to keep them any
longer.-Farm and Fireside.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
AMERICAN AoRlcuLTuRE.
According to B. ". ClaytOm It Xs tE
Source of Our Wealth.

According to R. ". ClaytOm It lin the
Source of Our Wealth.
The civilized world stands amazed &C
the vast accommodations of the American
people, and the query from home and
abroad is from whence it came, and
what is its true source? We answer
that our success is due to two agencies,
both of which the American people pos
sess in the highest degree, namely.
labor and it's intelligent application to
the richest natural resources of any
country. In the consideration of the
true source of our national wealth we
must combine these two elements as
one and inseparable. Man must furnish.
labor and nature must furnish all the
material upon which labor is expended.
Our labor has always been of the high
est type, from the fact that the people
of the United States are the remote, ii
not the direct, descendants of a repre-
sentative foreign element that had
learned to think for itself, and when de-
barred from acting for itself, to seek
country of equal social and political
rights where it could plant the banner
of the largest freedom and where it
fruits of its own labor.
Our population is made up OF an en-
ergetic class that is willing to leave
the scenes of childhood, the home of
youth, the mother tongue and native
land to cast their fortunes with
strange people. The American citizen.
whether native or foreign born, is quick
to recognize the rights of all who would
come to our shores to better their con
dition and to throw around them all
the safeguards of protection in every
social and political right. From the
landing of the Pilgrim Fathers there
has been healthful growth in the
spirit of freedom, morality, industry,
and economy. The environments that
surround the American citizen are an
tagonistic to royal exclusiveness. They
regard labor as respectable and meas.
ure men by the standard of virtue and
personal worth.
The natural product of the coil, aided
by intelligent labor, is the great creative
force, the only source from which
wealth may be obtained to meet all OBJ
legations. The street car fare, interest
on bonds, dividends on stocks, the SOL
diers' pensions, the fees of the profes-
sional, the dry goods and the grocery
bills, as we'll as the cost of conducting
all the intricate machinery of the gov
eminent, must be paid by the revenues
from the soil.-North American Re
view
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
NOTES FOR BEEKEEPERs.

Cold weather will not kill bees I'm ~
water-tight hive.
Queens have been known TO live and
SO good work for five years, hut this is
an exception.
The best remedy for sting is 10
plunge the part into cold water OF apply
ammonia or soda
To make the most out of his bees.
every beckeeper should understand
the sources of honey in his locality.
At least a sufficient number of bees
should be kept on every farm to furnish
honey for the table, but begin with a
few hives.
Bees require very little air during cold
weather, but should warm spell come
and they find themselves closed up,
they get excited and viii often smother
themselves 10 death.
Do not pull up covers that the bees
have sealed down unless compelled TO
do So. They want their hives air-tight
at the top to prevent ventilation or cold
gTraughts in winter.-St. Louis Repub-
lie.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
pIcoERY AND oRANARv.
How to Coznlbine Them AdvmntageousEy
Under the same RoOa

How to Combine Them AdvMntageousAy
Under the Same RooA
We have kept swine for many years
but have never owned a pigPen. We
have corn crib 10 feet wide by 48 feet
long. BY the side of it is combined
granary and crib. II by 4s feet. It is
all boarded tight with ship lap. The
corn crib is of 6-inch boards with
both edges beveled. The boards are
nailed ON so they are rain proof and
there is plenty of veRtiIation. A floor
of double thickness sheathing sputover
the entire building as well as over the
1o-foot space between the two build
ings. A shingle roof covers the entire
building Two large roller doors on
either side afford a driveway The out
side posts are about 10 feet high. and
with fair pitch makes . very ICON
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
PATENT CLOCK DIAL.

gram shows five minutes of six o'clock
p. m.
Another improvement connected
with the day and night clock dial is
an invention to simplify the reading
of timetables by incasing the figures
that indicate the arrival and departure
of the night trains in heavy black.
Everybody who has had occasion to
travel has suffered the fortunes of
the timetable. Most women are alb
solutely unable to fathom the myster-
les of train schedule. The trouble
is mainly because of the little "a. m. So
and ''p. MS that are constantly
springing up in the most unexpected
places and in the most distressing man
ner. The new arrangement does away
with the difficulty at one blow. If all
railroads should adopt the new system
it would almost be a pleasure to read
timetables. There is absolutely no
chance for error, and then not only
would the reading of the schedule be
an easy matter, but the traveller 'of the
long voyage could see at a glance just
how much time his trip would occupy,
and what part of it would be performed
at night and what part in the day
time.
The most curious thing about this IN
vention is that it has never been
thought of before. But in that respect
it resembles great many other impor-
tant discoveries.-NewI Ideas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
NEW LIFE PREsERvER.
Made by Initiating the Cellular Tissue Be-
meath the Skin.

Made by Initiating the Cellular Tissue Be-
meath the Skin.
4 novel means of saving life in ma
rine accidents has been discovered,
which, if generally used, will probably
lessen greatly the number of lives lost
by such accidents. The invention has
been pronounced very important by
the French Academy of Sciences,
which at one of their last meetings
listened very attentively to lecture
by DIR. LaverauX upon the new inyen-
ton. The inventor docs away with all
artificial belts and other floating APP
planes; he proposes to initiate the
cellular texture beneath the human
skin on the breast, which, if filled with
air, forms natural pneumatic belt,
by the aid of which one may not only
float himself, but even support another
body.
The idea is said to be perfectly prac-
ticable. 1t has been proved that man
weighing 160 pounds, whose specific
weight is between 1.0s and 10, whose
head may weigh pounds, needs only
about 200 cubic inches of air within
his body in order to float with his head
out of the water. This amount of air
IS easily inserted into the hollow space
beneath the skin with Dr. Schneider's
aseptic syringes, which will in one in
lection initiate from 20 to IS cubic
inches of air. The introduction of the
point, which is only two miIlimeters
thick, will hardly be felt. Such a
pump is not even necessary.
1t is much simpler to use a little APP
Paratus, which consists of hollow
needle. thin rubber hose Is inches
long, into which this needle is inserted.
little aseptic cotton placed in the
open end of the rubber hose is all that
Is necessary. The skin is simply raised,
the hollow needle introduced into it,
and then the other end of the rubber
hose IS taken into the mouth and the
mans own breath blown into it. Two
deep respirations, whichare blown into
each side of the breast. will be suffi-
Gent to float man, however heavy
Philadelphia Record.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
POPULAR SCIENCE.
IMPROVED CLOCK DIAL.


Remarkable That 1t Has Not Been
Thought of Before The Hour Hand
Traverses the Face In the Same Time
That the SUN On tho Average Traverses
the Path Around the Earth.
The new dial represented herewith
is such simple and obvious improve
ment on the old patterns that it is to
be wondered that it was not adopted
long since. The inventor, who has had
the dial patented, started out with the
idea of making the hour hand traverse
the dial in the same time that the sun
on the average traverses, or seems to
traverse, the path around the earth.
1t will be seen that the dial represents
the rising of the sun, it's progress to
the zenith at noontide, and to it's final
disappearance below the horizon at
aightful- But the disc, instead of being
divided into II spaces. is divided into "a,
marked from one to twelve i'm two
series. The upper half OF the dial rep
resents day. and the lower half night,
and the two are distinguished by the
very natural expedient of making
'tday" white and might" black, with
the additional pFecaution of printing
''day" and might" in conspicuous let
tiers on the respective hemispheres.
On the outer rim will be observed the
scale for the minute hand. This scale
is divided into 60 parts, every fifth part
being marked with it's appropriate fig
ure. This, again, does away with
source of ambiguity in the present sys-
tenn. People are accustomed to say "a
quarter OF and "a quarter after" or
"25 minutes Off," and so forth, all of
which expressions have greater or
less tendency to- cause mistakes. BY
the new dial theme can be mo- errors
Take for instance, the position of the
hands as represented in the diagram
They mean a certain time, and no
other time. The. small, or hour hand,
is between five and six, and as this
hour hand represents the sun, we see
that 1T is sinking toward the horTZom.
In other words, it is between five and
six O'Clock in the evening. The precise
time is known when we look at the
long, or minute hand. This is pointing
directly at So. The time is, therefore,
five hours and So minutes in the even
ing, or 5s55, as railroad men say. Ac-
eording to- the common method of tell
ing time you woS1Dd say that the dia-
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higher perches. The nests, too, must
be of a proper size, and placed to suit
the requirements of the birds to be
kept. The rooted, wire-sided Enclosure
can only be appreciated by those who
have seen the better condition of birds
SO favored. If the house stands in an
exposed position, the north and east
side should be inclosed during winter,
leaving only the south side open, as
seen in the sketch. Fowls do best when
given an open-sided, rooted inclosure
Especially the crested breeds require
such a protection during rainy weather,
as a severe wetting often proves fatal
to them. Another advantage it pos
sesses is that the plumage is not
bleached by the sun after a spell of
rain, as is the case with many birds
running loose in changeable weather
In fair weather as large an Enclosure
may adjoin the house for the birds
as can be afforded them, as the more
freedom they enjoy at such times the
better will be their condition.-Orange
Judd Farmer.
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and harrow so as to cover all the this
ties. Keep the field well cultivated all
the following fail. Every time thistle
shows go over it with some broad
toothed cultivator, having the teeth
sharp, and in two days after follow
with hoe, cutting off the heads of
every last thistle. Follow up until late
fall; then in the fall pillow the field and
you will have the best of all fitted fields
for barley or oats, and if the work is
thorough will give you dollar apiece
for every thistle that ever shows again,
unless it comes from the seed.-J. S.
Woodward, in Prairie Farmer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08

Most farmers would have better sue
cess with bees il they used only the
old straw or box hives. Beekeeping
with the moyable-frame hives is an art
which few care TO learn; the straw hive
is simple tool which anyone can use.
Before the bec-Tnoth became prevalent.
nearly every farmer kept bees in this
simple way. The introduction of the
Italian bee has done away with this
trouble. With the old-fashioned hives,
women and children can do most af
the work, and beekeeplng, like poul-
try raising, can be their special prov
ince and profit. Aside from learning to
hive new swarms. little knowledge i'm
needed.-Country Gentleman.