Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-01-18
Indiana / was awful bashfuI. Yon

Indiana / was awful bashful You
don't know how bashful | used to be- |
The girls just worried the life out of
me. When stood up to be married
they all giggled. and when the minis |
ter asked if would take this woman
to be my welded wife. l said s'pretty
well. thank you," and when he pro-
nounced us man and woman and said.
whom God has joined together" etc.
l broke down and bawled. Oh. it was
horrible! But that is nothing to what
is to come. Bout IL o'clock the old
man says ''your rooms head of the
stairs" | was so skeered that when
tried to stand up my legs give way
and fell over the dog and got bit in
three places. / waited till everybody
/ had gone to bed. then | crawled up
! stairs like thief. | was afraid to GO
! in SO | sit on the stairs and shiyered.
Its no use saws |, what's got to be
will be so | made break for the
door / found the bed and pulled the
clothes over my head and laid on the
/ front rail. In the mornin' | peeped
through my fingers to see if | could
dress and get away before she woke
up, and hang me for pirate if
wasn't in bed with the old man and
old woman.
One of the most curious freaks of
nature that we have ever observed
was shown us by William Dickey, one
day this week. 1t consisted of roots,
of various sizes, from as small as
fine thread to more than an inch in
diameter ali interviewer and forming
a compact mass. The curious feature
of it all is in the fact that this living
a well over so feet. One day last
week Mr.. Dckey was employed by G.
C. Yetter, of Ogallah, to ascertain
what was the matter with his well
which had refused to yield the usual
quantity of water 1t was soon dis
covered that there was something in
the tubing and after boring down
with a four inch auger, to loosen the
obstruction, they finally succeeded in
pulling it out. The tubing was of
! together so that the spaces between
the joints were tight-ftting closely
together like those of a stove pipe.
The roots grew downward through
the hard, dry soil until they reached
the water in the tubing and then the
smallest fibers obtained an entrance
between the joints of tubing and,
having found moisture, grew until
they attained their present size and
INSTRUCTED the flow of water This
is certainly remarkable, and much
more SO when we consider the quality
Iof the soil through which the tiny
roots forced their way to the distance
of about so feet. This statement can
be corroborated by Rev. Hobbs, G. G.
Yetter and others who were present.
| We have seen the roots that were
taken from the well and SO have more
than half our citizens. As additional
and corrob0ratiye and illustrating
the extent to which plant life will
strive for moisture we have an exam
pie in our city. On j. w. Carson's
former premises, adjoining the Farm
er's Home, are two large, thrifty cot
tonwood trees, the finest we have
seen in the county. 1t is well known
that this variety of trees do not thrive
well on the upland and that they only
live few years. The trees alluded
to have attracted much attention and
many comments on account of their
size and vigorous appearance. In the
rear of the Farmers Home and only a
few rods from these trees is dug
well. Several times in cleaning out
this well the roots of these trees have
been found therein to a depth of
nearly 100 feet thus solving the prob
lem as to where these trees obtained
their supply of moisture. Alfalfa
growers have been wont to relate that
the roots of this plant. would extend
90 feet downward to water but many
have been incredulous and seem to
think that the statement lacked con-
firmation. In the light of the facts
herein stated showing that the fiber
of tree roots will extend downward to
the depth of 80 and even 100 feet in
search of moisture, we think the most
skeptical must admit that it is even
more than probable that alfalfa roots
will seek moisture to the depth of 20
feet, and especially in bottom land
where the soil is loose all the way
down to water We leave it to scien-
fists to make their own deductions.
We are only stating facts.
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