The Globe-republican., 1897-02-04
KANSAS ITEMS OF INTEREST.

There is to be a revival at Emporia
rs soon as the renearsals for the min
strel show is over.
The Salvation Army is turning Its
heavy guns on one of the enemy's
strongholds. Newton.
The Marquette mills have put in a
department devoted to the grinding OF
kaffir corn into flour.
A span of big mules at Garden City
sold for 500. The owner declared that
he was giving them away.
Larned people, who never were par
ticular about their reputation. have
organized a house of representatives
In western Kansas it is becoming to
be generally accepted that the open
well for water gives the best results.
Only ten marriage license were is
sued in Meade county last year. That
shows the deleterious effect of mild
winters.
"Major Price" who has been lectur-
ing in Kansas towns on Cuba broke the
trocha and jumped his board bill at
Kansas City.
The local correspondents of the Sum-
ner county weeklies have agreed that
the eating of dog-meat is sure cure
for consumption.
The roads are 80 muddy in and
around Salina that no well regulated
funeral starts without q four-horse
team drawing the hearse.
Burlington has compromised with
the holders of the waterworks bonds
and the cruel war which has been rag
ing for many years is over.
In trial at Newton a large crowd
turned out to hear racy evidence. The
only thing racy, however, was the de-
claration of a woman in the witness
stand that 'she was no spring chicken. 3"
Henry King is one of the few Kansas
newspaper men who has big salaried
place on a city newspaper. Usually
the Kansas fellows on city newspapers
do the fine writing and are bossed by
fellows who do not write at all.
Kansas editors have a way of sud-
denly becoming religious and writing
long fervent editorial on the goodness
of God. The other day a northern
Kansas editor broke out that way and
preached fine sermon. The best men
in Kansas are it's editors.
One of the finest sights in Kansas
can be seen in representative hall in
Topeka every afternoon at o'clock.
The lights are turned on at that hour
and the white head of Speaker Street
against the cherry black of the speak
er's desk makes pretty picture.
A blind piano tuner named Metcalf
often visits southern Kansas. When
Metcalf was boy some one brought a
shikepolk into the school room in a
box with Stats across the top Metcalf
stopped to look at the bird and it peck
ed one eye out. The sight of the other
soon followed.
When amateurs put on a play in a
Kansas town it is always announced in
the home papers after the play that
the piece will be reproduced in neigh
boring towns. This is always . bluff.
1t is never done. Some one tried it in
an early day and received front that
no one cares to repeat the experiment.
But the bluff is always made.
The Burlington company is arrang-
ing to conduct q number of model
farms at different points on its line
this summer. The railroads are be-
coming better. The Santa Fe is lately
taking an interest in the towns i
reaches, and its officers arc calling
meetings with the business men, to
discuss their needs. The idea is an
excellent one; we have often wondered
that the railroad officials did not be-
come better acquainted with the peo-
pie along their lines, and try to help
them occasionally.
A Sumner county man fed forty-four
common steers III days He weighed
them in at an average of 971 pounds.
He sold them the other day when they
weighed ], 456 per head. That makes
gain of FIVE pounds day for the en-
tire time they were fed, which is an
unusually large gain. His plan of feed
ing is as follows: He first turned them
into q corn field when the corn was in
hard roasting ear. After the corn be.
gan to get too hard for easy eating he
put the cattle in the corral and fed
them on soft corn grown on stubble
land after the wheat was harvested.
After this they were fed on hard corn.
They were fed alfalfa with corn after
they were taken out of the corn field.
They were in fine order when sold and