The Globe-republican., 1898-04-14

Corn is beginning to come through
ground in the southern part of the
state.
An Alton man is stringing a wire
fence around q little patch of pasture
land-72O acres. He will stock it up
at once.
Eli Perkins is another one who knows
a good thing when he sees it. He is
lecturing through Kansas this year to
big crowds
Mr.. Wang Foo Shun is working the
Kansas lecture field. This is great
deal better than stopping around in
the laundry business.
A Wilson county farmer who found
that he was possessed of a surplus of
ready money concluded to invest in
$3.50 worth of Neodesha bonds.
Nothing does a Kansas paper quite
as much good as a chance to say that
some one from a neighboring town is
in the city buying big bill of goods.
There is one stretch of track out in
western Kansas where the electric
headlights on the Rock Island loco
motives can be see for distance of 80
miles.
| An Atchison milliner is a clever ad-
vertiser. She announces in the papers
that two hats, valued at $50, were sto-
| len from her store on the day of her
opening.
Osborne, which has been worrying
along with a couple of box cars for
a depot, will soon have substantial
new structure to take the place of the
one destroyed by fire.
Fred Lemon, an Olathe boy, is the
chief warrior in charge of the big CEN
trail pivot gun on the battleship Column
| bia, one of the largest war engines
carried on any ship in the world.
Crozier, the Kansas man who invent
ed the disappearing gun carriage, got
his idea from seeing prairie dog jump
into his hole. And as a matter of fact
that is about the most rapid and COM
plete vanishing act imaginable.
Secretary Coburn has received infor-
nation to the effect that eighteen fam
| lilies of German Lutherans will soon
leave Pennsylvania to make their
homes in Kansas. This is the kind of
immigration that Kansas wants and
will appreciate.
This is not the first time wheat in
Kansas has been frostbit in the spring.
Twenty-Five years ago. according to
John Gilmore's files of the Wilson
county Citizen, the wheat in the last
week of March was sixteen inches high
when a freeze came which bit off the
tops, and we might add by the way OF
encourag cement that that was a good
wheat year in Kansas.
A 5-year-old son of Jonas Zook, who
is wealthy German farmer of Harvey
county, was kicked by mule last week
and the portion of skull just over the
left temple was entirely removed,
leaving the brain exposed for time.
It was thought the child surely would
die, but it was removed to hospital,
placed under surgeons care, the brain
trepanned and the boy is now expected
to recover. The case was an interest
ing and puzzling one to the medical
men.
Without taking into consideration
the clovers and alfalfa, the tame grass
es promise very little to the Kansas
stockman. There are only few east
ern counties where timothy can be pro-
fitably grown. Every trial of the us
ual tame grasses which can name has
only proved their utter incapacity to
stand the test of Kansas climate. The
prairie grasses, on the contrary, have
successfully and periodically passed
though the ordeal of cold, heat, drought
and fire until they have become adapt
ed to all the vicissitudes of our climate
and situation. They have adapted
themselves to our soil better than it
would be possible for any of the cult
waited species to do for many hundred
years to come. This being the fact
it is folly for farmer to destroy all
of his wild grasses with the expecta-
ton that tame species can be found to
take their place.
Kentucky long held the champion
belt in fine cattle. but it has come west
by way of Ohio, Indiana. Illinois and
Iowa, until the late sale of Short horns
by Senator Harris. where the herd of
Queen Victoria was recruited. demon.
strated that Kansas had taken the lead |
in Short-horns. and now the more re-
cent sale at the Cross farm has shown |
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