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The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-11
TRANS MISSISSIPPI AND 1NTERNA-
TIONAL EXPOSITION, OMAHA,
NEB., JUNE 1ST TO NOV.
lST. 1898

NEB., JUNE 1ST TO NOV.
1ST, 1898.
On account Of the above exposition. the
Santa Fe has authorized the following
rates;
No. Tickets on sale from June 1st to
October 18th, inclusive. good until No
vember 18th; the rate viii be 50 per cent
OF the double one way standard f1rst-class
fare.
No. 2-Tckets limited to so days from
date OF sale but not later than November
18th. on sale from June 1st to Octover S0th.
inclusive. at one and one-third fare for
the round trip.
For further particulars relative to
routes, rates. connections. call on or ad-
dress L. r. DELANEY. Agent.
The electric fans now operated in Santa
Fe Route dining cars are desirable and
seasonable accessories 10 an already IN
surpassed service.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-11
KANSAS AND NEBRASKA LIMITED
FOR ST. LOUIS.

Leave Wichita at 2:10 p. m, arriving at
st. Louis next morning at 7:20, making
direct connections with all lines east No
change of cars. Elegant service. City
ticket Office ia North Main street
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-11

FOR THE WICHITA STATE FAIR
The Santa Fe VIII sell excursion tickets
September 10 20 Il. inclusive. good to re-
turn until and including September IS. at
one fare for the round trip from al points
in Kansas, Oklahoma and Indian Terri
tories. /. r DELANEY. AGENT
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-11

Cool and comfortable dining cars N
Santa Re Route are obtained by use Of
electric fans.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1898-09-11
NIAGARA FALLS.

The Rock Island Tourist Sleeper leav-
ing Wichita at 10 o'clock, a m, every Sat
urday. arriving at Buffalo Sunday night,
will in the future be cut out at Buffalo
for the especial benefit of patrons who
desire to visit Niagara Falls. The excur-
sions will now leave Buffalo Mondays at
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Electric fans are cooling You get them
and other seasonable articles in Santa Fe.
Route dining cars.
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EBEN f. MAC LEOD, D. P. A,
A. G. P & T. A, Topeka.
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Daily Eagle, By s@-EieF. 70 cents week
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HoMEsEEKERs' EXCURSION.

L.. p. DELANEY, Agent.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01

There was more black eyes and skinned
noses in Squan Creek for the next four
weeks than New York could ever boast
of. and the hair and buttons didn't
stop flying around the streets until
after the first fall of snow. No effort
was ever made to resurrect the debat-
in society. All felt that if they couldn't
agree on the shape of the earth they
surely couldn't agree on anything else.
They went back to Dan Parker's gro
Gerry of an evening and sat around on
the counters and barrels and boxes,
and the lies they had told before were
only yarns in comparison to those they
told afterwards. The first evening
Deacon Spooner got out and come
down Bill Shaffer told lie about be-
ing cast away in the polar regions for
II years. 1t was beautiful lie-sleek,
slick and full of juice, and when it was
finished the deacon clasped his hands
together, raised his fearful eyes to the
ceiling and said:
How good, and how like old times!
l did think a debatin society would
be a good thing to lift us up and send
us forward on the wave of progress,
but we don't need it. We can outlie
anything on the face of the airth, and
we don't care lluss whether the world
is round or hat!"
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01

troubled over the order prepare to
mount"
Now, IL Jake had stood on chair he
could not have reached the stirrup with
his fool. he was equal to the emcr-
Gency, however, and, running back a
few steps, picked up a board placed one
end on the ground and the other on the
Horse, and crawlcd up.
This performance was greeted with
"a roar OF cheers and laughs, But Jake
WIS in his seat as soon Us many others
who Ind skittish horses What do
Won mean, sir" questioned the officer,
''by that kind Of performance? "Vell,
you say "Prepare to mount" und |
makes mine preparations, lean no step
upstairs on mine horse NIT one step
When there was skirmish, two men
assisted Jake to mount, and he was gen
orally AWAY with the rest, but on one
occasion he dropped his gun, as the as
tonishing gallop of the old horse de-
manded his full attention, and the men,
seeing the little fellow go off with n
tumb!c, thought he had been shot.
Jake was given up for lost. But n
short time nfterward up came the big
horse at furious gallop, Jake hanging
on to MS neck. The men cheered and
laughed, stopped the horse, and assisted
Jake into the saddle. Once in his seat,
Jake Said:
"Ven der vas no time to make mine
preparations to mount it was uncon-
venieDt a little, but mine big horse vas
a goer, and that vas mighty convenient
for me ven / vas been chased by the
JOhnnies. So ochslsuse me If not trade
mine big horse" Chicago Inter Ocean.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
HELPFUL DAIRY NOTES.

Grind the grain that you feed the
COW.
Keep the COW warm or she will shrink
her milk
Feed the cow all the grain that she
can utilize.
Prepare to give the COW warm water
this winter.
Pure air is necessary to the formation
of pure milk.
Take off the horns, They are useless
and dangerous.
Keep the COW clean and have the
mixer clean too.
Feed the COW plenty of bran mixed
with meal and oats
Keep breeding your herd to higher
standard all the time.
Feed regularly and milk regularly.
Keep the stables clean.
Put up some ice this winter. You
can do nothing that will be more profit
able.
Buy good Holstein-Fresian bull, or
Jersey bull if you prefer. Get one or
the other.
When the COW kicks the man we do
something to prevent her repeating it..
When the man kicks the COW we do
nothing. Ought to tie his feet together.
Western Plowman.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01

bacco factory the previous day, While
he waited the cigar was made for him
and he put it away carefully and smiled
q contented little smile.
So Gen. Grant,with deep, happy sigh
Of relief, touched match to Gen. Sher-
idan's cigar, and Sheridan-he Jagged
and gyrated like bad little boy who
has put tack on his teachers chair.
1t took little time fer the strongest
cigar ever made in Cuba to get in its
deadly work upon a well-seasoned old
smoker like Grant, and Sheridan began
to grow Respondent, but JOY once more
suffused his rugged yet rubicund fea-
, lures as he saw his old commander,
with a pallid face, talking hurriedly
with the interpreter. funny mixture
of English and West Point Spanish, and
u moment later he collapsed in the
shade of n wall. There was instant
alarm among all who gathered around.
and even the jolly Sheridan got bill
ratified at his own success, but he only
winked solemnly at the secretary and
said: Tell 'em to keep quiet and give
him air, He'll be all right in five min
utes. thought it would fetch him"
Grant was, indeed, all right as soon
as he got up among the tumble of de
lenses at the top of Moro castle, where
the cool sea winds blew some of that
nicotine out of his lungs, and he gazed
at Sheridan with deep indigo look OF
suspicion, but he smoked no more until
the next morning,--N. Y. Sun.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
LETTUCE EXPERIMENTS.
How the Vegetable Can lie Grown In.
doors AT All Seasons of
the Year.

Lettuce in the vicinity OF large cities
Is sold by the pound and The point is to
ruise us many pounds as possible per
square foot of bench space The In.
diana experiment station, TO determine
the best mode of raising lettuce in the
greenhouse, inaugurateda series of let
tuce experiments, A bench was set
with plants, one portion six inches
apart each way and another portion
three inches Both were cut when tho
thicker setting was matured enough
for marketing and the thinner setting
still showed chances for further inn
provement, Contrary to expectations.
it was found that the thicker setting
gave the heavier yield, being 20 ounces
to the square foot, against II ounces
for the thin setting, gain of over so
per cent. The saving in time for grow.
ing the crop and the increased yield
IRE both in favor Of the thicker setting,
A prominent feature OF the expert
ment was to transplant directly from
seed beds into small pots, then after n
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01

that way nobody will run the risk of
bein' suddenly paralyzed. We will be-
gin with the world. I've heard say
that it was round, and I've heard say
that it was fat. AS I've never been
further than Philadelphia my mind is
not fully made up. Them as thinks the
world is round will speak first"
Moses Simpson was the first man to
speak. He said he used to believe the
world was Hat until he made a trip out
west. After gittin' 100 miles from
Squan Creek he noticed that his feet
kept slippin', and that it was hard to
stand up straight, and by the time he
reached Buffalo he was lookin' around
for life lines to hang on to. He con-
tinued on as far as Toledo, but there
got so frightened that he turned and
came home. He believed that if he had
gone 100 miles further he would have
rolled off into space. He was firmly
satisfied that the world was round, and
would stick to it if he never caught an
other lobster during the rest of his
life.
The second speaker was Absalom
Jones. A hog had broken into his
garden that day and rooted things up,
and he had come 10 the meeting feelin'
out of sorts. Besides, he had always
known the world was fat, and he got
up and pitched into Moses like a ton
CT brick. lie said it was whisky in
stead of sidehill which allied him when
he went west, and he wanted to know
how it was that Chicago, Omaha, Dem
yer and San Francisco hadn't fallen
off. He had seen enough of this world
TO know that it was dat, and should
Squan Creek decide otherwise his
house and lot were for sale at half
price. His remarks stirred up every
body else. and things began 10 git hot.
When Goliath Schermerhorn got up his
ears was workin' and his hair curtin.
He favored the roundness of the world,
and he said that any man who stuck
out for fairness ought to be packed off
to an idiot asylum that very night. He
didn't know why it was that things
didn't slide downhill, but as they
hadn't he wasn't worryin' over it. He
had heard that the world revolved on
It's axis like a wagon wheel. That
might be newspaper sensation, got
up to scare women and children, but
there was no doubt of the roundness of
I've earth. If it was fat, then Squan
Creek folks would be able to see Phila-
Gelphia or New York.
When Deacon Spooner saw how
things was goin' he tried to switch the
meetiu' off on to another question, but
the audience wouldn't have it. Every
man seemed TO feel that the future OF
Squan Creek was at stake, and when
roses were counted up 1t was found
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
HINTS ABOUT MULcHINc.
Work should lie Done When tho
Ground Freezes Hard Enough
20 Hear Up Wagon.

While II Is best to mulch small fruitS
and all young or newly set fruit trees,
the time when the mulch can best De
applied can but be determined by the
season. But in order that the work may
be done at the right time 1t will be best
20 have the material at hand, ready
when the conditions are suitable.
When the ground freezes hard enough
10 bear up wagon is the time when
mulch should be applied. The object
is to maintain as even a temperature as
possible around the roots and in this
way as fully as possible avoid the in
furious effects of thnwing and freezing.
With strawberries care must be taken
not to cover too deeply especially over
the crown of the plant, or there is risk
of smothering the plant.
With raspberries. blackberries, cur
rants and gooseberries all the space be-
tween the rows as we'll MS between the
plants in the row can be covered with
some good mulching material.
With young trees space four feet in
diameter around the stem Of the tree
should be covered.
Straw, swale, hay, bagasse, cut corn
fodder, or any kind OF coarse litter may
be used. Coarse manure can in many
cases he used TO good advantage, es-
pecially when, in addition to mulch,
fertilizer is needed, as the rain, metz
ing snow, thawlag and freezing, will
carry the soluble portions into the soil.
The objection to using it on small
fruits is that usually fresh manure con-
tains too many weed seeds,
In addition to preventing injury by
thawng and freezing, a good mulch
often prevents injury to its fruit buds
from late frosts, the mulch keeping the
soil cooler and in this way retarding
budding and blossoming,
To certain extent mulching keeps
down weeds and with small fruits this
is an item,-St. Louis Republic.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01

BENCH FOR sun.lRR1aAT1NG.

time plunge the pots into the bench
surface soil. In this way the roots are
disturbed but once and ball of matted
roots and soil is retained when the let
tuce is sent to market, insuring its per-
feet condition for longer period. Two
crops were grown in this manner and
so far as any effect on the lettuce could
be traced, the results were in favor of
the ordinary method of shifting rather
than retaining the pots, which is also
in accord with what is known regard
ing the early handling of other crops.
To test the value of subwatering, a
bench was arranged four inches deeper
than would otherwise be necessary,
and over the bottom and three inches
up the side it was lined with zinc, The
zinc pan is closely filled with ordinary
soft brick (c) set on edge. These first
had the lower angles Clipped off, so
that there were small open spaces at
the bottom where the bricks came to-
gether A tube was passed along the
side of the bench, curved around un-
derneath, and coming up through the
bottom was carefully soldered on.
The bench is then filled with soil over
the brick. The water is run in through
the tube and quickly distributes itself
over the bottom, 1t is gradually alb
sorbed by the brick and slowly passes
up to the soil above The gauge (a)
shows the depth of water in the zinc
pans at all times, Water is introduced
through the tube (b),
The results from this method of sub
watering have been more satisfactory
than was hoped for. 1t has been used
for crops of lettuce and beans. The
theoretical advantages have been more
than fulfilled in practice. 1t is so serv-
iceable that the station has no hesita-
ton in saying that for some crops in
particular it will be found of the great
est advantage and profit. The extra
cost of preparing the benches, about
10 cents per square foot, is consider
able, but the increased yield and better
crops will speedily balance the account.
The arrangement is shown in the ac-
companying engraving. - American
Agriculturist.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
MODEL TILED BENCH.
Ie Possesses Truly Remarkable Adj
vantnEes over the Old-Style
Soil Benches,

Florists and those who are interested
il growing flowers can easily make a
tiled bench which possesses remarkable
advantages over the old soil benches,
fer if the first cost of the tiled bench is
from 20 per cent. to 80 per cent, greater
than the wooden bench, it is great
deal cheaper in the end, and the results
ere more satisfactory. While the drain
age is perfect, still the soil will not dry
so completely as with the bench with a
wooden bottom, The benches rest on
posts placed four feet apart; the cross.
pieces are two by four inches, and the
stringers upon which The tiles rest are
elso two by four inches. The tiles used
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
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JAKE's HORSE.
A Short Cavnlryman who Had a
Preference for n Tall
Mount.

. The felIOws in the old union army
who had the most fun with horses,
said an old cavalryman, were those in
regiments of mounted infantry. When
they were first mounted they were eX-
pected TO ride only to place and do
their 1ghting on foot.
In distributing horses a little, short
Iegyed German secured the largest
horse in the drove. He selected horse
for its size, thinking very little OF his
own convenience in the matter, and it
WAS amusing to see Jake huttering
nbout his horse. One morning the boys
were ordered to bring their horses out
and get ready for march Jake was
troubled when all were ordered to dis
mount for instructions. He was more
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
Annlen from Young rree..

The first few crops of apples that
young apple tree bears are apt to be of
large size, but poor keeping qualities.
The extra size is usually because the
tree is growing fast, and furnishes more
sap than the fruit set can use to the best
advantage. Besides, in young, virOr-
ous-growing tree, though there may be
many blossoms in spring most of
these are drowned out, and the blossom
fails to set. This is most apt TO happen
when rain comes at blossoming time.
But we have known warm, dry weather
at blossoming to cause the fruit to
set poorly, indicating that too much
sap in the shoot produced as bad an eff
feet as too much rain outside. If young
apple trees bear profusely and grow
fruit less than the normal size of the
variety it is well to look for evidences
Of the border on the trunk as the cause.
American Cultivator.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01

that the adherents was about equally
divided. Henry Joslyn, who went in
for the fatness Of the world, sent his
boy home for a baseball, and then he
showed the meetin' that nuthin' could
stick TO II except on the very top. He
argued that II this world was round,
even spiked shoes wouldn't save the peo-
pie from falling Off. and that the roots
of every tree would hev to be drawn
inside and cllnched fast to sunthln'.
The idea Of an ocean on sidehlll,
with no water sloppin' over, was too
absurd for even babies.
The thirty men who were for the
roundness of the world all wanted 10
speak at once as Henry got through,
but Phletus Taylor finally got the
floor and started in to make the spln-
lers fly. He claimed that the Bible the
life of Captain Kidd, the Farmer's Al
mannc and dozen other books FUR
nished indisputable proof that the
world was round, but he had his cwn
personal experience to bank on. He
had watched his cid spotted cow maxi
ing across the Jersey meadows in
search of shade. She gradually got
smaller and smaller, and the last thing
to be seen of her was whisk OF the
tail. lie had known a rain barrel or
we'll to go dry in one night That was
proof that the revolution of the earth
had tipped them over. He had woke
up in the morning and found his feet
higher than his head, and who could
dispute that proof? AS to why the
oceans and lakes didn't spill over he
wasn't prepared to say, but would 'ook
the matter up before he slept. In clos
lug he confessed his utter surprise that
uen could be found in Squan Creek at
that day so densely ignorant as to be-
lieve with the heather CT Africa.
There wasn't any more speechmak-
in or debatn' Jim Logan. who had
always held to the idea that the earth
was the shape of Jersey watermelon
after COW had stepped on it, jumped
up on chair and called Philetus a
liar and Absalom an idiot, and next
minute everybody was fghtin', Den-
con Spooner, who was TO blame more
than anyone else, lodged chair
thrown at his head and tried to climb
out Of the window, They pulled him
back and hammered him so bad that
he was laid up for month, 1t wasn't
fight between the flats and rounds,
but free-for-all, and it lasted till
every man had rolled downstairs.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
Preserved Leaves.

Now is the season to preserve leaves
and ferns, and the fashion for these as
household ornaments is coming again.
Gather the leaves upon their branches
and as soon as possible after gathering
iron the leaves with warm iron which
has been rubbed over paraffine candle
The leaves will now be doubly shiny;
should they grow dlAl, rub them with
oil once in awhile to remove the dust.
Fasten the branches over the stairways
and upon picture frames, and your
house will have the look of Indian sum-
mer all the year.
Palms are treated in the same way
and are highly successful; they can
be placed in the ground and will look
exactly as though fresh growing all
winter.
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
Rrnn for Dairy Cows.

Cows giving milk may or may not
need grain feed when they are at pas
ture. 1t depends very much on how nu-
tritious the pasture is, But we think
they will always be glad 10 eat bran
mash, made by putting the bran in
nearly boiling hot water, and letting
it cool down to the animal tempera-
ture. No matter how good her feed
may have been through the day. the
COW will always eat such bran mash
as this. We have no doubt that she
needs it, and that thereby the amount
and value of the milk will be largely
increased. If this bran feed makes the
COW grow thin, then will be time
enough to add some grain meal with
it, taking care not to give enough to
get the cow off her feed, which always
results in lessened milk yields, besides
being every way injurious. Z
Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1898-12-01
.AEECDoTE OF GEN. MEADE.
TEIB Breach OF Military Discipline 10
Express His Gratitude to n
Sentry,

Alta little village on the Susquehanna
river met an old soldier who related
this incident of his experience with
Cen Meade in the late war. / have
forgotten his name and the place where
IL occurred. 1t was a raw night in
October, and the wind was rather
strong, and Meade had fixed a stove
in his tent. The soldier was the SEN
try for the general. A puff of wind
knocked Gown the improvised stove
pipe and soon the tent filed with
smoke The general came out and
asked the sentry to help him rear
range 1t. The soldier replied that he
was under orders and could not leave
his post of duty.
Yes, yes said Meade; that is
true, but | would like to have that
StOvepipe fixed. You are right" and
the general went at the job himself,
~I kept pacing my beat" said the
soldier, "and enjoyed Meade's efforts
to get the pipe back in its place. He
made a sorry mess of it. Finally he
turned TO me, and said; Sentry, you
will have TO help me. I will be re-
sponSi6le for you, and if th,re is any
trouble about your leaving the beat
1 will explain to the commit Nding Off
cer.'
Elm a few minutes we had the pipe
in position. Meade disappeared into
the. tent without word of thanks,
but he soon came out with a Jug of
;Applejaek and asked me to take
"a drink Once more 1 reminded him
Il was ON duty. Yes, yes he answered;
II know; but you helped me to fix the
sLOvepipc.7
ale turned on his heel and reentered
the trnt- leaving the jug outside. After
n time he came out.
"'Did goa drink he inquired.
nodded
al knew you would, but 1 did not
see Pittsburgh Dispatch.