The Globe-republican., 1898-11-10
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Mich inro.eneat is sdtag % i.

Nuch Improvement is gotag o. in
Kansas
The agricultural college Is doing
some sple4did work.
+! After next week there will be clear
track for foot ball news.
Sherman Gates, Wichita boy, goes
TO Australia, where he has good job
working for a New York electrical
company.
Not even the jugglers magic flower
vase is more prolific than good old
Kansas soil. Joe Gravel of Harvey
county, is just harvesting his second
'crop'of potatoes off the same piece of
ground.
/ Never in one year has there been so
many debts paid and so much improve
ment made as there has been in Kan
sas during the past twelve months.
Let the good work go on and all will
be happy.
Kansans are enjoying sublime aut-
umn weather just at the present time.
But then as general thing, Kansans
scarcely get touch of winter until
after Christmas, and sometimes as late
i:Rs January.
Last weeks Golfers Weekly con-
tanned a picture of Johnny Outland,
the Mitchell county Quaker boy who
is.captain of the Pennsylvania Univer-
sity foot ball team. 1t was rafting
good picture of him, too. A Chicago
paper of recent date printed a cut Ia
beled Captain Outland'' which looked
more like a pirate would after . hard
fight at sea.
+. e. q. King, proprietor of the Mead
ow Brook sheep farm, near Burlington
came nearer scooping the platter with
Merinos than any other exhibitor at
the Omaha exposition. He secured 10
out of 90 first premiums, and in all
gathered in II premiums. When a de-
liberate effort is made to make it pos
sible for any Kansas product to strut
at the head of the procession It gener-
ally succeeds.
Woodson county will vote on q prop
osition to issue $50, 900 worth of bonds
for the purpose of erecting court
house. Mitchell county ought to fol-
low suit. 1t is probably safe to say
that Mitchell county has the poorest
apology for court house to be found
in the state. It is such ram-shackle
old hut that the sessions of the district
court are held in another building, as
the crowd in attendance would surely
wreck the ''court house," and the coun.
| ty officials have rooms in four or five
different buildings.
The dairy department of the expert.
ment station has been experimenting
ing between butter and oleo margar.
| inc. Take very small portions of but.
ter and oleo margarine, about the size
of pin head, and place in separate
spots on clean piece of glass. Adrop
of ether placed on the butter will as
sumo wavy but somewhat regular
outline; while drop placed on the
oleo margarine will have a ragged out
line, very much like the appearance of
cog wheel with the cogs sharpened
to a point.
Clay Park has loosed the rein of fam
cy's pen and sings song which makes
us say amen: ''The wizard of autumn
has waved his wand over Kansas, and
within a fortnight change of nature
has been wrought as marvellous AS ever
sprang from magirian's conjurations.
The green of woodland and pasture
has burst into the scarlet tints of aut-
umn days, and on the heart of forest
and meadow there is flame of golden
glory such as was never born in artists
| widest visions. There are no autumn
days: no autumn scenes like those of
Kansas, anywhere else"
A new source of revenue in Western
Kansas just now coming in is celery.
1t is grown moderately on the upland
by the aid of irrigation, but the most
profitable experiments have been in
the lowlands, along the creek valleys
where the water is nearer the surface;
Along the Beaver, the forks of the
Sappa, the Prairie Dog and the Solo
mon no less than fifty men have been
successful in the growth of celery-so
successful that they yearly increase
their plants and in Denver, where it is
marketed, their product is sold along
with the Michigan article.
A good many Kansas newspapers are
Dragging about the amount of job
work they are turning out just at pres