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The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

Photographic tombstones is a mover
industry which has been instituted by
a co1ored man in this city, who was at
one time boy-Of-all-work in a photo
graph gallery He has recently
branched out for himself, and has al
ready established a remunerative busi-
ness, which promises to open even
wider field in the future. He visits the
various cemeteries with his cameras,
and when the day is fair he takes pic
lures of many of the imposing mOnu-
ments- After he has developed hiR
plates he takes proofs around among
the relatives of the deceased, and usu-
ally finds a ready sale for his pictures
OF course, he has to take chances, for
he works entirely without orders,
trusting to sentiment for his sales
Still, he says it is very seldom that ne
doesn't get an order He also has a
habit OF haunting the marble works
where tombstones are made, and by
striking while the iron is hot he takes
a picture before even the bereaved rel
atives have seen the stone--Philadel-
phia Record
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25
WAMBOLD.

Wambo1d came out of the mountains.
He had long curling black locks, a
slender, supple body, and an indehna-
bic air which can, perhaps, best be
described patience No one in town
had ever seen him before, and he did
not say anything about his past He
appeared, in fact, to be interested only
in the future, and his interest in that
was so broad and general that it was
almost the sole theme of his discourse
Not only was it the subject of his con-
versation, but he harangued about 1T
on the street corners evenings after
the men had come down from the
mines
What are you waiting for?" he
would cry. standing hatless the
street with the sunset throwing a red
light about his emotional face You
waiting for these mighty mountains
to roll up as a scroll? You want the
sun to drop down out of the sky and
the stars to shoot from their places?
Does it need all that to show you that
the day of judgment will surely come?
Why, you blind leaders of the blind,
the miracles are about you every
hand, and they are within yourselves
Nothing is SO wonderful as yourselves,
and if you will read the book of your
own hearts you will find there the
surances of immortality-nay, you will
discover an Unborn sense of justice
which will warn you that the day of
judgment must come.'' Such words
as these he would speak in rather a
low voice of even modulation; then,
with a sudden wild gesture he would
fairly scream: why, then, do you
daily? Tomorrow exploding dynamite
at your mines may hurl you out of the
world. While you are delaying your
horse may slip and carry you with him
! down the precipice. Now is the time
| to repent Hurry Hurry You can
| not run fast enough. But the way is
| difficult and the shadows of night are
| coming fast. There he waits you on
| the mountains. Will you with
eager feetz>'
Then-the hour being what it was
with a sudden glory the sun would
| touch the distant SHOWS of the mountain
| indicated by the preacher and it would
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

The next morning the sun smiled
with confidential popularity upon the
town, and it behe1d every woman and
son of woman going to the circus-and
the town was clear of hysteria for the
first time in a month.
Wen meet the parson by the road
side a-warnin US, I'll bet said Cud
White to his wife. But he was wrong.
All day, while the drums beat and
the horns played, and the ringmaster
snapped his whip, and the bareback
riders 1abored at their nimble task
there were two sessions of the circus
that day-the blinds of Wambo1d's
cabin remained fast.
After it was all over the people went
to their homes penitent- They were
touched by the silent rebuke of those
closed shutters. Some of them knocked
at the door, but there was no answer.
Wen have to make up with the
parson tomorrow said they, contrite-
1y- But the morrow brought them a
strange tale. 1t was the station agent
who told it
Yes he said to those who got
wind of his tale, when the circus folks
come down to take No. at AIS, L
seen a familiar form amongst EN-
tShucks,' says 1, it's the parsonI' But
1 didn't RELY believe it. It was,
/ though The women, they was pettin'
him an twistin' his cur1s about their
hHserS, and the men was s1app1n MIN
on the back an Iaughin' fit to kill
| 1 called OUT That you, parsOn2' An
| he stopped stone still an looked at
me like a baby that is goIn' to cry
| Then he puts his fingers to the end of
| his nose and wags EN- at me, an that
/ there girl that did the jumpin', through
the paper WhoOpS, she pulls him up on
| the platform. ole friend of yOurn :?
1 asks the ringmaster- Who2 VAN
| bo1d?' says he Well. should smoker.
| Best clown ever had L thought that
was the last of tn parson. but just
as tn train was pullin' out he comes
| on the platform and he looks at tn
| mountain an kim O. trembles, an then
| he looks like a cryin' baby agin. But
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

1ncreasInE Demand for Good Mutton
C. f. Curtis, in a report to the De-
partment of Agriculture, says: The
American people have been character
lied as a nation of pork eaters and
Dork producers, with little or no ap-
probation of good mutton. However
this may have been in the past, the
conditions are rapidly changing. Per-
maps the recent depression in the price
OF wool is largely accountable for the
readjustment and changed condition;
at any rate, there is a constantly in
creasing demand for good mutton in
the United States. The Chicago mar
more mutton sheep than during any
previous year, and the receipts dur
1ng 1898 are the largest on record
Notwithstanding the impetus of in
creased demand and good prices and
the rapidly increasing population, the
number of sheep in the United States
is considerably lower than in former
years. The average of the numbers on
hand each year, January L, from 1891
TO 1895 inclusive, was A AS, S85, and
the average of the number on hand
January 1, from 1896 to 1899 inclusive,
was 37,972,21 During the former
period two Canadian provinces, Que
bee and Ontario, sent to our markets
1924, O46 head of sheep, valued at near
~ $4,000. 900. This importation of NUT
ton sheep from Canada still continues,
Notwithstanding the fact that heavy
duty is imposed, and that Canadian
mutton is also made higher-priced
feeds and lands than prevail in our
country During the past year the
number of sheep imported at Buffalo
alone was IFS, 697, valued at $574,SS2
We have also been importing twenty
I'VE to thirty million dollars worth OF
wool annually during recent years.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25
LOVING WIFE
And the Trouble She Saved Her Hu
band by ThoughtfuIuess,

And the Trouble She Saved Her Hus-
band by ThouEhtfuIness,
Philadelphia Inquirer: You've all
read lots of jokes about the woman
who gets up in the dead of the night
to rifle her husbands pockets said a
friend of the Saunterer- They usual
" confine themselves to the purloining
of what small change happens to be
there. But here's a case I know of,
of a woman in West Philadelphia, who
showed much more enterprise than
that, and who, think, deserves the
palm. 1t happened the other night
The womanS husband is a travelling
man and is now home for a couple
Of months He was out the other
night, and as he did not get in until
between two and three in the morn
ing, he was pretty sleepy and his slum-
Der was resultantly heavy. His wife
happened to be just out of change at
the time, and she thought of the old
way of getting it. She got up quietly
and proceeded to go through the suit
which her husband had just taken off,
There was not a cent of change to be
found. and she saw with dismay that
the smallest thing was a ten-dollar bill.
She didn't have nerve enough to take
that, and she was rather in despair
for a moment. Then she came upon
little bundle of tickets bound with
an elastic. Her face frightened up and
she put the package in her jewel box.
! The next morning the clerk at the re-
| demption office of one of the railroads
| paid out three dollars and thirty-two
| cents for seven unused return coupons.
| and the woman went briskly off to
/ spend her ill-gotten gains. And when
| she told a friend, and the friend sug-
| gested that her husband wouldn't bless
| her when he wanted the tickets, she
| answered in a very injured tone, Why.
| just think of the trouble 1 saved him
| in going way down to that horrid Of
fee myself -
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

become indeed Mount of Transhgura-
ton.
It was easy, listening to words like
these, to forget that the speakers
nished bullion embroidery, was greasy
with the trailing of the long black
curls about the shoulders, nor was it
pertinent to observe the incongruity of
this tawdry garment with the miners
coarse shirt and the weather-beaten
sombrero, which, oddly enough, was
not the sombrero of the mountains, but
that of the Arizona cattle plains The
trousers reached only to the knee and
matched the jacket N color, texture
and decoration; from the knees down
the preachers legs were incased in
high-hee1ed top boots such as COW boys
affect.
Amt you more to your name
than what you've to1d2" asked Cud
White, the bartender '.Wambo1d amt
much Of Christian name to my guess
in
The bartender, who knew Christian
usages, and the preacher, who did not
smiled at each other meaningly, and a
crowd gathered round. The parson
drew something from his hip pocket
with sort of a hourish-something
like the throwing of kiss-and
sonal interest
''Cud,'' he said, softly. lis my name
any of your business 20
ct don't know as it is replied Cud,
agreeably- So they shook hands, and
it was decided generally that the
preacher had grit His stock went up
so per cent
AS time went on the preacher grew
more 1mpassioned, and many of the
women and few of the men submit
| ted to immersion in the icy mountain
| stream and went on their way prais-
ing. For a zine an excessive and
| demonstrative happiness pervaded the
/ town. The echoes gave back the hymns
| which the people sung together in the
| open air under the stars, and the dawn
saw praise meetings held by the side
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

OF the tramway that led to the mines
A strange light began to burn in VAN
holds eyes, and his cheek bones be-
came more prominent, fasting and
prayer and exhortation wore him thin.
and his magnetic hands were more
restless than ever in their movements.
In the midst of all this excitement
the posters of a circus We're posted on
the bil1Doards- 1t was done over night
between the coming of the passenger
and the going of the freight trains, and
in the morning the preacher was seen
standing before them a long time. 1t
worried the people. Was he going to
be so rigorous to forbid them in
diligence in their chiefest pleasure?
1t proved to be the case. Never be-
fore had he been so fierce in his de-
nunciations of anything as he was OF
that circus. The town was shaken by
the storm of his disapprova1-and 1T
was divided to its course of action
The night the circus came to town
Wambold held a prayer service, and he
cried with a great voice that Satan
was in the midst of them with scar
wept- They did not want to belong to
Satan, but neither did they want to
stay away from the circus
The blinds of the preachers cabin
were closed that evening, and no light
shown through them. The people won
| 00TSd why aSy cOulQ hSfSI A1N e
| imagined the truth-that Wambold lay
face downward upon the clean linen
of his bed crying aloud to the Lord OF
the hills to give him refuge from the
| harassments of the evil one. Nor could
they have guessed that when the
mountains brooded over the sleeping
town that the preacher crept out OF
| his house and did not stay his steps
| till he stood where the showmen were
driving the stakes for their tents. and
the women were boiling black coffee
over their camp fires He shifted the
| indescribab1 Bile circus aroma-horses
| leather, sawdust, fod6er-aS If it were
the sweet south wind breathing upon
a bank of violetS. He bent eager
ear to the jokes of the men, to the long
night plant of the Gagged leopard and
the loud laughter of the women Their
he stole back again to his darkenet
cabin.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

under the treatment. Black Tartarian
cherry on Maxard roots, Norway
spruce hemIock and Lawson cypress
did not The general result OF the
tests was very encouraging to the adj
vocateS of close root pruning.
A series of tests was made by the
Georgia station, mainly with the peach
but including also the apple and
cherry, with results indicating that
peach trees pruned by this method
will live and flourish in this section
even in stir clay soil and under ad-
verse meteorological conditions This
statement may also be extended to
cover apples and cherries"
The method was tested at the In
diana station. The season was con-
sidered exceptionally favorable 1.-The
result of this experiment showed that
the peach tree was capable, after be-
ing deprived of all its roots and
branches, of producing a magnificent
root system and a top to correspond.
The dwarf pear, standard pear, Ger
man prune, and Early Richmond
cherry came next in order, the latter
making very little root development on
the pruned trees
GUY E. MITCHELL
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

This is known scientifically as
BrOmus uniolOides- It is apparently
a native of the southwestern part of
the United States, and was one of the
first of the native grasses to be brought
under cultivation. It is known as Aus
tralian oats, Australian bromo, Arctic
Grass, and Schrader's bronze. AL
though usually annual, repeated
cuttings or persistent grazing will
prevent seed bearing, and SO enable
the plant to live several years. Tt
grows best on rich 1oamy soil and in
most localities should be treated as an
annual, as it is soon crowded out by
other grasses on land that has not re-
Gently been p1owed. 1t seeds freely
and yields volunteer crops a far north
the District of Columbia. When
sown suitable soil in August and
September it begins it's growth with
the first autumn rains, and in favor
able season will give good grazing in
December, while in dry and unfavor-
able season it may be worth but little
before February or March. When it is
at its best it will often give two good
cuttings for hay. Should it be desired
to grow it continuously on the same
field, the land ought to be p1owed
after the seed has matured during the
summer it may be used to grow a crop
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

The York (Maine) Transcript saya
that a Portland minister recently
called upon one OF the families in his
parish He assembled the steps and
Knocked at the door Receiving no re-
Spouse he was about to depart, when
he heard a window in the next house
open and a woman's voice. Mrs
Smith, the minister's at FOUR door,"
What was the pastors surprise and
amusement when he caught Mrs.
--Smith's'' response waited gently
around the corner of the house. "Shz
don't you s'pose know it," The next
Sunday after service Mrs Smith" met
her pastor and expressed her sorrow
that she was away when he had called
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25
Abandoned Farms in Now

Abandoned Farms in Now gland.
Ny attention has been called to what
is known the abandoned farms of
New England. A personal inspection
of some of these farms shows that
they are not abandoned on account of
sterility of soil, but are in many cases
capable of affOrding a good living to
Industrious farmers, and under more
favorable auspices than are farms in
some of our newer states, on account
of nearness to market, educational in
situations, and other desirable en-
vironments. The agrostologist of the
department has visited several of these
farms to ascertain in what way help
can be given by the introduction of
grasses suitable to their various con-
ditions, and the soil physicist will
study conditions on these farms and
indicate which soils may be prOhtab
cultivated and which should be de-
voted to forestry. The forester Will
also visit these localities and determine
what varieties of trees are most desir-
able. The department will endeavor to
have farmers bulletins prepared
along these several lines for diStribu-
ton among the farmers of New Eng
Misunderstanding of Agriculture Will
son.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25


Efforts are being made to breed up
the Virginia persimmon. Persimmons
and coon hunts are intimately asso-
ciated. With the cold frosty nights of
autumn comes the desire to follow the
dogs and hear that excited bark as
coon is freed, and this weather also
takes the quicker out of the persimmon
and makes 1T tOothsome alike to
darkey and to possum. The Tennessee
Experiment Station considers the wild
persimmOn a promising fruit CONNER
cially- The very limited culture which
it now receives is profitable and the
supply is not equal to the demand.
These conditions have been an incen-
tive during the past few years to the
Improvement of the wild types. 1t is
expected that a fruit will be secured
of considerably larger size and one in
which the seeds do not constitute such
a large proportion. OF course the Jap
anese varieties form a high and mar
ketable order of fruit, but these are
more or less tender against cold.
Nitrate of soda.-Nitrate of Soda
works particularly Well on acid soils
the residual soda tending to improve
their chemical character. In relation
to su1phate Of ammonia the reverse is
true owing to the residue being a
strong mineral acid. On quite acid
soils suIphate of ammonia acts inju-
riously at once or after few years
provided the land is not lined treated
with wood ashes or dressed annually
with large amounts of stable manure
This effect Of sulphate of ammonia
has been noticed at Kingston, Hope
Valley and Abbott Run, in Rhode
Island; at North Had1ey in Massachu-
sets; by Prof. Sanborn at Hanover
N H, and by Prof Phelps in Con
necticut- The extended Rhode Island
experiments have shown the power OF
lime in correcting these soil condi-
tons
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

poultry writer's to charge roup to colds
The fact is that a cold and roup are
very different things Roup is a BAG
teriaI disease, and cold is not But
a cold may make the bird more easily
attacked by roup germs that may be
in the poultry house
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

L heard tn women yelEin' to him, an
one of tn fe1lers he comes out an
yankS him in. And tn train got q
move on 'er and went slidfn' down tn
grade
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

Potash and Peach Trees.-Peaches,
like all other products of the soil, need
feeding Potash and phosphoric acid
are the principal constituents required
in making the fruit. An excess of nj
trogen will produce rank growth at
the expense of the fruit buds. Take
for instance, the peach tree near the
kitchen door which gets plenty of
soapy water, which contains a large
amount of I've (potash)- 1t always has
a full crop A few pounds OF potash
and phosphate around each tree during
the later winter and you will be more
than repaid for the trouble and ex-
penSe-
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25
FARM AND GARDEN.
MATTERS OF INTEREST TO
AGRICULTURISTS.

Some Up-to-Date Hints About Gull
tivatIon of the Son Yields
Observation-Disclosures viticulturs and
E1Or1cuIture.
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

Unless the lambs are to be fattened,
feeding them oats should be stopped
after the season is advanced enough to
make good. nutritive grass But the
oats, varied with some dry wheat bran,
will be needed by the eve until her
milk dries up In this way eve may
be kept IN milk longer than she IS
likely to be when she grows only one
lamb and receives only the usual
treatment given to ewes with lambs
There viii also be two lambs instead
OF one, and both better than the one
would have been if it received only
ordinary feed and care
The Globe-republican. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1889-1910, 1900-01-25

Tt is reported that packers ara M
longer demanding very heavy hogs
and one that weighs ESQ POUNDS is
now considered a good one.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-30

eminent can take no action regarding
the reported desertion to the boer
army of portion of the Chicago ambu-
lance corps.
Gen. Warren. censured by Lord
Roberts, is said to have been peremp-
torily ordered home, while Col. Croft
ton, who succeeded Gen. Woodgate on
Spion kop, is put on half pay.
Information to the London Times
says that the present boer strength is
$4,000 men, $4,000 of whom are in the
Free State, 10000 in the Biggarsberg
district and $4,000 at other points.
The 10000 British soldiers on the
way to relieve Wepener met with
check in two battles. Lord Methuen
was forced to retire and his entire sup
ply train narrowly escaped capture.
Sir Michael Hicks-Beach says the
war bids fair to have the greatest re-
suits for the empire and the world and
that Great Britain should see to it
that when it is over it should never oc-
cur again.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1900-04-30

Waldeck- Rousseau may reopen the
Dreyfus case to bring disgrace on the
generals.
Russian aeronauts start to organize
a military balloon service for the
Transvaal
The legislature of Sweden has voted
several million kroners for arms and
ammunition.
Castro's rule of Venezuela is alleged
to be tyrannical and another revolu-
ton threatens.
The French press hopes that Bryan
will be elected president and intervene
in boer war.
The famine is increasing in India.
Relief is inadequate. Natives are at
lacking Europeans.
British troops have been sent to
check a native rising in the Canaan
country, west Africa.
An earthquake in New Britain de-
stroyed dwellings and caused great
assures in the earth.
Members of the Chinese Boxers
society massacred many native Catho-
lies near Pas Ting Flu.
Russians expect that Port Arthur
and Vladivostok will be connected by
rail not later than August.
Leading Italian newspapers oppose
the renewal of commercial treaties
with Germany and Austria.
Either the crown prince or the duke
Of Ansta will REPRESENT Italy in Ber-
lin when the kaisers meet.