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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-23
Persons, Places
and Things
ELEPHANTS AND THEIR WAYS.

Generally Accepted Ideas Found to Be
Incorrect.
The average term of an elephants
life, although there is no precise in
formation on the point, is 20 or so
years. The elephant is not in full
vigor and strength till 35. The most
ready way of forming an approximate
idea of the age is by the amount of
turnover of the upper edge of the ear.
In young animals, sometimes up to
the age of s or years, the edge is
quite straight; it, however, then be-
gins to turn over and by the time the
animal is 80 the edges lap over to the
extent of an inch and between this
age and so this increases to two inches
or slightly more. Extravagant ideas
are held as to the height of an ele-
phant. Such a thing as an elephant
measuring ten feet at the shoulders
does not exist in India or Burma San
derson, who is admitted to be the best
authority on the subject, says the
ured nine feet ten inches and the tall
est female eight feet five inches. The
majority of elephants, however, are
below eight feet and an animal rarely
reaches nine feet, the female being
slightly shorter than the male. The
carcass of an elephant seven feet four
inches tall weighed in portions gives a
total weight of $500 pounds, so an ele-
phant weighing two tons should be
common enough. The skin was about
three-fourths of an inch to one inch
thick.
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REeALADo A GOOD SHOT.
President of Salvador May Some Day
Find Accomplishment Useful.

President of Salvador May Some Day
Find Accomplishment Useful.
Cen Regalado, president of Saliva
dor. is evidently a first-class shot, ac-
cording to the New York Herald He
went the other day on board of a man.
of-war for the purpose of testing a
new army rifle In spite of the motion
of the vessel he hit twice in success
sion a cartridge shell which was sus-
pended from a white thread at a dis
tance of thirty PAGES.
With this, however, he was not sat
isfied, and, turning to the commander
in-chief of the army, he said: 'I now
propose to hit the white thread, and
shall be much obliged if you will
hold it for me-
Without a word the commander-in-
chief went to the spot where the
thread hung, and, taking the top of it
between his fingers, he held it out at
arms length The next moment the
president fired and cut the thread in
two i've inches below the hand of the
man holding it.
He then called the commander-fn-
chief and asked him to accept as a
gift the rifle he had used
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-08-23

Combine Poultry Raising and Farming.
Poultry raising as a separate busi-
ness is very much more difficult to
manage than is poultry raising when
combined with farming. The farmer
has a decided advantage. In the first
place he can usually utilize the extra
help to advantage and much help that
would otherwise be wasted can also be
utilized. The feed question Is not
such a great one for him as for the
professional poultry raiser. He raises
the feed and thus saves the cost OF
commercial handling and the middle
mems profits. This makes consid-
erable balance in his favor. At GER
tain seasons, as in the fall after the
larvests have been gathered, immense
quantities of feed are produced on the
farm, such as the second growth OF
young clover. If the fowls have free
range the insect supply is not an un-
important factor, which is not the case
on the ground of the professional poul-
try raiser. When insects are plentiful
the fowls are most profitable. The
range alive with insects is a great
thing for the young and growing birds,
as it induces a very large amount of
exercise and establishes their health.
The marketing of eggs and poultry
is also worked into the trips that are
taken to the city for other things. In
fact the raising of poultry is essen
TALLY a part of the scheme of general
farming that cannot be cast aside
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A Fancy Poultry House.

From Farmers Review: Can any
of the readers of your raper tell me
how to build a fancy poultry house
that will accommodate not less than
twenty breeds of fowls. ] do not in
tend to keep more than half a dozen
of each variety. My objects in keep
ing them are pleasure, education, and.
lastly, profit. Profit is not the leading
object. If it were l should not attempt
to keep more than one or two varie-
ties. l live in town and do not want
to disfigure the landscape by putting
up an unsightly building or unsightly
yards and posts. / wish to keep the
breeds distinctly separate, so that l
can know what each variety is doing.
Now, what kind of building will be
best? Shall it have q common roof
or one that slants only one way. Can
the latter kind of roof be made artis-
tic in looks? Any light that l can get
on the matter will be greatly appre-
ciated by the inQuirer.-M. M. p.
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popular flavor. They are reputed to
be non-sitters, though occasionally
they are known % sit and hatch
broods.
The comb is rose, the larger the bet
ter, and not overhan.-ng the eyes,
square in front and uniform on each
side. 1t must be firm and even upon
the head, without inclining to one
side, the top covered With small points
and corrugations, terminating at the
rear in a well-developed, straight
spike, and bright red in color Wattles
and earlobes are also a bright red. In
plumage the male and female are red
and black; the head is red, with blue
black hackle, each feather edged with
red: back is red nd black, and breast
is purplish black. The shanks ar
slate-colored. The standard weight of
cocks is 715 pounus; hens, 615 pounds;
cockerels, 6 pounds, and pullets, 5
pounds.
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The Porcupine Fish.

Among the Bermuda rishes Just re-
ceived at the Aquarium is a porcupine
fish, which has been placed in the
tank with the boxfish-
The boxfish has all over its body a
large number of nxed, spiny protuber-
ances. The porcupfne fish differs from
it in having scattered thick1y over its
body many sharp spines that are cap
able of shifting in position Ordinarily
these spines lie fiat against the fish's
skin, but when the fish initiates itself
with water, as it can do. until its body
is also globe-shaped, its many sharp
spines rise up like quills upon the
fretfu1 porcupine-
Hence the name of this fish, which
is sometimes also called hedgehog.
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TO WE'D A MILLIONAIRE
Pretty Telephone Girl Wins Heart of
Albert Edward Tower.

Although the date for the wedding
has not yet been fixed, preparations
are already under way for the mar
riage of Miss Mary Bogardus, tele-
phone girl of Poughkeepsie, N. Y, to
Albert Edward Tower, millioreire pro-
prietor of the Poughkeepsie Iron
Works. Miss Bogardus has resigned
her position in the telephone Office and
with her sister is visiting relatives in
the country.
If the wedding takes place early in
the fall, which is the arrangement at
present, it will occur little more than
six months after the wife of Mr.. Tower
fatally shot her 14-year-old son and
killed herself in the palatial Tower
home in Poughkeepsie.
The acquaintance of Miss Bogardus
and Mr.. Tower began when the manu-
facturer's telephone became one of
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the leading magazines of the country
regularly print Mrs. Dunbar's short
stories. At the time of her marriage
to MIR. Dunbar in 1898 she was a
teacher in the public schools of
Brooklyn. Since her marriage she
has lived in Washington, where she
writes short stories and acts as Soc
retary and general helpmeet to her
husband. This picture is reproduced
from the illustrated volume, "Twen-
tieth Century Negro Literature, :"
which contain over one hundred por-
traits of prominent colored Ameri-
cans, and noteworthy papers by them
on vital topics relating to the Ameri-
can negro.
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Reports continue to come from Min
nesota of the attempts of great mon
led interests to get control of the
creamery butter interests. One of
the officers of the state dairy commits
sion declares that the time is near at
hand when the cooperative creamer-
les will have to fight for existence.
Big concerns will be established at
central points and these will pay big
prices for cream till they have ami
hilated the creameries, after which
they will buy butter at their own
price. In like manner big establish
ments in st. Paul and Minneapolis
will attempt to get control of all the
cream within $50 miles of these cities.
In the meantime some of the big
packing firms of Chicago are taking
steps to secure control of the output
of a good many creameries in the
state, paying an advance over the
market price for the goods. The
firms are evidently planning to spend
a good deal of money in the develop
ment of this new line of interest.
The near future will see tremendous
changes in the butter trade. The
event to be feared is the formation of
an immense butter trust that can con-
troll the price paid the producers and
also the price to be paid for butter
b" the consumer.
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Only Good Cows.

In the great business world no man
now thinks of succeeding with in
ferior machines. The farmer that
keeps cows should take the lesson
to heart and discard all dairy ma
chines-cows-that are not up to
modern requirements. No matter
what a machine costs, it is better to
throw it out on the dump than use 1t
at a constant loss. Only good dairy
machines can be prof1tably used. The
good cows make butter at a profit.
The ordinary dairy cows make butter
without profit or loss, and the poor
cows make butter at a loss. Now 1t
is evident that no matter how much
a COW costs, it is best to send her TO
the butcher if she either loses money
or makes butter with no profit There
are in the hands of farmers many
cows that have cost a good deal of
cows at one time, but have outlived
their usefulness. These should be
fattened up at once and sent to the
butcher. Some men say they will fat
ten and dispose of their COWS few
months hence, when they have dried
up. But what is the use of keeping
cows at all if they are losing money
for their owners every day. The
sooner they are sent away the richer
will their owners be. Farmers and
dairymen can afford to keep only good
cows. All others are a detriment to
the farmer and the farm.
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Sign of Advancing Age.

According to Sir James Crichton
Browne the hand begins to lose its
suppleness when the individual is
about 40 years of age. The scale of
wages in the button trade, for ex-
ample, is a good indication of this
tendency of the hand to grow old
so early in life. At his very best,
in his prime, a skillful button maker
can make 6,240 ivory buttons a day
on his lathe. For this he receives
45 shillings week. When the work
man is IS years of age he can seldom
make more than 20 shillings. this pro-
viding that he still enjoys sound.
health.
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Feeding oat Straw.

From the Farmers Review: Do you
think it a good plan to have oat straw
stacked in pasture, SO stock can run
to it in winter? How does straw af-
feet milch cows?-Chas. p. Power,
Sangamon county, Illinois
We consider the use of oat straw in
this manner wasteful and not calcu-
lated to give best results with cattle.
1t is better to cut the stack with hay
knife and feed straw from racks as
required along with corn fodder and
other foods. Care must be taken to
supply plenty of water and salt when
cattle are eating straw to prevent con-
stipation. Bright oat straw is excel
lent food for milch cows when fed in
conjunction with other foods. A favor
ite plan of feeding it is to run it
through a cutter, then wet and mix
with meals or pulped roots and mo
lasses- A sprinkling of the latter viii
make such food palatable In our
opinion. where the straw is fed from
stack as you propose the food is
soiled, bleached and rendered less
nutritious.
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Red Caps.

This variety, says government re-
port, is the largest of the Hamburg
class, their size averaging that of the
Minorca- Red Caps are an old breed,
mention of them being made by some
of the old authors. They are not as
popular as the Hamburgs, there being
difficulty in breeding them with good
combs and clearly defined plumage.
Their large combs stand in their way
as popular birds, and unless the combs
are square and even it makes miser-
able sight Redcaps are hardy and
mature early, and, like Hamburgs, are
excellent layers. For market purposes
they are good, their size and quality
of desh being recommendations for
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Buff orpinatons.

From Farmers Review: We have
not kept an egg record of our Orping-
tons, but expect to this fall and could
then give you their record. They are
quicker maturing chicken than any
we ever raised except the cross Barred
Rocks and Bun Cochin, but the Or
pingtons far surpass them in the quail
ity of the flesh, it being a fine, tender
grain. Their weight when mature Is
from seven to nine pounds in the hens
and from eight to twelve in the cocks
They begin to lay at five months and
keep it up all winter. Their white
skin and plump breasts make them a
nice looking fowl when ready for cook
ing.-Percy w. Hutton. Linn County,
Iowa.
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The Practice of Cross Breeding.

Prof. C. S. Plumb: The practice of
cross-breeding is; excepting one gener-
alton, and that for the butcher, usually
unsatisfactory. This policy seems to
set free in succeeding generations
weaknesses and undesirable qualities
that had apparently lain asleep in the
well-established breed-qualities that
the improvers had in the pure breed
fairly suppressed. Undoubtedly the
nearest successful approach to cross
ing lies in the use of very high-class
males on grades of the same general
type. In this way herds are bred up
and improved, so that really fine herds
are developed by discriminating breed
ers. At our fat stock shows provisions
are made for showing two classes of
fat steers-pure bred and grades or
cross breds; and while numerous pure
breds, and high grades, are shown, it
is not often that steers from pure-bred
parents crossed are shown Yet high
grades and cross-breds have won
many a ribbon over the pure-breds,
though all such crosses are usually
the result of mating animals of very
harmonious qualities. When such
crossing is done, the new blood for one
generation seems to give added vigor
and strength to the feeder. And SO
authorities on breeding are very gen.
orally agreed that the value of cross
ing lies mainly in producing for the
butcher.
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Fattenins Sheep in the Corn Belt.

Fattening Sheep in the Corn Belt.
Prof. w. A Henry: A new indus
try has sprung up within the corn
belt in the last decade-that of fat
tening plains sheep in the corn
wing centers. In the winter of 1889
and 1890 there were fattened in the
state of Nebraska 900 head of
plains sheep, the great corn crop of
that year forming the basis of op-
erations. Briefly the system is as
follows: During the summer, plains
sheep are purchased in New Mexico,
Colorado, or other western ranges
These sheep are gradually moved
eastward, grazing as they CO. Often
they are dipped en- route to destroy
scab or make sure there is no scab,
system. By the time corn is ripe
the sheep have reached some place
where it is on sale in vast quantities
and at a low price. A corral or en-
closure is made of pickets, and into
until fattened. Sometimes there are
sheds for shelter, usually not. Often
10000 to 10000 are divided into
punches and fed at a single point.
Wild hay is unloaded against the
picket fence, through which the sheep
feed. The only labor in handling the
hay after unloading is for an at
tendant to keep it moved up close
to the fence. From one and half
to two bushels of corn fed in troughs
are required per day for 100 head of
sheep. To this is usually added a few
pounds of oil meal. The feeding con-
tinues about 100 days, the sheep
gaining on an average about Is
pounds per head during that time.
The profit comes mainly from in
creasing the original value of the
sheep. The industry is an irregular
and uncertain one. If scab breaks
out, as it is liable to do, there is
often a heavy loss to the feeder.
Again, the profit depends upon the
price of corn, which varies greatly
from year to year and cannot be
foretold much in advance of the time
of feeding.
Large numbers of Montana sheep
are fed in much the same manner in
Minnesota on the screenings from
mills and elevators. This feed is
proving excellent for the purpose. Be
cause of bits of straw and chaff in
the screenings, fattening sheep do
not surfeit so easily on screenings as
on corn, and they may even be fed
without giving any hay in addition.
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The Home Of EnsIand's Wealth.

The Bank of England generally con-
tains sufficient gold, in 16lb. bars, to
make 2O,0OO,000 sovereigns. The Bank.
which stands in three parishes, covers
three acres of ground, and, as the
current price of land in the vicinity
works out at 91, 100000 an acre, it
is easy to form an idea of the money
value of the home of England g
wealth. The ratable value is about
Ell, 900 a week, the Bank employs
about 1000 people, pays a quarter
of a million a year in wages, and
e 35 600 a year in pensions. There
are E25 .000, 900 worth of notes in cir
culation which have been handed
over the Banks counter.
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Chicago, and his wife are the only
Americans who reside at all perma-
nently in the Island of Guadaloupe.
Mrs. Ayme is at the present time
alone in this unusual distinction, her
husband, who will be remembered as
the first man to notify the world at
large of the dreadful volcanic disaster
at Martinique, having been in this
country since the middle of June on
Official business. There is a vice
consul at Point-a-Pitre, but as he is
a Frenchman Mrs. Ayme doesn't con-
slider him as really the representative
of the United States, and conse-
quently will allow no one but herself
to raise the Stars and Stripes above
the consulate every morning at 6
o'clock or to lower the coiors at sun
set. When Mr.. Ayme is at home he
says he invites the entire American
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of the Republic. Gen. Goblin was com.
mander of a brigade during the war
with Spain and was elected lieutenant
governor of Pennsylvania in 1898. He
has the full confidence of Gov. Stone
and has had experience in preserving
peace in the mining districts in the
time of strikes.
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Birthstone Fumes as Egg Preservative

At the R. 1. Station. on May Is, 1899.
twenty Leghorn eggs, similar to those
used in the previous tests, were sub
Jected for one hour to the fumes of
burning birthstone and then packed,
In MOWERS OF sulfur- Result: Good, o
per cent; bad, 100 per cent. On ex-
animation, May 81, 1900, the shells
were somewhat discolored in spots
The air cells were considerably en-
larged and contained more or less
green, black or white mould. In some
cases the yolks were stuck to the side
of the shell. Some yolks were gummy
and others cheesy. These eggs were
all stale and many of them rotten.
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For Kansas Dairy Commissioner.

The dairyuaen of Kansas are NOV
ing for the establishing of a state
dairy aud food com mission At the
present time that state has nothing
of the kind. the present law prohibit
ing only the adulteration of milk and
vinegar Many of the progressive
commissions. while in some others
the laws pertaining to the adultera-
ton of dairy products are admins
tered by the state boards of health.
1t is claimed that Kansas maa1fac-
lures 50.0Oo.0 900 pounds of butter per
year. The state developed along tais
line with great rapidlty du-ias the de-
preston of a few years ago. and there
is no doubt that a dairy commissioner
would find enough to keep him busy
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HohceED WITH HIGH POSITION.

Boston Clergyman General Secretary
of Baptist Young Peoples Union.
The Rev. Walter B. Galley of Bos-
ton, who has been made general sec
rotary of the Baptist Young Peoples
Union of America, and will establish
headquarters in Chicago, is pastor of
Boston Tabernacle. He was born in
Dover, Del, in 1858 of Quaker par
erts. He was prepared to enter the
publishing business, but by attending
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A person suffering from any dis
ease, or who has been exposed to a
contagious disease. must remain away
from the cows and the milk.
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Quoted by the Rev. Isaac M. Halde-
man, he was led to adopt the ministry.
He graduated from Crozier Seminary
in 1880. His first pastorate was in
Bethlehem, Pa, and three years later
he took charge of the Philadelphia
mission boards. After nine years he
went to Cambridge. Mass, as pastor
of Charles River church. After paying
on a large debt there he went to the
Baptist Tabernacle in Boston, where
his work has been greatly successful.
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those which Miss Bogardus answered
in her work. Mr.. Tower was charmed
by her voice, sought an introduction,
and proposed marriage. The engage
ment was to have been kept a secret
owing to the recent death of Mrs.
Tower, but now that it is out the
preparations for the wedding are in
progress.
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PEOPLE AND
EVENTS
WIFE OF coLoRED POET.

Mrs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar Also a
Writer Of Some Note.
Mrs. Paul Lawrence Dunbar is a
writer, like her husband. Her first
book was published In 1895 under the
title, 'Violets and Other Tales" and
in 1899 Dodd, Mead & Co. brought out
'-The Goodness of St Rogue" which
met a very kind reception. Some of
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AS THE WORLD
REVOLVES
COMMAND NOT NEW TO GOBLIN
Soldier Has Many Times Been Sent
to Awe Strikers

Gen. John p. S. Goblin, who is in
command of the militia sent to quen
the rioting and keep the peace among
the striking miners at Shenandoah.
Pa, has been prominent as a leader in
the state guard for many years and
is himself an old soldier and past COM
mander in chief of the Grand Army
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Good clover hay is hard to excel as a
feed for the dairy cows
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More crops are ruined by lack of
drainage than this world dreams of.