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The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-08
HAD A NARROW ESCAPE
Mgr. o,connelPs Cab coIIides with Car
Priest Is Unhurt. !.

Priest Is Unhurt.
New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, Dec. S.--Monsignor O'Con-
nell rector Of the Catholic university,
narrowly escaped death yesterday evening
An electric car struck a cab in which he
was seated, demolishing the vehicle, hurl-
ing the horse backward to the bottom OF
an open sewer thirty feet deep and leaving
the priest unharmed on the brink of the
excavation The accident occurred a few
hundred yards from the entrance gates OF
the university.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-08
SECRETARY HAY I'LL

Unable to Go Out-AustrTan AFnbassddoF
Also Afflicted.
New York Sun Special Service
washington, Dec. S.-Secretary Of State
Hay is i'll at home and was unable to go
to the department yesterday. Mrs. Hay,
who has been visiting her daughter. Mrs.
Payne Whitney of New York, has returned
home.
The Austrian ambassador and his little
daughter, Mia, are both confined to the
house with throat affections.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-08

North Platte, Neb.-Hnuters on the river
found the dead body of weIl-dressed stranger
hanging to a tree. Papers showed him to be
Robert Hanson of Union Grove. Wis.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-08

Ottawa Ont-Father Fulham, the priest who
was injured at the Ottawa fire on Wednesday
was injured at the ottawa university FIRE, on
Wednesday last, died to-day.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-08

washington Pain a fre Benjamin Miller,
a fireman, came in contact with electric arc
wires and was electrocuted.
The Minneapolis journal., 1903-12-08
PRINCESS DIDN'T SHOOT

Story That She Did So Is AuthoritativeIy
Denied.
New York Sun Special Service.
s. Vienna. Dec. S.--An official denial is is
sued of the story that Princess Elizabeth
Windisch Graetz shot Louise ziegler a
young czech actress, whom she found with
her husband in the latter's villa at Prague.
The tale is emphatically declared to be a
deliberate invention
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
A MACHINE FOR MAKING
MARBLE BUSTS AT WORH

cine, in fiction and in war, has lent his
name to this invention of what is con-
sidered a remarkable machine. Conan
Doyle and w. G.. Jones, also of Eng
land, have acquired all the British
rights TO the invention.
The machine consists essentially of
needle, or a revolving steel drill, which
is worked automatically. The machine
is designed only for the purely me-
chanical processes of the sculptor's S
art. One machine, it is said, can turn
out as much work in twelve hours as
it takes two months to complete by
hand.
OF course, ones imagination can
run riot as to the possibilities of this
invention. 1t is said that when the
Yankee improvements are made on it,
possibly the laurels of Michael Angelo
and Pygmalion will be in danger. and
the work of the golden age OF Greek
and Italian sculpture will be cleverly
initiated The work the machine does
in seven hours, according to critics, is
astounding. Living models are en-
ployed and likenesses struck off in
marble that are reported to be mo-
velOuS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Two-HandIed Stone sIedqes.

merS have been taken out of tunnels
made by prehistoric men in the iron
mines at Leslie, AriZ. They are made
of black hematite and have no other
finish than a groove about the middle
of each, showing where formerly they
were bound by the withes to wooden
handles. Greensboro and jasper used
by the aborigines for war axes were
not hard enough to chip away the
hematite and expose the pockets of
red oxide of iron which the savage
used as a paint. The form of some of
these hammers shows that they were
fitted with two handles, so that the
operator could hold one in each hand.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
New EnaIand's Immense Tree.

One of the largest trees in New
England is an elm on the farm of
Fred Stanley in Berwick. A foot from
the ground this tree, which was meas
ured by William Harper Deering of
Saco, aged 81, is 35 feet and IL inches
in circumference. If this tree were
manufactured into cord wood, it is es-
timated it would make a pile four feet
wide, four feet high and eighty feet
long. There is a lady now living who
says that her mother set the tree out
and as near as can be ascertained it
was done in 1900.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
The Habit of Growth.

The advice of our best hog raisers
is to keep the pig growing from the
very start. This applies to all other
farm animals. There seems to be a
''habit Of growth" that can be formed
or neglected. If pig is allowed to
stop growing he seems never to re-
acquire the ability to grow rapidly.
The wise hog raiser will see that his
pigs are getting enough milk while
they are with the SOW, and afterwards
he will see that they get full supply
of food as often in the day as they
want it. The critical time is when
the pigs change from their mothers s
milk to grain and grass food. If the
pigs are made to earn their living on
the pasture following steers there is
a tendency to feed them little, so that
they will work harder in picking up
the corn the steers have not used
This may be carried so far as to cause
check in the growth of the pigs
1t requires skill to insure the pigs
enough feed to prevent them being
stunted and yet not SO much that they
will cease to work
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
SWIMMING in Skirts.

20 settle the question whether skirts
were an impediment to swimmers two
young lady visitors, we'll known in vi
emma society circles, dived into the
lake at Geneva in complete summer
toilets, with the exception of hat and
boots Passers-by, believing that the
young ladies intended committing sui
eide. put out in boats to their assist
ance. The ladies, however, refused all
offers of aid, and with difficulty swan
to the shore, a distance of 100 yards.
A carriage was in waiting, which rap
idly conveyed them to their hotel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
AppIyina Manure Green.

John Parton, being asked the ques
ton whether it was better to apply
manure green or well-rotted, replied:
There is less loss in putting manure
on land green than in rotting it before
it rs applied. Besides this, there is a
special advantage that in putting the
manure on in the winter time it is
done at less expense. In rotting the
manure under the most favorable con-
ditions chemists tell us that it loses
SO per cent However, when it is on
the land in the green condition and
the fermentation allowed to take place
in the soil. as soon as any plant food
is liberated it is in the place where 1t
is most readily taken up. Besides
this, the decay of manure in ferment-
ing has a beneficial effect in warming 6
up the soil. Experiments carefully
conducted at Guelph, as to applying
manure fresh and rotted, proved that
the ordinary way of leaving manure
exposed to the weather was wasteful; !;
when protected from rain it was still
subject to loss, and when put on fresh
the best results were obtained.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Doe Waited to Be Shot.

Fred Unger, Bleeker On. "
teamster, was driving on the Glovers-
vile road, when he saw a large doe
come out of the woods a few yards
ahead of his team and begin grazing
at the roadside.
Unger had passed a house some
distance back. He stopped his horses,
and as he was getting on his wagon
the doe looked up at him in a wonder
ing way and then resumed her graz
ing.
Unger hurried back to the house,
where he borrowed gun. When he
got back to his wagon the deer was
sliil cropping the grass &i the load-
side. She heard Unger as he came
back, raised her head and gazed- al
him, but made no movement tC
escape.
Unger fired and killed her where she
stood.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Selecting Seed Wheat.

The greatest difficulty to contend
with in keeping up the quality OF
wheat is the frequency of unfavorable
climatic conditions, says Prof. r. Har-
court of Ontario. 1t has been shown
that one poor ripening season may so
spoil the quality of the wheat that IL
Will take two or three years very
favorable seasons to bring it back TO
its former strength. In the ripen1ng
process, the nitrogenous matter from
which the gluten is formed is first
transferred from the plant to the SEED
This forms the framework of the
seed upon which the starch is after
wards deposited, and the slower and
fuller the ripening, the greater the
deposition of starch. If the formation
Of gluten, then, is normal and hot
weather sets in and ripens the grain
too rapidly, the chances are the starch
formation will not be normal and,
consequently, the wheat will have
larger proportion of gluten and will
make a strong flour. On the other
hand, if the ripening proceeds normal
ly, or if the wheat is allowed to be-
come over-ripe the proportion OF
starch will be larger and the weaker
the flour will be made. Again If storm
should iniure the wheat at the time
gluten is being formed and the plant
afterwards revive, and starch forma-
tion proceed. a weak wheat will re-
suit. Thus it is that season may very
materially influence the quality OF
flour from any wheat. Because OF
these tendencies to change. It becomes
absolutely necessary, if improvement
in quality is to be looked for or even
maintained, to exercise the greatest
care in the selection of seed That
like tends to produce like is true in
the vegetable as well as in the animal
kingdom. If we SOW weak grain we
may expect to reap weak grain, and
if we SOW strong grain we may ex-
pect to get strong grain. If grain from
good strong straw with long, we'll
filled heads is selected for seed, an
increase in the yields may be looked
for. Il follows, then, that the grain
which is to be used for seed should
be selected from the most thrifty
growing parts of the field before the
crop is harvested, when all the condi-
tons of growth and ripening are
known. AS said before. all soils tend
to modify the grain brought to them
A change OF seed from some locality
where, either through greater care or
more favorable conditions, the va
riety desired has been able to hold its
| own, should be made every few years;
but here, also. attention should b0
paid to the previous history Of the
grain, if the best results are to be OBJ
tanned. By judicious selection of seed
grain much improvement can be made,
not only in the quality of the grain,
but also in the yields per acre.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Siberian creameries.

There are, according to recent re-
ports from Siberia, COS creameries in
that country. Three years ago there
were but 334 of these establish ments.
This shows the rapidity with which
the industry is developing in that
country. 1t is true that there are as
yet fewer creameries in all that great
country than in single states of the
American Union, but it Is as yet the
day of small things there. II the but
ter that now comes to the London
market from those Siberian creameries
is already worrying the Danish and
French makers of butter, what will it
be ten years from now, when the ST.
berIans count their creameries by the
thousands instead of by the hundreds
as now? With the government rail-
roads constantly opening new terri
tory, and the officials of Russia lend
ing their paternal efforts to help the
business along, the Importation into
the countries of Europe of large quap-
titles of Siberian butter is certain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Close Hook Action Desired.

A prominent horseman says: In
testing the walking and trotting action
of any horse he should be led straight
away from you, and then brought
back, thereby enabling you to deter
mine whether the action is true or
otherwise. See that they turn up the
soles of their feet and are not pad
dlers. The object in preferring close
hock-action is because much greater
power can be brought to bear than
when the hooks are wide apart. In
the latter case considerable power or
strength is wasted in drawing heavy
loads, and the natural tendency is for
horses that incline to go wide or bulge
out the hooks when young, to grad
ually go wider and wider every year,
until they become quite undesirable
for draft work. This is one Of the
most important points in the mechan-
ism of the draft horse, which has re-
ceived much closer attention in Scot
land than anywhere else and with
beneficial results.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Care of Young Pheasant..

7, The critical time of the young is
the first two weeks, during this time
too much care cannot be given the
young birds; they should be. fed a.
least four times a day, and l find tha,
custard made of milk and eggs is the
best and only feed that should bt.
given them for the first two weeks:
feed them on q board or common pie
pan. Place some directly in front OF
the coop and just as close to the conr
as possible. especially for the first
two or three days, after that the birds
win find the feed anywhere in the
enclosure, as they will by that time
run all over the space allotted them.
Should you prefer, the hen and her
brood can be given their liberty in
five or six days, as by that time the
young will know the call and talk OF
their foster mother and they will not
leave her. The hen will always come
back to the same coop to roost. Never
allow the young to eat any stale Gus
tard, be quite certain that all stale
food is removed before feeding.
After you have given them their lib
erty but little attention need be given
them as the hen will care for her
brood better than you can. However,
find it an excellent idea to feed them
once or twice day, as by so doing
they will get much tanner. Hard
boiled eggs is an excellent food for
pheasants after they are two weeks
old; and boiled potatoes, chopped up
fine, will not be amiss to mix with
The egg, but care should be taken
not to form a paste with the eggs and
potatoes. Should you prefer, the hen
can be left in the coop until the
pheasants are ready to wean in this
case remove the boards and allow the
young to roam over as much territory
as they like They viii not be likely
to get so far away that they cannot
hear their mothers call. Before you
attempt to raise pheasants or quail
kill all your cats. and ii you have
neighbors who have cats tell them
that it means death IL any of their
cats are found trespassing-G. J.
Wilson.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
MOSQUITO a Back Numpcr.

The idea so largely prevalent that
the New Jersey mosquito is the great
est pest that affiicts humanity evident
ly is erroneous. Witness this descrip-
ton of the ''Midge," from an English
periodical: I'VE describe this fear
fully venomous insect with fear and
trembling, for should a true and par
ticular account of the virulent little
beast get to the ears of say half a
dozen of them, and they discover who
was their historian, we might meet
with an excruciating death. In size
the 'Midge" is nothing formidable,
and looks, when not under the lens,
like a tiny bit of black thread about
one-thirtieth of an inch long; and yet
the diminutive speck, which will
crumble to nothing under the slightest
pressure of the finger, can raise a
mound of inf1amed flesh the size of a
baseball, lasting for a period of one
week to three months, or longer, leav-
ing the slenderest ankle with no more
elegance in it than there is in Ger
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Using Pig Skins.

In past ages pig skins were used as
bottles by the people of various coun-
tries With the invention of the glass
bottle this use largely ceased Now
pig skins are again coming into no
tice as of value in various CONNER
cial ways Machinery has been in
vented for the splitting of pig skins
till they are as thin as paper. 1t is
claimed that the resulting fabric is
strong and durable. If the use Of pig
skins in this way becomes common it
will greatly increase the value of our
swine product The skin of the pig
has little or no value as a part of his
edible product When the meat is
eaten this part is almost invariably
cut on and thrown away A commer-
cial use of it would therefore be .
clear gain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17

were: 1900. 2.274.oO0; 1901. 2.s55 900:
1902, 2,551, ,e66 cases. This year the
leading states and storage are: New
York, 6<7, 900 cases; Illinois, 5000;
Massachusetts,, 2s6,000; Pennsylvania,
23S, 900; Missouri, 1000; Iowa, 1885,
600; Minnesota, $4,000; Nebraska,
80 600; Wisconsin,, $4,000; Indiana,
$4,000; Ohio, 10000; Kansas, $4,000:
Connecticut, 10000 cases.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
raau.fied
The Midoe.

man sausage. Talk about the mos
quito, Talk about the viper, Why,
the "Midge" could insert its venom
as easily through the steel-clad leg
piece of an ancient knight as it could
through the open-work stocking of one
of England's fair daughters, Indeed,
if a viper possessed but half the
amount of poison in proportion to its
size as the "Midge," it would be sud-
den death to approach within a mile
OF it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
scuLPToR's WORK MADE EASY
Objects of Art No Longer Matter of
Skill.

Machinery is about to invade the
domains of art Not satisfied with the
tremendous strides made in the COM
mercia1 world, man is invading the
realms of polite learning with me-
ehanical appliances, and the lathe, the
wheel and power threaten to displace
chiSel and the skill of the sculptor
A whirl of the wheel and ali the
romance that has surrounded art for
ages is no more The art of sculPtur-
ing mechanically is said to have been
solved, at least so far as the making
of busts is concerned, by Sig. Auguste
Contempt of Naples, and Sir Arthur
Conan Doyle, already famous in medi-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Clock 500 Years Old.

Samuel Yant of Uhrichsville, Ohio.
has the oldest clock in eastern Ohio,
or perhaps the entire state. 1t has
been in the Yant family 1877 years.
and was built in 1855. SO its age is SIS
years. 1t was brought from Germany
to America in 1853. seven years be-
fora tie revolutionary war
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Monkey Became Jealous.

A monkey, carried by lady in a
box, got free in Berlin, and in a mo-
ment was seated at the top of tall
tree. Neither cajoleries nor threats
could induce him to descend. At last
the lady began to hug little girl in
the crowd, calling her loudly, My
sweet Jenny, my sweet Jenny" and
lne monkey came down furious with
jealousy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17

The learning of Japanese will be
greatly facilitated by the abandon
ment of their peculiar way of writing
and printing their language. Ten years
ago the universities inaugurated the
reform; next year the use of English
letters will be begun in the public
schools, and this will soon lead to
their general use.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
GUARDIANS OF THE POLE
ICY Giants That Battle Efforts Of Oar.
inq Explorers.

How near the North Pole has man
gone? The record stands: Fridtjof
Nansen, 272 miles; the Duke of Alb
ruzzi, $50 miles; Robert E Peary, 343
miles.
Nearly 800 years ago, in 1907, Hend-
rik Hudson, the discoverer of Hudson
river and Hudson bay, approached to
within $40 miles of the pole.
In a word, the history of polar ex-
ploration is the history of an advance
from so latitude to 1923 north to lati-
tude S6.33 north.
Peary, who has just announced his
intention to start on another explo-
ration, first saw the Arctic in the
summer of 1886. He went no farther
north than Disko bay, on the west
coast of Greenland, latitude 20 north.
He started north again in 1891, and in
July, 1892, penetrated as far as Inde-
pendence bay and Peary channel,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
The Spencer Airship.
~ Mp.AlR

Eiffel Tower The gas vessel Is SO
feet long, and the twentyfour horse
power motor can develop a speed OIL
twenty-five miles an hour. The weight
of the whole apparatus is about 10
cwt., and requires 10000 feet of hydro
gen gas to lift it. 1t has been inflated
with gas several times, and found to
work we'll
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
THINK WELL OF AlRsHup.
Stanley Spencer's Machine May Be
the Long Looked For.

There has been a great dea. of in
terest attaching to Mr.. Stanley Spen-
GERS preparations at the Crystal Pal
ace for his airship trip around St.
PauPs, says London fEng) dispatch.
The ship" is the largest of its kind
constructed in this country, and much
more powerful than that used by NJ.
Santo-Dumont in his flight round the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Gives Birth to STRANGE Twins.

Josephine Martinelli of Ferrara.
Italy, has just given birth to twin girls.
One of them is white, with blonde
hair; the other is completely black,
with ali the distinctive sif.ns of the
negro raea
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Cold Storage Eggs

According to a Chicago financial pa
per there were in cold storage in the
United States last month about 2,533-
900 cases of eggs For the same date
on the three previous years the figures
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
First Use Of the pahlia.

The dahlia was introduced into Eu-
rope for the value of its bulb as a
substitute for the Irish potato, which
1t resembles VIXEN baked
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17

to Chicago with his mother-inlaw was
taken back to Michigan by the sheriff
when he might have secured a profit
able engagement in the museum had
he stayed" Above is the artists idee
of the hero in his glory.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17

which lie about on the SD parallel.
For the third time, he started out in
1898, and in April, 1902, he turned
back at latitude S4.17
What stopped him? What stopped
the Duke of Abruzzi? What stopped
Nansen? What may stop Peary when
he dashes north again? In a word,
what may stop any man trying to
reach the pole?
Ice-sharp valleys and steep hills OF
ice-ice with almost human energy
ice bears. as one of the adventurers
has described them, which leap and
utter hOarse cries and give hugs from
which there can be no release-ice
hends, as Nansen once spoke of them,
that are always growing and threat
ening, and that creep in upon you at
night to crush aou. and that lay
snares 10 trap the man who relaxes
his vigilance one minute of the TWEEN
ty-four hours.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Done our OF a Fortune.

Says a Chicago publication: ''It
was shame that the man who eloped
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-10-17
Rraeksmith's Large Practice.

Bfacksmith's Large Practice.
Alvin Brown, blacksmith at Upper
Gloucester. Me-, recently shod in one
day seven horses from seven different
towns, each being driven seven miles
TO reach the shop.