The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1903-10-23
this is the way the west is develop

THIS Is tne way the west Is ueFeiop-
ing.
The four corporations which lead
in the number of stockholders are:
United States Steel, So. 600; Penusyl-
vania railroad, $1,000; Atchison rail
road, 1900, and American Sugar,
1900.
Aman who has watched the trend
of events says that it is not crime
that has increased but that the sta
tistics of crime have increased. The
per cent of crime to the population
was greater fifty years ago than it is
to-day.
| Science is learning how to treat
soft woods, which grow rapidly, so
that they can be made to last as-tong
as hard wood. This will assist in re-
ducipg the annual consumption Of
ties and fence posts, which are no
small factor.
There is nothing in the world SO
satisfactory as plain, everyday hon
|
just as we'll live up in the realms of
seven story thought, as to grope
around in the cellar of dismal things.
AID Atchison man told an ola maid
recently that she was a sweet old
thing, and she has lain awake nights
ever since dreaming of him. Men
/ -f.,l nh fh1ry q h
bouquets. Some nice old girls get
so few they exaggerate the Importance
| of a stray bIoss om.-Atchison Globe.
One prime cause of boys leaving the
farm for city life is the general I'M
thriftiness and unattractiveness OF
the farm home. His education should
be broadened rather than restricted,
that he may not only see great pos
sibilities in the farm rightly conduct
| ed, but also to enjoy his work and
his home.
Sir Thomas Upton has purchased
1000 acres of land in Georgia. This
purchase Is in connection with the
scheme of the Great Britain and
| Southern States Cattle and Abattoirs
Company, which intends to cover
Georgia with cattle farms and abat-
toirs to feed the English market in
competition with the beef trust.
The total population of the earth
is estimated at over 1,50O, 900 900.
The distribution is thus proportion
ed: Europe, 372, 925, 900, or SO. &c per
square mile: Asia, $50, 55S 900, or
1851 per square mile; Africa, 17O,-
05O,OO or 14.77 per square mile;
America, 1872, lis, 900 or 1856 per square
mile; Polynesia, 5000, 900 or 1.73 per
square mile; Polar regions, $4,000, or
.O5 per square mile; total, l,512, 1888,
600. or an average of %. SO per
square mile.
So far this year more than forty
railway postal clerks have been killed
and over 500 injured, more or less
seriously. In consequence, the clerks
are not attracted 0y fast trains.
Many of them have asked to be trans
| ferred from the trunk lines, where
| they get 81 500 year, to the branch
lines, where the maximum yearly
salary is 81, 900. Much trouble is ex-
perienced by the superintendent of
railway mail service in securing men
for the fastest mail trains.
For the first time in the history of
the U. S. the production of coal as
reached total of over 300, 600, 600
short tons, the acual showing being
300, $50, $50 tons, valu ID at 1914, 1885,
S43. The output of anthracite coal
amounted to 36,865,71O long tons
equivalent to fl, 3S9, $50 short tons),
valued at SS1 ,O16, 937, decrease OF
%, 376, $50 long tons, or almost 40 per
cent from 1901.
"Do not ask questions is the most
foolish advice which age can give to
youth. The youth or even the man
who never asks questions can be set
down as very dull. A little judgment
in selecting the proper time and place
for seeking information is all that is
needed, but the desire for informati ON
should be carefully cultivated. The
honest, earnest seeker after truth is
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