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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
Glover in Falling Orchards.

Western prairie lands are generally
sufficiently fertile for an orchard
growth and need no enriching until
the trees begin to show signs of
weakness in vigor from crop bearing,
and, even then, may be invigorated by
use of crops of red or crimson clover
grown among the trees, allowing the
crop to fall and decay upon the ground
each year. By this treatment a large
amount of decaying vegetable matter
will accumulate upon the land, rich in
plant food and forming a moist pro-
lection from hot summer sun and
deep freezing during winter, q con-
dition conducive to health and vigor
in trees. All lands lacking in humus
can have this element restored to a
great extent by such treatment, and
orchards which have been treated thus
with red clover maintain greater Ion
gevity, fruitfulness and greater excel
lence In fruit product, besides such
treatment dispenses with the costly
necessity of using special fertilizers
AS to the indications when a bear
ing orchard needs stimulating, the
eminent pomologist, DIR. Warder, once
said: when the growth Of the ter
minal branches fail to make an annual
extension Of at least one foot in length,
the trees should be stimulated by
manuring the land and giving II thor
ough cultivation
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Octavia's Arrest

Octavia admitted that there were
many paths in life, but in the same
breath she declared that the only one
for her was the bride path in Cen
trail park.
Bobbie, her chosen partner in this
path had never asked her to travel
it with him, but it seemed to be an
understood agreement inasmuch as he
showed a decided aversion to going
with any one else.
Bobbie was her horse, and Octavia
sat him well. Bobbie's rider was not
pretty, but in the saddle she was a
vision of graceful strength, and she
possessed a fascination beyond that
of many ballroom beauty.
Octavia rode alone. Not only did
she scorn the idea of groom herself,
but she felt intuitively that Bobbie
would consider him a personal insult.
Bobbie gloried in the knowledge that
his mistress was intrusted solely to
his care.
Sometimes Octavia would imagine
they were in the open country and
that instead of the unimpeded path
before them, there were fences and
gulleys and all sorts of rough places
to clear. And Bobbie seemed to un-
derstand that when she caressed his
well-arched neck and said, Now, Bob
bie," he was to leap a make-believe
fence.
One morning-Octavia and Bobbie
loved the morning-they encountered
more than the usual number of rough
spots in their make-believe field. There
were few persons in the path, and
Bobbie's small, proud head was held
more erectly than ever.
''Now, Bobbie, over" said Octavia.
smiling at the sheer foolishness of it
all.
UP in the air they went and came
down as gracefully as a bird soaring
from sky to earth Before Octavia
could pull in her reins Bobbie was
scattering the sand in all directions
and running at a break-neck pace
down the path.
Octavia and her mount might object
to grooms to their hearts content but
they could not, with reason, censure
the blue-coated man trotting close
behind them at this moment. If they
violated the speed law they must take
the consequences.
All aglow from the excitement, Oc-
tavia pulled Bobbie up. Her gold
brown hair was flying about her face
and she laughed as she turned to the
big policeman.
But as she looked up into his face
the color faded, she pulled her reins
taut and sat like a statue in the sad
die. Bobbie, not understanding this
mode of procedure, did some aero
batic maneuvers and dashed madly
along the path again.
The policeman's word, You are rid
ing too fast" were spoken to a dust
filled atmosphere. He sat still on his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
ARREST me, please"

gagged only to quarrel over a trivial
matter and to grow farther and
farther apart.
Norman was studying for the bar.
In the last year but one of his college
i course his father died, not, as every
one supposed, rich man, but abso-
lutely insolvent.
Norman disliked the idea of spend
ing the summer, his. last vacation, in
an office, but he determined to make
enough money to finish his law
course. There was no one dependent
upon MIN, so he might do as he liked.
And what he liked most of all in the
world was horseback riding.
An idea flashed through his mind!
In New York no one would know him.
1t was far from his home town. Yes,
he would do it. He would be a
mounted policeman for the summer.
And Octavia? She patted Bobbie's
head again and again, using soft, ca
ressing tones to quiet him, but her
thoughts were not with the black
steed beneath her.
1t was incomprehensible. He had
given no explanation, but then he had
no opportunity. She even wished he
had arrested her, for then she might
have talked to him. Anything was
better than her present state of mind.
Norman Rogers, a policeman! She
could not understand it.
She threw her head up with a de-
termination to find out, and touched
Bobbie lightly with the whip.
He should talk to her, even if she
had to be arrested. He would have to
do his duty, and she would break all
speed laws right under his very nose!
If he did not stop her some other po-
liceman would, and Octavia felt that
he would not subject her to that hui
initiation. No, not even after all the
things they had said to each other
long ago.
She whipped Bobbie up until she
was close behind him on the path. GO,
Bobbie," she said, and they tore past
him at lively pace, but no policeman
followed. Norman was always stub
born.
Octavia tried strategy. She rode
close to him and dropped her crop
He must, at least, be polite While
he dismounted to pick it up she said:
ARREST me, please" and looked so
appealingly into his eyes that he
mounted, took hold of Bobbie's bride
with one hand, and with the other.
guided his own, well-trained animal
Norman she said, holding loosely
to the reins- An electric thrill SEEM
ed to pierce her with the very
thought that his hand, too, held the
bride. Tell me about it, Why
know your father is dead" She hes
itated.
You didn't know his son was a 20
lsceman," he finished for her. And
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AND HE TOOK SOMETHING.
ConvlviaI GentIeman's Remarks Had
Proper Effect.

a Proper Effect.
A venerable looking gentleman with
a bunch of chin whiskers and a So
ciable condition of mind sat in hotel
one night earlier in the week, but a
couple of younger men who were
seated on either side of him did not
respond to his attempts at converse
tion- Finally he began to soliloquize:
q have great respect for a mum
my; think of one lying there with the
dust of centuries about his person and
a thirst three or four centuries long.
just think of it!
Then, 1 love the deaf and dumb.
There is something so placid about
the absolutely meaningless look with
which they will gaze over the top OF
your head when you suggest little
something to pull in your stomach.
'The paretic is not to be de-
spised, either, when you are looking
for quiet company and an apprecia-
tive listener"
Suddenly, pulling himself together,
he turned to one of the young men,
and, with all the solemnity the occa-
sion demanded, asked:
''Are you a paretic, or will you
come and take something?"
And the barkeeper was a quarter to
the good.
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Value of Soft Feed.

From Farmers Review: My ex.
perience in feeding both mash and
cooked feed to fowls and chicks is
that it is the best morning feed one
can give. 1 have obtained better re-
suits from feeding mash once day
than by feeding all hard grain. My
hens lay more eggs, the eggs are
more fertile and my fowls are
healthier when feed a mash once q
day. / think it necessary because it
furnishes variety, is economical and
allows one to utilize feed that would
otherwise be wasted, and it is bene-
fetal because it permits one to mix
certain ingredients that will keep
your fowls healthy. My experience
has been that the right kind OF q
condition powder is Of as much bene-
fit to poultry as it is to horses or
cattle or as a blood purifier or a tonic
is to people. Powdered sulphur and
linseed meal is given at the proper
time and is one of the best muscle
and bone forming feeds. Feeds of this
kind should be fed in the mash for
best results. I was born and raised
on a farm and have always had
poultry, and my fowls have free range
now. 1 take full charge of all of them.
When 1 feed hard grain in the morn
ing the fowls in summer will hunt
shady place and sit around for
couple of hours and in winter some OF
them will even go back on the roost,
but when 1 feed mash they don't seem
to be satisfied and so have to scratch
around for more. I find the mash to
be the best morning feed because it Is
very nourishing and digests much
quicker than hard grain or any other
feed. l have obtained better results
from this method than any other and
have never had any disease among
my fowls.-David o. Bootz, Peoria
County, Illinois.
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wh, suttermakers Quit.

1t il a fact, / think, that butter
makers leave the business after a
shorter period of service than men do
in other lines of business, for we see
very few old buttermakers. Is it not
that the daily grind gets monoton-
Gus, and the risk of ones health in
the too often unsanitary conditions
that surround the creameries forces
itself on the buttermaker's attention
and reminds him that he can stand
but few years of such labor? He
reflects on the early rising, and the
long days he has to put in in order
that everything shall be ready for the
next days run, and the uncertainty
that he should be so fortunate as to
remain in one place for any length of
time, and that when the time does
come when he will be unable to get
around with his old time vigor that
his employer will be casting around
to find another man for the place,
forgetfu1 of the responsibilities which
have been so manfully borne, and the
fact that through him alone was the
success of the business possible. S.
Moore.
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Immense Chemical Factory.

The largest factory of chemicals IN
the world is said to be the aniline and
soda establishment of Baden, in Lud-
wigshafen- on the Rhine. The works
employ 14S scientific chemists, Is
technical engineers, 305 clerks and
more than 5000 workingmen. There
are 421 buildings for factory purposes
and 54S dwellings for laborers and 81
for officials. One hundred and two
boilers furnish steam for 253 engines
with 12,16 horsepower. Gas is ex-
tensively used as fuel. Five large
steam hoists on the banks of the riv-
er are used for loading and unloading.
The works own vessel with a ca
pacity of 500 metric tons, for the
transportation of sulphuric acid. A
network of railway, having a total
length of twenty-seven miles, con-
meets with the State railroad system.
Three hundred and eighty-seven cars
are owned by the factory.
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you are not to care. We've are
strangers now, Octavia-"
But Octavia noted the slight mark
of interrogation in the words.
I've always cared, Norman, ever
since those silly days at home. We
are not strangers"
And then, perhaps because they
were not strangers, the policeman
and his law-breaking young person
rode leisurely along the bride path
and explained many things.
And, somehow, they forgot the fine
and the arrest, and Bobbie and every
thing else but themselves.
'-Bobbie, dear said Octavia, as she
petted him fondly when she mounted
that day, you're a good boy. Yon-
you like to run fast and be arrested,
don't you? And-and maybe, after a
long, long while, Bobbie, dear, you
and / will get tired riding all by our
selves every day, and we will have
another home and rider with u.s. Eh
Bobbie ?''-Boston Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
Castor Beans.

The castor bean Is a tropical plant;
hence, it cannot be successfully culti-
waited at the North. 1t is frequently
seen growing there, however, as an
ornamental plant 1t is a perennial in
warm climates and sometimes attains
a height of thirty feet, and will live
for several years. 1t is a native of
Southern Asia and Northern Africa,
and has been natura1ized in Southern
Europe and other warm climates. In
the West Indies it grows with great
1uxuriance. It has been cultivated to
a limited extent as a field crop as far
north as 40 degrees; but the climate of
the Southern States is best adapted
TO it. m Texas and Southern Florida
it strongly shows its perennial ten
denotes. A castor plant is said to
have been grown in a garden in Gal
weston, the stem of which attained
seven inches in diameter. The plant
continued to yield for seven or eight
years. A hundred bushels of beans
have been raised per acre in localities
in Texas adapted to its culture. The
value of the beans consists in the
oil which they yield. When pure the
oil is of a light yellow color, but
when inferior in quality it has a green
ish and sometimes a dark yellowish
tinge. Exposure to the suns rays
bleaches 1t to a certain extent. 1t is
used in medicine as a cathartic. It
is also used in lubricating machinery.
carriage wheels. leather. and SO forth
employed Cor burning in lamps.-C. l.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
Where the Grange Thrives.

A report made by Bro. ]. H. Satting
of Manchester Grange No. sol, On
tario County, N. Y, to the Ohio
Farmer states that the county named
boasts of 16 oranges, the largest hav-
ing lit members. The total grange
membership is 821. Relative to meet
ings he says:
Current topics are discussed; bills
before the state legislature and con-
gress are often read and discussed;
resolutions are drawn up and signed
and sent to our representatives and
are often effective. Thus we inf1u-
ence for the good of ALL
Exchange of seed and stock often
occurs at meetings; methods of pro-
ducing the best crops are. asked for
and freely given. Music, instrumental
and vocal, enlivens the young and eld-
erly as well. Quotations of famous
authors are often rendered in response
to roll call; histories of first settlers
of each town are often given in con-
densed form. County Pomona oranges
are attended by delegates who are
expected to report the most interest
ing parts of these meetings.
the Patrons Fire Relief Associa-
ton saves thousands of dollars to
members. Usually the cost is about
half that in stock companies. The
grange is this section is a success IN
every respect
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
HOPTICJTNR
Locating the Peach Orchard.

Locating the Peach Orchard.
In spite of the disasters experienced
by peach growers during the last
fve years, peach orchards are b.
ing planted in considerable numbers
and on large areas. This is q wise
thing to do. as a big crop now and
then help to average up the lean
years and the years when the freezes
destroy large areas of peach orchards.
Gradually localities are being found
in most OF our states where the dis
asters come rarely and where crops
Of peaches are common.
Soil for peach orchards may be
OF almost any character, except
swampy. Wherever situated It should
contain enough sand to permit of q
sort of natural drainage about the
roots. Where there is a hard, COM
pact clay beneath, peach trees should
not be planted, as the roots of the
trees find it difficult or impossible to
penetrate 1t and are compelled to feed
only in the surface soil. When the
water in the surface soil T. gone, the
roots are exposed to the drouth.
When they go into winter in this
condition they are more easily affect
ed by the cold. 1t is now believed
that moisture in the soil has very
important influence in bringing trees
through severe winters unharmed. In
addition, where there is a hard pan
that will hold water, some of the
trees will most likely be set in basins
that will keep their roots immersed
for weeks during the wet weather.
This often results in the destruction
OF the tree, as the roots of peach trNes
must have air as well as water to
enable them to grow. The texture
OF the subsoil has much to do with
the success Of the peach orchard. 1t
must not be so impervious to water
as to hold it for long periods and 1t
must not be SO porous as to permit
it to leach away too readily. The soil
should be loose enough to permit the
passage of water but must be close
enough to keep the law of capillary
attraction in operation. A good
peach soil is neither too rich nor too
poor. A too rich soil gives wood
growth at the expense OF fruit.
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Yeanina of Sheep.

AS the result of several years ex-
perience, the Wisconsin station pub
fishes the following conclusions:
1. From the breeding records of 514
ewes at this station we conclude that
for such animals and conditions as
ours the normal period of CESSATION
ranges from LA to $50 days after the
date of service and that more ewes
will lamb 146 days after service than
at any other time.
2. There is no appreciable differ
ence in the period of CESSATION for
male and female offspring in sheep.
3. There is an apparent relation
between the duration of the period of
CESSATION and the period required for
reaching maturity. Quick maturing
breeds appear to carry their young for
a shorter period than those breeds
requiring more time to mature.
4. Large lambs are on the average
carried in utero for an appreciably
longer period than small or medium
lambs.
5. Lambs dropped before the Hath
and after the 149th day of pregnancy
are lacking in strength and vitality at
BIRTH
6. Shropshire ewes were more pro-
life than any of the other breeds and
crosses except the fourth cross of
Shropshire rams on a Merino eve
foundation.
z. From the data presented it is
apparent that twins are the normal
increase for ewes of the mutton type.
s. One year old rams are not so pro
life as those two or three years old.
Ewes also average a larger percent
age of increase in lambs after they
reach full maturity at three years of
age until after they are six years old,
when the rate of increase diminishes.
9. The amount of service required
OF the ram in breeding has an inf1u-
ence on the percentage increase in OF
spring of the ewes that produce
lambs. Ewes bred early in the sea-
son of mating to a single ram dropped
a larger percentage OF lambs than
those near the latter end Of the sea-
son.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
The Status of the Grange.


In the quarterly bulletin issued
when the year begun, Editor BatcheB
der said:
The grange enters upon the new
year in splendid condition in all sec.
tions of the country and prepared to
fight the battles Of the farmers in
every legitimate manner. The sucl
cess Of the organization In 1902, both
in membership and influence, has
given the members renewed courage
and increased vigor from ocean tn
ocean, and will stimulate them to
still greater work in the year to comG
1t has finally dawned upon the people
of the country that this Organization
has assumed a permanent character.
which is to be treated with
all the respect and consideration &C.
corded older and more pretentious
organizations. 1t has taken its place
by the side Of the school as an edu-
cationa1 factor, next to the church -
a great moral power, and has demon
strated its right to a place in tha
front ranks of the worlds numerous
and worthy fraternal organizations.
The grange has won this reputa-
ton by an honest, earnest, straight
forward course, neither catering to
the sympathies of people by the ad-
vocacy of specious measures, nor de-
ceiving the people by shifting it's
course with every shift in public SEN
timent. For several years this or.
ganization has proclaimed to the
world it's position in legislative mat.
ters, and has not had occasion to re-
cede from the position taken upon
any of them This is more than can
be said of any of the leading political
parties of to-day.
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DANGER IN "HoME REMEDIES"
Their Use Often Attended by Most
Serious Injury.

their Use Often Attended by Most
Serious Injury.
"The trouble with poor persons who
try to doctor themselves before COM
ing here" said a physician in a pub
lie dispensary, lis that they do not
know the first thing about the simple
remedies as they call them, that they
use. Oftentimes they do themselves
serious injury through sheer ignor-
ance. / had a man in here the other
day who had taken half an ounce of
cholera mixture. Somebody had told
him to take half a teaspoonful. 1t is
the same way with paregoric, sweet
nitre, ammonia and other wellknown
household remedies. Persons who
trust to their memory are likely to
get mixed, and either take an over
dose or use the wrong medicine. A
woman came in here suffering from
the effects of a drug that she should
never have obtained except on a ply
sician's prescription. 1t was the big
overdose and her prompt application
for relief that saved her. When I
scolded her she showed me clipping
from one of the weekly papers that
runs a doctors column. The dose
prescribed was enough to kill >
horse."-New York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01
American Money Spent Abro.d.

The, indications are that foreign
travel will this summer exceed that of
any previous season Sixty-seven sail
ings a month of first-class passenger
steamships will be made from New
York for European ports This is pro-
vision for $4,000 passengers between
April and September. An expert es-
innate puts the amount paid for
steamship fares at s31 ,OO0, 900 and the
expenditures In Europe at SIC, ,0OO, 900.
This weighs heavily against our four
to five million balance of trade.
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she would overtake him. Would she
speak to him? But why should she?
What Interpretation would she put
upon his position? A policeman!
Norman Rogers had been sent to col
lege a rich mans son. Prior to that,
and, indeed, during his first few vaca-
tions at home, he had seen much of
Octavia Bellamy. They became en-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01

When q Hgature is bound closely
round q branch, the obstruction that it
imposes to the descending juices
causes an enlargement or swollen ring
above the igature
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American Emiorants.

The State from which there is the
least emigration is louisiana ver-
mont furnishes the largest proportion
of migratory Americans
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-01

The primary" feathers of the wingH
are those used in flying but are tucked
under the wings, out of sight, when at
rest
The Butte inter mountain., 1903-12-31
PHYSICIAN FINDS BOY
WITH HEAD CUT OFF

One OF the most peculiar Of the iden,i
iieations today was that of the headess
body OF Boyer Alexander. years old The
lads father, DR.. ". ID. Alexander, as
Washington boulevard, had sleeplessly
sought his son all night long and today. In
examining the headless corpse OF child,
the physician identified his own boy by
watch. birthday present from the father,
found upon the remains.
Hundreds Of persons with grief and
anxiety written in their faces. thronged
about Chief Officer O'Neills office seeking
information. The pressure grew SO great
that Secretary Markham. mounting chair,
read off the descriptions to the multiudes.
Frequently persons in the crowd recog-
nized the descriptions read by the secre-
tary and started in horror for the particu-
lar morgue named as the words fell from
the secreiary's lips.
Al the morgue the inadequacy of the
means OF inspecting bodies was evident.
Only few persons at a time were allowed
to pass before the bodies and places in the
line oil admission were almost as eagerly
sought and fought for as means OF escape
were when the theater was burning.