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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20

comes turf-bound about the third or
fourth year after sowing, and believe
that it will usually be found desirable
to either break it up or use it for pas
ture after cutting three or four crops
for seed and hay.
Bronze grass should be sown broad
cast or with a drill upon well prepared
land, at the rate of fifteen to twenty
pounds per acre, either with or with
out a nurse, crop. If sown with q
nurse crop about one-half bushel of
wheat should be used, and it should
be sown with the rest of the wheat
crop as early in April as the soil is
in good condition If sown broadcast
it should be covered by light drag
ging. If sown with a drill, no
dragging will be needed after SOW
ing, but a good firm seed-bed should
be prepared by thorough dragging be-
fore sowing. Some difficulty has been
experienced in sowing with a drill, as
the seed is 50 light and chaffy that it
does not feed well. If sown without a
nurse crop, it is better to delay SOW
ing until about the first of June, SOW
ing in the same manner as with a
nurse crop. 1t usually produces a good
crop of seed the first year after SOW
ing, and an excellent crop of either
seed or hay the second and third
years. We have frequently obtained
a good yield of both seed and hay by
allowing the seed to ripen, cutting
the seed with a binder set high
enough to pass over the thick mat of
bottom grass and following with a
mower. The seed shells badly if al
lowed to stand for even a day after it
is ripe, so it should be closely watched
and promptly cut as soon as the seed
hardens. Bronze grass should not be
pastured the first year after sowing,
and it is much safer to want until the
third year, when it will have become
so thoroughly established that it will
stand any reasonable amount of pas
turing and tramping.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
Mrs. Maybrick at Last Released
from Long Term in Prison

According to cabiegrams received,
Mrs. Florence E. Maybrick has been
released from an English prison by or
der of King Edward after having
served fourteen and a half years of her
sentence of Imprisonment for life for
the alleged poisoning of her husband.
She left the Ay1esbury female convict
prison a few days ago, and has since
been recuperating in a private institu-
ton near London. Great secrecy has
been observed about her release and
her departure from prison was man.
aged in the quietest possible manner.
After breakfast Mrs. Maybrick bade
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
When Pigs are Growing.

VIM. Bunt, in an address to farmers,
said: A one-rule method of feeding
may not be successful always, as con-
ditions vary. 1t may be from the
weather or something peculiar to the
animals themselves. Some litters
have been able to feed heavily, and
others only very carefully for fear of
crippling them. By care and practice
a person can find out a proper method
and should aim to carry it out syste-
matically. 1 have found that grain
with the milk and s1ops from the
house, fed morning and evening, with
roots for the noon meal, is very sue
cessfu1 plan. The animals get lively
and healthy. Running out of meal is
a great mistake. and should be
avoided. Running to the granary and
taking the first thing that is handy,
to satisfy the animals, is wasteful and
unsatisfactory, and if INDUCED in to
a great extent, will soon make them
unthrifty, and it will be a serious loss
to the owner. Some recommend to
let them out for exercise once in a
while, but am inclined to think it
makes them restless and uneasy. Di-
viding the room into two, find a very
good plan, If the space permits it,
with low fence for them to Jump
over in passing from one pen to the
other. Do not keep too many in one
pen unless the space is large, and has
plenty of troughs. Troughs should be
the proper height, with Stats nailed
across to prevent them from crowding
each other from the trough, and this
also keeps the food clean. The Stats
should be nailed to the outer edge of
the trough, on an incline up to the
wall. This prevents them from get
ting across or monopolizing more than
their share, and keeps the stronger
from roofing off the weaker ones.
Now feed regularly and carefully,
increasing in strength and quantity,
as your judgment sees fit Your OBJ
ject should be, not fattening excIu-
sively, as is too often the case, but
growing and moderately fattening un-
til they reach the desired weight of
$50 to 200 pounds. The last few weeks
they should be fed principally on
grain. Again 1 would like to impress
the Importance of keeping them clean
and dry. Remove the soiled and damp
bedding often, and replace with lit
tie dry straw. Clean wheat straw is
preferable, as it does not keep damp,
or pack and heat as quickly as the
other.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
The Iowa Battle With oIeo.

In Iowa the battle with oleo has
been severe and long drawn out. Year
after year the sellers of oleo have
had to fight for existence in the state
courts, and the butter-makers have
been almost uniformly successful The
dairy commissioners Of Iowa have
been men that have not hesitated to
use the full power of their office to
make the dealers in oleo conform to
the state law. The result has been
that in recent years very little oleo
has been sold in Iowa. Recently the
commissioner, H r. Wright, has won
four cases, and an appeal for a new
trial in the last one has just been re-
fused, and a fine of 5000 imposed. The
last battle was won over the use of
the word yellow" in the Iowa law,
the makers of the o1eo declaring that
their product could not be thus desig-
mated. The court, however, held 9TH
erwise. The fact seems to be that
the oleo in question was only slightly
yellower than is white butter as made
at this time of year. But the prac-
tical result was that it was difdcult
for the buyers to tell it from winter
made butter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20

took the matter up, and monster petit
tions went to England by way of our
state department urging the release of
Mrs Maybrick. Through the efforts of
James G. Blaine and his sister-in-law,
Gail Hamilton, the American people
were aroused on the question of re-
lease, and it took on an international
character.
Every time the question was taken
up by the British cabinet, however, the
decision was adverse to the American
and English petitioners The home
secretary declined to interfere with
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
THE CASE IN REVIEW.
Sad Story of an American Girls Un-
fortunate Marriage.

IOTkuHdts WdFrId9e.
II is stated semi-ofhcially that Mrs.
Florence E. Maybrick has been re-
leased from Aylesbury prison and will
be given absolute release from surveil-
lance of the prison authorities in July
1t does not matter just where she is
The important fact is that at last
definite steps have been taken to give
her freedom.
The Maybrick case has been given
great prominence because eminent
Englishmen well informed as to all
the circumstances never believed her
guilty of the offense for which she was
tried, and because many Americans
who studied the case from beginning
TO end believed she was the victim of
q conspiracy on the part of her hus-
bands family.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20

MAVERICK
to
Maybrieks
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tending furth
JuIy2e heovern to
pleading MRS.
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and tha the . inp
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
Bronze for Hay and Pasturase.

AS a meadow grass Bronze has not
proved universally satisfactory; for
while large majority have reported
fayorably, some have complained that
it made a thick, compact sod, but did
not grow tall enough to yield q sat
isfactory crop of hay, says e. C. Chill
cott of the South Dakota station. We
have had no difficulty in this respect,
nor have any of the farmers in this
vicinity, so far as we know. Most of
these complaints have come from
those who sowed it ON rather light,
sandy land with water near the sur
face, on land well adapted to the
growth of the common bluejoint and
alfalfa We have grown it on both
upland and bottom and with good re-
suits. but we find that it usually be-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
Valuable Find.

In pulling down the old cathedral
of Metz a strong box was found con-
tanning coins and watches valued at
f120,O00.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
Production of Rye.

The rye crop last year, with an
acreage of 1,906.S9 yielded $15.993.
871.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20

Only 19 ,292 sealskins were taken ON
the Pribilof islands during the season
of 1903
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-02-20
EIax Seed cron-

Three and quarter million acres
devoted to faxseed produced a crop
valued at $22 ,291 ,557.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Elephant. Good workers.

Any n who thinks the elephant a
slow, clumsy beast would have cause
to change his opinion on seeing ain at
work along the rivers of northern
Siam. The rainy season, which begins
in April, is the time when the teak
logs, cut during the dry season in the
forests about the upper waters of the
Menam river, are 1oated down to Ra-
hang, where they are caught and raft
ed to Bangkok. Instead of red shirted,
spike shoed "river drivers such as
handle the logs in their down stream
Journey to the sawmills on the Penob-
scot and Kennebec in Maine, the 'lum-
Der driving Of the Siamese rivers Is
done by b~arefooted, half naked men on
elephants, and the bone labor and
much of the thinking involved in the
operation are done by the elephants
Il. Nicholas.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Curious ways Of Crabs.

Cersnin species of crabs cover them
selves with seaweed in order to de-
ceive their foes. One crab was seen by
the naturalist Eisig in 1873 to pluck
off zoophyIes, those plantlike animal
colonies which grow IN shells and
stones, and to fix them on the spines
and hairs of it's shell. A still deeper
Of defensive tactics is to be
found in the case Of certain hermit
crabs. They live in the castoff shells
of whelks and crawl about, house on
back. One claw Is bigger than the 9th
er, and this is an adaptive feature, for
when the crab retires into it's house
the bigger claw is tucked across the
mouth of the shell to bar the way
against a possible intruder. More curl
GUS still is the habit of n species
which tolls along with a sea anemone
fixed to his shell, like Sindbad carrying
the Old Man of the Sea. Great care is
taken Of this M 1t is fed by
the crab, and if the latter has to seek
a new shell by reason of his growth
he tenderly shifts his tenant off the old
abode and places him on the new one.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
The Distant stars.

Speaking roughly, we have reason,
from the data SO far available, to be-
lieve that the stars Of the Milky Way
are situated at a distance between
100, 900 and 2OO,OO0,O0O times the
distance from the sum-. At distances
less than this it seems likely that the
stars are distributed through space
with some approach to uniformity. We
may state as a general conclusion indl-
Gated by several methods of making
the estimate that nearly all the stars
which we can see with u telescopes
are contained within a sphere not like
" to be much more than 2OO,OOO,OOo
tines the distance of the sun.
Granting that all the stars we can
gee are contained within this limit,
may there not be any number OF stars
without the limit which are Invisible
only because they are too far away to
be seen?-Simon Newcomb in Harpers
Magazine.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Useful Monkeys.

A horse in a treadmill and a dog
turning d spit have been in times past
familiar objects, but it has remained
for the people of Malabar, India, to
put monkeys at work. The climate
there is torrid, and fans are a neces-
sity. Formerly it was the d"@v of a
native servant to keep in m~tion the
great fan called the punka, but an
English officer who resided in Malabar
conceived the idea of putting the
monkeys at the toll. This punka Is
suspended from the ceiling and work
ed by pulling a cord. After playing
with one Of the monkeys for awhile
the officer tied the little fellows hands
to the cord and made him believe that
he was playing a new and delightful
game. A little candy helped on the ex-
pertinent, and SOC the monkey was
very fond of his new employment, new
er imagining that he was doing very
mental drudgery. 1t is said that there
are now in Malabar many hundreds OF
useful monkeys pulling the strings Of
punkas.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
TOO Easy Success.

Success in literature early in a writ
er's career is often a serious misfor-
tune, writes Julius Chambers in the
Pittsburg Dispatch. 1 distinctly recall
a conversation with Frank R. Stock
ton regarding ':The Lady or the Tiger!"
that illustrates this point. "Never was
l so near starvation since | began to
write as after the publication of The
Lady or the Tiger?" said Mr.. Stock
ton. sFor nearly two years everything
1 offered for sale was sent back with
the curt explanation that it did not
compare with that story. 'The Lady
or the Tiger?' was made a standard by
which everything was judged. Prior
to it's publication 1 had trouble in sell
ing my matter, and that very story had
been offered to every publisher in New
York before it was accepted"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Dean Holes wit.

On one occasion Dean Hole, the well
known English clergyman, with Mrs.
Hole, landed at Dover, much exhaust
ed, after a rough crossing of the Eng
lish channel. While waiting for the
train the dean pored over the railway
regulations. "Ah," he said, addressing
the station inspector, sits n consola-
ton after such a crossing and b
tiresome wait that WI go back at half
price" 81 don't understand, sir" was
the officials reply. "There is no special
reduction" ooh, yes, there is" said
the dean. give just been reading all
your notices, and you state that you
take returned empties at much reduced
rate" Once when the dean was play
ing whist for t%hreepenny points he ap-
peared to be very well provided with
%threepenny bits. "Ah," his opponent
remarks ed, ".have you the offertory with
youy' ''What, sir" the dean answered
do you recognize your miserable con
tributions?"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Women Speakers.

Women speak best when they retain
their seats at table, the very fact that
they are standing and facing their au-
diences having a tendency to give the
bravest of women stage fright. Wom-
en- orators have the advantage over
men in knowing that their attire will
have much to do with keeping the at
tention of their audience. A pretty wo-
man in a pretty gown, a fan, a muf, a
Jewel, will hold the eyes Of the women
listeners even if they do not care much
for the speech.-What to Eat.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
He Wasn't Too EARLY.

A story goes that on a certain occa-
sion there walked into the Office of q
governor of a western state a citizen
who, with suppressed excitement, said:
"Nr. Governor, I understand that
Colonel Blank, the president Of the
irrigation board, is dead"
HE u.s." was the reply. Colonel
Blank died an hour ago."
"Well, Mr.. Governor" continued the
citizen, II dislike to exhibit any un-
seemly haste in the matter, but | very
much desire to make application for
appointment as his successor"
Whereupon the governor courteously
motioned his caller toward an ante
room. "Pray walk into this room, sir"
said he, "and take your place In the
Ene."-Kansas City Independent.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
respect For Old Age In Japan.

In Japan there is no such thing as
disrespect from youth to age. No
Japanese boy or girl could ever think
in a light or disrespectful manner of
his or her superiors Or teachers. and
this may account for the e~arnestness
so unusual among young children.
When a student enters a masters
presence in Japan he bows to the floor,
and when the lesson is finished he
bows again, with expressions Of the
deepest gratitude as he takes his de-
parture. The teacher, sitting in most
cases upon his feet OF the floor, grave
" returns each salutation, then lights
his little pipe at the inevitable bit of a
smoking box and waits for his next
class. There is no hurrying of masters
from room to room, as in some of the
schools in our enlightened land. Great
imitators as they are, the japanese are
remarkable for knowing instinctively
those foreign" customs which would
not coincide with their national char
acteristics.-Leslie's Weekly.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Trademarks.

Trademarks are understood to be
nearly as old as the industry Of the
human race. Ancient Babylon had
property symbols, and the Chinese
claim to have had trademarks a thou
sand years before Christ. Gutenberg.
the inventor of printing, had a lawsuit
about a trademark and won it. AS
early as 1900 the English parliament
authorized trademarks, and the laws
Of the United States have also pro-
tected them. Extraordinary means
have been required at all times to
guard against the fraudulent use OF
marks Of manufacturers. If there were
no means of Identifying the trademark
the best goods at nee lose their value.
This was discovered Very early, and
it Is deemed probable that the sue
cessors of Tubal Cain were the first to
use distinctive marks OF their manu-
features. This is about as near as 1t
is possible to arrive at data.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
OPTICAL D%ELUSlONS.
why the Sun, Moon and Stars Appear
Large At the Horizon.

rAI
When we observe objects at a dis
lance we are not conscious of the
smallness of the angle under which we
see them, and we think them much
higher than they really are. This fact
also explains the d~isillusions in photog-
raphy, a country the boundaries OF
which are very billy appearing almost
fat on the sensitive plate, the lens
giving us the real angular sizes of the
distant objects without taking into ac-
count the psychic exaggeration Of our
eye. If, however, VIZ look at distant
objects under unusual conditions u
judgment is at fault, the smallness OF
the angle of observation becomes SEN
sible and the objects appear much
smaller. This is what occurs, for ex-
ample, when a country is examined
| with the head bent to one side or al
lowed to hang between the legs, the
colors becoming much clearer, but the
country appearing fat like a picture.
We may apply these facts to the sun
and MOON. When we see these bodies
at the horizon we place them instinc-
lively at a given distance, and we
judge of their size as we do of OBJ
jects placed at this distance-that is,
in exaggerating that size. When, how
ever, these bodies are raised above
the horizon we see them under una
customed conditions without indicating
comparative marks and at an unde-
fined distance. In consequence of this
fact the exaggeration of our calcula-.
ton disappears and the stars, sun and
moon appear smaller to us.
The angle under which we see the
sun and the moon is equal to about
one-half Of a degree. Calculation shows
that this is the angle under which we
see a tower forty-four meters in height
at a distance of a little over three
miles. Thus, by comparison with
known terrestrial objects, the stars at
the horizon appear very large to us.
The error depends, in part, also on
the state of the atmosphere. When the
atmosphere is not clear and foggy the
error is greatest, in this case the moon
taking on a red tinge, whereas when
this body has all Of its brightness II
differs too much from ordinary objects
for the instructive comparison to b<
made, the moon in this case appearing
smaller. The same reasoning applies
} to the SUM-. In foggy weather the star
also appear nearer-a fact which Il
} due to their red color, the red requir
ing a greater effort Of accommodation
: to unite on the retina the slightly re
frangible radiations.
. It is not necessary that there be ter
3 restrial objects to which we can d
: rectly compare the apparent diamete
0 Of this sun and moon; the error ma,
occur at the horizon of the sea. 1t !
n to be noted that the consultations hav
the same apparent increase in size
s approaching the horizon and that o.
e ten the two lower parts of the rainbo'
o seem enlarged. In short, we have I
9 do with a very general phenomenon
applying as we'll to terrestrial as
celestial objects, in every case the e
ror consisting in an exaggerated est
= nation of the objects on the horizon.
= Exchange. w.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11

Walter w. Tomlinson, Defiance
county, O., reports detailed accounts of
his income and expenses for each OF
five years, beginning 1889 and ending
1908, says American Cultivator. His
income is mainly from hogs, wool, hay
and grain, and the expense for labor,
feed, rent, interest, incidental expenses
etc. The aggregate for the five years
was $35. lob, and the expense $21,55O,
leaving IL net profit Of $13,656. He
states that he had enough grain and
supplies on hand to bring the total up
to about $4,000, or about $4,000 per
year net profit. He values his farm
at $4,000. thus showing that the farm
has more than paid for itself in five
years.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
An Ant Retort.

In the biography of DR.. Hawtrey, a
famous English schoolmaster, there Is
a description of his unkempt appear
ance, with a comment which has been
greatly quoted. 1t is said that he was
scolding for being late at morning les
SONS a boy, who replied that he had
no time to dress. But I car dress In
time" said the doctor. EYES," replied
the boy, "but I wash" M
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Ea.x Politics.

when you first entered politics."
said the young man who is looking for
knowledge, did you set out with the
determination to win at any cost?"
"No," answered Senator Sorghum; Il
set out with the determination to win
at as little expense as possible
Washington Star.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Salt For Chicken. ana Hogs.

At a meeting Of the Kansas Poultry
association Mr.. e. Harrington said:
Last fall Mrs. Harrington discovered
that the cholera had appeared among
her chickens. I had heard somewhere
that there is nothing to beat salt as a
disinfectant. l had the hired nan
clean the henhouse as clean as he
could, wash it out thoroughly with just
as strong brine as he could make and
fill every crack and crevice with the
brine. He did So, and we haven't lost
a hen since. l trAd the same thing on
my hogs when the cholera broke out
among them, and / am satisfied that I
saved a lot of them and prevented a
further spread of the disease"
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
mistake. Men Make.

If 1t be true that a man who new
makes mistakes never makes anything
at all it is equally true that an ora
tor who never says an indiscreet thing
may be confidently reckoned on never
to say anything at all worth hearing.
World.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11
Candid.

She latter accepting him)-Have you
ever loved any other girl? He-Cer-
tainly. I can bring you half a dozen
written testimonials If necessary.
The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-11-11

One of the hardest things to find in
this world is a friend who isn't hard
up at the same time you are.-Chicago
News.