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The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1904-07-06
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Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Strength in Human Limbs.

Psychologists and scientists have
been making some curious expert
ments with a view to determine the
relative length and strength of right
and left limbs. Fifty and nine-tenths
Per cent of the men examined had the
right arm stronger than the left; 1874
per cent had the two arms of equal
length and strength and 32.7 per cent
had the left arm stronger than the
right. OF women 46.9 per cent had the
right arm stronger than the left; 24.5
per cent had the left stronger than the
right. In order to arrive at the aver
age length of limbs fifty skeletons
were measured-twenty-fiv of each
sex. OF these twenty-three had the
right arm and left leg longer, six the
left arm and right leg, while in seven
teen cases all the members were more
or less equal in length.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Dynamite Shower Harmless.

The freakishness of giant powder
was again shown at Lima, Mont. A
carload of dynamite was on a side
track and it was crashed into by four
box cars, which had been shunted onto
the same sidetrack by the switch en-
gine, and were unattended by a brake
man.
box cars were smashed into kindline
wood, and the dynamite went high
into the air, only to fall in a rain of
individual sticks among the side
tracks.
Not stick was exploded, the pow
der evidently having been frozen, else
TIE town of Lima and the tracks of the
Snort line would have been wiped OH
the map.-New York Journal
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
DEAD MAN STEERS A SHIP.
Deserted in Midocean, His Hand Still
Grasped the Wheel.

A sealing schooner, the Ar1etis, re
Gently sighted a mastless derelict
about 100 miles southwest of Queen
Charlotte islands.
Although at first it was thought
there was no one on board, a figure
was at length made out crouching in a
kneeling position at, the wheel The
captain of the Arietis accordingly
hailed them when within distance and
proffered assistance.
Receiving no answer, however, and
noticing that the SteerSman never
shifted his position, he lowered boat.
and with some of his crew boarded
the derelict. He found that the man
was quite dead and had apparently
been so for some time, but his rigid
hands still grasped the wheel and
guided the vessel on it's course.
He had evidently been deserted by
his crew in storm, and as a last
forlorn hope had lashed himself to the
wheel. Some food was found close
to him and also two or three bottles
of medicine, showing apparently that
he was ill when his long watch began.
The name of the schooner was the
Gen Siglin, bound from San Francisco
to Alaska. She had on board the
complement of six sailors and five pas
sengers. The body of Capt. Saunders
was duly buried according to the rites
observed at sea.-Exchange.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
The New Born Calf.

After the calf is licked dry by its
mother it usually has strength enough
to rise and suck, says Prof. D. H. Otis
II 1t does not 1t should be assisted in
securing its first meal. The calf may
then be taken away, in which case it
should be fed the colostrum milk from
its mother. or it may be left until the
milk is fit for use. Where the cows
udder is in good shape it is easier to
teach the calf to drink when it is
taken away before sucking at all. The
recorus at the Kansas Experiment
Station show that when q calf is
weaned from its mother at once or
when four or five days old, it will
make good gains the first week. but
when left two or three weeks, the first
seven days after weaving is a losing
period. II the cows udder Is caked.
however, it is well to leave the calf
with her, as the rubbing of the calf
tends to reduce Inflammation and soft
en- the udder. Where the calf is sew
eral days old before weaning, the
moral atmosphere around the calf pen
will usually be better If the calf be
allowed to go without eating for twen-
ty-four hours By that time it Is hun
CRY enough to eat without great deal
of coaxing-
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Importance of Forestry.

The forest problem is in many ways
the United States. The more closely
this statement is examined the more
evident its truth becomes. In the
arid region of the west agriculture
depends first of all upon the available
water supply. In such a region forest
protection alone can maintain the
stream flow necessary for irrigation,
and can prevent the great and de-
structive floods SO ruinous to COM
munities farther down the same
streams that head in the arid re-
gions. The relation between the for
ests and the whole mineral industry
is an extremely intricate one; for, as
every man who has had experience in
the west knows, p,ines cannot be de-
ve1oped without timber-usuaily not
without timber close at hand. In many
regions throughout the arid country
ore is more abundant than wood, and
this means that il the ore is OF low
grade, the transportation OF timber
from any distance being out of the
question, the use of the mine is limit
ed by the amount of timber available.
The very existence of numbering, of
course-and numbering is the fourth
great industry of the United States
depends upon the success of our work
as a nation in putting practical for
estry into effective operation.-Theo-
dore Roosevelt
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
HE WANTED HIS Boy.
irate Dutch Father Refused to Be Sat
isfied With Girl.

When government goes 20 the
trouble of bringing up its citizers
children in a municipal hospital it
seems too bad that any one should be
dissatisfied, but the benevolent prac-
tice has brought about a curious state
of affairs in Amsterdam, Holland
Several months ago a father sent
his infant son to the hospital to be
reared by incubator. When subse-
quently he visited the institution to
see his boy the authorities produced
female child, assuring the citizen it
was his own. The sturdy Dutchman
at once invoked the aid OIL the law and
il spite of the hospitals defense that
the citizen brought them a girl the
court decided that the authorities had
produced the wrong one and ordered
tie real son surrendered.
A prolonged search failed to find
the missing male infant, and within
short time the highest court of Hol-
land will try the irate fathers claim
for damages sustained by the loss of
his son.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09

uIn, and likewise an offer of 800
marks for the Limoges goblet. The
shaft of the cross is sixteen and a half
inches long, and the crosspiece thir-
teen and a half inches. In the middle
OF the front is a panel, with the fig
ure of the crucifed Christ; at the ends
OF the crosspiece panels in niello rep
resenting the Growing with Thorns
and the f1agellation, and at the top
and bottom Last Supper and a Pieta
there are four rectangular niello pan
els between these, representing Saints
and the Pelican. On the back the pan
els represent weeping angels, the Vir-
gin, Mary Magdalen, ST. John, the
Sermon on the Mount, with other
minor figures. 1 discovered on one
OF the medallions on the top the let
ters E. B., but of course nobody can
tel who the artist may have been"
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Why. Geese Need Ponds.

From Farmers Review: 1t is far
easier for me to raise geese than to
write about them. My experience with
them is that they will do better with
ponds. My reasons for this statement
is that If you notice a goose on day
1t is thawing you will notice she Will
go anywhere that a little water is on
the ground and act as if she was go
ing crazy to get into pond to swim.
Then, again, take geese that are shut
In yards and only get water to drink,
will they not stand about the water
dish trying to wash until the water is
all gone? 1 once saw a goose that
was penned and could not have any
more than enough water to drink.
have what call a fit. She would go
through the motions she would if she
was in pond of water, and was un-
able to stop. After this the goose
was all right, but as soon as she was
kept from it any length of time she
would be as bad as ever. Then again
these geese that have no ponds do
not lay as fertile eggs as the geese
that do have ponds. If 1 wished to
keep geese and had no ponds for
them l should take large tanks and
sink them in the ground where the
geese could get to them and keep the
tanks full of water at all times. Last
winter when the ponds were frozen
would once a week put tub of water
where they could get at it and 1 think
l enjoyed seeing them wash as much
as they enjoyed it.-Mrs. l.. D. Cary,
Lake County, Illinois.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Advantages of Dairyino.

Dairyins is profitable because IT
brings the farmer the largest return
for his labor and products of his farm
1t enables him to get larger gross
and net income from his farm than he
can obtain without it. The feed that
will make two pounds of beef will
make a pound of butter, and the value
of pound of butter is always more
than the value of two pounds of beef,
even during the last few years of rela-
lively high prices OF beef and low
prices of butter.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
He Is a Husker

Elijah W. Barnhart, the champion
corn husker of York and Adams coun-
ties, New York. has finished his sea-
sons work, although he says there
remains considerable corn to be husk-
ed without his aid. Elijah has for
twenty years been the mainstay of
many farmers. His record for this
year is 1924 shocks. He says they
average ninety shocks to the acre and
ninety ears to the shock His quick
est work, timed by the watch, was
thirty ears in a minute Barnhart has
worked on 125 farms in this section
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Smallest eackboned Creature.


The smallest backboned animal in
the world is a fish. 1t has been dis
covered recently in Buhi, a mountain
lake in the island of Luzon, in the
Philippines. The tiny creature has
two names out of all proportion to its
size. The one given it by the natives
is sinarapan, and doubtless has some
significance in the language of the
Bicols, the natives living in the lake
region The scientific name is mys-
tichthys Luzonensis, and means the
smallest fish inhabiting Luzon.
The largest of the species measures
but half an inch in length and the
smallest not more than one-fifth of
an inch. 1t would take about six thou
sand of them to weigh pound. For
tunately for the fshmonger of Luzon.
the sinarapan is not sold by the dozen.
or even by the hundred. They are
measured by the quart--New York
Herald
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09

Height of Wheel and Draft of Wagon.
This is a subject regarding which
there is considerable difference OF
opinion, says a bulletin of the U. s.
Department of Agriculture. The Mis-
souri, Station has put the matter to
practical test in a series Of trials
made on macadam, gravel, and dirt
roads in all conditions, and on mead
ows, pastures, cultivated fields, stub
Bile land, etc. With a net load of 1000
pounds in all cases, three sets of
wheels were tested, as follows:
STANDARD wheels, "A inches;
rear wheels, 55 inches. Medium-front
wheels, SO inches; rear wheels, 40
inches Low-front wheels, "a inches;
rear wheels, % inches" The results
obtained and conclusions reached
were, in brief, as follows:
For the same load, wagons with
wheels Of standard height drew light
er than those with lower wheels. The
difference in favor of the standard
wheels was greater on road surfaces
in bad condition than on good road
surfaces. Low wheels cut deeper ruts
than those of standard height. The
vibration of the tongue is greater in
wagons with low wheels. For most
purposes wagons Win low wheels dTS
more convenient than those Of stand
ard height. Wagons with broad tires
and wheels of standard height are
cumbersome and require much room
in turning. Diminishing the height OF
wheel to from 80 to SO inches in front
and 40 to A inches in the rear did
no. increase the draft in as great pro-
portion as it increased the conven-
fence of loading and unloading the Or
binary farm freight. Diminishing the
height of wheels below 80 inches front
and 40 inches rear increased the draft
in greater proportion than it gained in
convenience. On good roads, increas-
ing the length of rear axle, so that
the front and rear wheels will run in
different tracks to avoid cutting ruts,
did not increase the draft. On sod,
cultivated ground, and bad roads
wagons with the rear axle longer than
the front one drew heavier than one
having both axles of the same length.
Wagons with the rear axle longer than
the front one require wider gateways
and more careful drivers, and are, on
the whole, very inconvenient and not
to be recommended for farm use. The
best form of farm wagon is one with
axles of equal length, broad tires, and
wheels 80 to SO inches high in front
and 40 to A inches behind.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Pocketbook Strangely Recovered.

A pocketbook containing $50 in gold
was lost eight years ago by Mrs. Da-
volt of New Boston, Mo. She never
heard from it until the other day when
the money was found in a peculiar
way. A young man rode up to the Da-
volt home and tied his horse to a tree
near the house. When he returned for
the horse he found it had paved a
pocketbook out of the earth. 1t was
the one Mrs. Davoit had lost
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
What the Test showed.


Prof. E. H. Farmington, in an ad-
dress at a farmers institute in Mani
tOba, said:
1t was with the hope of helping
farmers and of illustrating the con-
dition of some dairy herds that we
undertook, some four years ago. to
begin testing the cows of the patrons
supplying milk to the Wisconsin Dairy
School. These patrons keep cows and
deliver milk to the factory in the same
way as is customary at the creameries
and cheese factories throughout the
state. They do not have large herds
and it was observed during the past
year that the cows owned by one hun
dred OF them were probably similar to
the one million In the state. Only
eight out of the one hundred patrons
kept more than twenty cows and thir-
ty-hVe owned from two to five cows
only. This shows that the majority
OF our patrons do not pretend to be
dairymen in the sense of making the
production Of milk a serious business
and I fear that there are many far
mers in so-called dairy districts who
do not allow the cows to make much
of an impression on their minds; 9TH
er lines Of farming crowd the cows out
so that they receive only a little at
tention at milking time
The cows on one farm were tested
for three years. The average receipts
per cow in 1898, from the creamery,
were $3.50; in 1900, 1920, and in
1901, $3S.92. The figures do not show
much indication that the owner has
prohted by the tests. Two cows that
did not produce milk enough to pay a
profit on their feed were kept in the
herd for three years, and five other
COWS produced less than $50 worth OF
butter in a year. The annual pro-
duction of the mature cows during the
three years shows that the poor cows
did not improve from year to year, but
continued to give less milk than re-
quired to pay for the feed consumed.
The one good COW was equally per-
sistent in doing well. The creamery
value Of her milk for three years was
5000. This is $11O more than the cost
of her feed when we take $50 per year
as the value of cows feed. The but
ter produced by the other five cows
tested for three years amounted to
only STA more than the cost of their
feed during the same time. The milk
OF one COW, therefore, paid the owner
within four dollars as much profit in
three years as the milk of five cows
in the same herd for the same length
of time. In another herd the excess
of butter over cost of feed of two
cows was worth $50, while that of
five other cows was worth only $5S.
Thus the owner received at the cream
cry 81 less for the milk of five cows
than he did for that of two in the
same herd. The entire herd of twelve
cows owned by one farmer only paid
profit of SIS in a year and three of
the twelve cows paid $50 of this
amount, leaving S25 as the combined
profit of the other nine cows in the
herd. Another herd Of twelve cows
paid profit of 1928 in a year, but in
this herd there was one COW that
earned only 81 profit and another that
earned $31 profit, a difference of about
400 per cent in the annual butter value
OF these two cows to their owner.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Chorus eirI,s Lucky AHit."

A host of $15-a-week chorus girls
have, through single unexpected hit.
been lifted from the chorus ranks 10
the center of the stage-from SIS to
$3.50 or more a week. The latest case
of a girl whose name was not even
on the program whose place was not
even in the first row of the chorus,
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Cotton Crops Of Four Years.
Collection of Antiquities.

P. Chenette of Montpelier, VT, has
an old saddle which was used in 1774
for the first time Among the other
antiquities owned by Mr.. Chenette is
an old pair of Holland skates; one
of the old-fashioned instruments for
pulling teeth and several keys which
might have done service, judging
from their appearance. in the early
part of the sixteenth century.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Power of Animals

The stroke of lions paw is the
third strongest force in the animal
world. The first is the blow of a
whales tail: the second the kick of a
giraffe.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
PRIZE FOR ART LOVERS.
Magnificent Cross Disposed of at Re
cent Sale i'm Germany.

Writing of the sale of the Thewalt
collection of art treasures at Cologne,
Germany, the correspondent of the
New York Sun says:
81 shall begin with the great prizes
OF the sale. First the silver gilt cross
with twenty niello plates, nine on the
front and eleven on the back, a mag
n:fcent specimen of Florentine Re-
naissance work. For this Herr The
walt it is reported, had an offer of
100000 marks from the late Baron
Adolphe de Rothschild, who was a
muniicent donor to the Lor - muse
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09
Women Inventors.

Necessity is the mother of invention.
It was an American woman who in
vented a baby carriage which netted
her $4,000. A street sweeping ma
chine of great merit was devised by a
New York lady who had costly dress
ruined by the mud splashed on 1t by a
defective machine; while one of the
most remarkable of American women's
inventions is that of Mrs. Mary B.
Walton for deadening the sound of
car wheels, the outcome of her en-
forced residence near the elevated rail-
way in New York, and the consequent
annoyance experienced from the sound
of the passing trains. One of the most
complicated and curiously ingenious
machines ever made, it is said, is that
for the manufacture OF reinforced
bottom paper bags. 1t was the inven-
ton of Miss Maggie Knight, who from
it and other inventions in the same
line realized great fortune.
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09

The average tonnage of imports and
exports of the six leading ports of the
world is now: London, 1864, ,108;
New York, 17.39s,O5s; Antwerp, 16.-
721, ,0O9; Hamburg. 1883. .489; Hong
kcng. 14,724.269; Liverpool. 13, ,157. .714
Western Kansas world., 1904-01-09

and yet who won a critical first-night's
audience by storm, is that of Elise
Romayne. Miss Romayne was in the
second rank of the chorus in MIR.
Blue Beard" the night of it's produc-
ton in New York. After a single
verse of THE Song Bird of Melody
Lane" has been sung every eye in the
house was following her performance
of the tough" girl. The hundred
other girls were singing and dancing
well enough, but the applause was all
Tor her. Fully twenty times the piece
was encored, simply for the sake of
watching the evolutions of this new
est of tough girls. The following
morning every critic had unstinted
praise for her performance, and there
was a mild scramble to learn her
name. And then came a raise in sal
ary from SIS week to $50 a week.
''Why Did She Ever Marry Him?v
I'd hate-that is if L were short
And bandy-legged and had
"A face without a feature that
would make a woman glad
I'd hate, If L were such man,
To have wife whose proud
And splendid countenance would drav
Attention from the crowd:
FOR everywhere / went with her
They d gaze at with grim
Or doubling looks. and wonder why
She ever married him."
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-14

custodian of the jail, who declined "a
allow the city use OF the building ex-
cept In the event that he would be
permitted TO select man 10 act as
keeper of the prison. The sheriff Ia
responsible for the prisoners In the
jail. and therefore would want to be
protected against possible loss.
Mr.. Kaboth thought the public prop
erty committee should be authorized to
take the steps necessary to secure a
new jail and temporary headquarters.
and the suggestion was offered that
almost any old jail would do. Mr.
Nordstrom here cut in to say that
purchase of the Flavel brick would
settle the entire matter. It Is quite
probable that the committee viii en-
deavor to secure temporary hall from
which II will not be required to move
until the new hall is completed.
Other Matters Acted Upon.
Matt Sanstrom petltioned for a re-
tail liquor license.
A communication from property own
ers asking that the grade Of Grand
avenue from Thirty-fourth to Thirty
eighth street be established was re-
ferred to the street committee and city
engineer.
A proposal from Bishop Morris Of
fering to compromise delinquent street
assessments was referred to the ways
and means committee.
The remonstrance of X. Iverson
against the manner in which an east
end street improvement is being made
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-14

Resolutions were adopted as followsl
Declaring the intention OF the council
to improve Grand avenue from the
shively line to Seventeenth street; dl-
recting the city engineer to report upon
the proper grade for a park road IA
feet wide along Commercial street from
First to Third, and up First to Ex-
change.
The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1904-06-14

was referred to the street committee
and city attorney.
The request of the water commits
sion that provision be made for q water
Office In the new city hall was referred
to the committee on public property.
The petition Of Mrs. Sarah II, Wood
for permission to build wharf on lot
2, block 1876, shively's, was granted.