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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06

Ice Is one of the great luxuries OF
modern times, and is fast becoming
necessity Its use has many phases
1t is exceedingly valuable in the dairy
all through the summer, and by it's
help the enterprising farmer is able
to put on the market higher quality
OF milk, butter and cream than would
otherwise be possible. Ice enters into
the problem of food preservation. and
the farmer that has an abundant sup
ply of it can indulge in the luxury of
fresh meat much oftener in the sum-
mer than he otherwise could. The
farmers wife always appreciates the
advantage of having ice that she can
use as she wishes in her culinary OPP
erations.
Ice is one of the things that is
easily obtained on most farms in the
North, but it requires some work to
secure it, However, the time of ice
harvest comes when no other harvest
can be gathered. Many of our farm
ers have ponds that are large enough
and. clear enough to provide a first
class quality of ice. Where the farmer
lacks such a pond he can generally
buy his ice from some neighbor at q
c.. IF about ten cents a ton, he to do
the cutting and hauling. The inhabit.
ant In the city pays all the way from
So to 81 per ton for the ice that Is
delivered at his door. The aggregate
cost to tie farmer, including cost of
hauling, interest on value of building
for storage, packing material and pack
ing should not be over SO cents a ton.
We are glad to know that many of
our farmers have built first-class ice
houses and every year fill them with
n Ia
comes the following year. The best
ice houses are those that are square
and as near a cube as possible. In
such a house ice may be so packed
that it will. present the least possible
surface toward the outside, and viii
produce the least possible lateral pres
sure. The walls must be well built
to prevent the bullying of the building
A building that is very tall will permit
the ice to sag to one side and this
will cause the bullying of the building
on the side against which the ice
comes. We have seen such buildings
with great props against them to pre-
vent still greater damage.
In building an ice house for farm
use, a few principles need to be OBJ
served. The first of these is to give
perfect drainage. The house should be
either on an eminence and have a nat.
ural drain, or it must have tile laid
to carry of the water as fast as it Is
made by the melting of ice. If water
Is permitted to accumulate, it causes
the more rapid melting and consequent
loss of ice. The walls of the house
should be built double, to give a good.
sized air space. The packing of tbs
Ice should be carefully done, as this ID
4 very important factor In preyentfne
he melting of the ice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
The Bees of ReexiIIe.

Texas, with nearly half a million
beehives, claims to produce more
honey than any other state, but a
Texas contemporary is mistaken in
saying that its good county of Bee is
named for the busy insect which
makes all this sweetness long drawn
put" The country was named for
Bernard E. Bee ST., of the noted South
Carolina family of that name, who
went to Texas at an early date and
played an important part in it's affairs
during the period of the republic. By
an odd coincidence of name it's county
seat, BeeviIle, is said to have a fam
Gus collection of bees, but it is bet
ter known to fame as the site of a
horticultural branch of the Texas ag-
ricultural station.-St. Louis Republic
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Appropriate To the Day.


"You can seldom catch an Irishman
at loss for an answer when you try
to have fun with him. said Louis
Ward of Detroit. at the Plankinton.
Il found out last st. Patrick's day
Just how quick Irish wit can be.
81 was stopping at an hotel where
there was an Irish waitress One
didn't have to be-.0ld that she was
Irish, for the map of the Emerald isle
was written all over her face. She
had a brogue that was a marvel and a
temper which was the terror of all
the guests at her table.
st Patrick's day 1 came down to
have a little joke with our waitress.
Molly, bring me an orange,
please 1 asked as starter. 1t was
fnisher too. The way it brought
results was amazing.
with a look of whitening scorn
Molly stood perfectly still for at least
a minute, while / could feel the cold
chills which the fear of scene in the
breakfast room chased up my back.
Finally, though, she smiled, more in
pity than in mirth.
g Faith, Mr.. Ward, you've forgot
TIM tn day I'm thinkin', she said
It's an olive you meant to be orderin',
not an orange. And I'll have it here
in a minute
ssAnd 1 ate the olive for breakfast -
Milwaukee Sentinel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Hard to Follow Korean Fashion.

Congressman Longworth, who is en-
gagged to marry Miss Roosevelt, has
been reading up on Korea and the
other day in conversation with a
friend congratulated himself that he
is not native of that country. You
know" he said, chat in Korea when
a young man enters into an engage
ment to marry a demoiselle he screws
up his hair into a psyche knot and
crowns it with one of those ridiculous
Unrestricted hats with far-extending
caves. The wearing of the knot and
the hat constitutes notice to the
world that he is now a man and has
been spoken for either by the de-
moiselle or by some of her relatives.
And wouldn't be in pickle if were
living in Korea now?" asked Long
worth, as he rubbed his hand over
the place where the hair used to be.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Easy to Find the Way.

Walter Christie, a noted eastern
autoist was on run near Cape May
not long ago and just as dusk was
beginning to fall discovered he had
lost his way At the crossing of the
roads he stopped, not knowing which
to take, and shortly boy appeared,
driving a COW. Say, my lad" Mr..
Christie called, 81 want to reach Cape
May and I don't know the road" The
little fellow calmly surveyed the
stranger, spat through his teeth and
answered: well, mister, you jest
follow that cow and she'll show you
the way. Cape Mays where she
lives
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Few Paupers in South Dakota.

That the prosperity which is South
Dakota's boast is not confined to any
one section of the state, or to a favor
ed few among its Inhabitants is shown
by the latest figures from the state
census bureau, giving statistics con-
corning the paupers of the state The
figures show that of the ass. 900 people
of South Dakota only 24S are sup
ported wholly at public expense OF
these 153 are inmates OF poorhouses
and eighty-fve are supported outside
of the poorhouses. LIN addition to
state who are partially supported by
public charity No other state in the
union. 1t is believed, has so small q
proportion of its population supported
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
RECOVER RAPIDLY FROM WAR.
Conditions Of Trade and Agriculture
EIourishino in Manchurja

TlO0TlSIilF9 ia.
"I have just returned from Muk-
den, where all was quiet and the coun-
try very flourishing," writes a CORE
spondent of the Pekin and Tientsin
Times. '.The harvests in Manchuria
are expected to be the best in the
memory of the oldest people, despite
the fact that labor has been and is
very scarce. The country has never
been so full of ready money. In by
gone years trade was all done, or
nearly SO, by promissory notes; but,
owing to two huge armies, both spend
ing money, it is plentiful everywhere.
The very battlefields south of Mukden
are rich with corn
'.Once peace is assured and com
munication open, there will be an un-
precedented demand for clothing and
also luxuries hardly INDUCED in in
past years. The natives seem to be
hardened as regards the land fight
ing and in the actual war zone they
seem to be going on as usual and but
little land has remained uncultivated-
Many towns have still more than their
normal population, as many village
women and children prefer to remain
in the large centers.
From many inquiries one learns
that on the whole both armies have
to the natives. That there has been
local suffering and this sometimes
acute goes without saying, but the
people quickly recuperate in this natu-
rally rich country"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
~Jimv Macomber Had Dry Feet.

Jim MdCompeF f7do OTy FcSI.
Old "Jim'' Macomber lives alone on
A small island in Lake Boone, but he
by no means shuns society. especial
ly the convivial, says a writer in the
Boston Herald. At a farewell cele-
bration given at the close of the past
season by one of the summer cottag-
ers sJim'' was an invited guest, and
when the party broke, up, after mid
light, and he set out for his island,
he was so completely bewildered that
he spent the night cropping about in
the thick bushes behind the barn,
searching for his boat.
Meantime, one of the visiting cot
tagers, who was almost as befuddled
as AJim'' was, waded out into the
water and climbed into his boat
from Me further end, and then drifted
abf1x IN the lake for. the rest of the
niA until daylight brought
Something of soberness-
When the company assembled in
the morning there was much joking
st the expense of the pair. The dis
comfited cottager, in desperation.
tried to turn attention from himself
to sJim" by remarking: Jim, I hear
that you were looking for your boat
ont in the bushes last night, a half
mile from shore"
Immediately came the retort from
~Jim,: oval, eff 1 was, didn't get
NV feet wet, by gosh
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
CONCERNING GREAT MEMS SONS
In Majority of Instances They Are
Spoiled by Their Fathers.

Spoiled by Their Fathers.
The sons of great men seem to be
handicapped or overshadowed OF
crushed by the greatness of their
fathers There is apparently no ac-
counting for the fact. 1t exists and
seemingly it is without reason. Per-
haps, however, if closer scrutiny is
applied in some cases it will be found
that the sons of great fathers are not
great themselves because their faith
ers, great in many things, are not
great enough to know how to. raise
children In a word, they spoil them.
The very things that made themselves
great are denied the children. A man
who begins in poverty and obscurity
and rises to heights of distinction,
influence and wealth, usually informs
the public or his friends that the
things he suffered in youth will be
spared his son. So the youth grows
up in the lap of luxury. He may have
brains, but they are not used-there
is no necessity for using or developing
them. The father does the sons
thinking. He plans for him; he sup
plies him with money. with all the
comforts conceivable and with all the
luxuries imaginable. The youth does
nothing and subsequently and conse-
quently he amounts to nothing.-In-
dianapolis Sentinel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Length Of the Horses Foot.

If horses foot is too long it In
creases the fatigue of the horse in
using it. 1t requires an increased
amount of energy to lift and advance
this foot There Is also an increased
tendency to interfere. The habit of
keeping the hoof long has been fos-
tered by dealers because this lends
style to the horse, as it requires more
exertion in the lifting of the foot
If the tfarrier is allowed to do as he
thinks best, he will cut down the foot
to the natural proportions If the
owner is wise, he will not prevent
him from doing this.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
occupation for prof. Clark.

Prof. E. w. Clark of Ripon college,
Wisconsin, has been honored by the
bureau of university travel in Rome
in a manner which will make it pos
sible for him to go abroad each sum
mer and secure a new stock of mate
rial for the lectures he is delivering.
He has been engaged to conduct the
teachers excursions to the homes of
the ancients and will spend the next
few years in this manner.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
LIFE'S LOST OPPORTUNITIES

Il Is swallow ana trivial man or
woman who does not now and then
fall-into- a, vein of serious reflection
4on what are called the lost opportuni-
ties of life; the periods in which seem
1ngly great prizes were offered him,
but which he forfeited through his
own ignorance, presumption, folly or
worse At aach times, he is apt to
repeat to himself, with fresh sense of
their import, Shakespeare's lines,
There is a tide in the affairs of men
winch taken at the flood, leads on to
Omitted. all the voyages of their life
Is bound in shadows or in miseries-
Surely, then, it would seem as
though there were presented a fit
theme for little Sunday morning
homily. which might run as follows:
Has there not cometo many read
erin some impossible hour Of life,
an at first commonplace and, finally,
startling experience like this l will
nov describe?
aou were lying, let US say, spent
VIII the work of the day, on your
iouige, and your eye happened idly
10 fall on an old-fashioned Candida
Drum, with crystal drops, standing on
the mantelpiece, an heirloom that had
descended to you from some remote
ancestor. In it, erect as sentinels, are
d row of misunderstanding wax can
dies that have been on guard there
you cannot tell how many years; and,
loi suddenly this long-familiar sight
strikes you in an entirely novel light
Strange, is it not, you now say
when we consider the aim and end of
a candle to burn and to shine, that
there should still be standing erect,
after fifty years, those frigid shafts,
made, however, of inf1ammable car
bon, and surrounded by a restless
ocean of yet more infiammable oxy-
gen, and yet the two never have come
Into that vital interior contact in
which they would leap into mutual
embrace and "as they kiss, consume"
One touch of kind1ed match at any
time, raising the temperature to the
needful point, and the repe1lent forces
by which their atoms have for such
years been kept apart, would in an in
slant have been annihilated, leaving
free the unitary forces, forever strain
ing in them, to rush together and
strike fire in the ardor of their exult-
ing contact.
But the infaming touch of the
match never came, bringing with it
rlHe symbolic nour OF pnySico-SpirltuaI
conversion from chill and apathy to
love and glow, from the realm of to-
tai darkness to the realm of radiant
light And so, shut up to their in
exon BILE law that on the sole condition
of acertain higher-wrought pulsation
of heat agitating their atoms. can
these elements ever unite to burn and
shine-still another fifty years might
pass and still another eye, after our
own has long been sealed in death,
witness the old, unvarying spectacle
of these self-same inflammatory, yet
se1f-contained and cold, shafts OF car
bon and this self-same infiammatory,
yet spell-bound, ocean of oxygen, so
infinitely close together and yet so
Infinitely wide apart.
Well, if this is not the "candle of the
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of the being what is it? you gradually
begin to feel. For, 1oi suddenly, the
truth, so strikingly emphasized in the
candelabrum on your mantei shelf, be-
gins to open out in a hundred novel
applications of its one ever changing
principle. A slight shifting of posi-
ton, as you still lie meditating on
your lounge, and your eye has CHANGED
to light, for example, on the rows of
books on your book shelves, when, be-
hold precisely the same story repeat
ed of the relation between them and
you
Think of those books! There are
the prophets and psalmists; there the
sacred hymns of the ages; there the
magic world of Shakespeare, the saint
ly sages, Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius,
Emerson, there the loving humor of
Charles Lamb, so tender with human
infirmities, the biting lash of Swift,
SO fiercely indignant with life's vices
and meannesses, the sublime magma
tions of Milton so heaven-rapt in pro-
phetic visioni What an environing
ocean of potential thought and feel
ing. What intellectual and spiritual
deeps in it. profounder than plummet
ever soundedi
And there perchance have you been,
loi these many years-you, for whom
these loving, smiling, inspired ones
discoursed, sang, pleaded, poured out
the passion of their hearts-their very
life pulse, one insatiate hunger and
thirst to share their happiest and
brightest with youi
And how have you responded? At
times, thank God! with glowing cheek
and beating heart for the blessed dow
er of such elect spirits to make your
whole being ripple with smiles and
glow with love. But ahi how often,
in contrast, have fatal barriers shut
down between you and them. En-
thralled in what pitiful moods of indo-
lence, triviality, worldliness, morbid
self-absorption, have you found your
self out of humor with them all: and,
sullenly ignoring your divine inherit
ance. felt bent on retreating into the
narrowest and darkest den of your
being, with no other desire but to be
let alone, there to sulk or eat your
own heart outi
Yet now, once again, and almost
before you are aware of it, your
thoughts have left those accusing mas
tiers of the spirit and are wandering
in still another realm. You have call
ed up before you your neighbors and
friends, the souls given you to dwell
with lovingly and helpfully in this
realm, and then, through memory, to
lure you to a higher. Again, what an
environing atmosphere whose pulsa-
lions throbbing quick and full with
thine own, would set on so beauteous
a flame of love.
But all! how often have we forfeited
this unspeakab1e privilege. Alas! for
the barriers of moods and poor selfish
absorptions that have shut down be-
tween us and them. How again and
again have we appeared at their festi-
val seasons, our lamps gone out and
10 oil with us; how again and again
we have slept through their Gethse-
naneSi-Boston Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Statue of Gen. cansevoort.

Rome, N Y, is to have fine statue
of Peter Gansevoort, who was in com
mand of Fort Stanwix at its siege dur
ing the early and troublous days in
the Mohawk valley. The statue is
to be placed in East park, because
the site of that old fort which never
surrendered is now a private ground.
1t is the gift of Mrs. Abram Lansing
of Albany, who is a granddaughter of
Gen. Gansevoort
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06

Summons to Church.
In Germany. in the quaint city of
Stuttgart. the churches have q more
delightful way of calling their mem
bers to service than by harsh clang-
ing of bells Half an hour before
church time three or four musicians
enter the tower and play solemn
choral SO sweetly that passers-by re-
member that Sunday is not a. sponge
to wipe out the follfes of the week
but day Of worship Hundreds are
drawn to church by this means. hum
dreds rho would pass by the open
church door.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Wealth. Under Rags.

Wealth Under Rags.
At Carvin, In the Pasde Calais,
France, there has been discovered q
beggar, named Joseph Daubreni, pos
sessed of an independent fortune He
arrived in the place . short time ago
from Havre, he said Being a
stranger. and dressed in most miser-
able rags, the police arrested him for
. vagabond, giving him prison dress
In exchange for rags. While consta-
BILE was turning these rags over, some
thing bulky attracted attention, and
there was brought ont scrip in the
coal-mines Of Lens worth f4.z8o.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-01-06
Forest Reserves.

More and more the national gov
eminent is taking an interest In
the matter of reserving tracts OF
land for forest growths. In most
cases the tracts reserved are not
valuable for agriculture of any kind
It Is not perhaps known to most
Americana that the. United States has
q forest reserve in Porto Rico 1t il
in the eastern part of the island and
embraces about $4,000 acres. or about
100 square miles. The region is very
mountainous ana at the present time
is unsurveyed- A great variety Of
woods are. however. found on the -
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view OF zee AARsoR OF sAANe4Al, cHlNA.
The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1906-04-27
F r E s H-H a SH

The man with the hoe and the
man with the rake are strictly in 1t
these days.
Invitations are out for a clnb dance
at the Opera House tuesday evening,
May lst. Music by Mlllers Orchestor
The East Side Tennis Club has
caused Their tennis court To be grad
edand fixed up in fne shape. T'h ey
have also put new wire netting
around the same.
4 4 r
Rev. j. CALVIN Mead the evange
list, has continued his meetings here
all this week and will close them
Sunday evening. Rev. Mead is an
eloquent and torceful speaker and
has had wonderful success.
Newman, the hypotnlst, held down
the boards at the Opera House Mon
day and Tuesday nights. He played
to small houses both nights but gave
general satisfaction
Lost IN Sisseton, this afternoon,
probably in Peever's or Stavig's store,
a purse containing $40 in bills and
some silver Finder please return to
tins office and receive reward.
w. j. TOwles returned from
Minneapolis this morning, bringing
Mrs. Towles with him. The many
friends of Mrs. Towles are glad to
Know she is so far recovered from
her recent illness as to be able to take
the trip back home.
a petition is being circulated for
signitures to present TO the governor,
asking for the pardon of VIM. Fltz-
| patrick now serving term in state
prison for the murder of Hanson in
this city two years ago. The petition
sets forth the murder not being
premediated or Intentional, the said
| FiJZpatrIck had been sufficiently nun
lshed.
The Following is list of the new
books which the Library association
has ordered and when they arrive
they will make welcome addition to
the reading room: Joe's Boys, Little
Lame Prince, Little Lord Fauntleroy,
Sara Crewe and Little st. Elizabeth,
Little Men, Little Women, Biography
Of Prairie Girl, Adventure of a
Brownie, Around the World, Birds
Christmas Carol, Boy on a Farm
Child's Garden of Verses, ChiIds
Stories from the Masters, Davy anl
the Goblin, Fifty Famous Stores Re
told, Goody Two Shoes, Heart of OAK
Books Vol !, Heart of Oak Books
Vol2, Juan and Juanita, Marjorie
and her Papa. RileY's Child Rhymes,
Stories from B,rdland, Vols. and 2
Story Hour (WIggins), Story OF
Hiawatha, Among the Camps, Among
the Stars, At the Back of the North
Wind, The Bird Book, Cadet Days,
The Court OF King Arthur, Dog o.
Flanders, Hans Brinker Of the Silver
Skates. The Hoosier School Boy, Hal
o. The Fells, Dab Knizer and In the
Days Of Albert the Great,