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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-05-04
oappIe Gray Team Brings Good Money

DappIe Gray Team Brings Good Money
Among a car load of horses shipped
from Chanute to Kansas City by
Charles Hardness were four for which
Mr.. HarkEess paid the sum of $1,025.
OF these four two were a pair of dap
pie grays, with exceedingly handsome
markings. He bought them in Yates
Center and gave $3.50 for the two.
The pair weighed 3,170 pounds, and
either was so near the weight of the
other that they. seemed to be exactly
mates in size. As matter of fact,
there was 80 pounds difference In
their weight, but this is a trifling diff
ference in horses of that size.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-05-04
lola Eagle Lodge Is Dry.

The lola Eagle lodge which was raid
ed by the county attorney several days
ago, has compromised its case with
the county attorney, agreeing not to
resist the injunction proceedings
against it's rooms. In consideration
of this the cases against the individual
members of the order will be dropped.
BY the terms of the agreement the
lodge is permanently enjoined from
using its rooms as a place where Ii
quor is kept and sold. 1t had been the
original intention of the Eagles to
contest the case, but after consulting
their lawyers, they decided that they
had been violating the law. The liquor
and bar fixtures taken from the rooms
during the raid will be burned by the
sheriff.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-05-04
ON Inspection Pays.

The state oil inspector has submit
ted his report for March. 1t shows
that 22,432 barrels of kerosene and
11,761 barrels of gasoline were inspect
ed The fees amounted to $3,426.05
and the cost $669.59- The chief in
spector turned $2,757.46 into the state
treasury
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-05-04
HI. Occuuaticn.

What is your occupation?" the
MAGISTRATE asked John White the
other day in the Westminster police
court, London. It steal pewter pots,
replied the candid Mr.. White.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-05-04
The Oldest Newspaper Man.

The oldest newspaper man in point
of service on one paper is w. T. Nc
Elroy of the Humboldt Union, which
was Al years old last week. Editor
McElroy has been in charge all OF
that time, and his many Kansas news
paper friends hope that he has many
more years of active work ahead of
him yet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-05-04

erty of James G. Blaine, still roams
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-05-04
Coal Mime Changes ownershop.

The deal was closed by which H.
H. Radley relinquished his interests
in the Girard Coal company, eight
miles northwest of Pfttsburg, j. r.
Grove, president OF the J. R. Grove
Coal company, and ira Fleming, gen
eral manager for the Fleming Coal
company, being the purchasers The
consideration is 100000.
Gift Of Mrs. Sage to Military Prison.
The widow of the late Russell Sage
has given $1,000 toward the Y. NJ C.
A., and the mi1itory prison at FIT
Leavenwcrth She asks that $500 of
the amount be expended toward sup
plying the new Y NJ G. A., building
at the post with suitable literature
and asks that the other $500 be used
toward buying books for the military
prison.
Teachers Meeting at Harrington Ends
The Tri-County Teachers Associa-
ton at Harrington closed its annual
session electing A. B. Robinson, Coun-
Gil Grove, president, Miss Lavonia
Donice. Abilene, secretary; J. A. Ray.
Marion, treasurer Harry Slaymaker
of Peabody won the oratorical CON
test; Sadie McLaren. Hope, the dec
lamation contest Superintendent a.
J. Stayley OF Lincoln lectured on agri-
culture teaching and an old fashioned
spelling contest for prize Of ten dol
lara was held
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Moral snobbery.

One of the eommonest forms of
snobbishness is not social at all,
but moral. Many people are moral
snobs who have grain of social
ambition. When Napoleon said, 81
am above morality" he not only gave
expression to what some great peo-
pie have secretly thought about them
selves, but to what thousands of their
small admirers have openly said of
them. They do not reflect, perhaps,
as they justify their heroes, that to
declare any one in the world above
morality is to say that morality has
ceased to exist, has been found out
and exploded, nothing remaining but
some utilitarian rules suitable for the
guidance of mediocre minds. The
moral law must be supreme or no.
where, Yet this, as it seems to us,
eelf-evident proposition is by no
means easy to apply. lost of us feel
that for any one to lay too much
stress upon the moral shortcomings
of great man is sign of a small
mind, or at least of a defective edu-
cation.
We do not habitually speak of Mel
son in respect of Lady Hamilton, of
Burns in respect of his marriage, of
Bacon in the matter of his proved
corruption, of Coleridge in connection
with his opium habit, nor of Charles
Lamb in his cups, as we should speak
of Smith, Brown and Robinson in like
circumstances. Must we then admit
ourselves to be moral snobs? The
prima-facie evidence is very much
against us.-London Spectator.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

Plant memory Is problem for the
inquisltive botanlst. In 1901 a plant
allied to the squash and pumpkin was
taken to New York from the desert OF
Sonora. In Mexico. and since then IT
has been kept-without water-in 2
strange climate 5000 miles from home.
During the six weeks OF rain In the
desert the plant grows its leaves and
flowers and perfects It's seed. Then II
dries up and leaves only q water flled
gourd- which thick. hard shell seals
against animals and evaporation. The
transplanted specimen still remembers
the rainy season OF six weeks 1t wakes
sends out rootlets, stems and leaves
and then dries UP in until the fol-
Loving year-Kansas City Journal.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

In an experiment conducted at the
North Platte Experiment Station in
Western Nebraska recently, two lots of
weaLed brood sows were fed, the one
three pounds of corn day per 100
pounds of hog, together with alfalfa
pasture; the other four pounds of corn
in dry lot without alfalfa or other
seed. 1t required nearly .43 per cent
more corn to yield 100 pounds of gain
in the dry lot than in the pasture. To
pasture a pig through the season at
North Platte costs about 80 cents, val
uing alfalfa consumed in the field at
$3.50 ton
Twenty-Five shoats, averaging 1S5
pounds, made for six weeks an average
daily gain of 1.50 pounds each on three
pounds of corn day per 100 pounds
of pigs. With corn at 50 cents this
made a cost not including the alfalfa
consumed of 1926 per 100 pounds of
gain. Another lot, averaging 100
pounds, was fed a full ration of corn.
They gained 1.6 pounds a day each. a
cost for gains of $3.07 per 100, not in
Guiding alfalfa, corn being 80 cents.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

aldry. better known as pickerel in
America, Is truly game" fish, jadg-
ing from the manner he fights and the
great number of denticles in his mouth,
which are strong enough to bite off an
anglers finger. Yes, our familiar
fresh water wolf" is game enough, and
l can say from experience that his
many pounds of sound flesh taste ex-
ceedingly choice about Christmas time
when stuffed with veal forcemeat and
basted with savory gravy. Yet very
many hundreds of enormous pike are
captured on our streams yearly by
"trlmmers" and other questionable de-
vices of the river watchers; moreover,
they are throughout treated as so much
vermin. If exposed for sale on the fish
monger's marble slab they could hardly
fail to command a good price, little as
the world in general cares to make the
experiment of cooking pike.
Take the case of the equally abund-
ant club. l am told that 1t takes a
Jewish tailor or furniture brokers' fam
lily to appreciate ii.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
The Gender Of the Moon.

In English, French, Italian, Latin
and Greek the moon is feminine, but
in all the Teutonic tongues the moon
is masculine. Which of the twain is
it's true gender? We go back to the
canskrit for an answer. Professor
Max Muller rightly says con the Re
ligions of Indian"). at is no longer
denied that for throwing light on
some Of the darkest problems that
have to be solved by the student Of
language. nothing Is so useful as a
critical study of Sanskrit." Here the
word for the moon is mas, which is
masculine. Mark how even what
Hamlet calls words, words. words, =
lend their weight and value to the
adjustment of this great argument.
The very moon is masculine. and, like
Wordsworth's child. is father of the
man. Moon Lore.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

The results secured az the Illinois
Experiment Station in breeding corn
SO that ears win come at a certain
position on the stalk will interest corn
growers everywhere Growers OF corn
on the rich, bottom lands have com
planned for years that too much growth
went TO stalk, at the expense OF the
ear as well as Of soil fertility. The
Illinois Station shows that every farm
er has It within his own hands to de-
termIne the location OF ears and re-
duce the height of the stalk. The
way to go at 1t Is merely selection
going through the fields now and Sc
lecting, as foundation stocis, seed ears
growing at easy husking distance fsom
the ground. and then repeating the pro-
cess each year until the habit becomes
fxed we walked through 20O-acre
Geld OF fine corn with the owner few
DAYS ago. The corn had had a mar
yelous growth. but as the owner re-
marked @You would have to roll It
down before you could husk IT." The
ears were out OF all proportion to the
growth OF stalk, and what a waste Of
soil fertility In producing these man,
moth stalks. Select the low-down,
heavy stalk. well-rooted and with a
good ear set within easy reaching dis
lance. A stalk of that kind VIII re-
sist wind, 1t ripens earlier and II viii
produce a good size ear Of corr
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

The claim made some time ago that
steadiness might be impaired to ships at
sea in heavy weather by means of a gyro-
scope was received with some increduiity
BY practical mariners. Recent dispatch
es from London, however, indicate that
the matter has been put to a thorough
test, with most gratifying results The
experiments were made in the North Sea,
of Tynemouth. under the direction Of DR.
Schlick, the inventor. 'rhe vessel used
was boat of the torpedo class, the See
bar. 116 feet bng. The water during
the three days of the test was such as TO
cause considerable rolling of vessels OK
even greater dimensions. The effect Of
the gyroscope was most remarkable.
While the vessel heaved up and down
with the waves, the deck remained almost
horizontal. 1t is said that arrangements
are being made to install the apparatus
on several commercial lines.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
EXCITING RACE OF TRAINS.


Each Is Broken I'm Two, but Neither
Engineer Knows 1T.
The following story was told by j..
d. Mcnamara, assistant general pas
senger agent Of the Wabash railroad:
From Clark to Mexico, Mo-, our lire
runs almost parallel with that of the
Alton. The distance Is about twenty
miles. 1t Is open country and the
grades are light The going Is good
and trains race with each other as
often as occasion offers.
One day two long freight trains,
one on each road, reached Clark about
together. A race, of course, was in or
der. Passing Centralia the Wabash en-
gineer turned partly around In his cab
ana noting that the Alton man was
minus portion of his train gave a
broke In two whistle signal for the
information of his rival. The Alton
man, hearing the signal, himself turned
in his seat and observing that the
wabash train was considerably shorter
than when the race began he pulled the
throttle open notch or two more and
smiled as he looked forward to winning
the contest. AS the speed of the Wa
bash train continued to increase the
Alton man In spirit Of banter gave
with his whistle the broke in two sig
nal. AS there was no apparent effort
made to stop, the signal was repeated.
Again and again was the signal
given by one or the other of the racing
englnemen.
AT length Mexico was reached. both
trains arriving there at the same time.
each engineer laughing at the Joke he
would have on his competitor when the
break would be discovered. AS soon
as he stopped at the Mexico water tank
the Alton man called across the right of
way:
How far you goin' without your
tail lightsT
| "The Wabash man, observing for the
first time his own predicament said:
Gosh, but | thought you was
whistlin' for your own hind endr
"'Ditto, Bud!' exclaimed he of the
| G. & A. as he noticed regretfully tina,
| about tvvo-thirds of his own train was
apsent"-Kansas City Star.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Night ia the Time.

1t has long been known that bud
ding trees, when transplanted in the
evening, were more likely to thrive
than those that were moved in the day
time.
A French expert has gone a step
further and proved that distinctly ben
eicial results can be gained by trans
planting in the dead Of night.
He has transplanted large tracts
without losing any Of the trees by the
adoption Of this method. Trees, be
says, should not be moved while their
buds are too lender, and the work
should be done between 10 D. m. and
2 a. N.
The roots should be covered with
earth which has for several days been
exposed TO the air and light This
should be settled by copIous watering
and not By pressure of the feet. For
the first two weeks after moving the
boughs and leaves Of the trees should
be thoroughly sprinkled-
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

something must be done. NJ. Touny
the chief OF police, says so, although
his ideas of what this should be are
little hazy. The good man seems
to think that the prisons are too com
Portable. which shows what strange
ideas of comfort some people have.
The whole question will probably be
raised in the Chambers. which is not
a cheering prospect for the citizen,
however, tenaciously he may cling to
the hopeful delusion that the epitome
of all earthly wisdom is to be found
in the representative of the peo-
ple"-St. Martin, in the San Fran
cisco Argonaut
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
The "Pekino Gazette"

The Picking Gazette, the publication
of which, according to a recent tele.
gram, has been suspended, is very
venerable patriarch among newspa.
pers, since it is said to have made
its first appearance something like
1000 years ago; but it is not, as is
often stated, the oldest journal in the
world This distinction belongs to
the Using -Pao Tor Peking News),
which was founded nearly twelve GEN.
turtles ago and was venerable when
it's younger rival, the Gazette, was
Graded Indeed, M. HuaIt, French
Consul at Canton, claims a still ear
lier birth for the News, which, he
says, was founded early in the sixth
century, 500 years before a newspa-
per was known in Europe. The
Tsing-Pao, which is the Times OF
China, now appears as book Of
twenty-four pages, octave size, tied
in a yellow cover by two knots of rice
paper, and its price is about 20 cents
a month. This Is the edition de luxe,
Officially recognized by the Emperor:
there is also popular edition.-Tit-
Bits.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
An AUTOGRAPHED Copy.

a rich snl well-known citizen Of an
Eastern city Doaslc of an extracrdin-
ary collection of be oks wherein the
authors have inscibed their auto
graphs.
1t il rumored that the envy and
frequently the scepticism Of his friends
have been aroused By the fattering
inscriptions in question; and some
cynics have even gone so far as to
hint of a similarity in handwriting
throughout the collection.
The citizen recently purchased a
rare edition of Nor Agnes Essays.
One evening. at dinner. the costly vol
ume vas passed from hand to hand.
and for time the owner lost sight
of it. When, however. it did finally
CONF back TO him. he was astonished
to find on the fly leaf this inscription
"To John Blank. from his old friend
and classmate. Mike Montaigne- =
Harper's Weekly.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
Grinding Grain for pigs.

Many farmers are now forcing their
pigs to make the greatest possible gain
in weight for killing time" The Of
fice of experiment stations of the De
partment of Agriculture summarizes
some Wisconsin station plg-feedlng ex-
periments covering a period of ten
years, with the following conclusions:
Where there is plenty of time for
maturing pigs, and 1t is not necessary
to secure the maximum daily gain, 1t
Is doubtful If it pays to grind corn
for pigs. The test shows that where
quick maturity is an important item,
better results are secured from corn
meal. Pigs fed cornmeal eat more
grain and make somewhat larger daily
gains. Cornmeal can doubtless be fed
to good advantage in finishing off. a
bunch of hogs which were first fed
shelled corn. Che aging over 10 corn
meal near the Gle Sc of the feeding
period also furnishes a change in the
character of the ration which will be
satisfactory to the animals. When fit
ting hogs for show, sale or in high
pressure feeding for market, the feeder
will consider it advisable to grind the
corn, even though it is expensive TO do
so.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31

-Llewellyn. the last Welsh Prince
of Wales. killed at Landowner
1614-The Dutch erected blockhouse
near the present site of Albany,
n. Y.
1o2o-Pilgrim fathers landed at Ply
mouth Rock
1642-New Zealand discovered by Tas-
man.
16o3-Meeting of the first General As
sembly of the people Of New York.
16o9-Swedes defeated the Muscovites at
Narya.
173S--First bank post bills issued in Eng
land
1775-America Congress determined to
build a navy of thirteen frigates.
1776-Continental Congress adjourned to
Baltimore, on the approach of the
British.
17TS-John Jay of New York elected
president of Congress.
17S1-The British evacuated CHARLESTON.
17S6-Sierra Leone founded as an asy-
lum for destitute negroes from the
United States and West Indies.
1795-Gharles Lee of Virginia became
Attorney General of the United
Sti4es.
1I9S-King of Sardinia abdicated.
1S11-American ship Essex captured
British packet Motion, with $4,000
on board.
Burning of Niagara at the in
stance of the American forces.
1S16-Indiana admitted into the Union
as the nineteenth State. First saw
ings bank in the United States open
ed in Boston,
Mississippi admitted into the
Union as the twentieth State.
1S24-Peruyians achieved independence
by defeating the Spaniards at Aya-
cucho.
1S30-National Republican party, at
Baltimore. nominated Henry Clay
for President
1S33-Jamaica abolished slavery.
1S3S-"Atherton Gag" law passed by the
House of Representatives.
1S44-Bill for the annexation of Texas
introduced in both houses of Con-
gress
lS45--British war against the Sikhs be-
gam Ended with annexation of the
Punjaub in 1919
1S4S-Louis Napoleon elected President
of the French.
1S50-Many killed and injured in boiler
explosion on steamer Anglo-Norman
at New Orleans.
1S59-Victoria bridge, Montreal, opened.
1960-Lewis Cass of Michigan resigned
as Secretary of State.
1SG1-The Prince Consort. husband CO
Queen Victoria, died. Large sec
ton of Charleston. S. c., destroyed
by fire.
1S62-Gen. Burnside repulsed at battle Of
Fredericksburg.
1S66-Oaks colliery disaster in England,
with loss Of $50 lives.
196S-House of Representatives an
nounced its purpose to pay fully the
national debt
1S71-Alarming illness of the Prince of
Wales, now King Edward VII.
1876-Wade Hampton declared Governor
of South Carolina.
1S77-Osman Pasha surrendered with
his entire army.
Congress commemorated the CEN
tenary of the Inauguration of Presi-
dent Washington.
1S90--North Albania reported to be in
state of sanguinary anarchy.
1S95-Willam o. Bradley inaugursted
as first Republican Governor of Ken
lucky.
1S97-Strike of cotton mill operatives
at Atlanta, Ga.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
is There Water on the Moonq

Some striking photographs made by
Prof. W. H. Pickering of the volcanoes
in the Hawaiian Islands serve to point
out certain characteristics which they
have in common with the craters on
the moon. One photograph of a long
crack, extending some miles. in the
lava crust at Hawaii serves to empha-
size Prof chickering's belief that water
or water yapor exists on the moon,
and by irrigating cracks on the moons
surface gives rise to vegetation in
them, just as trees and shrubs have
sprung up in the Hawaiian lava crack.
In studying Erastothenes in 1904,
Prof Pickering found its interior
scanned with numerous fine cracks.
Watching some of these cracks soon
after the sun arose on them he was
able to see them broaden out and
change gradually into canals 1t is
his belief that the cracks gave out
water vapor, which fortified the
vegetation along their sides and in
their neighborhood, and that it WIS
the growth of this vegetation which
produced the appearance of a canal.
A further inference is that the canals
on Mars, which become more clear
ly visible at some periods of the
year. owing to the melting of the Mar
tian polar ice cap and the flooding
of the waterways, are similar cracks
on the surface of Mars. Cracks of
the kind occur on the moon The
largest of them is that known as
Sirsalis, which is 400 miles in length.
1t is possible also that they exist
on the earth, though they are not
readily discernible. 1t has sometimes
been supposed that terrestrial vol
canoes lie along subterranean cracks.
Scientific American.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31


If an increase of a single grain of
corn on each ear could be made the in
creased total profit to the country
would be $1,62O,00O. Farmers gener-
ally have taken great interest In the In
formation furnished by the agricultural
schools concerning seeds, soils, fertili-
zers and modes Of cultivation. The aim
should be to produce larger ears, more
grains on the ear, more ears on the
stalks and more stalks to the acre.
This means intensive and scientific cul-
tivation, and whcn generally mastered
and pursued an average of 100 bushels
to the acre on the best corn land viii
be the common report in favorable sea
sons from all over the corn belt
Sweet Springs Herald.
Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1907-12-31
COARSE FISH FOR THE TABLE.
Neglected Food Supplies of British
Inland Streams.

Strcam&
PuzzlIng enough TO the student Of nat
ural economy must be the fixed preju-
dlce OF tie English people to the edible
Roman snail. the titbit frog. more espe-
clally, the common coarse" fish Of
fresh water streams. says the Pail Mall
Gazette. Fresh water salmon trout,
grayling aud ellis are everywhere re
garded as edible fish. though until very
recent times the grayling or 'ouncer'-
one Of the salmonide--was but little
esteemed either by sportsmen or cooks.
To-day grayllng ranks so closely with
such game fish as salmon, trout, char
and possibly the rarer vendace, etc,
that the angler must not under penalty
feed" its SWIM" and II must not be
ashed for with maggot or worm except
IN the depth OF winter.
The point Is that since our notions
sDcut grayling have so utterly changed,
why should not our notions about the
more stable pike change. tool For
sEsox Iuclus," the luce OF EnSlish her