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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
To Fix the Grades of Wheat.

G. w. Click, ex-governor, and j. T.
White, representative from Ottawa
county, members of the state grain
grading commission, met at Topeka
and issued a call for the annual meet
ing of the commission, July. 25, in the
governors office. At this time the
commission will decide what weights,
coiors and size of wheat, corn and
oats will constitute the different
grades of the grain for the coming
year. Mr.. Click was elected chair
man and Mr.. White clerk of the COM
mission.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
a Mother Attacks Children.

Mrs. Peter Johnson of Formosa at
tempted to take the lives of her two
children, girl of 10 years and boy
of five, by cutting their threats while
they were in their bed. She then ran
upstairs and cut her own throat She
used a piece of broken earthenware.
The children will recover, but the
mothers life is in doubt. She is the
widow of Peter Johnson, who took his
life by drinking carbolic acid June Is.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Laundry work at home would be
much more satisfactory if the right
Starch were used. In order to get the
desired stiffness, it is usually neces-
sary to use so much starch that the
beauty and fineness of the fabric is
hidden behind a paste of varying
thickness, which not only destroys the
appearance, but also affects the wear
ing quality of the, goods This trou-
BILE can be entirely overcome by using
Defiance Starch, as it can be applied
much more thinly because of its great
er strength than other makes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
For HARDENING Drill.

Hardening an ordinary drill in sui
phuric acid, states the English Me
chanic, makes an edge that will cut
tempered steel or facilitate cutting
hard rock. The acid should be poured
into fat-bottomed vessel to a depth
of about one-eishth of an inch. The
point of the drill is heated to dull
cherry red, and dipped in the acid to
that depth. This makes the point
extremely hard. while the remainder
remains soft. If the point breaks, re
harden, but with little less acid in
the vessel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
Lived in Emporia 4s Years.

Frederick Hirth, who had lived in
Emporia since 1859, died in ST. Mary's
hospital. He was born in Prussia in
1887, and came to America in 1851
He enlisted in Company H. Second
Kansas, at Lincoln's first call. He
was wounded in the battle of Wilson's
Creek and was discharged in Novem-
Der, 1861 He reenlisted in the elev-
enth Kansas in 1862, and was mus
tered out In August, 1865.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

DO you think airships will ever be
a SUGGEST"
They're a success now. A Toledo
man made $4,000 out of them last
year without taking the ship out OF
the tent-"-Detroit Free Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Give Defiance Starch a fair trial
try it for both hot md cold starching.
and if you don't think you do better
work, in less time and at smaller cost,
return it and your grocer will give you
back your money.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
Bow Touched : Live Wire.

Clarence Smith, IL years old, was
killed at Salina by coming in contact
with live electric light wire Work
men had left the wire hanging from
a tree
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
FLUE CURING IMPROVES TOBACCOLIKE
ROASTING IMPROVES GREEN COFFEE
FIue Curing Develops the Stimulating Aroma and
Found In Schnapps that Satisfies Tobacco Hun

There are three ways used by farm
ers for curing and preparing their
tobacco for the market; namely, sun
cured, air cured and fue cured The
old and cheap way is called air cured;
the later discovery and improved way
is called flue cured In fue-curing
the tobacco is taken from the field
and suspended over intensely hot
fues in houses especially built to re-
tain the heat. and there kept in the
proper temperature until this curing
process develops in the tobacco the
stimulating taste and fragrant aroma
found in Schnapps tobacco, just as
green coffee is made fragrant and
Stimulating by the roasting process.
Only choice selections of this ripe,
juicy flue cured leaf, grown in the
famous Piedmont country, where the
best tobacco grows, are used in
ship scfnsAPPs factory
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
coburn win Talk Alfalfa.

F. D. Coburn, secretary of agricul-
ture, has accepted an invitation to ad-
dress the New York State Agricultur-
al society next December. They want
him to talk on alfalfa
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
midland Company Out oil HoIton

The Midland Grain company of Kan
sas City has closed its office at Hol
ton The county attorney lately start
ed an injunction suit against the com
pany, charging that it was conducting
a bucket shop. The charge was de
MED but the company's agent obeyed
the Injunction order and left town.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
Takes a Dozen Baths a Day.

Because she daily gave her children
and herself salt water baths often as
many as a dozen a day each, the SAN
fly of Mrs. Spauiding, who lives north
of Chillicothe,, will be investigated.
The children are broken out with
sores, caused by their saline ablu-
tions.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
The Magnetic Sort.

He is a wonderfully impressive
man. Yes. He is one of these peo-
pie who will say Tt is a beautiful day
in such an impressive manner that
you like giving him personal credit for
the weather."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
A 81, eco Fire in Garnet.

Spontaneous combustion is believed
to have started fire in the J. O. Nc
Afee furniture factory at Garrett,
which caused a loss estimated at
$1,000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
Shake Into Your SHOES

Aliens Foot-Ease- 1t cures painful, swollen,
snzrting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes
easy Sold b. all Druggists and Shoe Stores
Don { accept any substitute Sample FREE.
Address A s. Olmsted, LIE Roy, N Y.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Many Meaeures Looked After
As many a. 1910 metric weights
and measures were submitted for
verif1catfon in the city of London
during last year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

A bundle of conceff, Cordelia, is q
woman who is wrapped uD In herself.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Mrs. 1fnslow.s Soothing Syrup.
For children seet1ng, soffens the Euras, reduces -
kamnatfo1. eiaaFs pAn cures wind eoEi- &c boee1A
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
a $4,000 Fire in PhiIIipsburo

Poling's grocery store and meat
market in Phillipsburg was destroyed
by fire. 1t was struck by lightning
while a severe storm was in progress,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Sehnapps and other Reynolds brands
of high grade, fue cured tobaccos.
Hundreds of imitation brands are
on sale that look like Schnapps; the
outside of the imitation plugs of to-
bacco is fue cured, but the inside is
filled with cheap, fimsy, heavily
sweetened air cured tobacco; one
chew of Schnapps will satisfy tobacco
hunger longer than two chews of
such tobacco.
Expert tests prove that this fue
cured tobacco, grown in the famous
Piedmont region, requires and takes
less sweetening than any other kind,
and has wholesome, stimulating,
satisfying effect on chewers. If the
kind of tobacco you are chewing don't
satisfy, more than the mere habit of
expectorating, stop fooling yourself
and chew Schnapps tobacco.
3obbinx
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
Save the Babies.

hardly Of
all the children Der cent or nearly
ono-quaIte1 die before they reach yssVen
We do hesitate timely
jo these lives Neither
fne deaths Drops nctures
and soothing sold for chdns complaints OPIUM
morphine They considerable
they supe circulation lead
operates exactly the but
Cha Fletcher Casa properly,
of the skin and aIays
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
Did Not Know II Was Loaded.

While cleaning a target rifle, Mad
ison Hoover of Conway Springs shot
and killed his 1e-year-old sister An
ME.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

calum.iy will soil virtue itself
Shakespeare
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
INSTRUCTION IN CUBA.

An discretionary rising in Cuba
would not astonish the natives or the
outside world, and the rumors that
come from the island of an organized
attempt to overthrow the provisional
government are credible. The discon-
tent appears among the negro popula-
ton, whose leaders have not received
what they claim to be their due of the
public offices. The American troops
have stripped the ~laboring population
of their arms as far as practicable, but
doubtless many rifles are concealed,
and 1t is said many have been secretly
brought into the island. No doubt,
also, the movement has encouragement
and financial assistance in New York
city, where Cubans of all degrees abide.
There is one possible danger in Cuba
"a race war-and our government has
every reason to prevent such a con-
fict. The Cuban negro is of an Alto
gether different type from the Ameri-
can negro, because he has been brought
up under a vastly different civilization.
Spain taught savagery in her colonies,
and the lesson was we'll learned. With
the race lines in Cuba being drawn
broader every year an eventual o n
fict IF white and black would be I'M
avoidable but for the restraining power
of the United Statess and even that
power may some day have a very
serious race situation to deal with in
Cuba.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
SLAUGHTER ON OUR STREETS.

The tragical death of Marcus ].
Jacobs, manager of the Columbia
Theatre. has shocked the Newark COM
munity. A citizen on Newark's prin-
cipal street in the heart of the city is
struck by an automobile madly driven,
and so badly injured that he died with
in an hour. The. men occupying the
automobile do not stop to aid the
mortally injured man. Greater speed
DIS put on and the machine is hurled
past the most crowded and dangerous
street intersection In the city, nar-
rowly escaping running down people.
and is speeded away to prevent iden-
to take the number of the automobile,
and that led to the detection of it's
inhuman occupants.
This is the worst case of manslaugh-
ter by the reckless driving of auto
mobiles that has yet occurred in our
city, and probably in the State. There
is some excuse for speeding a machine
beyond the limit of safety on a coun-
try road free from pedestrians, but
there is absolutely none for fast driv-
ing or for more Than the speed of an
ordinary vehicle in the crowded streets
of a city. Only the fool or the mad
man or the besotted inebriate will take
chances of human life in a thorough
fare like Broad street. crowded as it
is with cars and other vehicles and
with people constantly passing over
the crossings.
AS the fools and madmen are al
ways with us and are always a danger
when they travel in an automobile,
some better provision must be adopted
for the public safety. 1t would be well
to forbid all automobiles from passing
the corner of Broad and Market
streets, where the peril is greatest.
Officers stationed on the principal
street at intervals should be equipped
with motor cycles to pursue and ar
rest violators, and In cases of arrest
whet,9 the parties had tried to escape
the punishment should be imprison-
ment as well as fine. BY that means,
advertised and people will have knowl-
edge of their dangerous character. Mr..
Jacobs will not have beer sacrificed
in vain IT his death shall prove a
means of saving others from a similar
fate.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27

ELECTRIC POWER BY AIR.

When the telegraph was first Installed
as a public utility the inventor never
dreamed that the day would come when
electric messages would be flashed 5000
miles without any wire. When the
Marconi wireless telegraph system was
experimental with the inventor had no
idea that electrical power could be
transmitted by wireless telegraph. As
in these days of wonderful electrical
discovery and appliance everything is
possible, credence may be given to the
report that a French inventor has dis
covered a method of transmitting cleo
trical power. :
About thirty years ago Edward wes-
ton, the electrician, in his modest shop
in Washington street. this city, gave
the first practical demonstration of a
method to transmit power from one
dynamo to another at a distance to
turn a shaft. That discovery has been
of i~ncalculable value to the world. But
think of the value of a method of trans
hitting electrical energy long distances
without the use of any conveyance ex-
cept the air!
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
GERMAN ARMY MANEUvERs.

The spectacular maneuvers of the
German army do not please German
military critics who are free to talk.
One recognized authority, Colonel
Gadke, summarizes the operations in
these words: Strategy was conspicu-
Gus by its absence and tactics by their
venerable old age" The critic says
that the distances the men were COM
PEELED to march were extravagant, and
the troops were so badly used up by
their exertions that in real war their
value would have been very seriously
impaired.
It is recorded of one infantry regi-
ment that only by alternating severity
and encouragement could the officers
prevent the bitches along the road
from becoming filled with lasgards in
the most alarming manner" Many re-
servists had forgotten their military
training in their civil pursuits and
could not keep up with their companies,
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27

The old couple were eating their first
meal with their son after his return
from college.
Tell us, John" said the father, what
have o learned at college?"
"Oh. lots of things" said the son as
he recited his course of studies. Then"
he concluded, Il also studied logic"
Logic" said the old man; what Is
that?"
TITS the art of r%easoning?" said the
son.
THE art of r~easoning?" said the
father. What is that, my boy?"
WELL" replied the son, "let me give
you a demonstration. How many chick
ems are on that dish, father?"
Two" saidst old man.
We'll" said John. 81 car prove there
are three" Then he stuck his fork in
one and said, That is one. isn't itT"
Yes said the father,
"And this is two?" sticking his fork
in the second.
YES" replied the father again.
well, don't one and two lake
three?' replied John t~riumphantly.
We'll, 1 declare" said the father;
you have Learned things at college.
Well. mother" continued the old man
to his wife, 81 will give you one of the
chickens to eat and I'll axe the other,
and John can have the third. How is
that, John ?'-Judge's Library.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
HOW TO CHOOSE A SENATOR.

There is popular choice of United
but when the Senator is popularity
elected the election of a Legislature
of the same political complexion seem
necessary to insure the Endorsement of
the Legislature. oregon has had a
system of direct vote of the people for
United States Senator since 1891. In
that State the candidates are nomi-
mated in the party conventions and are
then voted on in the ensuing elections.
But this plan has not worked satisfac-
torily.
In 1908 Governor Geer. Republican,
was nominated and elected by the peo-
pie. receiving 1900 majority. But.
nevertheless, the Republican Legisla-
ture, after forty-two ballots, elected
Charles w. Fulton, a Republican. to
the Senate. He had not been mentioned
in the election by the people. If a
Legislature representing one political
party can thus go back on the ex-
pressed wishes of that party at the
polls. what will happen under the Ore
gon plan If a candidate for Senator for
one party is elected by the people, who
at the same time shall elect a Legis-
lature of the other party? Will a Re-
publican Legislature elect a Democratic
Senator or a Democratic Legislature
elect a Republican Senator?
No State law can bind a Legislature.
The Federal Constitution confines the
choice of a United States Senator to
the Legislative body. Any other course
must be a matter of custom and, with
the Legislative representative, of per-
sonal honor. The mere primary choice
Of a political party may be disputed, as
it was last year when Senator Dryden
secured a majority in the primaries and
yet was opposed and defeated In the
Legislature. When we come to provide
for the popular election of United
States Senators let there be some sys-
tenn more reliable than that merely of
voting in the primaries for a party cam
didate.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
BIG TRANSIT PROBLEMS.
How New York Transports a Million
People a Day.

The transit facilities of New York city
have been the subject of much criticism,
but when we are told that the passengers
carried on the transit lines of Manhattan
total a million people daily-1,O 63. 900 were
the exact figures as recorded at the close
of a single days travel in Manhattan in
the present year-the wonder is that such
a thing as really rapid transit is possible.
New York possesses several methods Of
surface transportation which are far gu
perior to the systems in use in either
London or Paris, says the Broadway
Magazine. In Manhattan the electric
cars are worked mainly by the conduit
system. the conductor lying underground,
and making connection with the car by a
slot between the rails. In Brooklyn the
trolley is omnipresent. We have also a
few old horse cars and stage coaches,
cabs, coaches, electric hansoms, etc. The
omnibuses of the European cities, which
form the chief means OF transportation,
take, under the most favorable circum-
stances, nearly ten minutes to travel a
mile; the street cars of the American
metropolis can do a mile in from five to
seven minutes, when out of the downtown
crush, while the elevated trains easily
make fifteen miles an hour. All omni-
buses and tram cars in both London and
Paris do, not commence running until
THAT an American would consider a late
hour in the morning London, s a. M;
Paris. Z a. m.), and stop at midnight.
Imagine New York without cars after
midnight.
In marked contrast to his less fortunate
%neighbors over the sea, the lucky New
Yorker is able to reach either his home or
his business at any hour of the day or
night without being required to take a
cab" On the elevated system the trains
run at from two to four-minute intervals
from 5:23 a. m. to midnight, and at ten
minute intervals from that hour through
out the night. The street car lines also
give US all-night service at varying in
tervals.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
BEATS MUNICIPAL OWNERSHIP.

Chicago, under a recent ordinance
agreed to by the traction companies,
is a partner in the operation of the Chi
cago City Street Railroad. The agree
ment made was for the city to get So
per cent. and the company As per cent.
of the net profits. The first six months
Of operation under this agreement has
now expired, and the company's books
show a total net profit of $5O3, $50, of
which the city gets $276. 952. so, The an
nual income for the city will, there
fore, approximate 5000, 900, and with
Increased population and improve
ments will be increased each succeed
ing year. But other lines are yet to
be brought into the arrangement, and
it is estimated that the total annual
income for the city will be upwards OF
81. 300, 900.
Chicago narrowly escaped municipal
ownership of the street car lines. The
ordinance was the compromise be-
tween private and municipal owner
ship, and the results seem satisfactory
enough. That the city would get
S1,S0O,O00 net profit a year if 1t owned
and operated it's street railroads, OF
that it would get anything but an an
nual deficit, may we'll be doubted. And
it would be under the domination of a
political machine having the street
railroad employees as a Praetorian
guard.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
Az Times Change.

At first he was the person who
Got all the credit while
The sun was warm M skies were blue
And fortune seemed to smile.
They called him glory's favorite knight
A leader of the throng;
He was. while hopes were a and bright
The hero of each ong
But they who very swiftly rise
Some share Of risk must face.
As fortune paled, to his surprise
He slid from public grace.
His luster did not wholly fade;
He still was known to fame.
He was whene'er mistakes were a
The man who got the blame.
Washington Star.
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27

If there is to be any elimination and
recrimination in the political campaign
the two candidates for Governor will
take no part in it. Both candidates
will severely arraign the acts of the OPP
posite political party and hold up its
principles and motives to Reproduction,
but the individual opponent will be re-
ferred to in terms of courtesy, untinged
ever by sarcasm. The incident of the
casual meeting of the two candidates
at the Mount Holly fair yesterday dis
The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-09-27
history Of Indian Fnmines.


To the Editor Of the Evening Star:
1t will be a great Havor If you will give
me a brief history of famines in India,
when they occurred, the number of deaths,
etc. P. w. H.
I'VE cannot do better than quote for you
from an article in Everybody's Magazine
for June, 1906, in which Charles Edward
Russell wrote: Including the disaster now
in progress the $50 years of British rule in
India have seen twenty-three great Indian
famines. The word has no meaning for
you unless you ave been on the ground
and have noted for yourself the terrible
things that are so far beyond the reach
of words. Famine in India does not sig
Nifty merely that a great many people
have insufficient food and must be helped,
for that is the normal condition. 1t means
that before the season of scarcity has
passed literally millions of men, women
and little children will perish with the
prolonged agonies of starvation, that the
dead will cumber the streets of villages,
that there will not be enough living to
give them burial, that the crows and kites
and v~ultures will not be enough to devour
them.
I'm the Madras anime of 1893 groups of
people died together in the streets; country
roads were like a vast, unprecedented bat
tlefield. strewn with dead bodies. OF the
0 1000 inhabitants of Gantur 200, 600 starved
to death. In the Northern Indian famine
of 1887. 100000 persisted; in the same
region. in 1860, the ~starvations numbered
10000. In 1866 one-third the population
Of Orissa. or about 100000 persons, per-
ished. In the Northern Indian famine of
1869 the mortality was 100, 600. In the
Madras famine of 1877 it was more than
100000. In the Northern Indian famine
Of 1878 it was 1.250, 600. In the great anime
Of 1897. with one exception the worst that
had ever visited India, 100000 persons
we're at one time receiving the government
relief that alone kept them alive.
But all these horrors are surpassed by
the startling devastation of the black
famine that began in the Punjab, Raj
putana, the Central Provinces, and Bonn
bay in 1900. and was hardly e~xtinguished
for two years. In June, 1900, 100000 peo-
pie were on government relief. and for
many months the number so relieved con-
tinued to be in excess of all previous
records. The resources of the government
broke down under the emergency money
n supplies Games from many lands"
Ed