Los Angeles herald., 1910-06-14
Beaten at His Own Game
Kansas city Journal,


"the soil in Kansas Is something Won
derful. We used to have to NOV the
grass every day on the sod floor OF our
dugout, to keep the baby from settihs
lost. A family close to US mad twins,
and but one small cradle. The kld
that had to sleep on the ground grew
twice as fast and big as the otner'
Where tho soil was richest we wouldn
dare stand on one foot any length or
time lest one leg should grow longer
than the other and cause trouble III >
walking. That's why l use this cane.
one of my legs grew longer III just
that way"
'"But we do have dry spell in Kan
sas occasionally admitted announcer,
who seemed to want to be entirely
fair, land there is plenty of reason lor
some of our dry spells We USED TO
have plenty of water out here until we
took to raising Watermelohs. ihal
spelled our doom. Those melons grew
so fast that they just naturally took
all of the water out of the air and the
ground And them like lot of fools'
we shipped em out of the country.
That caused a long dry spell. In some
parts of the state they raised melons
later on, and then busted them WIN
axes, and irrigated the ground In that
way-planted the melons in the corn
rows and saved the corn, YOU see
"Why, right over here in Barton
county," declared another, "a farmer
smashed a brand new header gust
few years ago by running II against
the steeple of church IN an apah
doned boom town that was concealea
i'm his wheat field. The shock of the
contact caused the old bell 10 ring
arain and the horses became fright
ened and ran headlong into an unusu-
ally thick bunch of wheat ana were
strangled. With extraordinary eoolhesS
the old farmer cought hold of the eeard
of one of the wheat blades, and was
thus hanging between earth ana heaven
when a searching party or MS Neigh
bors found him the next day
.sThere was one lad" chimed in an
other, who foolishly tried to climb
stalk of corn one summer DAY. Inc
rapid growth carried him up raster
than he could climb back. resculng
party tried to save HIM by chopplns
down the stalk, but it grew so rapidly
that they could not strike the same
place twice with the ak. That boy
never did come back
zone of your New Jersey fellows
came out here a number of years ago.
came from another, and asked Wheh
the place through which the tram was
running became very dark, whether lhe
train was in tunnel
"'No, sah,' the porter told him. 'Yo'
an, nassin' fru a fieP o. cohn and am
inst pettin' into de corn belt, Yo' won't
Sc no moh daylight foh two hundred
miles
"About five years ago just one nub-
hin was found in the whole Kansas
corn crop" chucked in another. 1T
was displayed at a fair In Kansas city
and had this label This curiosity Is
called a nubbin and is the only one
that q corps of detectives have been
able to find in Kansas. This specimen
was secured in one of the suburbs of
n Kansas town. from a, stalk which
grew out of the mortar in brick wall.
Its surroundings and the fact that the
stalk was twice struck by lightning
as it lowered above the building prob
ably accounts for the dwarfed appear
ance of the ear"
The Jersey man was getting restless,
hut another shot was in the locker
and il came quickly from the old man
i'm the group. You may talk, MIR. New
Jersey man." he declared solemnly,
about there being a better state than
Kansas but let me tell you that right
here in old Kansas every potato winks
its eve. every cabbage shakes its head,
every beet gets red in the face, every
onion gets stronger, every oat field is.
shocked, the rye strokes Its beard, the
corn pricks up it's ears and every foot
of ground kicks because the fool killer
don't get in some good licks on fellows
like you. And then you SEQ
But the New Jersey man had fled
He went through the door boosted
along by a hilarious Volley of laughter