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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
Tradition of the Arctic Night
By SAMUEL E. OVERTON

maiden to her father. But the chief
stood mute. pointing to his house.
which was now ruin. Entering there.
they saw on n couch the maiden. her
hands. white as marble folded over
her breast.
Then an awe greater than that
which had fallen on the people when
the maiden first touched their land
came to them. for they knew a great
calamity was about to visit them The
King of the Winds looked down on the
form of his daughter. now cold in death.
and great was his wrath. The multi
tude knelt before him. supplicating
him to spare them. But he needed not
their prayers. At his command his
servant. the darkness. came and threw
black mantle over the land.
"And so. bereft of the light and
warmth of the sun. the verdure whiten-
ed and died The north wind blew
snow from the clouds and the cold
CONCEALED the waters. The sun. whose
track had been n golden circle in the
north. went to the south and hid be-
hind the ocean for many months. Then
our ancestors, who had lived under the
trees. fearing no frost. We're obliged to
build huts to protect them from the
cold. The warm waves in which they
had bathed became icy cold. then hard
ened- The people, bereft of the fruits
of the earth exposed to the cold, died
in e>eat numbers. 1t was many months
before the snow king relented suffi-
GENTLY TO permit the sun to show his
face again and his warm breath to re-
vive the frozen sIand even for a brief
season
'Since that period. every winter, the
sun goes south and leaves US in dark
ness. The fruits which grew so pIen-
tifully for Us have never fiourished
again. But the spirit that deprived us
of them sent the white bear and the
walrus. and we are obliged to hunt
them in order TO sustain ourselves with
their meat and warm our bodies bv
burning their OIL The sun continues
every winter to hide his face beneath
the ocean and when he comes back in
summer shines for so short q period
that there is no time for the fruits of
the earth to ripen.'.
Is this tradition based on some
change in the plane in which the earth
revolves. new direction in the cur
rent of that mighty river we call the
gulf stream shrinkage in the terres-
trial crust or is it an ebuIlition of that
poetic constitution common among men
when they first enter upon n civilized
condition? Whether it is TO he ex
planned by tie first or the second nv
pothcsis- it is certainly very beaufi-
full conception And il is to these con-
ceptions of primitive people. cropping in
the unexplained universe graspipg for
the truth. that the poet who interprets
the world of romance is indebted
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
Farm Ad,0ice and SUGGESTION
FALL SPRAYING ADVISED
TO KILL FRUIT TREE ILLS.
Only Way to Control San Jose Scale
and Other Pests Is Treatment.
With Insecticides.

Many men have picked qualities of
good fruit from trees that few years
before seemed hopelessly taken by
scale and other pests Controlling San
Jose scale is a decidedly easy propo-
sition when compared to some orchard
posts. Accidentally. the lime sulphur
solution was found to be an effective
remedy. 1t is today the leading Pem-
edy for controlling the scale. says the
American AgriculturiSt.
All spraying for the control of the
San Jose scale must be done while the
trees are dorInant-that is. after the
leaves drop in the fall and before they
appear in the spring. AS rule. the
conditions for spraying in the fall are
more ideal than in the early spring. as
there are more calm, warm days at
that time. Then. too. if one fails to
cover all the tree the first time he will
have opportunity to go over the tree
again in the spring. which could not
be done if the first spraying came in
the spring. In all cases where scale is
serious a thorough application should
be given in the fall The results of
spraying depend upon the thorough
ness of the application. Every twig on
every tree must be coated with the
mixture if best results are to be had.
4 single live scale left on a tvig may
infest the whole tree in one season.
hence the Importance of thoroughness
in the work.
Fall spraying will be very beneficial
to the orchard in other ways as we'll
as by getting the scale under control
Nothing is known that will be more
effective in the way of cleaning up
trees than the application of these
chemicals. They will cause the re-
moval of the old dead bark and the
improvement of the general appear
ance of the tree. 1t is difficult for one
to believe that by simply spraying GER
tain chemicals on a tree such changes
will result. The only way is to try
them on your own trees. Then. too,
fall spraying is a great help in clean
ing up fungous diseases There are
large numbers of disease spores being
scattered about the orchard all through
the fall and winter, and it is impossi-
BILE to determine how much benefit will
result from fall spraying if these spores
are destroyed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
The Sunday School Lesson
SENIOR BEREAN, INTERNATIONAL SERIES

! priest, the ex-high priests and the lead
ers of the priestly party who belonged
to the Sadducees. The scribes'' We're
the teachers or doctors of the law
luke V, 10 Rejected 3
killed" rise again. These
three events literally took place in Je-
rusalem, and the instigators were
these members of the sanhedrin
"Openly"-without reserve or modifi-
cation. so that the disciples could I'M
derstand his meaning Peter took
him. This was not an act of sheer
impulse. but was done after thought;
hence the force of the severe rebuke
of Jesus Get thee behind me. Satan"
1t was this same tempta ton of an
easy way to success. at the cost of
character. that Jesus resisted once be-
fore in the wilderness Matt. iv, 1O).
Peter was here inspired by the evil
one. who for the moment was using
him as his agent "Savorest not"
"mindest not (revision). The fact
that he resisted the purpose of Jesus
was proof that he was not in sympa-
thy with the mind of God.
Chapter viii. 81. to tx. IA serious
program.
Some time was given to the people
in the villages of Caesarea PhfIippi
Many were trying to enter the king
dom of God on easy terms and with
out considering fully the conditions
These words on discipleship are adj
dressed to 1.-The people, with
his disciples" No one is rejected ex-
cept those who deliberately reject the
conditions whatsoever will come
after me-" This means any and all.
without respect Of persons Deny
himself. True self denial does not
consist in mutilation. but in consecra-
ton of life to Jesus Christ Take up
his cross" This is the symbol of sac
rifce- Save his life He who is
moved by a spirit of self seeking may
obtain wor'fly success like many in
Caesarea. but he will lose the higher
life of the Spirit What shall it prof
it: Not only is the exchange of
doubtful advantage: it is Il positive
loss Ashamed of me and of my
words through a lack of moral
courage TO stand for the truth as one
sees it "Adulterous and SINFUL be-
cause they had turned away from God
When he cometh"-at the end of
the world to wind up the affairs of
earth t46 Al
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
A TWENTY-EIGHT BUSHEL TRIP
What Extra Yield of Wheat Meant 10
an Oklahoma Family.

The HoldenS live near Amorita. Okla
The farm spreads over a little more
than 1000 acres, 800 of which is in
wheat This wheat harvested twenty
eight bushels to the acre this year and
thereby hangs the story to explain Il
special car attached to the Orient reg
ular passenger a short time ago when
it pulled into Wichita. Kan.
Boys" said William Holden. the
father, IF she goes twenty bushels or
better I'll take you all-the whole kit
and Doodle of you-to California on
sightseeing trip"
She went twenty-eight bushels. so
Mr.. Holden did bundle the whole kit
and DOODLE of them into special car
and went to California. And the whole
kit and DOODLE meant fortv-five per-
sons. There were Pa Holden. seven
boys and girls, the wives of few
married sons. fourteen or fifteen grand
children, two nephews. one or two
hired hands and mother, The trip was
to last a month.
The extra eight bushels an acre.
said Mr.. Holden. will pay the bill
for the trip. The 500 acres yielded
about $4,000 bushels. which sold for
S21S5o. nearly $4,000 more than / ex-
pected to get.'-Country Gentleman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
WE OUGHT TO DO AS WELL.

French farmers get 2o3 bush
els of wheat from the acre on
the average; our farmers get III
bushels Speaking at a confer
ence of bankers committees
from the various states held in
Minneapolis James J. Hill told
about farming in Denmark, the
model farm country of the
world. They raise thirty-eight
bushels of wheat to the acre
Their land originally was very
poor by keeping dairy CATTLE"
said Mr.. Hill. they fortified the
land, and they have gone on I'M
til now they have exported to
Great Britain S4S, 100000 a year
of butter and S21 200. 900 of ba-
con- They feed their own two
million six hundred odd thou
sand of people. and they export
annually SO an acre for every
acre of land in Denmark For a
period of ten years the gross re-
ceipts from our farms altogether
have not been 50 an acre"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

"HAT there have been great eli
matte changes in different
parts of the earth is well
known. But. though biologists
can tell us that they have occurred.
they do not tell us why. Some of
them have possibly come to pass since
man attained sufficient intelligence to
hand down from generation to genera
ton traditions concerning their origin.
These traditions, arising when the hui
man fancy was ntrammeled by fact
and when rude people spoke by natural
symbols. are often very poetic Here
is one current among the Eskimos of
Greenland accounting for change
they believe long ago took place de
priving them of perpetual sunshine and
substituting the dreary arctic night:
Thine was when the sun, which now
hides himself beyond the southern
ocean for many months in winter. cir
cled always above the northern hori-
zon. As it is now night for many
months, it was then always day. for
at midnight the sun still stood above
the horizon Then our mantle, instead
of the white one it now is, was per-
petual green Our people lived on
luscious fruits that grew without cul-
ture and bathed in the tepid waves
that danced lightly on the strand. In
those days they knew only happiness.
But one day when some were MAX
ing merry under the green trees and
others We're sporting in the waves
canoe white as the snow amid which
we now live was discovered far out at
sea. now gently raised ON the crest of
a billow. now sinking out of sight, but
slowly drifting toward the land.
''Awestruck- the people waited on
the verge till the white canoe reached
the sands, and there within it. infoId-
ed in 4 robe of crIai1le. lay maiden
whose skin was fair ana whose hair
fell over her shoulders like rivulets of
sunshine. The chief stood where the
canoe touched the beach and. STOPPING.
took the maiden in his arms. carried
her up to grassy slope and asked:
What art thou. and whence cometh
thou:'
II am DELTA. the daughter of the
Spirit of the Winds, and / come from
his ice castle in the far north
And viii you stay with us asked
the chief. or will you. having gladden.
ed our hearts by your coming. leave US
to remember you as in a dream:
II will not cave you My home
shall be with you forever
Then was heard far distant
moaning in the north. rising as it ap-
preached till it became an awful roar
1t was the voice of the Spirit of the
Winds. and it commanded our people
TO return at once his daughter to her
white home in the north Terror
stricken the people f1ocked TO their
chief and besouSht him to give the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

of the country's best exhibitors of prize
winning horses. The list follows: NJ.
L Akers. Adam Beck, Raymond Bel
mont. Frederic Bull. Colin Campbell.
J. H Childs. Frederick NJ. Davies. Rob
ert A. Fairbairn. Henry Fairfax. 10
seph W. Hartman. Arthur c. Leon
ard. William II. Moore. ]. A Spoor,
Malcolm Stephenson. E. 7. Stotesbury
Alfred G. Vanderbilt. Reginald c. Van
derbilt, G.. Miffiin Wharton and for
mer Lieutenant Governor Horace
White The latter succeeded Roy Gas
ser. who resigned
Alfred G. Vanderbilt is the president;
E t. Stotesbury. vice president: Fred
erick NJ Davies. treasurer. and James
T. Hyde. secretary
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
INVENTOR OF SHORTHAND

The centenary of the birth of Sir
Isaac Pitman, the inventor of the ac-
cepted system of shorthand now in use
throughout the English speaking world
Will be commemorated Jan. next
In England the preparations for the
celebration of the anniversary are in
the hands of a distinguished commit
tee. with Sir Thomas Crosby. lord
mayor of London. at its head A com
mittee has also been organized to fit
tingly observe the occasion in the
United States.
The projected program in this coun-
try will include dinners in all of the
leading cities, at which speeches will
be made by eminent educators and
business men.
Among the list of distinguished pa
irons who have promised to lend their
financial support to a fitting celebra-
ton of Sir Isaac Pitman's birth an
pears the name of Andrew Carnegie.
The New York committee consists of
Charles NJ. Miller, director of the
Mount Vernon Trust company and
president of the Commercial Schools
association: David ]. George. president
of the Shorthand Writer'S Association
of America: H w Hammond. member
OF the faculty of st. Johns college
Brooklyn, and Robert A Kells. associ-
ate editor OF Pitman's Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
RApEN-PowELL,s ROMANCE

After his engagement to Miss Olave
st. Clair SoameS. an English girl, had
been announced Lieutenant General
Sir Robert Baden-PoweII, speaking of
the browning of his romance at the age
of fifty-siX, said:
1.-THE affair was not so new as per-
sons imagined As a matter of fact,
Miss Soames was travelling in the West
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
Observation-Disclosures
Get Out and See Thinus.

A farmer is very apt to stay at home
too much to compete with other indus
tries. We must go out and see what is
being done. Farmers must work along
scientific lines, cooperate to make an
acre yield more and COW produce
more and use the most modern machin-
cry like other industries
Cultivator
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
Treatment For scaIv Leo.

The repulsive looking scaly legs in
chickens can be improved in appear
ance whole lot by rubbing them at
intervals of few days with a saIve
made of equal parts of lard, sulphur
and kerosene.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
Fall Tree PLANTING

If you intend to plant a few choice
trees next spring dig large holes for
them in fall, fill them with manure.
removing the next spring, and filling
it up to the desired depth of the tree.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
NEW GUEST OF SCIENCE

When the Yale Peruvian expedition
returns next Christmas its members are
expected to bring hitherto undiscover-
ed secrets about the remains of men
found in Peru supposed TO be between
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

Old, but True.
Raise horses for big money, cattle
for sure money and hogs for quick
money, is an old saying. and a good
one.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

HMl system becomes operative on
Jan. l twelve new stamps
will be placed on sale in
postoffices for affixing TO packages
These stamps Will be larger than the
ordinary postage stamps and so dis
tfnctive as to prevent possible confu-
sion with other stamps.
The twelve stamps will be issued in
three series of designs. In the first
series modern methods of transporting
mail will be illustrated The mail car
of a railway train will be shown on
one stamp, an ocean steamer on an
other; the third will have motor
wagon of the type used in the postal
service, and the fourth will show n
mail carrying aeroplane- Postal en-
ployees will be shown at work in the
second series. The figures will be
those of railway mail clerks, postoffice
clerks, city letter carriers and rural
free delivery carriers. The third Sc
ries will represent four industrial
zones, showing the principal sources
of products that will be transported
most extensively by parcels post.
By Dec. the stamps will probably
be ready for distribution to the 10000
postoffices in the country.
ed off in red, for use of postmasters
packages, are based on a so called
'f1awless' map of the United States
coast and geodetic survey. The ne
cessity of obtaining a perfect map is
to prevent error in computing postage
as such would make a considerable
difference in the rate from any given
point The aim is to get maps in the
bands of the postmasters as much in
advance of Jan. 1 next, when the law
becomes effective, as possible, to give
them time for study.
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ARGENTINA'S BIG PROJECT
At an estimated cost of S5O,00o,oOo a
new railway is to be built in Argen-
tina. 1t will follow almost a straight
line from Rosario to Mendoza
ILLINOIS WOMAN JUSTICE
Judge Mary Bartelme, the first wo-
man ever honored with a call to the
bench in Illinois. who sits as associate
Justice with Judge Pickney, asserts
her belief in the immediate necessity
for reform in trials by jury by amend
ment Of the statute to permit service
of women equally with men.
% D.
TO ENCOURAGE ORATORY
William B. Austin, president of the
Hamilton club of Chicago, has an
nounced the organization of an inter
collegiate oratorical contest open to
Representatives from the universities
of Minnesota, Michigan. Iowa. Illinois,
Wisconsin and Chicago and North
western and Indiana universities. The
contest will be held in Chicago under
the auspices of the club on Feb. 10.
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THE HORSE SHOW
The National Horse Show IS with us
again. Opening Saturday, Nov. 16, it
continues till Nov. %. Madison Square
Garden will daily be the scene of
fashions best creations. The boxes
will be filed with people famous in
the society world of the country.
The board of directors of the Ma
tional Horse Show is practically the
same as last year. 1t includes most
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
EVENTS OF THE WEEK

Nov. 11.-Annual meeting of the
American Association of Farmers In
dustrial Workers and annual meeting
of the American Agricultural Colleges
and Experiment stations at Atlanta.
Ga Annual convention of the Amer
lean Federation of Labor at Roches-
ter. y. Y
Nov. 13.-United Daughters of the
Confederacy at Washington
Nov 1S-American mining congress
convenes at Spokane. Wash.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

SHE RULES JOHANNESBURG
Mrs A. NJ. Ellis recently was elected
mayor of johannesburg, South Africa
She is said to have an unusual record
as successful business woman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

Indies when 1 went there in January,
and we were in Ameyica on Washing
toms birthday, Feb. %, which, curious
ly enough, is the date of my fiancee's
birthday and of my own. 1 well re
member how we were both interested
in the little axes which they sell for
wear in the buttonhole in the United
States on that day"
Miss Soames is much younger than
the hero of Mafeking.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23
BRITISH LAuNcHINes

The launching of the British super-
Dreadnou=ht Ironduke by the Duchess
of Wellington Nov. u will be followed
by a like cec emony for the super
Dreadnou-ht MARLBOROUGH. Nov. 20.
the Duchess of Marlborough presiding
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

Golden Text-Thou art the Christ. the
Son of the living God.-NIatt. xvi, 10.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

the new parcels post
INV system becomes operative on
" JAN twelve new stamps
WILL he Minced ON sale in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-11-23

TAHAT there have been great eli
matte changes in different
parts of the earth is well
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-17
THE ''REAL REASON"

We do not believe the Marshalltown
1imesRepublican will stand by it's
statement that there is only one reas-
on why oleo should not be colored, and
that Is because 1t will compete with
buttsr." when it considers the question
carefully. The real reason why it
should not be colored is because it will
be sold for butter, thus competing I'M
fairly. Even with the present restric-
lions It Is found very difficult to en-
force the law against cleo, but with
this restriction removed 1t would be
almost impossible-Mt. Vernon Record
II We are to admit that the Records
objection that cleo will be sold as but
ter Is sufficient we must admit the
failure Of the pure food laws and other
lswS which are intended to prevent
selling one thing for another. To carry
ont 70 the limit the real reason" as
o61ed by the Record counterfeit cur
Yeooy should be taxed to prevent its
OuA0titution and circulation as real
snoosy. We should tax excess Of ben
eoate, tar veal which poses ~ potted
ehssaao. PIT . tax on strawberry jam
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-17
The RRlneES GIRL

The Bridges girl, whose connection
with Absolute Life" See was given
ecandalous prominence a few months
ago, is anxious to go home and be good
She will be given her chance. Perhaps
sthe will make good on it,
It was a miserable story that Of a
wife and daughter infatuated with a
tonguey sensualist and father who
had worked days and schemed nights
to give his family the best money could
buy. While he carried the burdens of
their existence mother and daughter
played the fool and worse
There are some women who should
have been born a hundred years before
they were, who would have been bet
ter off weaving the cloth for their own
clothes, who would be better today if
Bridges carried the whole burden. The
women were unoccupied with anything
Of usefulness. They lost their hold on
personal responsibility, lived in idle
ness and did the natural thing for idle
men and idle women to do, went to the
devil.
Poor old Bridges He certainly got
the worst of it when he gave his best.
He is of the type that will go on Civ
ing It, But 1t would have been far
better for his daughter if Bridges had
spent more time and less money on her
and If she might have felt life on her
shoulders.