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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-08-10
HOME TRADE is A DUTY
NO CITIZEN SHOULD SHIRK.
The Place Where a Man Lives Is the
Place Where He Should Buy Me-
cessities of Life

A case in point illustrating the bene-
fits of home trade to the town itself
has been told 1t is a subject that
permits of elaboration. 1t was told
how town with the home trade spirit
forged away ahead of neighboring
town which obtained its merchandise
from the mail order houses. The ad-
vantage of trading at the home shops
was made plain. and now n word on
the subject of home trade as n duty.
AS a matter of fact, it is a duty that
every citizen with the welfare of his
particular community at heart owes to
that community. Probably he himself
is obliged to earn his living in that
town. If SO no arguments should be
needed to convince him that home
trade is so much his duty that If he is
a patron of the mail order houses in
stead he does not deserve a livelihood
from the patronage of his neighbors
Take the man who earns his bread
and butter in another town or city
In spite of that fact it is his duty, too.
to patronize the home stores. They are
doing business where he has establish
ed his home, where he casts his vote
at election time and where his chill
dren are going to school. He most GER
ld1HlyA owes IudC LOWn BOHeIn1nR De-
sides his taxes
OF course fair treatment by the
storekeeper should be expected. and
usually he is shrewd enough to accord
1t. On the other hand, the thousands
who have to their sorrow bought ga pig
in the bag from a mail order house
know that distance lends enchant-
ment"-to the view the mail order
house takes of the matter A home
merchant cannot very well go behind
his announcements in the local papers,
while the mail order houses can and do
make all kinds of offers in their city
papers, knowing full well the best sat
isfactton a defrauded customer in a
remote town can get is to write a let
ter of protest-which goes into the
wastebasket.
This DEPRESSION from the subject of
home trade as duty is merely to call
attention to the fact that there are
more spurious bargains advertised by
the mail order houses than genuine
ones.
Home trade as a duty ought 10 be a
town slogan. 1t should be practiced
and preached by every man and wo-
man identified with the best interests
of the town they call their home.
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lessly about till they came to a little
park, into which they entered and for
got everything else in the enjoyment of
a stream, on the bank of which they
sat throwing stones into the water
They were thus amusing themselves
when a policeman went to them and
arrested them. Their fight had been
discovered and the police notified.
The next morning Sir Michael Frame.
a retired barrister, read in morning
paper of the fight of the young Earl
of Elton and his sister and their mar
rage, at which all England was
shocked Sir Michael had been a close
friend of the last Earl of Elton he
knew that a minor was heir to the
title, but for his life couldn't remem-
Der that there was a girl.
He finally recalled the fact that a
sister of the last earl, the Hon. Mrs.
brewer, had left a little girl and that
Mrs Dwyer an6 the earFs brother,
Tweed Spencer. had been left in
charge Of the estate and the two chill
dren, who were orphans. This Spen-
Ger, on assuming this responsibility.
had discharged Sir Michael as solicitor
for the estate and employed another
man. 1t occurred to Sir Michael that
BILE he would need the services of some
one who would be interested In him.
He took the train the same day for
the town where the children were de-
tanned and before they slept had pass
ed some time in hearing their story.
When the trial came up the next
morning the children's guardian,
Tweed Spencer, was there to claim
their return What was his surprise
to see Sir Michael step forward and
announce himself as their solicitor.
Indeed, Spencer turned white. He was
playing a game that would have been
very easy had not the children over
stepped all supposed bonds by falling
In love. AS 1t was, his defeat was GER
tain He made a clean breast of IL and
admitted that there was no intention
to make the children believe they were
brother and sister, but Sir Michael in
troduced evidence proving that the
guardian had intended to marry the
earl to his own daughter. The viii
showed that provision had been made
for the union of two properties In the
marriage of the cousins, to defeat
which Spencer had brought them up
as brother and sister.
The young couple were delighted at
the result of their escapade. The court
decided to appoint new guardian and
yielded to their request In appointing
Sir Michael Frame. The earl went to
Oxford. apd Gle sys was placed under
the care of tutors selected by her
guardian When they came into their
fortunes they went to the Elton es-
tates { live. celebrating. their we'd
ding. which had occurred several years
before
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-08-10
Where watermeIons Do Best.

Notwithstanding their name, water
melons thrive best in a well drained
and comparatively dry soil. The best
soil is sandy loan, and it cannot be
worked up too well. The most sue
cessful growers give the vines plenty
of room. planting hills from eight to
twelve feet apart. Enough seeds are
planted to insure a good stand and
lightly covered with about an inch of
light soil. Before the vines begin to
run the hills are thinned out to two
or three of the most thrifty plants
The best way of working is to Guilt
vate closely as soon as the plants are
well up. then work them frequently
until the vines are running in the mid
dies. Cultivation should not disturb root
or vine.-Farmers' Mail and Breeze.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-08-10

~ OUR campaigns hand running
Ia have found Eugene V. Debs
of Indiana contesting for the
presidency of the United
States. The first time he ran, in 19Oo.
he was the standard bearer of the
Socialist Democratic party, while his
subsequent candidacy, in 1904 and
again in 1908, was as a candidate OF
the Socialist party, under whose BAN
ner he is now fighting for the highest
Office In the land. The popular vote
poIled for Debs in 1904 was 4o2.2S3,
and In 1908 it was 420,793
Debs started life as locomotive
firemen, then tried the grocery busi-
ness, then got into politics in small
way, becoming city clerk of Terre
Haute. He soon thereafter began to
get into politics in a larger way and
went to the legislature, continuing
thereafter to grow In political Inn
portance until he was named as a
presidential nominee in 1900. Before
attaining this distinction Debs' name
had become well known to the public
because of his activities in behalf of
labor As head of the American Rail-
way union he won the Great Northern
railway strike, but his part in strike
ON the western railroads involved him
In serious trouble. First he was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-08-10
The Sunday School Lesson
SENIOR REREAN INTERNATIONAL SERIES.

who was suffering from a violent form
of insanity and was terror in all
[ district Crying and
cut ting himself with stones What
sad spectac-- mis- must have been. and
+ different wa the kind and patient
way of Jesus from the harsh an, Sc
we're treatment to which such patients
were generally subjec ed When he
saw Jesus afar off, He was drawn
toward the Master, though as soon as
he approa ched him with insane haste
he uttered a speech ..repudiating fell
lowship and intercourse"
What is thy name?' Jesus desired to
reduce the excitement CT this man. and
so in a quiet way he tried to bring
him to a sense of his own identity
My name is legion" He had no
ability to recover himself. He was so
completely under the delusion that he
was in the grasp of many demons, that
he called himself by name that was
descriptive of this possession. A Ro-
man legion consisted of 400 to 5000
troops This name herefore suggest
ed the two ideas of great numbers and
Of distress like that caused by the plum
dering Roman soldiers ''Out of the
untry." The evil spirits feared ban
ishment into sca wilderness. "Seno US
into the swine" Jesus did not DELHI
erately dismiss them to enter the
swine They could go IL they would.
Tut they must in any case leave the
N The effect was startling The
news of the disaster was speedily car
to town by the swineherds. They
J. II out to see" The inhabitants hur-
ried to the place where the c;--e had
been wrought. ~ ny MIN to depart"
What they saw filed them with .ear,
and they We're alarmed lest worse con-
sequences should result from the pres
ence of so dangerous a person.
Mark V. 1S-2O.-Go home.
Jesus never forceo himself on any
one, and when such unanimous re-
quesr came to him the r--l- thing to do
was to leave the place. The man who
had been cured of MS malady pressed
eagerly to accompany Jesus. Suffered
him not" He wa5 20 allowed to do
so, because some testimony must be
borne in this heather region TELL
them The recital or his cure TO
trends Ind ncighbors wo.lo prepare
| ITEM for a later visit from Jesus (Mark
vii. 3D. 1872 Al
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CUT OUT THE BoRERS.
Your Peach and Plum Trees Will Suf-
fer If You Neglect This Work.

Your Peach and Plum Trees Will Suf-
fer If You Neglect This Work.
Take a look at your peach and plum
trees and see IL there are any signs Of
peach tree borers. A fine wood dust
at the base of the trees is the sign.
II it's there it's time for you to COM
bat one of the most destructive orchard
pests.
The borer works beneath the bark
and wood at the base of the tree. 1t
is the larva of wasplike moth which
flies during the daytime from the mid
die of June to the middle of Septem-
Der and lays its eggs on the bark at
the base of the trunk. in a few days
the little grub or worm matches from
the egg and eats its way through the
bark to the soft inner layer, where it
feeds and lives during the fall, winter
and spring. In June and midsummer
it becomes dormant and transforms
into a moth.
When the borers are once under the
bark the best thing to do is to remove
them with a sharp knife blade or point
ed wire, say the horiculturists at the
Kansas Agricultural college. 1t doesn' t
injure the tree to cut the bark with
lengthwise Sits, but cutting should
never be crosswise. Fall and early
spring are the best times for removing
the borers-
The best way to fight the destructive
peach tree borers Is to prevent their en-
tering the tree by coating the bark
with a solution of boiled lime and sui
phur.
Make this application after the Dor
ers In the trees have been killed. 1t
will prevent the moths from laying
eggs there for some time. This treat
ment is good for plum trees as well
as peach trees.
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Some New Ideas.

Professor =. Il. Hansen of south Da-
kota has get out several acres of al
falfa plants with machines such as are
used for setting tobacco, cabbage and
other plants. This way of getting a
stand of Italia may not be the ash
est, put it is interesting. Professor
Sammis of Wisconsin has invented
buttermilk cheese that promises to re-
turn the buttermaker a dollar per 100
pounds for his byproduct- No doubt
it will be valuable to the dair--man If
the public can be induced to use it.
but memories of skim cheese do not
lead US to expect 1t to become ex-
tremely fashionable. New .hings are
being brought forth every day to be
tested on the farm and on the market
National Stockman and Farmer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1912-08-10

"HE orphan Earl of Elton, four
years old, was playing in his
n nursery one morning when
Mrs. Rawson, who was in full
charge of him, brought in a little girl
of about the same years, saying to him:
Here's little sister for you. Ralph
Her name is Gladys Now, don't let
me hear any more grumbling about not
having playmates like other children"
rs she my sister," said Ralph, look
ing at the girl admiringly. why
haven't seen her beforer
Don't ask questions or I'll send her
away"
So Ralph and Gladys proceeded to
enjoy each others company in the
amusements of childhood AS they
grew older they wondered why they
had been separated till their first meet
ing and had been kept together ever
since Since no one seemed disposed
to inform them they spent much time
building up hypothesis. Gladys prefer
ring those which accounted for her abb
sence from her brother, she having
been stolen by a fairy when she was
a baby But she had very little remem-
brance of her early life.
They had no playmates except each
other No one interfered with their
growing up together in any way their
fancies led them By and by Ralph
began to talk about Gladys being bis
wife, to which she responded that she
didn't believe brothers and sisters ever
married. And SO as they passed
through different stages of develop
ment there came different kinds of
feeling till at last they were nearly
grown
One day when they were fifteen
years old they discovered Mrs. Raw
son packing Gladys belongings. When
asked what she was going to do she
told them that Gladys was to be taken
away. The color vanished from the
face of each. Nature had met for them
/ its first conflict with civilization. and
nature always makes a desperate fight
especially In the case of the young
These two had been left to mate like
the birds. 4 separation now could
! not be endured Something must be
done Several days elapsed before
there were any signs of Gladys i'm
| mediate removal. which time they
spent in talking the matter over. What
was there for two children brought up
as they had been to do except to fee
One morning they got together all the
| money they had-money was never de-
MED them-and counted IS. some shil-
lings and lot of pennies Taking this.
| they went off on such a ramble as
| they had often taken together before
They had been kept so aloof from
i the world that there is possibility
| they did not know what marriage
| meant. especially between brother and
sister They soon found a minister
After the ceremony they strolled aim
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Flower. Without Fruit

Flowers WITHOUT Fruit
Prune thou thy words. the thoughts con-
troll
That DER thee swell and throng
They VIII condense within thy soul
And change to purpose strong.
But he who lets his feelings rum
In goft, luxurious flow
Ghrinks when hard service must be done
And faints at every woe.
Faiths meanest deed more favor bears
Where hearts and Wills are weighed
Than brightest transports. choicest pray
Which bloom their hour and fade.
John Henry Newman
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Survey of the Worlds News

Only 1000 feet below the snow capped
crest of the mountains the tunnel has
pierced its rocky way
To the south and east Of Utah lake.
in one of the most beautiful valleys in
the west. are 60.000 acres of exceed
ingly fertile land. now only partially
productive for lack of water. To trans
form this valley to a rural settlement.
dotted with thriving towns and vii
lagos and fruit trees, government en-
gineers surmounted almost unheard of
obstacles.
Beyond the Wasatch range. which
rims the valleys eastern border. Straw
berry river, for centur- "ank full per-
haps, has n uselessly by, its waters
finall. reaching the gulf of California
through the Colorado river To di-
vert this water from the Colorado
drainage basin and turn it into the
Utah valley the enormous Strawberry
tunnel almost four miles long, was
bored through the Wasatch mountains
Its cross section measures more than
sixty square feet 1t is walled and
buttrecsed with timber and lined with
cement
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Not Recommended.

Not Recommended.
The Best Man (rnakng arrangements)
-And-er-is 1t Missionary to cuss the
bride ?-Sketch.
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Golden Text-God is our refuge and
strength, a very present help In trou-
BILE Therefore Will not we fear, though
the earth be removed and though the
mountains be carried into the midst of
the sea.-Psa- XVI, i, 2.
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time would be a gigantic blunder. says
the Virginia senator. and most difficult
to overcome 1t might even eliminate
in national disaster. Senator Swanson
lays emphasis on the fact that in mod
ern commerce the nation that is help
less on the seas is the prey of all ma
rauders and has its future destiny d.
rected by others THE future of this
mighty republic lies on the seas" says
Senator Swanson, land we should es-
tablish a rigid policy that no other ma
ton than Great Britain shall possess
naval strength superior to ours"
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Photo o By Bundy.

Candidate For the Presidency.
charged with conspiracy, but was ac-
Quilted. Then followed a charge of
violating an Injunction, for which he
was sentenced 10 jail for six months
term for contempt Of court
One OF the best assets of the Social
ist candidate is his winning smile. he
In firm believer in his party and pro-
poses to use every endeavor to swell
the Socialist vote this year. Debs
looks a good deal like the late Bill
Nye, the humorist- When Debs was
running for president IN 1904 a town
In South Carolina had planned a great
reception for him. Bill Nye arrived In
the town at the right moment, and
committee of Debs' welcomers seized
him, hustling him into a carriage. Mr..
Nye knew they had mistaken him for
Debs, but determined to have a little
fun. fun being his long suit Accord
ingiy he permitted his hosts to show
er honors upon him until he took pity
upon Debs and gave the joke away
with lavish brides In the form of the
best cigars he could buy. Debs had
come In on a later train, and the COM
mtftee, returning to the depot, with
all sorts Of apologies, found him walk
Ing mp and down the platform In for
lorn solitude But he accepted their
explanation gracefully and appreciated
the contretemps quite as much as Bill
Nye had
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TEXAS WOMEN IN FIGHT

the Daughters or the RepuDllc OF lex
as and the state administration over
the spot of the massacre which led to
the independence of Texas. At the
head of the anti-administration move
ment is Mrs. Hal Sewer. formerly
Miss Clara Driscon- When patriotic
women of the Lone Star State took up
the matter Of saving the old mission
San Antonio de Valero as a memorial
of the revolution Miss Driscoll bought
the property, held it until the legisla-
ture could act and then sold it to the
state at the price she paid for It The
deed provided that the property should
be parked, but Governor Colquitt and
others of his administration entered
upon a plan of restoration of the old
mansion quite different from the plans
of the Daughters of the Republic of
Texas. This organization, asserting that
the plan was political, took the matter
to the courts, and now it will come be-
fore the legislature at its next session
o. %
BOOSTING ESPERANTO
The jubilee fetes OF the Esperanto
hosts, which take place at Cracow, Po-
land, beginning Aug. IL, recall the
fact that twenty-five years ago DR..
the world At the convention Ameri-
c. and European associations will
ter re, and reports will be made
showt what progress Esperanto has
made. In May, 1910, there were LOO
Esperanto societies, and 1t is said that
number has increased substantially
since that time. 1t Is q summer of Es-
peranto conventions and he movement
viii take on a new lease Of life, say
its leading promoters.
Be- %
SUFFRAGE IN TROUSERS
In the hope OF effecdng the organ
fzat1on of an international woman suf-
frage club, Senorita Louisa Capetillo,
the first new woman of Porto Rico,
is making a world tour. The senorita
Is an uncommon woman. The fact
that she wears trousers and has had
her hair ''shingled'' man fashion to
gain votes for the cause proves that.
She has been an editor and cheered
the flag of socialism with as much
gusto as she is now working for votes
for women. She declares that her sex
is downtrodden. 1t is not only the
vote she seeks for women, but she
would change the social and education
al ideals so that women may enter
III neios Oh Work "here men are IL
lowed.
While the senorita wears trousers,
she puts her skirt on over them. That
is because the world is not yet suffi-
Gently educated. she explains
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THE AMERICAN NAVY
In the opinion of United States Sen
ator Claude A. Swanson, formerly gov
ernor of Virginia, there is no more i'm.
portant question in the United States
than that of the increase in the navy
/ A mistake made in this respect at this
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ANNIVERSARIES


Fifty years ago Aug. Confeder-
stes under command OF General John
q Brecknridge attacked the FederaIs
ut Baton Rouge, La, and were defeat
ID The Federals lost their COM
mander, General Williams. Fifty
years ago Aug. 8 the United States
contracted for a double turreted iron
clad ram, to cost S1-250,OOO. Fifty
pears ago Aug: 8 General @. 8. Win
der, Confederate, was killed In d bat
tie between --stonewall" Jackson's col
umn and two corps OF the army OF
General John Pope at Cedar Noun
tain. Virginia About 1900 men were
lost on both sides. The next day the
Ccnfederates retreated from Cedar
Mountain and crossed the Rapidan
river.
a WONDERFUL TUNNEL
~Holed through today" This was the
1aconic message relayed by telephone
from Camp Quinton, in the Wasatch
mountains, Utah, and flashed to the
reclamation service In Washington. 1t
marked the completion of the Straw
berry tunnel. one OF the largest and
most difficult pieces OF engineering
work the reclamation service has ever
been called upon to undertake.
with one exception. this underground
waterway tunnel is the largest In the
world Many hard engineering prob
lens had TO be overcome In planning
1t, and great physical endurance was
required of the men who carried out
the work
The tunnel pierces the solid rock of
one of the highest peaks OF the Wa
satch mountains at point where those
hills are more than 10000 feet through
1t will move a good sized stream, the
Strawberry river, from one drainage
basin to another, forty-five miles away.
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THE AMERICAN NAVY

! TIE FAN z FIOFNIN NAV
In the opinion of United States Sen
ator Claude A. Swanson, formerly gov
ernor of Virginia, there is no more i'm
portant question in the United States
than that of the increase in the navy.
A mistake made in this respect at this
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Cupid as a Lucky Prompter
By GERALDINE BOWMAN

%HE orphan Earl of Elton, four
years old, was playing in his
nursery one morning when