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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22

infested with 3-card monte men and
confidence man, who used to operate
on the trains out of Kansas City.
Il was well acquainted with Jim
Bridger, the Indian fighter, scout
and trapper who discovered Bridger's
Pass through the Rockies / hauled
him many time.
HAULED MILLIONS OF IMMIGRANTs
Il hauled the rush of gold seekers
to Denver and Deadwood, and later
to Cripple Greek. / hauled the mil
lions of immigrants who first settled
Kansas and Colorado, for ours was for
many years the only railroad from
Kansas City to the West.
-One of my duties in those early
days was to see that the tallow
candles in the cars were lighted when
dusk came. 1t was several years be-
fore we got oil lamps, and years more
before we got gas lights We had no
air brakes, but eased the train down
at stops with old-fashioned wheel
brakes operated by hand. Our engines
then were much smaller than those
in use now, and so were the passeng-
er coaches. An average coach would
carry forty or fifty persons.
500 ANTELOPE AT ABILENE
Il have seen five hundred antelope
in one herd on the prarie east of
Abilene. and when / began as a
freight conductor in Kansas wild
turkeys were so plentiful that held
the train once at Solomon while ten
wagon loads of them were put a.
board''
In his forty-f1ve years of railroad
ing Mr.. Lightcap never had an acci-
dent that injured anyone, never had
passenger killed and was never in
jured himself. He never had an ad
venture that he thinks is worth
telling, either. His splendid health
and physical condition refute the
general belief that railroading is in
furious in the long run. He owns
the cottage in which he lives and
that, together with his pensions from
the government and the railway
company are all he has.-Kansas City
Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
MARKET REPORT

Kansas City Stock Yards, Tuesday,
February IS, ,19I3. The rise of 25 to
so cents in cattle prices last week
stimulated loading for the market
this week little, but there has been
no rush to market. Receipts yester-
day were IL 900 head, and the same
number came in today, market steady
to 10 higher yesterday, steady to
strong today Stock cattle and feed
ers did not gain as much as killing
steers, last week, but there is big
demand from the country for all
kinds, outgo to the country last week
IL 400 head, nearly 80 per cent of the
tota. cattle receipts for the week. A
southwest Missouri farmer-banker
paid $40 for $50 pound yearlings,
and 81 .75 for $50 pound calves here to-
day His intention is to keep them
coming along constantly, and market
them early next winter. These year
lfngs were very thin in flesh Com
mission men are uncertain about the
wisdom of paving such prices for
stock cattle, but say they think So. 90
will be paid for the best kinds before
grass Feeders sell from S725 to 50. 90.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
No Need to Stop Work

work it staggers you. l can't you say.
You know you are weak, run down
and failing in health day by day, but
you must work as long as you can
stand. What you need is Electric
Bitters to give tone, strength and
vigor to your system, to prevent
break down and build you up. Don't
be weak, sickly or ailing when
Electric Bitters will benefit you from
the first dose. Thousands bless them
for their glorious health and strength.
Try them. Every bottle is guarante-
ed to satisfy. Only soc at GibSon's-
Adv
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
34TH YEAR-NUMBER 81

With such strong country demand
killers are kept on their mettle here
to ill orders for meat trade that Is
expanding little in the last ten days,
hence the market on killing grades
is very satisfactory. Best steers sold
at sS-45 to IS. IS today, bulk of steers
above $3.50. quarantine steers 81. SO,
to s7.15, Old Mexican steers from
Colorado 800, native cows up to
$500, heifers $500. bulls So. 80, veal
calves $1,000
Hog supply today is 1900 head,
market 10 higher, top 1927 IL, bulk
IS. 10 to SIS. 25. Since the sharp upturn
in prices shippers are exerting them
selves somewhat, as shown by the de
clining average weight of hogs receiv-
ed, which was 2lO pounds last week,
213 pounds previous week, and 2I3
pounds last week in January. The
market had plenty of pep today,
though packers made show of fight
ing, and stopped their bids at ss.25.
Sheep and lambs are 10 higher to
day, lambs at So, 20, yearlings $50,
wethers worth S6.15, ewes today at
s5 10. Run today is 1900, and prospects
are for satisfactory markets later
this week.
j. A. Rickart.
Market COrraSnOndpnt
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
Farmers Institute.
Secretary

At meeting of the officers of the
Trego county Farmers Institute at
Mr.. Harlan's office Saturday, Febru-
airy Is, the following business was
transacted. Mr.. Greenwood having
moved from the county Chas. Folkers
was chosen permanent secretary
1t was agreed to offer as a prize
trip expences paid to Manhattan to
the Farmers State Institute, for the
boy and girl who has the highest
scoring garden, grown under the
following runes.
L. This contest shall be open to
both boys and girls under Is years.
2. The garden shall contain no
more than 900 square feet.
3. Not less than five of the follow
ing vegetables shall be used: Pota-
toes, beets, beans, peas, cucumbers,
tomatoes, cabbage, peanuts, onions
and radishes.
4. Not more than one-half of this
garden shall be planted to potatoes.
). A score card will be furnished
each contestant, who shall keep a
complete score, and present it at the
county institute with as many of the
best vegetables as can be exhibited
at that time.
6. Each contestant shall register
with the secretary, Charles FoIkers,
who will furnish them with score
card.
In judging these gardens the fol-
lowing points will be considered:
Value of products
Completeness of score.
General utility for family use.
In judging these gardens an allow
ance will be made for all non-irrigat-
ed gardens against irrigated ones.
One quart of peanut seed will be
furnished free to each contestant by
the Ogallah Forestry station upon re-
quest.
Other prizes will be given as fol-
lows:
Best ten ears of corn $500.
Second best $500.
Best ten heads of kafir corn $500.
Second best $500.
Best sample of Spanish peanuts 81.
Best piece of sewing, girls under IA
years, $500
Best piece of sewing, girls between
Ia and Is years, $500.
All these contestants must be un-
der Is years old.
f. J. TURNER,
Temporary Secretary.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
G-B.AE. MEETS ArHAYs THIS YEAR

The eighteenth annual meeting of
the Golden Belt Educational Associa-
tion will be held at Hays, February
% and March 1st.
Everyone engaged in educational
work should attend this meeting.
Every teacher should feel personal
responsibility in makeng this associa-
tion success. The enrolment last
year reached 400 and this year it is
expected that the enrolment will
reach the 500 mark
The Western Kansas Normal has
so many good things in store each
year. In 1912 the Educational Ex-
hibits of the Model Country School
and of the Parochial school were of
the best. enabling to take in at
glance the characteristic features of
we'll organized system. Then, too,
a Comic Opera is given for the enter
tainment of the visitors. This is one
of the most pleasing features of the
meeting.
Several lecturers are given during
the session. Each lecture is an in
spiration to all who listen to it.
PROGRAM
Friday morning, 900 General Meeting
Auditorium
Music
Invocation ~ Rev G. W. West
Address of Welcome. VIM. S. Picken
Principal Western Kans. State Normal
Response. Maurice L. Smith, Oakley
Music. Miss Jessie Scriven
Presidents Address. ....
Supt. T. w. Wells, Russell
ppointment of Committees
General arrangements spelling contest
Music Orchestra
Inter-County Contest in Reading and
Music. Special program for the
afternoon will be distributed by the
ushers.
Music Contest: Vocal, four to eight
voices.
Reading ontest:Declamation or with
book in hand. Judges: Mrs. Lillian
Pfcken, Miss Lulu Bice, Prof. Carl
Ostrum-
Friday afternoon, 4:30
Agricultural High School Building
Josiah Main, chairman
Agricultural contest
Boys Growing Contest
Individual Judging Contest tor boys
Address and Judging Exhibits
C.C-C cunningham A agriculture College
Friday evening 8:l5 Auditorium
Comic Opera The Captain of Ply
mouth
Western Kansas State Normal School
Saturday morning, 900
General Meeting
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22

Four passenger auto in good ru n
ming order to exchange for driving
team. Address box 331, Wa-Keeney,
KanS.-adv.
Money Money! Money!! on your
farms. When you want loan on
your farm call at the Wa-Keeney
State Bank. 81 adv
Good I room residence near Wesley
an University in Salina, Kans., to ex-
change for land here. Box 331 Wa
Keeney, Kans.-adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
Mothers Can Safely Buy

DIR. Kings New Discovery and give it
TO the little ones when ailing and suf-
fering with colds, coughs, throat or
lung troubles, tastes nice, harmless,
once used always used. Mrs. Bruce
Crawford, Niagra, Mo-, writes: DIR.
Kings New Discovery changed our
boy from pale weak sick boy to the
picture of health Always helps.
Buy it at Gibson's-Adv
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
FARMERS UNION MEETING.

All the Locals of Trego county, are
requested to send delegates TO a
special meeting of the Trego county
Farmers Union to be held at the
court house in Wa-Keeney, March /,
1913 at 200 p. m. Important business
GUY G. BLAKELY,
Secretary
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22
Miss Isabel Ringwalt, Oakley

1SdOcI hlESNdlG. OdktoS
Music Orchestra
Address
present day tendencies in education"
Raymond A Schwelger
Auditorium
Piano Solo
Associate Professor of Education K Q
Music
Agricultural high school building loo
Josiah Main, Chairman
Agricultural Exhibits
Inter-County Contest
G. G. Cunningham, Judge
Saturday afternoon, 200 Auditorium
Address THE Arts in Education"
DIR. Walter Sargent, Prof, of EGuca-
tion, University of Chicago
Rural School Round Table, o:3O
Auditorium
Mrs. c. D. Smith, Chairman,
Graintield
Supt. Rose Gilbert, Secretary,
Sharon Springs
A Usable Course in Sewing for Rural
Schools, Miss Florence Brewster
Ellsworth County
Discussion opened by
Miss Anna Wood, Graham County
The Discipline of the Rural School
Miss Lena Johnson, Ellis county
Discussion led by
Malcolm Peterson, Logan County
What Should be Eliminated from the
Course of Study for the Rural School
Miss Carrie Stradal, Trego County
Discussion led by
FL. Coover, Ellsworth county
1913 School Legislation
General Discussion led by
Charles d. Wilson, Cove County
G. A. Beeby, Graham county
Rose Gilberts, Wallace county
Graded School Round Table, 2:3o
Lyceum Hall
Oh. Sherwood, Chairman, Ellsworth
Miss Lena Brown, Secretary
Russell Springs
Is Our Graded School Failure?
Katherine Curry, Ellsworth
History in the Primary Grades
Edith Vogelgesang, Russell
How can English Teaching in the
Grades be made More Efficient2
D'Gracia j. Davis, Ellis
Address. .. Prof. Carl Ostrum
% Kansas State Agricultural College
High School Round Table, 2:3O
Literati Hall
Miss Mary F. Altman Chairman
Trego County High School
Miss Matte Walker, Secretary
Wallace county High School
Making Home Economics in High
School Practical
Miss Elizabeth j. Agnew
Western Kansas State Normal
Shortcomings af High School Fresh
man in Mathematics
Paper-Miss Emile WedelI
Ellis High School.
Discussion Skidmore
Bunker Hill High School
J. K. Elwood
Lucas High School
Some Ways of Helping Our German
Pupils to Develop a Sprachgefuhl
Miss Georgia Virmond
Hays High School
Address
Sub-Conscious Factors in Moral
/Educa tion-R Raymond A. Schwegler
University of Kansas
Saturday Evening Auditorium
Business Meeting
S:0O-MuSsc " OrcheSt ra
Lecture-The Aim of Modern Educa-
tion DIR. Walter Sargent
Professor of Education in relation to
Fine and Industrial Arts
University of Chicago
MARKET REPORT
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22

For regular action of the bowels;
easy, natural movements, relief of
constipation, try Doan's Regulets---
25c at all stores.-Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-02-22

Music Orchestrs
Address
present day tendencies in education
Raymond A. Schwelger
Auditorium
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

"Playwrights. like poets, are borr
not made, but they must grow up!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

chosen" I dared, women. clothes, Wild
ows and their firtations. I should say
you know lot about femninity. Maybe
you've had lot of sweethearts?'
Perhaps" said Mr.. Hopwood evasively
which might mean anything or every
thing, nothing at all.
There's nothing so ''side-stepping as
that one little word,
You even recall that the religion of
Rabelais was one great-..P .Perhapsi''
went on
THE modern drama certainly deals with
many oddities and outre subjects, which
formerly were not heard Of
Many of the new plays this season
have to do with tile white slave traffic
and that sort of thing" said Mr.. Hop
wood. ''Playwrights discuss and stage
things that decade ago would not have
been mentioned in polite society. Today
sex problems, eugenics, white slavery
every subject offers an opportunity for
the playwright to enlarge upon. 1t seems. =
Then. such a play as Damaged Goodsf
what of it?" / asked
-Four years ago l picked up Brieux's
play and read it," said Mr.. Hopwood
thoughtfully. Il regarded it as a won
derful sermon. | never dreamed of see
ing 1t staged. Recently | have seen it
in New York. Mr.. Shaw, you know,
considers Brieux the greatest French
writer since Molere, his socialistic pro-
clivities appealing largely to Mr.. Shaw.
The same theme practically that pervades
Damaged Goods was expounded in
Ghosts The latter is a great play with
sermon back of Il. The former ser
mon with a play back of 1t, The diff
ference is Mr.. Ibsen was great dramat-
ist, while Mr.. Brieux is very clever
man.
II believe the craze for morbid plays
is merely evanescent,' said Mr.. Hop
wood in conclusion. There are so many
delightful situations. full of wits and
humor. to write about, that | often won
der why such subjects are drawn into
the drama and held up for the public
to ridicule and discuss. There seems no
need of rehashing and digging up such
things. I think 1t likely that the present
century will bring forth a great dramatic
eopch equal to the golden days of the
Elizabethah drama, and / believe 1t will
manifest itself in Germany. Russia or
the United States
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

the true newspaper instinct, I began to
wonder how I could get a story will
| him.
| Once this deadly germ of "Interview
| gets into the blood, you are done for
and I've often wondered in my poor, little
feeble mind, If 1t wouldn't go mighty
| hard with me in the long run to have
acquired it, for I'm morally sure that
when "Earth's last picture is painted, "
and the pearly gates are opened for me,
won't be able to enjoy myself for try
ing to get an interview" with ST. Peter
and describing his toga and seeing wheth-
er his crowns on straight or not
! So
| AS | was about to say
With fork poised midway 'twixt plate
and mouth, l said to myself, said l.:
How can it be done?'
Let me say for the benefit of the un-
initiate that at French lick, as in New
York. you can no more casually walk
up to person on the Tan Bark" and
say
Your money or your life
Than you can on Broadway, out of a
perfectly clear sky, and thus introduce
yourselfi
Oh. no,
Not there. believe me.
It's not done in the best circles
pcBdi " WISH WAS Dach nome III
my own dear southern town, where every
body knows everybody else, and If they
don't. some of their grandmothers have
swapped cats with somebody's else grand
mother, and that makes an introduction
unnecessary, and even when the biggest
celebrities come to town you've only to
send in your card. asking for an I'm
terview,' and it is no sooner done than
an engagement is made, and the story
is forthcoming for the next morning 8
paper.
But at French Lick, where there are
so many big" folk, like BOSS" Coke
of Cincinnati, inspector Wheeler OF
Chicago. Mine Host Tom Taggart, Nat
Goodwin and Vice President Marshall,
sauntering about at different seasons of
the year. it's bit different, and such
tiny little thing as my poor little self,
with not even letter of recommended
ton to my credit-well-I stood mighty
poor show-that's all!
What was l to do?
l wished harder than ever that I was
back home, where our friend Miss Edna
Ferber says I'VE are somebody" and
when we die they put a whole column
in the papers about us with verse Of
poetry at the top, and all the neighbors'll
come in and help, while otherwise they'd
Just be two lines on the Want Ad Page
with 80 cents extra for 'Kewaskum pa
pers please copy You know how
But .=.'t
There's a special Providence that takes
care Of fools and newspaper folk, and
even while I was pondering upon my
dilemma a gentle, sweet faced woman,
with q crown of red gold hair, came into
the dining room, and was seated at table
with Mr.. Hopwood,
His mother" said. with Sherlock
Holmes intuition. Hes the spittin' image
of her. as we say in the south. Here's
my chancef'
Z Thus did | see my way out-and 1t
wasn't necessary for me to work my
brain for system" by which could
msst the diatinsutsasd young gentleman,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

and I remained placdly in the boat
and like
Little Jack Horner,
Sat in a corner,
Eating a Christmas pie
He put in his thumb
And pulled out a plum,
And said what a smart boy am T.
If there ever was one thing in the world
sweeter than another. it is mother!
Was anybody ever afraid of one?
They are the dearest things under the
shining sun, and they would do anything
in their power for you, and show you
any favor that was within the range of
possibility-bess 'elnl
After breakfast when I'd wandered out
on the veranda, where everybody sits and
listens to the music, / espied a vacant
chair next to the dear old lady whom
l had spotted as Avery Hopwood' $
mother, so l Immediately occupied it.
With her little bag of fancy work dsn't
it darling how mothers always have lit
tie bags of fancy work, knitting, sew
ing or something or other?) she sat as I
did, drinking in great drafts of that won
derful unadjectiveable air at French
Lick.
Now
Everybody knows that two women can't
sit within three feet Of each other very
long at a time without a word of CONVEX
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
Silhouette of Avery Hopwood Pay1ght

Catching Avery Hopwood off duty
is like chasing the elusive will-o'-the-
wisp.
1t can be done. but 1t is difficult
Even up in old Indiana, at the IA
NOUS French Lick Springs. where hun
dreds of DRINKS and booze fight
ers" flock daily. tempted there by the
hope of rejuvenation from the bad
smelling waters the like of which
Monsieur Pluto himself never dreamed,
and thousands OF florid faced old
gents invading the handsome hos
tlery every day from the big cities
In order TO be washed out and boiled
out" and the entire aggregation OF
guests "Spa-ing. and Spridle-ing, and
Baden-ing," making ready for the sea-
sons campaign-whether social or po-
litical--you'l find Avery Hopwood
pounding away on his type machine at
the rate of four hours day. although
he declares it is only between drinks
for he's taking the "cure'-bats. ex-
ercise, water and all-religiously.
Mr.. Hopwood does not appear to be
on speaking terms with-ennuil
He doesn't know what it is to have
that tired feeling" for he Is an in
yeterate worker. and, like Mr.. Arnold
Bennett, a systematic one (People who
know, say that Mr. Bennett has his
work planned for every single hour of
the day, for two years In advance.
Think of IT'D
There's no reason wh> Mr.. Hopwood
shouldn't be a hard worker, for hasn't
he the inalianable right since youth is
his and health and strength, and the
atrocious crime of being a young man"
this clever playwright need not at
tempt to palliate nor deny for his
handsome, boyish face, gives him
away at once and your first impress
sion of him is youth personified-glor
flied
Mr.. Hopwood has a great deal of
charm and rsonality-whateVe the
latter is-that inimitable quality which
Is SO easy to understand but so diff
ficult to eXplain-whieh draws you to
some people and drives you away from
others once you've heard them speak
a dozen words-but with Mr.. Hopwood
the indescribable quality is unques-
tioned--for he's magnetic. wholesome,
and affable-and we grant him a big
plus mark in this particular line at
the beginning.
1t was more like meeting an old
''college chum" than anything else
can think of-knowing Avery Hop
wood--he's so unpretentious and in
formal, and modest to degree-al-
most too much for his own good.
His fine flashes of wit and brilliant re-
partee impress you the first few min
utes of conversation, and you recognize
the same delicious, delicate humor of his
first BORN so to speak. play, Clothes"
so charmingly done by Miss Grace George
the lamented Mr.. Frank Worthing Mr.
Robert Mines and others-and of NO
body's Widow with lovely Blanche
Bates and Mr.. Bruce McRae and Ade-
laide Prince to send IT'S lines over the
footlights to delighted audiences; even
to Judy Forgot, with Marie Cahill S
fnimitable spirit of comedy to interpret
1t; yes. and all the others, though less
known perhaps, 'The Powers That Be-"
This Woman and This Man." Carlotta
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~..s...........................

Nelson, and his clever dramatization of
Seven Days"
Mr.. Hopwood's versatility sparkles and
glitters through a colloquy unfailingly,
and he touches a subject as lightly as
butterflys wing brushes the cheek, never
falling to give it a new color, as the
wing of the. butterfly shows us colors
we never dreamed of before.
Sitting at table one morning during the
past week at French Lick, while steam
ing hot breakfast was being served, my
attention was called to a tall, slender
youth with shock of Titan hair and
honest blue eyes, sitting at a table not
far distant, and somebody was saying
to me-
Look, There's Avery, Hopwood, the
playwright
Stark still l stopped, with fork poised
midway twixt plate and mouth, and with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21

many characters as he wishes-witness
Dickens and Thackarey and the rest-but
playwright has more material things to
consider such as salaries. the number
of people in the caste, the expense of
staging. and all that sort of thing
Then, In the final analysis, we'd say
that playwrights are born, not made"
l suggested. rs that the idea? Sort of
bred in the bone?'
Bred in the briar patch" Mr.. Hop
wood repeated, smiling. yes. l should
say playwrights, like poets, are born. not
made, but they must grow up
Judging from the subjects that you've
The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-09-21
SOME APHORIsMs BY
AVERY HOLLYWOOD

AVERY HOLLYWOOD
"Playwrights. like poets, are born.
not made, but they must grow upH
Il do not give, to the aspiring
playwright, the usual advice of
Don't but | do say, Heaven help
you! -
Any one can tell you that a play
wright should have the creative
faculty, and sense of construc-
ton. 1t is not so generally known,
that he should also possess the in
dustry of a beaver, the constitution
of an OK, the patience of Job. and
the hide of a hippopotamus,'
Il believe 1t very likely that this
century may bring forth a great
dramatic epoch. equal to the golden
days of the Elizabethan drama.
And | think it will manifest itself
in Germany, Russia, or the United
States.
I'm judging play, we must not
be too severe. We must remember
that an author works with his
heart, as well as with his BRAIN
IT have met more fine characters
among the women of the stage than
in any other walk of life"