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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01

I want to know is whether you think
could leave you for a couple of days.
The Ostable County Medical Society
meets at Hyannis tomorrow and l hao
promised myself to take 1t in this
year. But l don't want to leave you
if you need me-"
Ellery insisted that he did not need
anyone, was getting along finely, and
would not hear to his friends miss
ing the medical society's meeting Sc
the physician went. John Ellery did
not feel cheerful that afternoon. The
tired feeling he had spoken of so light.
ly was worse than he had described it,
and he was respondent, for no particu-
lar reason. That night he slept miser
ably and awoke with chill to find
cold, pouring rain beating against the
windows of the shanty.
He lay down on his bed and tried to
sleep, but though he dozed e. bit, woke
always with a start and either chill
or fever fit His head began to ache
violently. And then. in the lonesome
ness and misery, fear began to take
hold of him.
Night came. The rain had ceased
and stars were shining clear. Inside
the shanty the minister tossed on the
bed, or staggered back and forth about
the two rooms. He wondered what
the time might be; then he did not
care He was alone. The smallpox
had him in its grip. Why didn't some
one come? Where was Mrs Coffin :?
And Grace2 She was somewhere near
him-Parker had said so-and he II lst
see her before he died. He called her
name over and over again.
M
He stumbled amidst the beach grass.
What was this thing across his path? !
A rope. apparently, but why should
there be ropes in that house? There
had never been any before He
climbed over it and it was climb
of hundreds of feet and the height
made him giddy. That was a house,
another house, not the one he had
been living in And there were lights
all about Perhaps one of them was
the light at the parsonage. And a big
bell was booming That was his
church bell and he would be late for
the meeting.
Some one was speaking to him. He
knew the voice He had known it al
ways and would know it forever 1t
was the voice he wanted to hear
~Gracei" he called. Grace. / want
you Don't go, Don't go. Gracet
oh, my dear, don't CO.
Then the voice had gone No, It had
not gone 1t was still there and he
heard it speaking to him, begging him
to listen. pleading with him to go
somewhere. go back, back to some
thing or other And there was an
arm about his waist and some one
was leading him, helping him Ee
broke down and cried childishly and
some one cried with him.
CTO BE CONTNUED-)
Tho Real Trouble Makers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01
julius Caesar.

The almost unanimous verdict OF
ancient and modern times is to the eff
feet that julius Caesar was what
Shakespeare calls him: THE fore
most man of all this world" Never
before or since has any one exhibit
ed In SO high a degree all the quail
tiles of born ruler of men. And
never had any man a grander role to
play To preside over the most i'm
portant crisis in the history Of the
most important branch of the human
race was a task that none by the
greatest OF men could successfully
perform. Caesar swept one obstacle
after another aside, and stood at last
where he meant to stand.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01

1cre lCOck your med
icine / could OF
bear the weight OK
my clothes and was
bloated very badly
Idoctored with three
doctors but they did
me no good. They
said nature mu 8 {
have its way My
sister advised me to
take Lydia E. Pink
hams We q e ia bl q
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01

The confessed
atheist in these
days is practical
ly unknown The
man who declines
to acknowledge
God calls himself
a materialist, or
nationalist, and
in these terms en-
deayors to shield
himself from be-
ing called an
atheist. But the
man who bears
the badge of a
believer in God
often comes very
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01
FIattery.

Visftor-So he trimmed the people
here out of thousands Of dollars? He
must have been smooth. How did he
do it?
Native-Simply by addressing every
Democrat in town. in an apparently
absent way. as "postmaster."-Puc
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01
win Dawn Upon Him Some Day.

Will Dawn Upon Him Some Day.
"Oh. yes; Jack adores me; I've
known it for weeks
Then what's bothering your"
What's bothering me! Why I've
got to wait for him to find it OUT
Boston Evening Transcript
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01

TExT-.rHe endured as seeing Him who
Is invisible-''-Heb- IL Fl
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01
HOW MRS. BROWN
SUFFERED
During Change of Life-How
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege-
table Compound Made
Her a Well Woman.

lola, Kansas. During the Change
of Life was sick for two years. Be
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01

There are some good fish in every
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1913-03-01

The Real Trouble Makers
Does your auto give you any
trouble?"
Not 80 much as the police
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
MIR. Roos,BvELr,s SERVICE

1t is to Mr.. Roosevelt's credit
that he is going to take the stump
in support of bill presented by a
Democratic governor and rejected
by a Democratic legislature DONNA
ted by coalition of Democratic
and Republican bosses. Every friend
of an honest statewide direct pri-
mary law will welcome Mr.. Roose-
velt's assistance in this campaign.
He comes into the contest as an adj
vocate who cannot now be suspect
ed of selfish or Interior motives.
He takes the stump not as a can
didate or as managing politician,
but as the most eminent citizen of
New York. He is not fighting his
own political fight but he lis help
ing a Democratic governor fulfill
the pledges of the Democratic party
If the battle is won, the credit will
belong largely to Governor Sulzer,
and the political advantages will
belong almost wholly to Governor
Sulzer. Mr.. Roosevelt appears as a
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
. Jnllity

In public school in Kansas, a
young teacher adopted the plan of
writing on the blackboard in the
evening any directions she wished
to leave for the janitor Some
times it would be "Please lock all
the windows" or please dust the
bookcase" But one morning he
appeared and announced that he
was going to quit. When asked his
reason for doing so he said:
"I'm honest and / won't stand
being slurred. When l find hand
kerchief or a pencil about the place
l always put it on the teachers
desk. The teachers all know this,
yet every once i'm a while they hint
that ] have taken something. Day
before yesterday Miss Brown wrote
on the board, "Find the least COM
mon multiple and l spent an hour
looking for it, but / wouldn't know
the thing if saw it. Yesterday she
wrote, Find the greatest common
divisor,' Well, / says to myself,
both of them things is lost, now,
and I'll be accused of taking them
SO I'll quit.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
FARMERS TOES TRAMPBD ON
Not all is we'll with the farming

FARMERS TOES TRAMPBD ON
Not all is we'll with the farming
usiness
Iowa farms are hereafter to pay
taxes on the basis of actual market
SALVATION. 1t has been in the air
for some time, and it is not easy
to say just who is responsible for
it. The point is that it will doubt
less increase the taxes on land.
There is a threat of free cattle
and free wheat, of free wool and
free meat, that is making some far
mers uneasy. In fact, the farmers
of New York state have begun to
turn off their sheep in large num-
bers. This appears just little
strange, in view of the fact that
most of the farmers of that state
seem to have voted the democratic
ticket at the last election; they are
simply about to get what they vot-
ed for-and they are frightened
nearly out of their wits.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
COMING HOME TO RoosT

We are taking it cool enough,
to be sure. But the fact is, never
theless, that the people of japan
are deeply offended over the law
recently passed by California pro-
hibiting the Japanese from owning
hand in this state.
1t is certain that this law is
contrary to the treaty existing be-
tween the United States and Japan.
and none of US likes to think of our
nation as violator of agreements
entered into in good faith with 9TH
4er nations. But what can the ma
tional government do about it if
California wishes to pass such a
law?
The situation really has it's hum.
,orous side, if one chooses to see
it. The democratic party has a:
its main article of faith the doctrin,
of state rights. President Wilson
Secretary Bryan, and every othe,
member of the new cabinet arr
most fervent supporters of this doc
trine-in the abstract of course.
Yet of late they have been lyin,
awake nights trying to think o
some way to force California no
to pass a law, which, und T tn
aforesaid doctrine, she has a pei
feet right to pass. She has gon
about it calmly and quietly, an,
enacted the law in spite of tn
Washington government. In fac
it is a most beautiful example Q
states rights in real practice. An
yeti is said the democratic &C
ministration is growing a grea
crop of gray hairs over it.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
ABOUT BRAINLEss TALK


Wise folks do say that fault-find-
ing is the pastime of fools. 1t
sounds big, but it doe MT take any
brains.
Have you ever noticed how alb
surdly easy it is to criticise other
people and to point out their mis-
takes?
1t seems quite bit harder to live
and move so that sharp~eyed cri-
tics may see nothing amiss in US.
1t is easier to see that a line is
crooked than it is to draw straiht
one.
Perhaps one of the tests for
brains is to refrain from finding
fault with others, for only the
fair-minded and level-headed folks
seem able to do it. But the great
est test of all is to see the good
that is in others, and to hold it up
to view Not many of us seem able
to do this as a habit of thought;
and this does not imply that others
have no good in them either.
How easy it is to slip into the
common mistake. Even this article
lis critical.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

upon those who are strangers to it,
and no one is more truly working for
the benefit of agriculture, the basis of
all prosperity, than he who proclaims
it's excellence as the foremost forage"
Ex-Governor Hoard.
Grow Alfalfa.
An acre of alfalfa yields $3.50
pounds Of digestible matter; red clio.
yer. 5000 pounds; and corn, $500
pounds.
In every dollars worth of alfalfa
there are thirteen pounds of protein
in every dollars worth of corn there
are only eight pounds of protein. The
great value of alfalfa as feed stuff ID
therefore apparent.
Alfalfa enriches the soil-grain i'm.
poverishes the soil.
There remains little more to be said.
Every farmer who reads this should
begin Immediately to make prepare,
| tons for putting in piece of alfalfa.
even though it be only one acre. II
you can grow an acre next year you
can grow ten acres the following year
l
and then twenty, forty, and even
one hundred if your farm is big
enough to make so large field prac-
ticable.
Ten acres of alfalfa on every farm
in the United States would give us in
round numbers 64,O0O,OOO acres of al
falfa Before the next decade has gone
into history we would be growing
10O,0O0,000 acres of alfalfa in the Unit.
ed States. If we do this we will be
infinitely better off than we are today
our fields will be vastly more fertile
and our crop yields will be bigger and
better-our herds will be larger and
the quality of butter fat will be great
ly increased-we will have happier
homes-and we will be better citizens.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

volunteer in the ranks, and he has
never appeared in a role that re-
Elected more honor upon him.
This is the highest and finest
form of service that citizen who
has been a President of the Unit
ed States can render-to throw all
the weight of his power and in
fluence upon the side of right is
sues, regardless of party or faction
or personal politics. In this new
campaigns the World believes that
the people will listen to Mr.. Roos-
evelt with sober seriousness that
they have never before accorded to
him.-New York World.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
Food supply and Population.

Food Supply and Population.
To make it possible for the people
Of the United States to raise, clothe
and feed future generations, we must
change our system Of agriculture We
cannot depend upon Uncle Sam for
any more land, and the only method
by which we can keep the United
States on the map is to make two
blades of grass grow where only one
grew before.
During the last decade the popula-
ton Of the United States increased Is
per cent. During the same period the
production of beef in the United
States fell off % per cent.
A few years ago it cost the labor
ing man $52.05 for his yearly supply Of
meat-today the same number of
pounds of meat cost $85.O5, an in
crease of $4,000.
In view of this what shall we do?
A careful analysis shows that we
need more fertile fields, or rather
fields with greater fertility.
We need larger and better herds.
We need better roads.
We need larger bank accounts.
We need better homes.
We need better citizenship.
How can all this be done?
Perhaps no one thing will do more
to secure these things than growing
alfalfa.
If that is true, why haven't we been
growing alfalfa?
Because we thought it was impos
sible.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

larly Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,
California and Utah-the great alfalfa
states. We have reached the point
where we know we can grow alfalfa
in the corn belt, and it is now up Is
us to grow 1t.
Where Alfalfa 10 Grown.
The accompanying map shows where
alfalfa is grown in the Unitod States
today. At the present time all the
alfalfa grown in the United States 10
less than the area Of the little, state
of New jersey. The total area under
alfalfa in this country is 4.7o7.1s6
acres. OF this area Kansas alone has
S56,962 acres Of alfalfa-or about one
fifth Of our entire alfalfa crop.
Nebraska comes second with $685.
2S2 acres: Colorado third, with 60S,892
acres; California fourth, with 4S4,134
acres; and Idaho nth. with 30s,Ss1
acres.
All Of the corn belt states arc lam
entably shy In the growing Of alfalfa,
as is shown by the following rank in
which they come az producers Of the
crop:
Missouri. II; Ohio, 10; Iowa, 20; ILL.,
rois %; Wisconsin, %; Indiana, "a;
Michigan, 20; Minnesota, 35.
With the unquestioned advantages
of alfalfa, we should be growing more
of this great legume crop.
Advantages of Alfalfa.
AS to the advantage of growing al
falfa in the corn belt, Prof. P. G.
Holden says:
at produces large yield per acre.
more than double that of clover.
"It is rich in protein, having almost
as high feeding value as bran.
at is the most enriching crop for
the ground which we have.
when good stand is once secured
it will generally last four to six years
in the humid regions and much longer
in the west.
1T can be fed as hay to all kinds Of
animals, and has no superior as hog
pasture"
Builds Up Agriculture.
mo one more literally abets the
growth of two blades of grass where
one grew before than he who effect
lively urges the cultivation of alfalfa
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
We Can Grow Alfalfa.

Many farmers in the corn belt do
not believe that they can grow alfalfa.
They are under the impression that it
requires peculiar climatic conditions,
and peculiar type OF soil, such as is
found in the western states, particu-
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

An illiterate young man once got
a friend to write a letter for him
to his sweetheart. The letter was
rather prosaic for love-letter, and
he felt that an apology was due to
his sweetheart for it's lack of ten
der nothings. 1t was as follows:
please excuse the mildness Of
this here letter, as the chap wots
'ritin' it is married man, and he
can't abide any soft-soaping-it al
lus gives him the spazzums.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

Eleven pounds of alfalfa is worth az
much in feeding value as ten pounds
of bran. and 1t costs but half as much.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
LEST AND naLLITY

"You ought to have seen Mr.. Mar
shall when he called to see Dolly
the other night" remarked Johnny
to his sisters young man, who was
taking tea with the family. Il tell
you, he looked fine a sittin' along
side of her with his arm
: Johnny" gasped his sister, her
face the color of boiled lobster.
We'll, so he did," insisted john,
"He had his arm"
John" screamed his mother fran.
tically.
why, whined the boy. 81 was
John" said his father sternly
"leave the room"
And Johnny left, crying as he
went: 81 was only going to sa.
that he had his army clothes on
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
Rv ]. e. BUCK.

We have come to the dividing of the
ways-we have reached a critical
point In the history Of our agricul-
tural development Aside from the
35,OOO,O00 acres in the United States
that can be reclaimed by irrigation,
and the 74,000,000 acres Of farm lands
that can be made available for culti-
walton by means Of drainage, no very
large areas Of virgin soil remain to
be brought under cultivation in our
country. In time, Of course. these
barren lands will be made to yield
abundant harvests-but for the pres
emit we must look elsewhere to fnd .
solution Of the problem with which we
are confronted. II we are TO keep
on going forward It will be necessary
for us to secure larger yields from the
fields that are already under cultiva-
ton. That 10 to say. our problem is
not % much how to increase the popu-
lation IN rural communities q 1t is
to Increase the producing capacity of
the people already on the farm.
Average Yields.
The average yield Of corn per acre
in the United States Is only about 81
bushels.
Our average yield Of wheat is only
1871 bushels per acre-and the aver.
age yield of nearly everything we
grow on the farm Is exceedingly low,
compared with the yields in other
countries.
1t is high time we were waking up
and doing something.
Better Farm Management Needed.
One hundred years ago the Mohawk
valley in New York was the wonder OF
Europe, was the wonder of the world
for it's fertility and thousands Of car
loads of cattle, hogs and farm crops
we're shipped out of that valley until
its fertility has been exhausted. The
settlers then moved westward into the
Miami and Scioto valleys of Ohio. and
did the same thing over again. Fol
lowing the exhaustion of these rich
valleys, the magnificent broad prairies
of Illinois and Iowa were brought un
der cultivation, and the same process
is now being repeated. Even In tn,
Red River Valley of the North, wher'
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29
alfalfa ON EVERY farm IN The
CORN BELT Of GREAT IMPORTANCE
H C Agricultural Extension Department Makes
Preliminary Announcement.
Preliminary Announcement.

KNOW OF NOTHING WHICH WILL FOR THE
DEVELOPMENT OF THE STATE MORE TO ITS WEALTH
THAN A THOROUGH KNOWLEDGE AND UNDERSTANDING OF
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

"What are the passengers look
ing out of the window for?" asked
nervous lady passenger on the
train as the conductor came thru.
1--WE ran over cat, madam" re-
piled the conductor.
WAS the cat on the track?" she
next asked.
"Oh. no, ma'am." assured the
conductor. The locomotive chased
her up the alley"
Bill Sprague kept a general store
at Croydon, Four Corners. One
day he set off for New York to buy
a lot of goods. The goods were
shipped Immediately, and as Bill
had fingered in York sightseeing
they reached the store before him.
The goods, in an enormous pack
ing case, were driven to the general
store by the local teamster. Mrs.
Sprague came out to see what had
arrived and with a Shrek tottered
and nearly fell.
ooh, what's the matter, Ma'am?"
cried the hired girl.
Mrs. sprague, her eyes blinded
with tears, pointed to the packing
case, wherein was stenciled in large
black letters:
"Bill inside
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

fifty bushels Of wheat to the acre was
not unusual, today not more than If
teen bushels is grown.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

On one road in Nevada the trains
are very slow. A passenger riding
on one of the trains became disgust
ed with the slow speed, and, call
ing to the conductor, asked:
How far to the next station?"
Fifty miles
And how long have you worked
on the road?"
twenty-five years"
is this your second trip?"
Then the conductor wanted to
fight.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1913-05-29

Mother am sorry to hear that
Tommy Smith tied a kettle to the
poor dogs tail. You Wouldn't do
such a thing, would you?
Bobby-No, indeed, mother.
Mother-Why didn't you stop him
Bobby?
Bobby couldn't mother. was
holding the dog.
Hermanner Volksblatt. [volume] (Hermann, Mo.) 1875-1928, 1913-10-17
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