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The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-05
Canadian Must Act

WASHINGTON. Feb. State de.
partment officials said tonight that
the next step iu the case OF Werner
Horn. who attempted 10 destroy a
railroad bridge at Nanccboro. Maine.
would have % be taken by Canadian
authorities before United States
commissions ir Maine. Until the
hearing Is CON pl"ted and an the evt
drnce gathered there no action will -
taken on the formal application for
eNtradition made by sir Cecil Spring.
Rice the British ambassador. on be-
halH OF the Canadian government.
The points raised by Horn that ne
was not on Canadian soil and that
his was an act Of war are expected
To- be fully developed at the hearing
Ccortinued on Page EiRhtD
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-05
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dayi saturday cioudT and cooler.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-05
MyRoERER ARRrsrrn-

TI,ENTON. ". r.. Ffb. The DO
Nrc tonIaht placed under arrest al
pino FlorellL accused of the murder
~ hie pifn In fhIa city 0n Tuesday of
.hiF week Iie was captured no Ems
lFntown. liior sIudInr capture f1r
two days
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-05

miles. Half OF the trackage OF this
line. however. IL on Canadian soil
Accordingly, Ross will take his man
on a roundabout trip OF 200 miles by
way of Bangor.
The Wheeling intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1903-1961, 1915-02-05

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Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
WET GRAIN FIELDS
IN EARLY SPRING
First Work Should Be to Provide
Egress for Any Water That
Has Accumulated.

The first work in the spring, when
the snow begins to melt, or after
heavy rains, is to let off any water
that accumulates in the low places
in the wheat No matter how care
fully the dead burrows and outlets
may have been made in the fall, there
is more or less to be done in the
spring to provide free egress for the
water.
A few hours work with the hoe and
shovel after an all-day rain, will often
drain off many gallons of water which
would otherwise soak into the ground
and keep it wet and cold for several
weeks.
In letting off water in the low spots
in the grain fields, commence at the
lower end and make shallow furrow
with the hoe. 1t is not necessary to
make a wide or deep ditch, as this
would destroy too much wheat. 1t
should be dug just deep enough to
drain off the water.
See that the outlets to the under
drains are open, SO that the water can
pass off quickly. This is a very i'm
portant job and is best done by the
farmer himself and not by an inexperi-
enced person. By this method we feel
sure that we save several bushels of
grain and much grass and clover.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
BEGAN PICTURESQUE TASK

To Vice-Admiral Sir Lionel Car
den of the British navy fell the lot
OF opening one of the most pictur-
esque operations of the great Euro
pean war-the forcing OF the Oar.
daneles. Commanding the powerful
allied feet of English and French
warships, he began the romantic task
with a will, but illness soon forced
him to relinquish the leadership to
another.
Vice-Admiral Garden looks and is
a straightforward, practical. plain
sailorman. The white salt has got
into his beard; he is grizzled and
hardened by hard weather. and in
appearance and manner might have
stepped out of the stormiest of 10.
seph c RAIDS romances, Incidental
ly, he halls from Tipperary. and all
of the men of his family are either
fighting men or clergymen.
About fifty-eight years old. he was
thirteen when he entered the navy
as a cadet fifteen when he became
a mldshipman. and not quite twenty wi
his first fighting as lieutenant during
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
SCARCITY OF FRESH
EGGS ON THE FARM
Trouble May Be Remedied by
Early Matches Of PuIIets-
Give Them Good Care.

During the months Of October, No
vember and December of each year
there is always a more or less scarcity
of fresh eggs, and the prices, in con-
sequence, go up.
This scarcity is due to two things
in general-the melting period for old
hens and the lack of early Matched
pullets.
1t is at this time of the year that
the condition powder and the poultry
food man begins to cry his wares, and
it is surprising to see the business
that he does do.
While we believe in the tonic effects
of a good condition powder or sci
entifically prepared poultry food, we
do not credit these articles with all
that is claimed for them. 49,. ..
They should be used with judgment
"a little goes great way. To accus-
tom the fowls to them is but to lose
their tonic effect.
They are not so much calculated to
make eggs as they are to tone up the
tissues and to keen the appetite. In
that condition the fowl eats more
freely and better assimilates the egg
food that it gets from pure, good grain.
This scarcity of fresh eggs on the
farm can only be remedied by early
matches Of pullets. Pullets Matched in
March and April, and we'll grown, will
begin laying in the fall, and continue
in the good work right through the
winter. The melting hens will again
start up in January, and by February
the combined work of the pullets and
the hens will give a good supply of
eggs, and it will be noticed that in
February the market prices for eggs
are on the decline.
The great trick is tt get the eggs
during the last three .ionths of the
year, and this can be done by early
pullets given good housing, good feed
and good care.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

The staked row did no better and
most of us thought, not as we'll as the
unstaked vines that srrawled over the
16 square feet that each was given, for
the rows and plants were four feet
apart each way.
Cultivation was given the rows as.
long as the tops permitted, which was
not long. Thereafter nothing was done
except to once take the hoe and chop
out few big weeds that had come up
early and escaped the cultivator.
OF course, under the great drought
the ground soon became dry and hard
as cultivation ceased, and the daily
tramping of the pickers made it still
worse. During October, when the vines
were yielding the most, it looked i'm
possible that such a mass of green
tops and fruit should be able to ex-
tract enough moisture from the soil
for their daily needs, which must have
amounted to a great deal.
Now for the results: The first bushel
was sold on the eighth of September,
just about two months after the plants
were set. By the fifteenth we were
picking two bushels per day; by the
twentieth, three bushels, and this was
about the average for the rest of the
season.
Parties who had stopped buying,
firing of the little stuff they had been
getting, renewed their orders
We then doubled the price, and sold
every tomato we could pick.
We sold direct to the consumer.
In all, the quarter acre produced
1925 in round figures, without counting
some small lots we sold after frost.
Some of the green ones we kept till
in December. When killing frost
came there were bushels and bushels
of green tomatoes of all sizes still on
the vines and growing right along
after three months without rain.
After the first light frost we picked
20 bushels of marketable size and
stored them away.
A great many of these tomatoes
weighed a pound. Some believe the
Ponderosa is rough. deny it. 1t was
easy to find perfect specimens with
out a crease in their big tops.
AS for productiveness, have never
seen variety that would beat them.
have counted dozen pound tomatoes
at one time on single vine, beside
many smaller ones.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Fight HOG CHOLERA
Millions Would be Saved the
State If the Disease Were
Stamped out.
PRICE OF SERUM IS REDUCED
Agricultural College Makes Reduction
Of II Per Cent to Encourage
Use of Remedy.

Even in so wealthy state as Kan
sas a million dollars a year is well
worth saving. Not one million dollars
but several million could be saved an
nually in the state if hog cholera were
stamped out by proper immunization
Not only would the proportion of dis.
ease among the animals be greatly re-
duced, says DR.. F. S. Schoenleber, pro
lessor of veterinary medicine in the
agricultural college, but the state
would almost double the number of
hogs kept on farms. At the present
time many keep only few hogs or
none because of fear of cholera.
What may be done in the proven
ton of the disease is indicated by the
experience in the Silver Lake district,
eight miles from Topeka, where in a
region 5X9 miles every owner of hogs
had them vaccinated. There has been
but one outbreak of cholera there and
this was found in hogs that had been
shipped in and were not treated soon
enough. This outbreak was promptly
stopped
Similar work is being planned in
Linn county in region near Waka-
rusa and Carbondale. In the plan
adopted in these places, all the farm
ers agree to have their hogs immun-
lied, leaving the method to the col
lege, agreeing to report all trouble
with the animals, and promising to
notify the college of all increase in
their herds. The college sends a spe-
cialist to vaccinate the animals, pay
ing salary and railroad fare. The
farmers pay for the serum at the rate
of ~ cents a cubic centimeter and
also cover the mans expenses while
he is on the ground.
Hogs may be immunized, however,
by any farmer who wishes, and in or
der to increase the use of serum and
thus stamp out the disease, the college
has reduced the price to IL cents a
cubic centimeter, except where 1t
must be administered by the college
authorities. This is a reduction of
approximately II per cent.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
CBy L. R. JoHNSON.)

(By L. R. JOHNSON)
For several years we had noticed
that late in the season our local mar
kets ran bare of large and fine toma-
toes, being supplied only with those
that were borne on spring-set plants
and which were running small.
We thought we saw chance to
make some money by taking advantage
of this deficiency. We reasoned that
if we could set out plants late enough
to ripen their best fruit at this time
that we would find a good demand at
fair prices, regardless Of the small
stuff with which the market was glut-
ted.
For this purpose we chose the Pom
derosa, known as the largest of all
tomatoes, but a sort that is not re-
garded with favor by regular truckers.
Several years trial, however, has
convinced us that it is the best variety
for our late crop and superior to the
standard market kinds.
An old strawberry bed of a quarter
acre was deeply plowed in June, after
the berries were gone. The soil was
very rich with mulches Of stable ma
nure and the plant tops made a good
green crop to turn under.
The tomato seeds were sown in the
open ground about June 1, and trans
planted to the rows during the first
week in July.
1t happened to be very dry just at
setting time and the plants had to be
watered as set. Their start was very
slow and they lost in this way good
ten days.
There were several heavy rains
while the plants were about foot
high and after that drought set in
and not another good rain fell till
after frost in November.
Virtually, then, this crop grew, ma
tured and was gathered without bar
rel of water supplied by either man or
nature.
One row along the side was staked
to test this method and four rows were
made up of the Some, Matchless and
Truckers Favorite. will say that
the four rows were failures compared
to others and would have brought us
little or no profit.
They occupied about one-third of the
patch and this fact should be consid-
cred in estimating the gross returns
from the quarter acre.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
BRITAIN'S MINISTER TO VATICAN

Sir Henry Howard, who has the
distinction of being the first minister
to be sent to the Vatican by Eng.
land in centuries, is we'll known in
the United States. He has represent
ed Great Britain automatically in
many countries and was made a
knight commander of the Bath in
1907.
Sir Henry began his diplomatic
career so years ago as an attache of
the British legation in Washington
and later married Miss Cecilia Riggs,
daughter of the late George Riggs, a
prominent banker of the past genera
ton. She died in 1907. Sir Henry
and his wife were conspicuous figures
in the diplomatic world for many
years, especially at The Hague,
where he was long stationed.
The eldest son of the veteran
diplomat, George Howard, is a resi-
dent of Washington and an Ameri-
can citizen, having adopted his moth
er's country as boy.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Most Valuable Metal.

In estimating the value Of any metal
we are apt to consider only the in
trinsic money value Of given guam
tity, and from this view gold is gen.
orally regarded as the most valuable
metal But this is mistaken notion.
Value consists not merely in pound
for pound money worth, but ought to
include full consideration of service
ability and usefulness. Taking these
into account, a scientific writer points
out that iron is the most valuable
metal, because of the many different
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
ENDS LONG PUBLIC SERVICE

After devoting 4S years to the
service of the United States, Otto H.
Tittman has retired voluntarily from
the position of superintendent of the
coast and geodetic survey. Shortly
before quitting the office he was unan.
imously elected president of the Ma
tional Geographic society Both
President Wilson and Secretary Red
field wrote personal letters highly
praising the work he has done for his
country.
Mr.. Tittman was born. at Belle
vile, ILL.,, August 20, 1850. At the age
of seventeen he entered the coast and
geodetic survey and worked his way
up to the superintendency of that
world-famous scientific bureau. Dur
ing his career many notable expert.
ences have been his lot. In 1874 he
went to Japan as assistant astrono-
NOR of an expedition to observe the
transit of Venus; in the years i'm.
mediately following he was engaged
in coast survey work on both the At.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Possibly,

Browns been made manager of his
comapny. How do you account for
his good luck?"
Il don't know. But presume the
fact that he's been working rs hours
a day for several years has had some
thing to do with it, Detroit Ere,
Press.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
SCULPTOR AND PHILANTHROPIST

Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney,
whose masterpiece of sculpture, THE
Fountain of Ell Dorado" is on exhi-
bition at the Panama-Pacific exposi-
ton, is pronounced by critics to be
the most gifted woman sculptor in
America. She has been devoted to
art throughout her life, and in the
hot summer months has toiled in her
New York studio in MacDougal alley,
fratcrnizing With the sculptors' col
ony and many a time helping stu
dents in distress. Her great wealth
never interfered with her conscien-
tious work, but It permitted her to
exercise her philanturopic tendencies,
which are almost as notable as her
artistic. She has given much time
and money to charity, and with the
breaking out of the war she turned
at once to. the aid of the suffering.
She established a hospital in Paris, of
which she is in active charge. All
her days now are devoted to the re-
lief of the wounded soldiers that are
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
PLAN A NOVEL KANSAS ROAD
Motor Buses to Run on Concrete
Track from Pittsbure to Fort
Scott.

A new scheme in transportation has
been inaugurated by the Auto Trac-
ton Company, a $4,000 company or
ganized in Joplin, and which proposed
TO build a private road and operate
motor cars between Pittsburg and Fort
Scott, thirty-two miles. The company's
plan is to buy private right-ot way,
over which will be built concrete
tracks twelve inches wide. The COM
pany will operate bus and freight
lines and will allow the use of the
tracks for a toll charge by any person
desiring to use them.
If the first venture is successful they
plan to continue the line to Kansas
City.
c. E. Cory of Fort Scott referee in
bankruptcy for Southeast Kansas, is
president of the company and origi-
nator Of the plan. Judge Cory's plan,
which he has been working upon for
six years, embraces the grading of a
road on which he proposes to con-
struct two tracks, twelve inches wide,
and conceived so as to hold the wheel
of the motor car. Regular passing
places for the cars would be estab-
lished.
sawlogs Bury chtIdren.-Two chill
dren of ]. F. Rankin living north of
Neodesha had narrow escape from
death recently. The children, boy
of 5, and a girl of s, we're playing near
saw mill and were seated on a pile
of timber when higher pile fell,
burying both under the weight of 1900
feet of timber. The fact that the
ground was soft and that several tim
bers became crossed in falling, saved
the lives Of the two, but the little
girls left ear wassevered and the boy
was almost completely scalped. Both
were severely bruised about the body,
but will recover.
X X
.'smallpox at Atchison.-Four cases
of smallpox we're reported to the
health authorities in Atchison recent
ly, the first there in several months.
X X X
Townsley Heads Editorial Body
Will Towsnley of the Great Bend Tri-
bune was elected president and Fred
H. Lobdell of the Kinsley Mercury Sec
rotary of the Southwest Kansas Re.
publican Editorial Association in an
nual session at Hutchinson.
K X \
Lawrence Goes Back.-In a refer
endum vote the residents of Lawrence
voted to allow the pool halls to re.
main open. Five places are affected
by the result. The proposition to vote
a $350,000 bond issue for the construc.
ton of a municipal water plant was
lost w. ]. Francisco was reelected
mayor.
Loses Woman Professor.-Miss Mar
ion B. White, professor of mathematics
Mt the K. U. has been appointed dean
Of women at the Michigan State Agri
cultural College.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Can You Afford Time?

Do not order many novelties unless
you have time to take care of them
and can afford to be disappointed in
their behavior. Novelties are often
of value and interesting, but are too
expensive to plant for main-crop flow
ers or vegetables as a rule.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

nuc and Pan coasts From 1889 to 1893 he
or weight
the United States
bureau which
1898 ne
once and IN 1899 assistant superintendent His
the survey
represent the United States marking
Canada 1904
kan boundary and northern
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

ways in which it is of great service to
man. In this respect it is Of the great.
est value, and the world is fortunate in
the great amount of it available.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22
Causes Of Stiffness.

There is nothing that produces stiff
ness, inflammation and unsoundness
any faster than standing in stall day
after day.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

brought back from the battle
Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney
the sister of Countess Gladys
in Austria
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

mldshpmn and quite when
his first fighting lieutenant during the bombardmen Alexandria
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

Mr.. Nelson, who established the
Kansas City Star in 1881 and has
been its editor and owner since,
died recently Of uremic poisoning at
his home, Oak Hall, after several
months of illness. He was "a years
Of age. Public funeral services, con-
Quoted by Bishop Cameron Mann,
were held at Oak Hall on April is.
Meade County news. [volume] (Meade, Kan.) 1900-1918, 1915-04-22

Loses Woman Professor.-Miss Mar
ION B. White, professor of mathematics
Mt the X. U. has been appointed dean
Of women at the Michigan State Agri-
cultural College.
The midland journal., 1915-08-20
SUNLIGHT A GERM DESTROYER
Cheapest Disinfeetant at Mans Dis.
posaI-Southern Exposure Is De-
sirahIe In Buildings.

Sunlight is natures great germ de-
stroyer. 1t is the cheapest disinfect-
ant at mans disposal and should be
taken advantage of at every opportu-
nifty.
I'm the construction of barns or
shelters of any kinds for animals" !"
says HI. Preston Hoskins of Minnesota
College of Agriculture, in extension
bulletin No. "A, ample provision
should be made. for the admission OF
the maximum amount of sunlight. A
southern exposure is desirable; that
is, an arrangement by which most OF
the windows face south. The warmth
thus provided in cold weather is de-
sirable and much of the heat of sAm-
mer can be avoided by the use of cur
tains or screens.
Most disease germs are entirely
killed by direct sunlight. This has
been repeatedly shown by expert
ments.''
The farmer should bear this in mind
in building his barn, stable, hog house,
or poultry house.
The midland journal., 1915-08-20
Made 4 difference.

At a dinner party the other evening,
reference having been made to the
good old days in the little brick school.
house. this story was recalled by
James L. Rice, coach of the Columbia
college crew:
The teacher in a public school was
giving demonstration in mental arith-
metic, and after speaking at some
length she turned to bright-faced boy
at the head of the class.
Nov. then, Willie" said she, do
you think that you can answer me a
question in mental arithmetic?"
"Yes. ma'am," was the confident re-
joinder of the beaming youngster.
Well, them" resumed the teacher,
how old would a person be who was
born in 1852
That depends quickly rejoined lit
tie Willie. Was the person a man
or a woman?"- Philadelphia Tele-
graph.
The midland journal., 1915-08-20
Faded Sentiment.

That beautiful sentiment eventually
dies a sad death would seem to be
demonstrated by a story told the
other night by southern congress
man.
Smith, who lives in the suburbs, was
about to hustle for the communication
train some time since, when his wife
followed him to the door as usual to
make sure that his shoes we're tied
and that he hadn't forgotten his neck
tie
Say, john refiectively remarked
the good woman as they reached the
veranda, do you know that this is the
fifteenth anniversary of our wedding?'
Why, SO it is" returned John, do
ing some hasty mental arithmetic. Il
will bring you home nice bunch OF
roses
Roses are very sweet" was the
practical response of mother, but. you
had better make 1t some oysters to
fry for supper"
The midland journal., 1915-08-20
WANTED TO SEE THE FINISH
Small Girl Did Not Consider That the
End Of the Proceedings Had
Been Reached.

The short interval that elapsed be-
tween the visit of the little girl to a
commencement exercise and atten-
dance at an old-fashioned camp-meet-
ing may explain a remark that she
made at the religious event She went
there with her grandmother, and, very
much interested in everything that oc-
Cured. asked numerous questions
which her grandparent attempted to
answer to the best of her ability.
Who is that woman up there and
what is she doing?" asked the little
girl, referring to woman who was on
her knees in the amen corner"
Il don't know who she is, but she's
going to get religion" was the reply
Some time elapsed and the woman
remained on her knees Finally, the
grandmother of the little girl became
tired of the service and announced
that it was time to leave.
''Oh. let's not go yet. exclaimed her
grandchild Let's wait and see EN-
give it to her. Louisville Times