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Use of Vacations.
Most vacations which fail arc Tin
successful because they are misfits. It
Is curious that in a matter where In
dividual needs and personal prefer
ences are so important, observes
Youth's Companion, the final decision
should so often be allowed to rest on
other grounds. - For the. great ma
jority of men and women who work,
but who have a vacation, two weeks
represent the limit of time which they
can devote to rest and recreation.
That is only one-twenty-sixth part of
the year, and most persons need all of
It, and need to use It in the wisest
way. What 13 the wisest way? No
one but the person himself can tell;
and hence the folly of allowing one
self to be overinfluenced by the advice
of others. One cf the weekly maga
zines lately contained . accounts of va
cations In camp, in an automobile, on
a bicycle, on foot, In a canoe, in hunt
ing with a camera, in seeing Fifth
avenue, and In searching for wild
flowers. Each of the articles is charm
ing reading, chiefly because the writer
had what he was after rest, recrea
tion and a good time. The reader may
easily be misled into thinking that
the charm belongs intrinsically to the
particular kind of a vacation which is
described. It docs not. It belongs
only to the exactness with which the
vacation fits. The wisest thing one
can do is to say to himself: "What
Is it that I should most like to do?"
'And if it fall within his means, and if
he has only himself and his own pleas
tire to consider, do that, regardless of
whether anyone else would enjoy it,
or whether anyone else has ever done
It. The hobby or diversion to which
one gives his spare moments during
the rest of the year Is often a wise
guide. It requires courage and com
mon sense to disregard conventional
conceptions and half-formed plans,
and to follow the Inclination of the
moment; but the reward is nearly al
ways a happy and restful vacation,
and not infrequently at little cost.
Need of Americans.
Under the modest heading "Suits
Over Small Sums" the Boston Tran
script declares that the great principle
of fighting for rights, no matter what
the Immediate material thing at stake.
Is a thing that the American character
needs to assimilate. The Transcript
says: Highly important decisions
have been based on Issues involving
Very small money considerations. The
supreme court of the United States last
winter, gave a good deal of time and
research to a cause carried before it
on appeal involving only $24. A rail
road was, in this case, the defendant.
It owed one of its employes, a train
hand, this sum, which was attached
and collected by one of his creditors.
The employo contended that the money
was still due him, , and carried the
case up to the highest tribunal In the
land. Our own famous Chief Justice
Shaw wrote one of his most luminous
expositions of legal principles in . de
ciding a case which turned on the
ownership of a bull calf. It is related
that the bar snickered at the frequent
repetition of the phrase "the said bull
calf," and the chief justice rebuked
the laughing lawyers by saying:
"Gentlemen, you do not reflect what
a bull calf may be to a poor family!"
Robert Browning went to law over the
value of one bottle of wine, on the
great principle that he would not be
swindled for half a crown if he could
help it. The "kicker" i3 often the
subject of ridicule, but kickers have
helped the world along at times.
Given a great, scenic environment and
the "kicker" becomes a historical per-
sonage of the first class. John Hamp
den would never have "felt" the
amount of "ship money" assessed on
his estate.
The use of fingermarks or thumb
marks on checks as a means of guard
ing against forgery and preventing
dishonest persons from raising the fig
ures on them is one cf the latest nov
elties la business. There is a possibil
ity that it will become more than a
novelty. Apparently the first man to
adapt the Idea to business affairs is a
merchant of Plalnficld. N. J. After
writing a check he places an Ink im
pression of his thumb over the figures,
completely covering but not jobliter
atlng them. It is manifestly impossible
to raise the figures without . making
the Interference obricus on the thumb
mark. His backer has an ink impres
sion of his thumb on file end compari
son with the mark on tna check would
Instantly reveal any forgery. '
At the Miami uuivtraity eommesee
ment at Hamilton, O., Senator Deli
ver, cf Iowa,' appeared a.3 the principal
speaker In the academic gowa cf.a
doctor of laws.' the senator remarked
that he felt as if he were in bathing
suit and a peekaboo bonnet. When
the audlsncc laughed Senator Dollirer
turned to President Benson and said:
I have said, nothing funny. I believe
the people are laughing at my clothes."
He then took off the gown and dropped
it upon the floor, where It remained
mntll he tad finished. t
Latest Kansas Eventsj
Alfalfa for the Dry Season.
Fred Beeler, of Jewell county,, says
a small cornstalk grown in a dry June
doesn't require half the rain to carry
it through the rest of the season that
a big stalk does grown in a wet June.
He also says that whenever It gets
bo dry there that he cannot raise any
thing else, alfalfa will produce an
abundance of seed again. He travels
the western country a good deal, pick
ing up cattle. Wherever crops are
good there is no alfalfa seed, but
wherever you strike a country tco dry
to grow a respectable sunflower you
find alfalfa making seed. He says
he raised 11 bushels to the acre one
year, on alfalfa that was not a foot
high. He intends to put in 100 acres
of his corn ground to alfalfa and plow
up as many acres of alfalfa and put
it to ccra. He says there is no ques
tion but alfalfa will ' restore fertility
to old wornout land.
ChaHCtl a Runaway Train.
During a severe windstorm a string
of cars was blown off a side. track at
Downs upon the main line. Ths;'
started "wild" towards Cawker City.
One of the railroad men saw the acci
dent, mounted an engine standing in
the yards and ran after them. He
caught up with the runaway train cf
about 14 cars and coupled( onto them
and would have stopped the whoit
string had they been coupled together,
but there were two cars, a loaded coal
car and a way car, not coupled to the
ethers, and they went on, passing
through Cawker at a lively rate until
they met a westbound freight and
crashed into the engine. The men saw
the cars in time to jump off the en
gine and save themselves. The run
away cars were totally wrecked and
the engine of the freight train was
ditched.
Tfew Wheat Is Good Wheat.
The mills and the elevators are be
ginning to get the new wheat in. Sev
eral thousand bushels have been
bought from the farmers near Hutch
inson. The wheat is of very fine qual
ity this year. Mr. J. E. Burns, of the
Hutchinson Mill company, says that
the wheat is weighing from 60 to C2
pounds to the bushel. This means
good wheat. Mr. Burns also says that
the average yield, as far as he has
been able to find out, has been about
20 bushels to the acre in the vicinity
of Hutchinson. There have been some
fields which showed a yield of 23
bushels to the acre.
Hungary Studying: the Kansas Way
Dr. Alexius De Stegmond, of Buda
Pesth, Austria-Hungary, has just 'left
Manhattan after an inspection of the
State Agricultural college for the pur
pose of learning what he could regard
ing the results of the United States
experiment station there. Hp is a
professor in the university of Buia
Pesth and is in this country studying
our agricultural conditions, especially
with regard to the crops and methods
suited to a country where the rainfall
Is deficient, as in large portions of liirj
country.
Kills Himself in, n Crowd.
Corporal T. Redder, of A troop, Thir
teenth cavalry, stationed at Fort Riley,
committed, suicide in Junction City.
He "with a party of soldiers went over
from the post to hear the band con
cert in the city park and during the
last selection played by the band ex
cused himself from his comrades,
walked up in the light near the baud
6tand, in front cf the large crowd,
drew a revolver and blew his brains
out.. He died immediately.
They Robbed Ten Men.
Four men who are thought by the
officers to be notorious crooks held up
ten men at the point of revolvers in
the Rock Island yards at Medford.
They robbed them of an aggregate sum
of $25, several watches and minor. ar
ticles, locked their victims in a box
car, broke into a- tool house and rode
to Caldwell on a handcar it contained.
At Caldwell they were arrested by C
T. Godfrey, marshal of Medford, who,
after a show cf force, locked them in
the city lock up.
Kansas School Lands Going; Rapidly.
It will not be many years until the
Kansas school lands are taken by set
tlers. In the fiscal year just closed
C09 patents were issued. . Up to 1SSS
! fewer than 100 patents had been is-i
sued in any cue year. Ths legislature
then reduced the price for school land?
frcm $3 to $1.23 nn acre. ' The west
ern lands are becoming more valuable
every year and the settlers are mov
'.ng rapidly into the wsstem counti3.
Preferred Death to Trial.
B. Johnson, who was wanted in To
peka to answer to the charge of forg
ing a number of ' cho;l:s, committed
suicide in Beloit rather than, return
rjhl stand trial. This ' is the third
Shawnee county prisoner who has com
mitted suicide this year.
Opened the New Court House.
All Doniphan, county united with
Troy in a celebration and the opening
cf the new court hcuro.. Tee new
court houses when fully "finished, will
have cost $36,000. and it is pronounced
one of the finest - and best arranged
buildings in the state for . that pur
pose. -
Sedartvlck's Bif.- Increase. ,
X A million dollar increase In., the
Talue of property in Sedgwick county
' was shown in the county clerk's an
nual report to the state auditor.
To Study -Kansas Banks.
: Prof. W. H. Isely. dean of Fair
mount college, who has spent several
months in studying , in Harvard uni
versity has decided to devote his spare
time during the coming year to the
study cf Kansas banks and banking
for the Carnegie institute of Washing
ton, D. C. That Institution recently
requested him to take up that work.
A thesis on Kansas bunks which wa
written by Prof. Isely this spring, at -tracted
considerable attention in thf
east among the financiers. The thesis
showed that Kansas, instead of Scot
land, had the best banking facilities
of any political division, in the world.
It also showed that there were more
banks in Kansas than in any other
state in the union in proportion to its
population and ' that -while Scotland
had one bank for every 2,000 inhabit
ants, Kansas had one for every 1,500.
The Elsht Hour Law Enforced.
W. L. A. Johcisyn, commissioner
cf labor, has been called to Neodesha
to enforce the eight hour law. The
city council let the contract for a new
jail and fire department building and
then passed a resolution declaring it
emergency work and ordered the con
tractor to keep his men busy ten cr
twelve hours a day. Mr. Johnson
compelled the council to stop the extra
work, as the eight hour law itself
specifies what shall be emergency
work, and the ordinary work cannot
be put into that class, even if the city
or county needs or wants the build
ing at the earliest moment.
This Lawyer a Schemer.
A story that is hard to believe, but
in true, nevertheless, is told on a Wel
lington lawyer. He had some car
penter work done, and when the la
borer brought in his bill, objected to
Ir. as being too large. The carpenter
explained that the work was just as
represented. The lawyer then told
him that he could not collect it as he
had failed to pay his occupation tax.
The carpenter said he supposed he was
up against it if the lawyer wanted to
crawl behind such a defense, and he
would have to take whatever the other
fellow wanted to give. And that's thj
way he had to settle.
Married CO Years.
Mr. and Mrs. Carl Rieger, whtf
live seven miles west of Bonner
Springs, have celebrated their sixtieth
wedding anniversary at their home.
Nearly all of their 51 living descend
ants were present. Mr. and Mrs. Rie
ger were married in-Wissenden, Ger
many, in 1S4G. Two years after their
wedding the young couple came to
the United States. For. two years they
lived in New York city. In 1850 they
vent to Leavenworth county and six
years later they moved upon the farm
where they now live.
Lend, and Zinc Outpnt.
In comparison with figures for thf
first half of the year 1S05, figures foi
the first half of the present year, end
ing June 30, show the most satifac
tory condition in the history of th?
Missouri-Kansas lead and zinc minin
district. Provided the present rateoi
increase, both in the matter of output
aud value, is maintained, the value oi
the product of the district the present
year will be largely in excess of $14,
000,000 and surpass the record year
by approximately $2,000,000.
. Sunflower Seeds Marketable.
F. D. Coburn, secretary of the board
of agriculture, has found a new prod
uct of Kansas soil and is thinking of
issuing a bulletin advising the Kansas
farmers to devote a little ground and
a little time to the culture of the Rus
sian sunflower. Mr. Coburn has found
that there is a good market in En
gland and other countries of Europe
for the sunflower seeds which, when
ground and crushed, produce an oil
that is used In the manufacture of the
fir est toilet soaps.
Rest Onts in the World.
The best oats in the world grow In
Nc-maha county. Dr. S. Murdo;k, Sr..'
has a medal on exhibition at W. A.
Doolittle's drag sfore, given him at the
St. Louis world's fair for having the
finest specimen of oats exhibited there.
The Murdock oats were exhibited in
competiton with hundreds of specimens-
frcm nearly every locality "in
the world. The Nemaha county, oats,
were grantel the highest prize at the
great fair.".
Didn't Rain the Peach Crop.
P. J. Eychaner, of Oketo, a-peach
raiser in Marshall county, has said
thst the prolonged drought benefited
rather than hurt the peach crop. At
the beginning of the season the trees
were overloaded with fruit' and th
drourht caused a considerable amount
of it to dry up and fall to the ground.
This left the trees in better condition
to nurture the fruit that was left ou
the trees.
llet Dentil in Smoky II 111 River.
" Freddie Clsen, the 15-year-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. P. M. Olsen, of Junction
City, was drowned while swimming
in , the Smoky Hill river. The boy.,
who was a poor swimmer, get beyoud
his depth.
" Appropriations for Pos t offices. .
Congressman Scott succeeded In get
ting an appropriation of $30,000 for a
postoffice In Iola, bis , hrraej Other
Kansas towns 'receiving postoffice ap
propriations this year are Pittsburg,
Newton and Manhattan.
1
PECK'S BAD
BOY V1TH
THE CIRCUS
By HON. GEORGE W. PECK
Author of "Pack's Bad Boy Abroad." Etc
tOopj tUiht by J. B. Bo !.)
Pa and the Bad Boy Visit a Buffalo
Ranch Pa Pays for the Privilege
of Killing a Buffalo, But Doesn't
Accomplish His Purpose He
Hires a Herd for the Show Next
Year.
This is the last week pa and I will
be in the far west looking for freaks
for the wild west department of our
show for next ear. Next week, if pa
lives, we shall be back under the
tent, to see the show closet up the sea
son, and shake hands all around with
our old friends, the freaks, the per
formers, the managers and' all of 'em.
It will be a glad day for us, for we
have had an awful time out west. If
pa would only take advice, and travel
like a plain, ordinary citizen, who is
willing to learn things, it would be
different, but he wants to show people
that he knows it all, and he wants to
pose as the on? to give information,
Pa Was Alive
and so when !Ib Is taught anything
new it jars him. Any man wh horse
sense would know that it takes years
to learn how to rope steers, and keep
from being tipped Off the horse, and
run over by a procession of cows, but
because pa had lassoed h'rehing posts
in his 3routh, with a clothes line, with
a slip noose in it, he posed among
cowboys as being an expert roper, and
where did he land? In the cactus.
He was just meat for the natives
to have fun with, . and he has sure
been hashed up on this trip. But the
worst of all was this trip to the buf
falo ranch, to secure buffaloes for the
show, and if i was in pa's place I
would go into retirement, and never
look a man in the face. Pa's idea
was that these buffaloes on the ranch
were just as wild as they used to be
when they run at large on the plains.
When we got to the ranch at evening,
pa put in the whole time until it was
time to go to bed telling the ranch
man and hi3 hired man what gre'at
'.hings he had done killing wild ani
mals, and what dangerous places he !
The Buffaloes Licked Pa's
had been in, and what bold things he
had done. ' -
He said, while the object of his visit
to the ranch was to buy a herd of buf
faloes for the show, the thing he.
wanted to do, above all, was to kill
a buffalo bull In single-handed com
bat, and have the head and horns to
ornament his den, and the hide for a
lap robe, but the ranchmen would be
welcome to the meat. He asked the
man who owned the ranch if he might
have the privilege, by paying for it, of
killing a buffalo.
The ranchman said he would ar
range It all right in the morning," and
pa and I went to bed. After pa got to
snoring, and killing buffaloes in hi3
sleep, I could hear the ranchman and
his helpers planning -pa's humiliation,
and when I tried to tell pa in . the
morning that the crowd were string
ing him he got mad at me and asked
me to mind my own business, and
that is something I never could do to
.save my life. -
Well, about daylight we were all out
on the -veranda, and they gave pa In
structions about what he was to do.
The ranchman said it was against the
state laws to kill buffalo; except In
elf-defense, so pa would have to get
in a blind, like the German emperor,
and hare th game driven to him.
They gave pa two big revolvers, load
ed with blank cartridges, I know, be
cause I heard them whisper about it
the night before, and they gave him a
peck measure of salt and told him to
sneak up to a little shed out in a field
and conceal .himself until the game
came along, and then open nre, and
when .his buffalo fell, mortally wound
ed, to go out and skin it
Pa" asked what the salt was for, and
they told him It was to salt the hide.
Say, I knew that the place they sent
pa to wait for buffalo was where they
salted the animals once a week, and
started to tell pa, but the rancher
called me off. and told me I could go
with the men and help drive the game
to destruction. '
Wo walled until the ranchman had
gone, out with , pa and got him nicely
concealed, the way they conceal Em
peror William when he ; slaughters
stags, and pa looked as brave as any
emperor as he got his two big revol
vers ready for an emergency. The
ranchman told pa that he tiad twelve
shot3 in the revolvers, and he better
begin firing when the big bull came
over the ridge, on the trail, at the
head of tbfi herd, and as the animal
advanced, as ne no .doubt would, to
keep firing until the whole 12 shots
were fired, and then if the" animal was
not killed, to use his own judgment
as to what to do, whether to run for
the house, or lay down and pretend to
be'dead.
Pa said he expected to kill the ani
mall before three shots had been fired,
to His Danger.
but if the worst came he could run
some, but the ranchman said if he
should run that the whole herd would
be apt to stampede On him and run
him down, and he thought pa better
lay down and let them go by.
Gee, but I pitied pa when we got
out on the prairie and found the herd
They were as tame as Jersey cow3.
and the old bull, the fiercest of the lot,
with a head as big as a barrel, came
up to the ranchman and wanted to be
scratched, like a big dog, and the
calves and cows came up and licked
our hands. It was hard work to drive
them towards pa's blind, 'cause they
wanted to be petted, but the ranch
man said as soon as we could get the
bull up to the top of the ridge, so the
old man would open fire on him, they
would hurry right along to pa's blind,
causo they always came to be salted
at the signal of a revolver shot.
So we pushed them along up to
wards the ridge, out of sight of pa,
by punching them, and slapping them
on the hams, and finally the head of
the old bull appeared above the ridge
Bald Head Pa Began to Pray.
on the regular cattle trail, and not
more than ten rods from where pa
was concealed. Then we heard a shot
and we knew pa was alive to his dan
ger. "There she blows," said the ranch
man, and then there was anothpr
and by that time the whole herd of
aoout 20 was ou the ridge, and the
shots came thick, and the herd started
on u trot for the shed where pa was
to get their salt. When we had count
ed 12 shots and knew pa's guns were
empty we showed up on the ridge, and
watched pa.
He started to run, with the peck
measure of salt but fell down and
spilled the salt on the grass, and be
fore he could get up the bull was so
near that he dassent run, so he laid
down and played dead, and the buffa
loes surrounded him and licked up the
salt, and paid no more attention tc
him than they, would to a log until
they, bad licked up all the salt. Then
the bull began to lick pa's hands and
face, and pa yelled for help,- but we
got.bf hind the ridge and went around
towards the ranch, the ranchman tell
ing us that the animals were perfectly i
harmless and that as soon as they had
licked pa's face a little they would g
off to a water hole to drink, and then
go' out and graze. .
We left pa yelling for help, and" . I
guess he was praying some, 'cause;
once he got on his knees, but a couple
of pet buffalo calves that one of the
rancher's boys drives to a cart, went
up to pa and began to lick his bald
head, and chew his hair.
Well, we got around to the ranch
house, where we could see the herd,
and see pa trying to push the'calve3
away from being so familiar; and then
the herd all left pa and went - back
over the ridge, and pa was alone with
his empty revolvers and . the : peck,
measure. Pa seemed to be stunned at
first, and then we all started out to
rescue him, and he saw us coming,
and he came to meet us.
Pa was a sight. His hair was all
mussed up, and his face was red and
sore from contact with the rough buf
aloes' tongues, and the salt on their
tongues made it smart, and his coat
sleeves and trousers legs had beea
chewed off by the buffaloes, and he
looked as though he had been through
a corn shredder, and yet he was still
brave and noble, and as we cot near
to him he said:
"Got any trailing dogs?"
"What you want trailing dogs for?
asked the ranchman. "What you wart
is a bath. Have any luck this morn
ing buffaloing?"
"Well I guess yes," said pa, as he
dropped the peck measure, and got out
a revolver and asked lor more cart
ridges. "I put 12 bullets into that
bull's carcass when he was charging
on me, and how he carried them away
13 more than 1 know. Get me some
dogs and a Winchester rifle and I will
follow him till he drops in his tracks.
That bull is my meat, you hear me?"
and pa bent over and looked at hfs
chewed clothea.
"You don't mean to tell me the bull
charged on you and didn't kill you?"
said the ranchman, winking at the
hired man. "How did you keep front
being gored?"
"Well, it takes a pretty fmart ani
mal to get the bet of me," said pa,
looking wise. "You see, when the bull
came over the hill I gave him a cou
ple of shots, one In the eye and an
other in the chest, but he came oi..
with his other eye flashing fire, and
the hair on his head and on his hum?
sticking up like a porcup'ne, and the
whole herd followed, bellowing and
fairly shaking the earth, but I kept my
nerve. I shot the bull full of lead,
and he tottered along towards me,
bound to have revenge, but just as he
was going to gore me with his wickel
horns I caught hold of the long hair
on his head and yelled "Get out of
here, condemn you," and I lcoked him
in the one eye, like this," and pa cer
tainly did look fierce, "and he threw
up his head, with me hanging to his
hair, and when I came down I kicked
him In the rib3 and he gave a grunfc
and a mournful bellow, as i hough he
was all in, and was afraid of me, and '
went off over the hill, followed by thu
herd, scared to. death at a man that
was not afraid to stand his ground
against the fiercest animal that eve
trod the grouni. Now, come on ana
help me find the carcass." Pa looked
as though he memt It.
"Well, you are a wonder.-' said the
ranchman, locking at pa in admiration.-
"I have seen men before that
could He some, but you have got An
nanias beaten a block. Now we will
go to the house and settle this thing,
and I will send my trusty henchmen
out henching after your bull."
Then we weni to the house and got
dinner, and the men drove up the buf
falo into the barnyard and fed them
hay, and we went out and played
with the buffaloes, and pa found his
bull hadn't a scratch on him, and that
he would lean up against pa and rub
against him ju3 like he was a fence
post. The ranchman told pa they had been
stringing him, and that the animals
were so tame ycu could feed them out
of your hand, and that he had been
shooting blank cartridges, and the
only thing he regretted was that pa
would lie so before strangers. Then
pa bought the herd for the show, and
next year pa will show audiences how
he can tame the wildest of the animal
kingdom, so they will eat out of his
hand. '
The Sphinx Answered.
'What- 13 the secret of success?"
asked the Sphinx.
"Push," said the Button.
"Never be led," said the Pencil.
"Take pains," said the Window.
"Always keep cool," 6aid the Ice.
"Be up-to-date," said the Calendar.
"Never lose your head," said the
Barrel.
'Make light of everything" said the
Fire. k-
"Do a driving business," said the !
Hammer.
'Aspire to greater thlng3," said the
Nutmeg. '
'Ee sharp in all your dea'Ing3." said
the Knife.
'Find a good thing and stick to it
said the Glue.
"Do the work you are suited to
said the Chimney. Congregatioaall3t.
Chased Bear 17 Days.
Bangor. Me. Pearl .TonH
. vxuaiug aUL
Frafjk Grar. of Temnle
- . v- u c uiacft
near in Avon and followed him Tor 17
uays. waen iney Drought him down la
the Carthage basin, near Saddleback
mwuuuwu. xaey iouowea him from
Avon, throns'h Tomn! "u.-i a v .
i . . j , me east
part of Carthage, Washington and Per-
kins plantations. During the pursuit
the bear led the hunters twice over
Saddleback mountain and once over
Bald. The bear from the start showed
much cunnine In hi ai.
and escape them- Tim r ..
black, with fine fur and was a beauty.
He weighed, with the Internal iTartt V
removed, 304 pound. C