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TWENT Y-FOUKTH YEAR. Yearly Subscription $1.00. WA-KEENEY, KAN., SATURDAY, AUG. 16, 1902. H.S.GlVLER.Prop. NUMBER 24.
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Yesterday, God's day, I spent
In holy thought, in calm content.
Amidst the ferns and grasses sweet;
Where, here and there, about my feet.
I found this little flower.
I'd longed for such a day to be
When ev'ry vine and bush and tree
Should don its robe of verdant hue;
Then I should gather, dear, for you.
This little purple flower.
And now my joy has pas&ed away;
Tis but a memory to-day
My happiness to you I lend.
In that these violets I send
May brighten up an h ir.
As with all Joys, their reign is short
No pleasure that hath erer been sought;
No happiness, however great,
Lid permanently satiate
We're happy but an hour.
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The Ransom of an Overcoat.
BY JAMES BUCHANAN.
(Copyright. 1902, by Daily Story Pub. Co.)
Mr. E. Wilbert Marsh sallied forth
one morning, with a brand new light
overcoat thrown jauntily over his left
arm. About half way between his
lodging house and the station where
he was wont to climb, up to that
abominable Inconvenience, the "eie
vated," he observed a young lady
dart down the front steps of one of
the most imposing and least flaked
of the veneered brown-fronts. She
carried a letter in her hand. On her
head was nothing but a great glo
rious mass of piled-up saffron hair.
She was strikingly pretty and strik
ingly conscious of the fact, if one
might judge from her make-up and
manner. It was evident that she vaa
bound for the nearest letter-box.
Hardly, however had the little kid
slippers of this pleasing damsel trip
ped along the pavement a dozen
yards when, with the exasperating un
expectedness which nature sometimes
displays inher most perverse moods,
it "began to rain. The attractive fig
ure stopped short, wavered a mo
ment and then turned back Just in
time to meet young Marsh, struggling
to raise his umbrella over his $25
overcoat.
With a silvery laugh and, apparent
ly the most perfect unconsciousness
of any impropriety in thus accosting
a stranger, the girl exclaimed:
"How sudden!"
13. Wilbert Marsh smiled, and rais
ed his hat with a gratified blush.
"Would you have the kindness to
drop my letter in the first box you
pass?" asked the girl, putting the
little square missive into the young
man's hand, and gathering her skirts,
preparatory to flight. The next in
stant she fled, rustling and laughing,
back to the shelter of the brown stone
front, and E. Wilbert Marsh found
himself saying "With pleasure!" to
the empty air. The young lady look
ed back as she was vanishing and
nodded. "I wonder if she would rec
ognize me, if she met me again?"
mused Marsh. Then he walked brisk
ly on.
The rattle of an approaching train
fell on his ear. He had just time to
reach the station and cctch it. There
would not be another train for five
miautes. and it happened that he was
somewhat late that morning. With an
Inward vow that he would mail the
young lady's letter immediately on
leaving the car, he made a wild dash
for the stairway and rushed upon the
platform of the nearest car Just as
the guard was closing the gate. Then
iy
"How sudden!"
he slipped the letter into his over
coat pocket, and straightway did what
all men do under such circumstances
forgot it.
Presently another young man left
his seat, came up the aisle, and stood
' smiling down upon Marsh. "Goic- to
the ball game, this afternoon?" he
asked.
"Why. hello!" replied Marsh, recog
nizing a chum In whose company he
had aforetime done his part toward
hoarsely eulogizing the national
game. "Yes, I want to go. Shall, if
I can get away. You going?"
"Not much chanco of it. Two hun
dred and fifty pieces in last night's
mail! Don't know how much larger
this morning's mail will be. But say.
Will, if you can go, you want to. It's
going to be great ball. Hutchins will
pitch for our fellovs. The champions
play us, and are only just a notch
ahead, you know."
By the time E. Wilbert Marsh left
the car his head was completely full
of the great game which was to
come off that afternoon. . He was
planning how he could get away. He
kept planning all the morning. In
the early afternoon he got away. He
Just went.
It was a glorious day and a glorious
Walked away against a drizzling rata,
game. The rain had let up. Every
body was there. The grand stand
was jammed. The bleachers groaned.
The entire field was shut in by black
parentheses of humanity.
The visitors began to score briskly
in the first inning. They made four
runs in succession, with out a man
out. At the end of the fifth Inning
the score stood six to two in favor
of the champions.
Then it was that an eager face was
upturned to E. Wilbert Marsh from
the tier- of seats below. "Three to
one that the Chicagos win!"
"I'll take you," replied Marsh,, with
a fierce, desperate thrill of pride and
confidence in the home team. They
would win yet! Anyway, it would be
cowardly to go back on them in their
extremity. He would try to turn
their luck by betting beyond his usual
figure. "Let it be X's!" he exclaimed.
"All right!" responded the eager
voice below.
The Chicagos won.
"Ill trouble you for that X." said
the young man sitting at Marsh's feet,
as the bleachers rose with a howl, at
the completion of the last inning. The
champion of the home team be
gan to search in his pockets In a
dazed may. He finally gathered to
gether a handful of coins and two
bills. "I'm stuck at $4.75," he said,
ruefully. "Didn't suppose I was so
short. Ought not to have bet. But
say." He looked desperately at the
resplendent overcoat lying across his
arm. ."You'll take this coat in pledge,
won't you? Ill meet you here to-morrow
afternoon right here on the
bleachers with the cash to redeem
it."
The other young man hesitated.
Then he took the garment which E
Wilbert Marsh tragically handed to
him. and disappeared in the crowd.
A few hours later, the temporary
owner of the new overcoat pulled a
letter out of a pocket of the garment,
and stared at the envelope with
startled and flashing eyes. "I'd know
her writing anywhere!" he muttered.
"And addressed to my rival, Sam Nie
baum. Confound it! Ill open It!"
He impetuously tore open the . en
velope and read:
Dearest Sam What a shame that
your invitation to the theater, to
night, came just after I had accepted
aa a dernier res sort, one from that
odious Fred Crombie, who has been
persecuting me with attentions of
late! I should not have accepted his
Invitation, anyway, if I had not been
just dying to hear that particular
play. And then came your welcome
but tantalizing , note. What a con
tretemps! But, Sam, I will go with
you, and I will tell you how we will
outwit Fred and give him the slip.
Do you be at, or near, the head of the
stairway at the Brooklyn entrance of
the bridge at 7:30 sharp, to-night. I
will drop my fan over the stairway,
as Fred and I are going up. He will,
of course, run back to get it. I will
then seem to be pushed upward by
the crowd. Meet me at the head of
the stairs. Then, adieu, Mr. Fred.
Lovingly yours,
OLLIE.
Mr. Fred Crombie did indeed run
dutifully back for the fan that even
ing when Miss Ollie dropped it from
the bridge stairs. But instead of re
turning, he buttoned his coat, raised
his umbrella against the drizzling
rain which had begun to fall, and
walked away to a street car. Of
course, Miss Ollie found no "dearest
Sam" awaiting her at the head of the
stairs, sinee he had never received
her letter. She rushed frantically
about, got into a jam, had her opera
hat crushed out of shape, her purse
stolen, and the better part of her
indignant wind squeezed into gasping
protests. Finally, she got free, but
having neither umbrella nor money,
had to walk home unsheltered from
the rain. She arrived in a drenched,
disgusted and hysterical condition,
and sneaked up to her room like a
truant child.
- Next day, E. Wilbert Marsh pre
sented himself at the bleachers, as t j
had agreed, with the ransom money
for the overcoat. After the game he
found precisely the same sum in the
pocket of that garment, together
with six of the choicest fifty-cent
cigars ever swaddled in tin-foil. No
wonder he thought the world must be
growing better! He had totally for
gotten that he did not mail a certain
letter that was handed to him by a
young lady. . He will never think of
it again, for the evidence necessary
to recall the matter to the masculine
mind had, in his case, entirely disap
peared, .. . .. . .
CHINESE AND HIS PEN.
Little Anecdote that Shows Deftness
of the Oriental.
A certain newspaper man, who was
induced to "try" a stylographlc pen,
got it out of order by reckless treat
ment, and took it to a pen-shop for
repair. The man there soon showed
him that there was nothing serious the
matter with it, the only trouble being
that he had neglected to do some little
thing in using it. Then he began to
take the pen apart for the newspaper
man's instruction, so that he might
see how very simple a thing it is.
"Simple!" cried the indignant owner
of the instrument, "it is as complicat
ed as a Chinese puzzle! I don't won
der that I can't make it "go" . when
I want it to!"
The penman laughed.
"You remind me," he said, "that
there is a Chinese in this town who
used a stylographlc regularly. He came
here to buy one several months ago,
and when I showed It to him he began
to take it all apart.. I hurriedly
stopped him, supposing that he would
do it an injury, but he at once put
down the value of the pen, saying
that it was his. and then continued
his dissection of it. I give you my
wor that he handled that pen more
deftly than the man who made it,
and in five minutes he had it put to
gether again, so that it worked better
than it did at first. Those fellows
beat the world at understanding little
details. Now, an Irishman or an
American I beg your pardon could
never have done that; and, remem
ber, it was the first pen of the kind
the Chinese ever saw." Philadelphia
Record.
A Unique Procession.
A correspondent of the London
Graphic writes: "The Church of the
Madonna del Rosarlo atValle di Pom
peii, or. as it is called, the Madonna di
Pompeii, is the best known shrine of
the Madonna in the south of Italy, on
account of he wonderful miracles
which are supposed to be performed
there. .People from all parts,, far and
near, come on pilgrimage from the
far distant mountains, and even from
Sardinia. Some most wonderful cos
tumes are Been in and' about the
church, 'the contadinl come on foot,
or in carts often drawn by white oxen,
singing and playing on musical instru
ments, tambourines, pipes, etc Often
in a case of illness, girls with their
i-alr down and barefooted go In -procession
to tne church to intercede with
the Madonna for the- sic-i person."
Good for Her.
The Living Church quotes this from
a Connecticut woman's diary, dated
1790: "We had roast pork for dinner,
and Dr. S-. who carved, held op a
rib on his fork, and said: "Here. la
dies, is what Mother Eve was made
of "Yes," said Sister Patty, "and it's
from very much the same . kind of
critter.'"
On Ducks.
From Farmers' Review: The idea
that a duckling covered only with
down if allowed to get entirely wet
is a dead duck is prevalent and really
good it is that everyone almost be
lieves this. The down, if It gets en
tirely wet, is quite a while in drying,
so long that the duck is very apt to
chill; after it is feathered they shed
the water, thus protecting the down,
so it is doubtful if ever a feathered
duck's down gets wet. A down
clothed : duckling might enjoy Itself
In water, not cold, of a warm Bunny
day, with only benefit derived from
the exercise, but how many would
watch that they got to swimming wa
ter only in such favorable times?
Thus it is best to not allow ducklings
water in which they can swim; nor
allow them to be out in the rain until
after they are- feathered. . But don't
forget they must have water In a
deep vessel, deep enough for them to
cover their entire bill above the nos
trils. If this is neglected the nostrU
openings will get clogged with feed
and" dirt and the duck will die. This
is the only way they have of blowing
their nose. Ducks blow their nose
with water and hens bathe in dust,
but both require lots of grit and char
coal. Little chicks and ducks require
their grit to be In the shape of coarse
sand, or at least a large part of it to
be sand. Don't let the downy duck
lings bathe in water or get caught
In the rain; they won't come in; it
might not hurt them. We have had
some that thrived on it, but it is
risky; Emma Clearwaters.
Natural Winter Layers. .
In choosing fowls for winter laying
one must be governed a good deal by
the origin of the breeds. Thus it is
not to be expected that birds of the
Mediterranean class or those deriv
JngJtheir origin from India would
provfc as good layers- in the -far north
as birds that originate in regions far
north. The Mediterranean classes
are without doubt good layers, but
for the coldest weather In say Wis
consin we would expect to have the
best result from the offspring of such
breeds as those that have been kept
in North China for a thousand years
and have thus been hardened in their
ancestry. The breed characteristics
will crop out often even in the laying
qualities of the birds. This is in
direct accord with the experience of
the . farmers of this country. Some
years ago the Farmers' Review sent
out inquiries as to what fowls had
been found to be the best winter lay
ers. A large number of answers were
received, and the majority of the re
plies favored the Black Langshan
The Black Langshans are from north
China, a region where the mercury
sinks down sometimes to 40 degrees
below zero. For summer layers we
-nuld select some breed from tropical
or semi-tropical regions, such as the
Leghorns and the games, but for
winter layers we would select al
ways birds that have originated in
colder climates.
Balanced Rations for Chicks.
Rhode Island Experiment Station:
One mixture of seeds was made as
follows, at the suggestion of the poul
tryman: For chicks from one day to
six week 8 old : Mix four parts cracked
oats, one of fine cracked wheat, two
of rolled oats, one-half of millet seed,
one-half of broken rice, ad two of
fine scraps. For the first two weeks
we have added one pint of millet seed
leaving out scraps during the first
week. Boiled eggs, three for each
fifty chicks, have also been fed.
. After six weeks and up to ten
weeks feed the following mixture:
Mix four parts cracked corn, two of
fine cracked corn, one of rolled oats,
one-half of millet, one-half of broken
rice, one of grit and two of scraps.
For chicks kept in the colony sys
tem give for grain, three parts wheat
and four of cracked corn. Also give
the following mash three times per
week, and daily after ten weeks: Mix
one part ground corn, one of ground
oats, and one of brown shorts.
To feed the meat scraps re made
the seed feed into a mash with boil
ing water, mix the scraps witn it.
and covered the mass until it was
well steamed. This mash seems to
hasten the growth of the chicks.
While it seemed necessary to feed the
youngest chicks rather oftener, those
ten days old were fed mash in the
morning, green food at noon, and dry
seeds at night.
Pretty for Lawn Borders..
The "crimson clover," used as a cul
tivator, is charming for lawn borders
or the rear sections of narrow lots. It
may be successfully . transplanted,
with careful treatment, and will prove
a revelation to many people. ' The
blossom is vivid crimson, long, point
ed, and makes the prettiest of bou
cr.ets. -
Inefficient Skimming.
J. W. Hart: Perhaps the greatest
leak in creameries is inefficient skim
ming, through using inferior separa
tors, or on account of one or more of
the following: Overfeeding the sepa
rator, separating at too low tempera
tures, the bowl not running steadily,
or at too low speed. A separator that
will skim 3,000 pounds of milk in the
spring, should have its capacity cut
down to 2,500 In the fall to do equally
clean skimming where the speed and
temperature remain the same. The
skim milk should be tested daily, and
the information gained by testing
the skim milk should be used In reg
ulating the various factors that go to
make clean skimming. With a good
separator intelligently run the loss of
fat In the skim milk, as compared
with the loss in rurning a fairly good
machine by a somewhat careless op
erator, might amount to one-tenth of
1 per cent. If the creamery receives
8,000 pounds of milk a day the loss
of butter fat in a year would amount
to 2,400 pounds which, at 20 cents a
pound would be valued at $480. This
is by no means an extreme case, and
it is likely that the loss of fat in
skimming would have to be consider
ably greater before the patrons com
ment upon it.
Coloring Oleomargarine.
The Internal' Revenue Department
of the United States has issued rule3
as to how oleomargarine may be col
ored. It says .that to coloring matter
may be put into oleomargarine and
that no butter containing coloring
matter can be put Into it. Bat "if
butter absolutely free from artificial
coloration, or cottonseed oil free from
artificial coloration or any other of
the mixture of compounds legally used
In the manufacture of the finished
product has naturally a shade of yel
low in no way procured by artificial
coloration" the product, though look
ing like butter, will be "subjet5t to a
tax of only of one cent per pound.
This seems to us a reasonable regu
lation. It is well-known that butter
enters to a considerable extent into
the composition of some brands of
oleomargarine. The law recognizes
this, and no effort has been made to
prevent this use of butter. At least
we may feel certain that the combi
nation of a small amount of butter
with a large amount of oleomargar
ine will not result in producing an
article that cannot be told from but
ter. "
- Water in Butter.
The government is taking steps to
regulate the amount of water that can
be incorporated with butter at least
butter that has been reworked and
that is known as renovated butter.
The government is not at all certain
as to what percentage of water should
be allowed, but the department
having the matter in charge is In
clined to fix 16 per cent as the out
side limit of water allowable. The
Department of Agriculture holds to
the opinion that no butter should con
tain in excess of 15 per cent of water.
The water in the best made butter
will run from 10 to 12 per cent and
the experts believe that three per cent
is enough margin to leave. It is re
ported that 16 per cent is the limit
fixed by the English government re
cently, though the amount in some
English butter is far in excess of that.
In some cases water has been pur
posely incorporated with the butter,
which is a thing easy to do under cer
tain conditions. It is an easy way of
increasing the bulk and weight of re
worked butter, though doubtless it de
creases its keeping quality.
Scoring Milk.
S. C. Keith: The Hanford-Hazle-wood
Cream company in Iowa have a
method of scoring milk as butter
judges score butter, and there is some
little rivalry among milk producers
to see who will receive the highest
average - score; they take pride in
sending milk that will score high. I
do not know whether It is practicable
or not, but I honestly believe that if
we could to-day.pay for milk by what
it scored, and if we had a good score
system, we would see them fall into
line. The surest way to get good re
sults is through a man's pocket book;
if you can make him realize that it
will benefit him financially and that
it is for nis interest to send in good
milk they will soon fall Into line;
they will wash their cows three times
a day if necessary, but if be thinks
you get all there is and they get
nothing they will not want to do any
thing for you. -
Enormous Consumption of Cheese.
- Great Britain and ' Ireland import
about 265,000,000 pounds of cheese
each year. Canada supplies about 60
per cent of the whole.
A railroad engine may be roughly
said . to be equal in strength to 900
horses. '
'RTIC0LT0RE
Fruit Notes.
From the most recent weekly re
ports issued by the Climate and Crop
Service of the Weather Bureau, we
gather tne following Information con
cerning fruit prospects :
Georgia. Peaches, apples, pears
and plums continue to rot and these
fruits are below normal In quality and
quantity. The dry weather has given
a decided set back to the water melon
crop.
Illinois. The apple crop ranges
from very poor to very fine. In some
localities the prospects have been im
proved by the rain. Though ' in some
places the peach prospects are fair,
they are generally very poor.
Iowa. The average condition ol
apples is 65, plums 50, grapes 65.
Maryland and Delaware. A further,
thought slight, decrease in fruit pros
pects is noted throughout the section,
due to continued falling and to a
measureable loss of good fruit by
wind gusts. Some spraying is being
done in the orchards of Washington
county. Early apples are now ripe,
with poor to medium yields, affording
an ample supply for home use in most
localities, but not many for market.
Peaches continue to drop freely, ex
cept in the southeast where they are
holding fairly well and still promise
moderately good yields. Some apri
cots are now ripe In Prince George's
county. Japan plums are ripening in
Cecil, and are falling oft freely In
Anne Arundel.
Michigan. Cherries are yielding
only moderately and in some cases
poorly. Plums indicate a light crop,
but apples, pears and peaches com
tinue promising.
Missouri. The apple crop continues
to decline and little more than one
third of a crop for the state is now
indicated.
-' Pennsylvania- Apples and peaches
are dropping in nearly all sections;
cherries are good in some districts
and In others a failure; and the con
ditions are not such as to warrant
expectations of the usual berry crop.
Higher temperatures are needed to
Wisconsin. Strawberries, cherries,
currants and other small fruits have
ripened very rapidly and improved
somewhat in quality during the past
few days. The prospects for apples
is generally discouraging although in
some localities the crop will be fair.
Cranberries are in good condition.
Bitter Rot of the Apples.
A word now should be said upon
the common name. Very commonly
the infected flesh of an apple is dis
tinctly bitter to the taste, but there Is
much variation in this. Sometimes
the bitterness is very slight, in other
cases almost equal to quinine. But
such bitterness sometimes results
also from other causes. Other fungi
produce a similar taste in the affected
fruit, though those usually attacking
stored apples have no such effect. The
musty flavor due to common molds is
altogether different. If the word bit
ter is not always characteristic, the
word rot is not especially appropriate.
The affected tissues are never slushy
soft. There is indeed no extra ac
cumulation or incorporation of water.
The spot Is bard and firm and at
length becomes sunken somewhat
from the shrinkage of the drying pulp
of the fruit. There is no odor. . The
apple seems to be converted into a
semi-woody substance which is re
sistent of decay. It is in this condi
tion th&t the shriveled fruit remains
for a year or more attached by its
dead stem to the twig, or endures for
a similar length, of time upon the
ground. If, however, the . affected
fruit is neither constantly bitter nor
really rotten, still the name- is as ap
propriate as any that can probably be
found and is certainly better than
that of "ripe rot" which has been pro
posed. Prof. T. J. Burrill.
. "
Bitter rot of the apple is directly
due to a vegetable parasite which,
starting from a spore lodged upon the
surface of the apple or in a puncture
made by other instrumentalities,
grows in the pulpy tissues of the
fruit and in a few days bears another
crop of spores, . by means of which
the process may be indefinitely re
peated. Four Kinds of Patrons.
A speaker i t a dairymen s conven
tion described four kinds of patrons
of the creamery: 1. The model pa
tron, the man with first-class barns,'
first-class cows and first-class feed. To
these are added first-class methods.
Z. The dairyman that ha? all the ap
pliances named above, but has 'poor
methods. 3. The man that has good
eows and good barns but cares noth
ing about feed or methods, trying to
get the most money out of the cream
ery possible for the least work. 4.
The farmer that bas poor barns, poor
cows, poor feed and poor methods. He
generally produces poor milk and lit
tle of it.