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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1910.
It is mighty difficult to make the
fanneri who are getting 18.96 a
100 for hogs to believe anything Is
wrong with th country.
. .There U a general suspicion that
Taft has ha a few letters irom
, RooMvelt that hav not been given
' out to th public. He seems to know
just'what he Is doing..
tf irnu la really colng to bust
. it l. . t M h.iav ' Thm.
in irusia ifc vuui. w " " . ' . - I
ladylike slap on th wrist given the
. . .I- ...VaIMhv
Harvester irusi ana uimw.w-b
of th Insurance trust does not look
11k buslnes
lir. Aiiman oi "- i
nnA th ram for th governorship
. - n.miutHtln Hr-Vflt. I
nomiuauon w -
nUUtlUKUUU VU Ll.H I
It la understood that he expect to
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run against Mr.. Janes on the Repub
lican ticket.
' r-Lrsi?i a..ir
The town of Paradise is In .despair
tnr .int nf eoal. ' The Idea of shovel
Ing coal In Paradise is pretty much
out of th question, anyhow, accord
ing to generally accepted Idea on
the subject, -Belolt Gazette.
The Kansas City man who has
tanned human skin needn't be so ex
clusive. There are mighty few boys
in this world who have escaped with
out at least a portion of their anat
omy tanned. Lawrence World.'
The Kansas City Star says: "Presi
dent Taft could not carry a eingl
stat west of the Allegheny moun
tains." This Item has been posted
prominently on our calendar for Nov.
10, 1912, and wlll.recelve proper t
- tentlon at that time.
There are-two hundred and fifty
" thousand words In the English Ian
guage according to the new diction
aries and most of them were used
last Sunday by a Marquette lady who
discovered after coming out of church
that her new hat was adorned with
a tag on which was written, "reduc
ed to 12.75." .
"How many democratic papers
Vw are now suDDortlng Insurgent
candidate! for congress will support
these men it nominated at th Aug
bst, primaries," Inquire th ,taw
reac Journal. "Will all th demo-
cratlo editors who wUl do o pleas
stand up. That will do, thank you.
en yo yvTj
w know a, vouni fellow ia this
town who started out about two years
age with the idea of becoming a apon,
n. atari ni out let nights, wnoking
elcuett . oUaully doing
..tMe in nrJioal. k has reached
the stag where th old people think
h U tonga and the girl umi n
rule, o h i sport Belolt Call.
Th. Democrat. 'gloats ov.r th
.v.. siwk mtrid in uia-i
-ruThUh U alway, D.-r.tic.Ub-.nUal M
was carried by a Democrat in m.
t tcandId.U g"ot
... t-;- v ih ft
. . . .v .v .
mi 2,090 KW vow " """i
T,ocrt:!sj vote cf tie district
Gr
delicious, healthful--
eivethe most valuable uiere-
the active principle, to
spm;.
UaliingFoTdcr
Insures wholesome and
4ltif Atiot InAil I A VFV
cay in every nome
NO ALimi
WILL BE UNANIMOUS.
Ona candidate who will bo on the
Rannbllcan county ticket next fall
need make no announcement In the
papers. That li Charlei A. Case
whom the Republicans will renomi
nate for representative. Mr. Case
made one of the best member this
county' ever sent to the .legislature.
He went as one ol the youngest
members: he was modest and learn
ed the ways of the law-making; he
gave strict attention, to business ana
raralved th annroval of his con
stituents In a remarkable degree for
the, effort he made to secure legisla
tion that would be to th best in
terests of this county. He was on
several of the best committees, was
the author of several sensible mea
sures and earned the respect of his
HinMntMi. i No member of the legis
lature accomplished more real good
for the state than he and none was
less criticised. , He was recognised
as a worker with no favorites to
play and no axes to grind.
That la the kind of legislators tne
state needs and Dickinson county is
nroiid to have such a representative
In the house. It will be glad to have
his services again and feiels sore
that Ita Interest will be well watched
and the county well represented.
v,The Smith County Pioneer, whose
editor must be a mean, old thing,
insists that a girl should not allow
hnr "iteadv" to call more than three
timnii a week, even if she 1 engaged
- l
But how, we would like to.
LU nioi. u-i " - "
know, is a girl to become engaged
. . - i. tUti .alia
to a mere acqumi"w
onljr three times a week! Jamee-
town Optimist., ;.. ; -L,
h may juai u""u,Hfc
, v., th. Mute Republican ticket nomi-
. . . k..aHafr t vnlnr in he
nated next August is going to be
UHiVU UBM au-.u '
elected in November. , The Republi
. t..... I,
can party of Kansas may have Its
differences before the primaries oui
then the ticket Is selected It elects
ne m h. the ,lkei or
It. Whatever may be the like or
dislikes concerning Stubbs or any
other candidate th. nomination
mean lectlon. '"" ''
The Sallna Union appears to have
the politicians on the run. A deal
was made by which Judge Reese was
to resign in time to have a Sallna
man, annolnted Judge, thinking it
wnuM alv him the Inside track for
the primaries. The Union announced
I 1
that whoever was namea uj u,
shady method would be defeated and
the Sallna lawyers are backing out
of the door in a frantic effort to
escape.
In the current Harper's Bazar, a
Truly Good ladles' megaslne. Is a
menu for a "Dutch supper." It pro
vides for rye bread, cheese, bologna
sausage and beer. The attorney gen
eral should take Immediate steps to
hnvn the matailne barred from the
malls. Kansas might learn bad habits
from such suggestions. .
in "The Circuit Rider's Wife," an
exceedingly clever story In the Sat
urday Evenlna Poet a Methodist
country minister of SO years ago Is
represented as wearing pajamas, me
author probably wrote night shirt
but the editor thought he knew bet
ter and changed It. ..'
' The Rush, Qenter Breeze has a col
umn of Items taken from the Walnut
Valley Standard of seventeen, years
ag. Th. following paragrapn ap
peared la last, week's ooluma:
"Wheat .took a lump last wjeek and
la cqnsequtnc of which our strtt
re' dally lined with load of wheat,
which now sell at 50 cent , per
hushei,7 , ; , .-. ,, '..
It is conoervattveiy Mtlmated that
th ith of March, 1H. will see th
rvtnnirV fully klt.000.000.000 richer
than of. th. th of Maroh. 1I0.
rmrm wn -
n.a u. 7.
I crt m Laa wmu v
work and U. volum. and va!.. of
i nmnfiaB ana coxtsniEcuDB w
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th highest level to our history.
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ROLLING WINTER WHEAT. '
It Is reported from all sections of
the "Kansas and Oklahoma wheat belt
that the wheat has been Injured by
the continual freezing and thrawlng
and the resultant exposure of the
roots. In Illinois and other-states
In the Middle West this is known as
'th heaves." It is the first time in
twenty-five years that the wheat In
this section of the country has been
injured in this manner. Many farm
ers believe that the wheat has been
killed because of "the heaves" and
some of them have placed the dam
age of the crop from 25 to 50 per
cent. ' "
The university of Nebraska has
made exhaustive experiments as to
the value of spring rolling to pre-
fent the damage from the exposure or
the roots, and the report regarding
these experiments cover a period of
several years and the results ob
tained demonstrate the value Of roll-
Ina. Kansas and Oklahoma farmers
can take advantage of the experiment
their neighbor on the north have
made. ' '
The following table shows the In
creased yield obtained by rolling for
a four-year period: I
; ' 1902 1903 1904 1905
Untied . . . . .87.9 33.2 38.8 80.3
Unrolled . . . .311.3 28.8 84. S St.
. The Increase In yield for the' period
rovered. averaged 5.1 bushels an
acre. Experiments in harrowing, con
ducted at the same time as -roiling
nnorimanta. were not successful.
The university bulletin makes the
followlnc comment on the subject
"Rolling winter wheat In the spring
has not failed In any of the four
years, to glije an Increased yield, the
average being .l ousneis per acre
The rolling was given early In the
anrlng. soon after the frost was out,
and about th time th. growth was
started. Harrowing after rolling was
not as good as rolling alone, probably
due to the loosening up of the plants
again after rolling had pressed, them
firmly Into the soil.
"Early spring rolling of winter
grain, pressing the earth as It does,
firmly about the plant roots, produces
aood results. When the frost comes
out In the spring. It la very apt to
leave the soil filled with small cracks
or checks, especially around Hbe
plants. If these checks are examined
closely, It will be seen that a large
number of the roots are thus exposed,
and If the weather continues dry,
they are killed or at least Injured.
We have taken up plants In the
spring tohere half of the roots were
injured In this manner.
"If the soil Is wet at the time of
the rolling and It should never be
rolled when wet rolling adds in n'o
small degree, to form a surface mulch.
It does this rather than compact this
surface."
There will be no tariff war with
any foreign nation. The maximum
and minimum provisions of our new
law will soon be In effect with all
countries, and we shall get the mini
mum rates for our exports in every
case, so that It Is hardly probable that
our maximum rates will b Imposed
In a single Instance. .This prove
again th. wisdom of th framers at
th nw law, and show as th Pres
ident and others hav declared that
It Is the best tariff law w hav aver
had. ,.. . . . '
A Wichita editor announces that
be hat received th following eom
nronlcatloa from a woman reader:.
Th earth ;111 be. In. th tail of
Killer's comet about May XU WIS
there be disaster? If so. what ah. 'J
on do as a safeguard V Hasuggwt
that ah rah hr left hind foot with
th foot of a rabbit killed by a red
headed negro la a graveyard at mid
night a. it was going aorth. It this
doesn't save her h. has mor advice
he eaa giv after the comet has
passed.
-Th cost of high living," say
James J. Hill, "Is playing th deuce
with this country, not th high cost
of living."
THE FARMER'S PROSPERITY.
Pals conclusions are likely to re
sult from a narrowed field of obser
vation. Farmers, for Instance, are
prone to argue the condition of agri
culture throughout the nation from
what they know conditions among
their neighbor to be. When secre
tary Wilson, from his nation-wide
view, says the condition of the farm
er is far better today than ever be
fore, the neighborhood observer Is
certain the secretary Is wrong, be-
cniisA the men within his small field
of knowledge are not prospering. A
'dowis-east reader Who denies tne
atwiiracv nf a recent statement to the
effect that the farmer Is least to be
pitied la this time of prevailing high
prices falls in to this error.
"The farmer' he says, "must not
only sell for whatever price Is offered
him, but he must also pay whatever
la demanded of him for the commodi
ties he buys. He gets a high price
for those commodities of which he
has very little.. When butter is high
hi. mm are riving little milk. Veg
etables are high when drouth has cut
the crop in two.
'Fiiriira the nroflt on an acre oi
wheat when the average yield is four
teen bnehels, to get which th. farm
er sows one and three quarter bush
els of teed, not counting th. labor
nf ninwlnc. sowing, harvesting.
threshing and hauling. The profit Is
often nothing."
Farm machinery, th writer auoe.
costs much more than a few years
ago. . Help is hard to get ana de
mands high wages. So altogether,
he concludes, there Is no profit in
farming and the farmers are noi
prosperous.
Beyond doubt, large numners oi
hrmwi in the middle states, and still
more In New England, eke out a bare
subsistence from the soli and do not
t.,m hi h nrlced croDS into pianos,
automobiles and tennis courts. Nev
ertheless, taking the country as a
whnio the farmer's account book
should show a bigger balance of profit
than for many years.
tn December the secretary or agri
culture reported for the year that,
t,i.A,.t avoantinn "ftverv croo was
worth mor to the farmer, than the
five-year average." - The value of
form nroducts was 1968,000,000
more than the year before, or enough
to equip with new machinery ,oou,
000 farms. The value , of the corn
crop was 36 per cent higher than the
of the previous five years.
The wheat crop, exceeding all pre
vious values, reached tbe ,(hlghest
price since 1881. Hay gained 10 per
cent in value over the five-year, aver-
a oat 12 oer cent -and. potatoes
24 per. cent. Mill? now sella for. a
nnarter more than ten years ago.
eggs twice as much, butter and pota
toes halt as much again. ' The propor
tionate Increase runs pretty wen
Jnn the line. - . , v.
Since the farmer is essentially a
producer, creating and selling more
than he buys and consumes. It ts
hard to see how he can help making
mnra money than h. used to, even
mnnoilne that everything ha risen
uniformly, But the produce he sens
h Annarentlv risen faster than tne
goods he buy. And -both theory
and observation show that, as a class,
the country over, the farmers are
more to be envied than pitied.
ARE WE ON THE JOB?
No man ever did any good as a
Mtwm after he cot all the money he
wanted; no city ever progressed af
ter her citizens quit worrying about
the future of the town.
Tt takes -work and worry and dili
gence and enthusiasm and faith and
eternal boost to build a city. Henry
Allen. .
The Interstate Association of Op
erating Threshermen meets at WIch
ita, March 8, 9, 10, and all reports
tn the contrary are In error. Ar
rangements are already completed for
entertained the larges gathering of
this kind ever held In Wichita. The
active membership of the association
has been Increased by several hun
dred during the year, and the execu
tire sessions will bring up matters
of great Importance to every thresh
erman in the Southwest. '
"if open season the year round
far llrhtnln rod sharps. . fir ei-
ttngulsher fraud and such game,"
ti the La Cvrne Record. : vwnen
a man comes to your bouse ad wants
t laave eom sort of magasia wltn
yoa for a week or so. taking your
'receipt' for same, uu same wing
fnr on to d la to kick him urougn
the nearest window, acrosa th horse
let and into tt mlddls) ft the duck
pond; and U,M demur. s m
u an him. A ahao recently left a fir.
eitlngutoher witi farmer sear 1
Cyga-, A ll Jater wa eonieoer
ate cam along and asked th farmer
tmlrai receint showing that h had
U xtingulahr., H did so, and
th 'receipts' promptly turned up at
the bank In th. form or a promiwory
not for 1180."
The eommiasioo form of govern
ment carried la Emporia yesterday
bv t to 1. Abilea eipecu to maM
a good deal hlfger majoruy ioa
hst March 1st
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toy Today
Big Lot Jobbers' Sample Shirt,
Waists at Wholesale Prices
' Lot Jobbers' Sample Muslin Underwear,
Gowns, Chemise, Combination Suits, Drawers,
Corset Covers and Brassieres. '
Take advantage of this sale on the above
two lots, as they are away under-priced, prices
beyond competition. '
ouii ueparimeni ;
, , - Direct from a New York manufacturer, 53
Ladies' Dress Skirts in all the new styles and
materials. '
Wash Dresses
Ladies', Misses' and
fine Zephyr. Gingham,
peneci in mane. vuuure" uressea s.t w ,3
years, Misses', dresses 6 to 14 years. - These
gingham dresses are selling at prices less than
the cost of making.
By express today, the New Turbans 25c, 50c
. SEE THE NEW THINGS
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We take your Eggs We save you money
ii n PinifiiAn & snn
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A SENSIBLE GIRJU.
Some BDace writer called on Miss
lUronHnl. flnnrAA ftt TAddv RnOSlN.
velt Jr., and asked why she, loved him. ,
She replied: "Well, I guess maybe
It's because he's so brilliant He has
such, a great future, I'm sure." Her
reply was snatched up by all th
newspaper paragraphers, and held up
to ridicule, i What future, taey arg
ued, was there ahead of a man who
it learnlnc carnet weaving, 'or how i
is that a field, for brilliancy?..
Th. Atchison Globe answers thus:
Teddy Roosevelt, Jr started in at
the carnet factory at Thompsonvllle,
Conn., In the. pickers' room, where
for ,10 hours a, day he orted flirty
wool. ettln tit s weeK. a uis-
agreeable task and poor pay for a
young man accustomed to luxury and
Mionnmi But he has never shirked
a duty, now geU 118 a week; works
In the factory room from 7 a. m. mi
-ik it nleht. is never idle, never
late, hasn't missed a day, and has
worked so hard that in more
mnntha he will have mastered the
trade. There to a greater future for
a man like this, more promise or Bril
liancy, than If he were a nowiing,
long-haired, short-pants, football
player at college.
Miss Alexander has a long head on
her. Any girl who prefers a man who
works hard with his own hand, m
.te.A nf letting his father pay his
bills, displays a Judgment that entitles
her to praise, rather than, riuicuie.
nnnuvelt. Jr.. Is not only all
right, but he has a mighty sensible
father. Other fathers who want taeir
sons to work lack that . something
which the ex-president possessed In
bringing up his son In such a way
that be want to work, and enoys it
i. th. iivao of all nrominent men
there are some very .fine .things for
the younger generations to remember.
Major Calvin Hood of Emporia made
a big success of his life in every way.
The major never swore and never
used vulgar language, no i
ti. .AaA one day why he made
It point to keep bis speech free
maraa exDresslon. "Be
cause," said Hood,,"! v tound that
men who do swear ana ,
rough language never have any in
fluence with the nesi giun pi py-
Two of the moat prominent mea In
their respeetiv.-field M work wlU
speak at the dedication ot th. new
.aginwring bnildiag .t th. XJnlye.r.
stty of. Kansas, February J 6. Richard
Maclaorln, as presoeoi "
.v.,, tnt!tnU of Technology In
Bortoa, ha perhaps the most Impor
tant position among uw
la technical educaUoa. Dr. S. R.
Buckley Is president of the American
Mining Congress.
If tbe Central Kansas Interurban
doe. aot hurry It will hav to leas
th. tracks of th Motor Graad line
which is being surveyed from Belle
vine to Kewton.
Children's made from b
nicely trimmed and A
A most unusual suit I to be filed
In the courts of Atchison next week,
according to the Globe, on that will
arouse much discussion. Some time
age a woman visited in Atchison and
was.. put to sleep In the spare bed!
room. All spare bedroom.' are a
good .deal like vaults, and . this on.
had the same unpleasant resemblano
It, was damp and, cold; the sheets -
felt as if they had been taken off ice.
and the walls of the room were lined
with photographs of, departed . kin.
The woman caught a sever, told,
and In the suit she asks for $10,000
damages. She, will contend. ;that
better treatment was due her; that
she had entertained two of the fam
ily, four weeks, last year, and tby
were given warm rooms to sleep in.
If the verdict is for the plaintiff, It
will have an encouraging effect on
visitors. ..-': .y -
Thomas A- Edison, the wizard, says
that living will be much cheaper 200
years hence. It takes a wise man to
be consoled by the reflection that it
will not cost the great-great-grandchildren
of his great-great-grand
children so much to live as It doe
the people of this country at present
Such a man may be truly called a
philosopher. Win field Free Press.
Abilene merchants propose to make
their customers pay their bills or
move to some town where better
accommodations exist.
'ihe present congress keeps an
nouncing that It Is going to be econo
mical. Hope It won't be so extremely
cautious that It can't spare $100,000
for a public building at Abilene,
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