CAPE MAY HERALD, THUkSPAY. MAY 18, 1905.

DEVELOPING CF KANSAS How the Western Part Is Being Boomed. THRIFT IB SHORT CRASS OOUHTBY

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Tb«K- arr ibrifi. ^rnaa cwuutr) iu Kuuaua. wriiua the UooblaiHl (iv-.u.i . rrrudpoiuteut of tb» how Vork I'uctI uii-n-r a rveeut dale. Call u(> <>u um- local ti lepboue om- of the liverj at.il.k-a. «ud JoU W.ll jf>-t this reph All iu} rlf are uub Land aS>-uti< ijot Vw to abow buvurs." The bujera get off evory train u'lth maty hand Rnlibels and M.-ea Uie tiumeroua laud ageula. Ilaif tbi bUaiui-»» aigus si-eu r«-uu. “Weau-ni L-m-a Kor fcale. Tuniis. i.ancbi-a auu Lao Laud* at Low l'rn.«i.“ A big, hearty atrauger cuuk- into tbe land othce back of the bauk the other morning. "I have beard from my neighbors. ” In- began, referring to a previous conversation. "They want to buy ten section* In a bunch." One company of Bwedca from Minnesota paid (ID an acre the other day for three sections of prairie twelve mile* from the Colorado line, practically without Improvement*. The owner of one of tbe quarter necV tlona. a New Vork capbutUi, paid $LOUU for the 1UU uciX> la 18NJ and has held It all these years, being offered varying sum* at divers times, ranging from $100 iu 1800 to $ldSX> but year. Now be cjUMident hiuiM-if luck}' to get hi* money buck without interest and no -^'refund of the aixieeu years' back taxes. A big steam plow is turning over tbe sod In Thomas county; scores of mule teams arc doing tbe same. Prom the car window one sees many a new turned field as If there were coming to tbe ranch lauds a revival of tbe old time farming boom that rained many per-

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Ukie out on the prairie and you see twenty or forty acres of “go back." It Is a bit of prairie that was once broken and planted to crop* by tbe homesteader. Ue lived In a "aoddy” (no one aay* sod house In Kansas), and it* crumbling walls are mate reminders of his rained hopes. Prairie grass did not grow In tbe forsaken field; It is tbe seed ground of Russian thistles and ____ sunflowers. The ground, L)ter fifteen or twenty years of ■ still has tbe markingr of the I V* where was planted the last “The newcomers are breaking the sod." explained an early settler. They come out here and buy land, hire a lot of It broken, and will morn In time to pot In nod wheat. Some are coming now—yon can see them unloading their goods down at the statioci Eeaterneje think they can make fortunes raising wheat, and tbe sncccss of the last' few years has •been wonderful. We who bare been here and tried It don't do It aa a steady thing. The mixed stock and grain Idea Is the one that wins." Most of the people who are moving In have money enough to pay cash for their land. They do not want to five mortgage*. Tbe bank loan* are largely for the purpose of helping In 1m-p-ovements and for the development of the land. The aod house is pot op to the Idea of tbe man who ha* been brought up In states where such build logs are unknown. He think* be most have a frame boose or none. Yet there are many new “noddies" on the western Kansas plains. They are very comfortable. too—cool In summer and warm in winter. They cost but a trifle and their security when the winds race over the prairies l* an added attractiveness. The walls are whitewashed Inrooms clean and

with all torts of awnings. They ate uniform only In the nnpnlntcd brown l*b gray of their exterior*. Every U»tkwhile a western town ha* a fire that ■weeps It clean of most of these build Inga, and In their places are bnlK well proportioned brick structures that would be a credit to any co:»>niuu!tT. - The kind of people coming Into tbe northwest Is different from that of tbe early boom jieriod. Tt>cy Intend to make homes. In a shed of the principal livery stable at Colby a few days ago were &.OHO fruit trees ready for delivery to tbe cltlsen* of Thomas county. One full car load of tree* came to 3oodland this spring. S.usi of them. They will he planted on the prairie* of the western tier of counties of tbs Mate. “This Is more tree* than have ever come Into northwest Kuusa* at on# time." Maid a dealer. "Tlw trouble wi:b planting fruit trees ha* been that the folka did not know bow to mtfVc them grow. Now they have found out. They have windmills by the hundred, and tbe wmter Is afways there." Out on the l»ewey ranch are three rows of elm* that moke long line* up a bill leading to the bouse. A windmill I* on the bill, and a reservoir hold* tbe water. It 1* led by tiling down the hill to the tree*, and they grow steadily. Not much attempt I* made to raise forest trees nowaday*. The straggling tree claims show how fruitless Is such ap effort. The growth of cottop woods on tbe bottomland* of the creeks Is fairly tuhcessful. and.l.cre and there Is a house surrounded by thrifty trees and hedges, but tW?y are the exception. Irrigated garden* are frequent, and some of them are as fruitful as any that could be found on farms In the eastern part of the s'ate. Tbe people are learning how to do things.

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TWO JAPANESE HEROES. Bravee? Displayed t.yr Sol til era at Port Arttior. A Japanese newa>»a,>cr prints the following Incident* of the fighting before Port Arthur: “There was a brave gennt In tbe Investing army at the rear of Port Artbnr. One night be fell asleep In front of the enemy's fart. At dawn suddenly noisy voices broke out around him. lie started up at once and saw that be was surrounded and f lout to be captured by a company of the enemy. Yet he stood still, and. taking out an explosive shell from his pockM In an Instant, be burled It with bis fall power Into a crowd of the i my. Smiling at them In their alarm, be went bock to bis own position with tbe speed of tbe wind. “One day a most severe battle was going on somewhere about Port Arthur At IU hottest moment a company of oar brave soldiers was furiously rushing over tbe dying and tbe dead in tbe face of tbe pelting shower of death dealing ballets, against the stubborn defenders posted In s semipermanent fortification, when Sublieutenant Ot* saw a soldier following after him with high spirit, but quite empty banded. Tbe officer, being astonished, called him by name and silked what be had done with his gun. At this the soldier looked foolish for a moment, but as soon os he looked at his right bond be exclaimed: ‘Oh. my band! Ob. my gun! My gunf He had been utterly nneonsetoos that his band, together with tbe rifle, had been blown off some moments before by a shell from tbe enemy. The name of tbs ardent and memorable warrior Is Banssemon NMblkssra. native of tbe province of Etcbu."

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bouses. Tbe Portland cement cult bos reached to tbe grass lands. The thrifty settlers put s costing of cement < tbs sod’-so tbs outside and bars not only a very good Imitation of a stone building, but one that fulfills oil tbe quoHflcatious of such a structure save that of permanence. A cemented aod boose is tbe very essence of up to dateMM. Kor are the dwellers In these Modest structures without tbs ooavenISMao of tbe times. You can go twenty miles from town and step Into s -Boddy* and telephone to tbe county seat. A telephone on a sod wall is a eombtnattan that could be found nowhere else save in Kansas. Iu tbs towns Is also a new style of architecture. The town booses used to be built with no regard for tbs artistic.

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“Do you really think that yon con distinguish the tastes of potatoes and onions r was tbe unusual question that Professor Burtls Barr Breese asked bis psychology class at tbe University of Cincinnati tbe other morning, says a special dispatch to tbe Chicago Inter Ocean. T have yet to see tbe Individual who could tel] them apart when they were reduced to tbe same con*latency anA when tbe aease of taste only was used.’’ At this point Mian Loella Lotto, a member of tbs class, showed some donees of doubting. And Miss L was asked to step up to tbe rostrum.

bras tbs through her nose- tint Is, ■net rely altogether on tbe taste-and that be was certain she would be able to dlsttaguMi the three things i be than proceeded to give her sspszatstr. dieted, *"4 be Miss Letts bad not bean able to tall

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MiSS liZULAH LOG AX. lege. In 1*J0 she returned to tbe Islands. feeling more confident to undertake tbe great life work which she had planned for herself. , The Logans were among the first' white people to land on tbe Caroline Islands Mr. Logan reduced the native language to writing. Today his grave Is a sacred spot on one of the 1*lands, and hla memory Is still held dear In the hearts of the people for whom be Ured and among whom be died. Tbe mother was soon to follow. Tbe young girl, left alone with a task before her which might weU stagger the heart of a strong man. took up a work which we In civilised America can hardly realize. In 1901. while Miss Logan was touring tbe Islands a storm came up. tbe

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a spar, but was rescued by some natives. For nine months tbe lay without medical attention. When tbe became stronger she was taken to Australis where, with good medical attention, sbe recovered sufficiently to travel to America. Realising that sbe cannot yet endnre tbe beat of tbe Islands Miss Logan Is making a tour of tbe states under tbe auspice* of tbe women’s board of foreign missions of Chicago, thinking with her lectures to arouse an Interest In "her people” and still be working for them, although not In their midst.—Detroit Tribune.

Nervous root hers make nervous babies Suppose a child Is fretty and nerved'Up either by peln or after excitement of any kind. What does tbe average mother do? Rock, toes Mi she, rattle, show a light—anything to keep the baby a sake and excited. It la voted "cruel Indifference” to “let a baby cry.” Xjt Is tine that sometimes tbe jumping s0bf3£>ggnng operations will enable a child to throw off tbe wind causes pain In tbe stomach—tbe result of Improper digestion or overloading tbe stomach, says an exchange. Aside from this It Is bard to think of any emergency which requires tbs familiar jouncing, joggling treatment so much In vogue. After you have made sure that there Is no code (code Is best radeved by teaspoouful sips of hot watac) or that there is no tight garment

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