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TYRO TELEGRAM LEN GOHEEN, Publisher. TYRO, KANSAS. Often the joy ride ends in a ceme tery. Winter is staying as long as an welcome guest. Late in March the largest battleship will be in commission.

There is no telling how soon it will be obsolete. Simultaneously with the opening of the postal banks a lot of old yarn socks opened. That American who photographed cows inside England's fortifications made somewhat of a bull. Seventeen-year locusts are due this year, but nobody will care if they fail to hear the alarm clock go off. The aeroplane does not break down oftener than an automobile, but it breaks down in more inconvenient localities.

Some people are eternally fussy. An Indiana man wants a divorce from his wife because she bathes the dog in the dishpan. Again it is reported that the hoopskirt is coming back. Not if the wear ers have to pass the Flatiron building in New York. Aviation seems to be like some other methods of producing exhilarating effects; there is difficulty in recognizing the right time to quit.

Up to date the submarines of the world's navies have been chiefly remarkable for the many discouraging accidents which befall them. It does not astonish us to learn that our sun is a "variable star." Even on this planet it has the reputation of being a highly capricious luminary. Aviators should let altitude tests gO unsought. Endurance and passenger tests are the ones needed at this stage of the art. The Chicago authorities nave voted to limit all buildings begun after September 1 to a height of 200 feet, and if they mean Chicago feet that is surely high enough.

By way of giving the children of the city a chance to see all strange animals that inhabit the earth, the authorities of New York Central park have bought a cow. Medicine Hat wants its name changed. If Kalamazoo and Oshkosh can be happy and prosperous, there seems to be no reason why Medicine Hat should not be comfortable. Basket ball may be a perfectly love ly game, but when it becomes sary to call upon the police to pry players apart it would seem that a revised rule of some sort might well be inserted. There is in California a fountain of oil that gushes up to a height of 156 feet.

Advocates of the conservation of our natural resources might do well to insist that a lid should be put on this fountain. An Austrian girl, who has just been naturalized in New York, says she became a citizen of this nation because she loves the United States and the American people. That is the kind of citizen we want. Moisant and Hoxsey laughed at danger "as long as the machine was all right." When man becomes perfect, possibly he will invent a machine that is perfect. Until then it is safer to leave flying to the birds.

A man in a Philadelphia discovered 15 pearls in one oyster stew. It is evident that the restaurant-pearl fisheries expect to yield a good harvest this season, if this is to be taken for a sample beginning. One out of every four graduates of Harvard earns all or a part of the money needed to pay his expenses. We can't see why Harvard shouldn't get as much glory out of this fact as she does out of her athletic exploits. The department of agriculture has been keeping tabs on the number of deer shot in this country during the year and has counted up to 57,500.

still there are people who love deer that have not been converted into venison. A New York doctor says that it women continue to wear the quantities of false puffs, rolls and switches now in fashion the next generation may have little or no hair to start with. With rare exceptions the present generation had mighty little hair to start with. The chief forester says that 84 per cent. of the forest fires in 1909 were due to the carelessness of railroads and persons using the forests.

This is about as bad as the percentage of house fires caused by carelessness. The government has again changed the name of the life-saving station at the west end of Nantucket island, which used to be "Great Neck," from "Maddequet" to "Maddaket," but we shall not learn to spell the new name until we have some assurance that it Isn't going to be changed again. I NOTES FROM STATE CAPITAL FRESH ITEMS OF INTEREST FOR KANSAS PEOPLE. Latest Events Transpiring Among the State Officials at Topeka Gathered by Our Correspondent. -The increasing importance of Kansas as a manufacturing state is shown in a census report, just issued, which places the capital invested at $154,952,000 for the calendar year end- ing December 31, 1909.

This is an increase of 75 per cent, of $66,272,000 over 1904, when the capital invested was $88,600,000. The census takes in only plants having an output of more than $500 a year. The average capital of plants in 1909 was $45,000, against $36,000 in 1904, while the average value of output for 1909 was $95,000, against about $80,000 in 1904. The number of tablishments in 1909 was 3,427, against 2,475 in 1904. The cost of materials used was $259,663,000 in 1909 and $156,510,000 in 1904.

The value of the output was $325,357,000 in 1909 and $198,245,000 in 1904. The number of officials and employes in 1909 was 50,333, against 39,291 in 1904, and the total of salaries and wages in 1909 was $32,773,000, against $22,516,000 in 1904. Steam laundries were enumerated separately in 1909. There were 138 such establishmests, with a capital of $1,027,000, a gross income of 000. There were 1,583 officers and employes and salaries and wages paid totaled $63,400.

The private hospitals of the state that have been receiving $500 each from the state for years are going to be hard hit by the legislature if the house and senate take the tip from the house ways and means committee. That committee is reporting unfavorably every bill providing for such an appropriation to a private hospital. The appropriations have been made to these institutions in the past on the theory that they give treatment to charity patients. In some cases it has been found that charity patients have been turned away. Former State Auditor J.

M. Nation was opposed to the plan of appropriating money to these institutions and made recommendations to that effect. It is said that there are 40 private hospitals that have been receiving state aid. John C. Nicholson, of Newton, who as state claims agent secured the payment by the government of $425,000 to the state of Kansas on an old Civil war claim, has filed a claim with the claims and accounts committees of the legislature for $2,500 as an additional amount due him for the collection of this claim from the government.

The amount he asks is the amount which was trimmed off his fee by the legislature two years ago. James Orr, of Atchison county has introduced a bill in the house giving state banks authority to establish savings bank departments. The bill provides that the deposits of savings made in this department shall be invested by the bank only in farm gages. It further provides that this money shall not be used in paying any other depositors except the savings bank depositors. If a bill recommended for passage by the house committee of the whole becomes a law the express companies operating in Kansas will be required to pay i a license of 6 per cent upon the gross receipts received in Kansas.

A. bill has been introduced in the legislature to pay A. C. Mitchell and G. H.

Buckman for their services as attorneys for the state in the bank guaranty suits. The bill provides a compensation of $4,000 cash. Mr. Buckman is now speaker of the house and Mr. Mitchell is congressmanelect from the Second district.

They fought the state's side of the guaranty case in all of the federal courts from the district court of Kansas to the supreme court of the United States, and won. 0- Something original in the way of a Sunday baseball petition came into the house the other day. About fifty petitions against Sunday baseball have been presented, but R. N. Noble of Labette, handed up a petition from the Young People's Missionary Society of Oswego protesting against Sunday leg.

islation. Gov. W. R. Stubbs has appointed Judge J.

C. Ruppenthal of Russell, George W. Marble of Fort Scott and William MacFerran of Topeka to investigate all of the state offices as to expenditures. T. A.

Borman, vice president of the Kansas Farmer Publishing company, and president of the Continental Creamery Company, was elected by the board of directors of the Kansas State Fair association as president of that organization to succeed J. W. Going. The Board of Trade has passed resolutions addressed to Kansas senators and congressmen requesting that they use their influences to have the reciprocity treaty with Canada changed or not approved. THE DAY COUNTY DEBT Attorney General Dawson Receives Check for $1,025.81 From the Oklahoma County.

Attorney General Jobs. Dawson has received from O. E. Null, clerk of the district court of Ellis county, Oklahoma, a check for $1.085.81 as ment upon a judgment obtained several years ago by the state of Kansas against Day county, Oklahoma, for coupons on an issue of bonds of that county held by the Agricultural college endownment fund of the state of Kansas. The bonds were bought by the loan commissioner about ten years ago and after a year or two they were repudiated.

Attorney General Coleman brought suit against Day county and dispatched Mr. Dawson, his assistant at that time, to Day county to try the case. The county seat of Day county was about 40 miles over the sandhills from the Santa Fe railroad in western Oklahoma. After a hard contest the state obtained a judgment, but the county had no money with which to pay the Judgment. The matter was allowed to rest until the constitutional convention met in Oklahoma, when the old county of Day was abolished and became part of the present county of Ellis.

When Attorney General Dawson took charge of the office he began to look into the old Day county matter and found that nothing had been collected, but the other creditors of Day county desired that the school fund commissioners of Kansas should cooperate with them in compromising refunding the indebtedness of Day county, and bills have been introduced in the legislature authorizing such compromise. Meanwhile the attorney general has been making an investigation of the financial status of the merged territory, which is now part of Ellis couny, and the Agricultural college fund is Just $1,085.81 better off by the check received by the attorney general. -O- The supreme court of Kansas sustained the board of railroad commigsioners by holding that Kansas City, shall be made a freight terminal station and that the railroads operating in and out of that city shall publish a list of freight rates from every point in Kansas to Kansas City, and accept shipments to that point instead of Kansas City, Mo. E. C.

Little, chairman of the depot and terminal committee of the Kansas City Commercial club, appeared in court as representing Kansas City. It has been the rule in the past with railroads to ignore Kansas City, Kans. The state board of rallroad commisstoners determined to put it on the map and made the order referred to above. The Missouri Pacific Railway company, through its attorney Balte Waggener, objected on the ground that the order interferred with inter. state commerce and appealed to the supreme court.

That body sustained the board of railroad commissioners. The order and the court decision make Kansas City a terminal point for shipments from all parts of Kansas. In the past practically all of the grain from Kansas has gone to Kansas City, yet it has been necessary to ship it to Kansas City, or bill it that way, and it has all been to the detriment of the Kansas town and to the upbuilding of the Missouri city. State Bank Commissioner J. N.

Dolley went to Cleveland, Ohio, to appear before a federal grand jury in relation to fraud investment companies. He was summoned by the attorney general of the United States at the request of Postmaster General Hitchcock as an expert because of the study he has given the subject. T. A. McNeal is a candidate for mayor of the city of Topeka before the primaries, March 27.

A talk on "Law Enforcement" was made by John Dawson, attorney general, at the Baptist church in Leavenworth recently. Mr. Dawson said it was reported that he would be lax in the enforcement of the prohibitory law and that he came to Leavenworth mainly to change that opinion. The speaker promised to enforce the prohibitory law fully as strongly as his two predecessors and said he would use all their methods and some of his own. He said that he believed it the duty of local county and city officials to obey their oaths and enforce the law and if they failed to do so he would proceed against them.

The state school fund commission has issued a note of warning to municipalities, which have bonds for sale. Municipal bonds must first be offered to the state school fund commission for sale before being placed on any other market. But it appears that certain municipalities have been derelict in this matter, and Attorney General Dawson was directed to make an example of some municipality which fails to comply with the law. Heat a square mile of outdoors durIng a frost. Sounds fanciful, doesn't It? Yet that is what W.

H. Underwood, owner of the Underwood orchards near Hutchinson, proposes to do. He is directing the manufacture of 19,500 oil stoves of his own invention. Rev. J.

C. Everett, has been elected president of the Topeka Ministerial Union. The other officers elected for the year were C. L. Sorg, vice presldent, and A.

A. Samson, secretary and treasurer. From Pain to Pleasure a Quick Transltion. KANSAS STATE NEWS Doyle Succeeds Johnson. Six ballots, which took up almost the entire time of an afternoon session of the Kansas Society of Labor and Industry, were required before Owen Doyle, formerly assistant labor commissioner, was elected labor commissioner to succeed W.

L. A. Johnson, who for 14 years has held that position. At the morning session the officers elected were: President, Charles Roschelle, of Wichita; vice president, L. A.

Hartley, of Parsons. President Roschelle is a carpenter and Hartley is al machinist. When the voting began for labor commissioner there were six candidates in the race. Besides Doyle the candidates were: T. P.

Menton, of Coffeyville, at present a deputy factory inspector; Charles H. Danner, of Fort Scott, a railroad conductor; W. E. Bryan of Topeka, a leather worker, and president of the International Brotherhood of Leather Workers; A. A.

Roe, of Wichita, a brakeman, and E. H. Clecan, a railway fireman, of Horton. Girl Wins Prize for Corn. When the Tri-Citg Farmers' institute met at Edgerton and appointed judges to award prizes offered boys exhibiting corn of their own raising, they found that Frances Wilson, 12 years old, daughter of J.

D. Wilson, had entered ten ears grown by her on an acre tract, and she was voted a special prize. The institute is comprised of farmers from Wellsville, Gardner and Edgerton, and is one of the oldest in part of the state, havEng been meeting for more than 20 years. This is the first time that a girl has competed. Miss Wilson planted, tended and raised the corn without help.

Kansas Rival of Burbank Dies. William H. Thomas, the Kansas rival of Burbank, died at his home in Wichita recently after a week's illness. Thomas was well known, not only in this section, but among harticulturists and florists for his rare skill in growing plants. He grafted plants successfully and produced several new varieties.

However, he never made this a business, pursuing it rather for pleasure. He derived practically no commercial profit from his work but his greenhouse here is one of the beauty spots of the city. Mr. Thomas came to Wichita in a covered wagon in 1878. Kansas City Theaters.

At the Shubert during the week of February 20, Maxine Elliott will appear in her new English farce comedy, "The Inferior Sex." The scenes of the play take place on a yacht and have to do with a woman hater who is converted against, his will. "The Newlyweds and Their Baby," with its tinkly-tinkly musical melange, will be the attraction at the Grand during the week commencing February 19, with a special matinee on Wednesday, Washington's birthday. The play is a crash of fun all the way through, Francis Wilson, in "'The Bachelor's Baby," a delightful comedy written by himself, will appear at the Willis Wood during the entire week, beginning Monday, February 20. As usual a remarkably strong company is supporting Mr. Wilson this season.

Giant Black Eagle Killed. Albert White, a young man near Sylvan Grove, a short time ago killed a large black eagle which measured 6 feet 10 inches from tip to tip of the wings, the largest of this kind of a bird ever killed in this country. John Dyche Passes Away. John William Dyche, one of the oldest citizens of Shawnee county, died at Auburn recently. Mr.

Dyche was 80 years old. He was born in Berkley Springs, W. September 13, 1831. He was an uncle of Prof. L.

L. Dyche, of the University of Kansas, and a brother of Alexander who came to Kansas in the Spring of 1865, and who died at Auburn in March 1901. Skyscraper for Wichita. Wichita is to have a 12-story office building to replace the four story Bitting Bros. building destroyed by fire New Year's day.

Plans for a $350,000 structure have been announced. It is understood that work will begin on the building this spring. Poultry Show for Western Kansas. At a meeting of the Commercial club of Dodge City provision was made for holding a poultry show or exhibit for the territory west of Newton in Kansas at Dodge City some time in November or December of this year. Want Site for Union Depot.

Negotiations have been opened by attorneys for the railroad interests in Wichita for the block of land lying between the Santa Fe and Rock Island passenger depots. It is stated that this property if secured will be used as the site of the long contemplated Union depot for Wichita. To Drill For Gas at Lincoln. There has recently been organized at Lincoln the Lincoln Oil, Gas and Development company with a capital stock of $10,000. FARM A AND BEES HANDY DEVICE FOR LIFTING Portable Hay Derrick Is Excellent for Loading Shocks of Fodder On to Wagon in Field.

(By CHARLES G. MENTOONE.) This is a portable hay derrick which can be used for lifting many things about the farm. It is excellent dor loading shocks of fodder on to a wagon in the field. Placed on runners, it can be hauled along the row of shocks and with its use one man can load as much corn as three can without it. It is also useful in loading hay from the stack to the wagon or from the cock to the wagon.

The center pole should be very strong, a small telegraph pole being the best for the purpose. The bottom A Handy Lifting Device. should be made with a shoulder to fit In the hold of the cross-plank at the bottom. if the pole is 12 feet high the bottom frame should be about six feet. square.

It should be made of 2x6 plank strongly bolted together. Three pulleys are used and the crane can be swung around to any position. KNOT THAT WILL NOT SLIP Clove- Hitch Is Simple and Should be Known by Every Man and Boy on -Quite Useful. (By F. L.

ROBINSON.) The clove-hitch knot ought to be known by every man and boy on the farm. It is very useful in tying ladders to standard or any kind of scaffold building. This knot is very simple, and if properly made will not slip, as many other knots do under a strain. The first picture shows the application of this knot to such things as derricks, guy shear legs; the second is the clove hitch around a small pole. The tight- Knot That Will Not Slip.

er the rope is drawn the less liable the rope is to slip. The third figure is still another application of the clove hitch. Every man about the place ought I to be familiar with this knot and be able to tie it on the instant. It is also a good practice to keep near the ladder, in a dry place, a three-quarter-inch rope, 50 feet or more long. It will be surprising how many times this rope will be used where it never has been used before.

Lighting the Farm House. With the increasing education of farmers' children and the increasing intellectual and social life in farm homes the use of artificial light in farm homes is increasing, and the money economy, but more the sandtary economy, of artificial lighting is of increasing importance. Nor may the aesthetic element, the effect on life of attractive lighting, be left considered. All kerosene lights without mantle are very unlike daylight, hard on the eyes, and hence likely to produce pain and nervous irritation and injury to health. doll for Corn.

Corn is especially adapted to warm, deep loam soils, rich in humus, but it may be grown with more or less success on almost any kind of soil not too low available plant food, it the water line does not come too close to the surface. Killing Potato Bugs. Paris green or some other poison should be used to destroy the potato bugs before they have had a chance to seriously injure the vines. A tew days' delay means the loss of a great many hills. I suggested.

Resinol and gave 8 neighbor one of your sample boxes for a child of a few months whose lower limbs were broken out with a rash resembling Eczema. The sample was applied at once and changed the wail of pain into smiles. Two jars were used with complete recovery in the surprisingly short time of two days. That tired mother's looks and words of gratitude were from the heart. Geo.

E. Ames, D. D. Boulder, Colo. Some tombstone inscriptions are too good to be true.

Constipation is an avoidable misery- -take Garfield Tea, Nature's Herb laxative. Reforms come slowly because we all would rather wield the ax than bear the knife. Cause Enough. "What's the bearded lady so mad about?" inquired the armless wonder. "Somebody sent her a catalogue of a safety razor factory," said the living skeleton.

-Chicago Tribune. No Need to Be Good. A little Shaker Heights girl surprised her parents last week by refusing to be scared into being good. "It's no use telling me Santa Claus won't come, or that the angels will write it down in their book if I'm naughty, mamma," she said. "I might as well tell you that they think up in heaven that I'm dead." "But why should they think that, dear?" "Because I haven't said my prayers for two Plain Dealer.

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Kow- Kure is not a "food" -it is a medicine, and the only medicine in the world for cows only. Made for the cow and, as its name indicates, a cow cure. Barrenness, retained afterbirth, abortion, scours, cakedudder, and all similar affections positively and quickly cured. No one who keeps cows, whether many or few, can afford to be without -Kure. It is made especially to keep cows healthy.

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