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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
He Has Resigned.

Last Sundays east-bound mail train
carried toward the seat of the national
government the resignation of James w.
Willard as postmaster at this place. Mr..
Willard, in his personal treatment of peo-
pie generally, has placed us under SO
many personal obligations to him as to
render wicked on our part any very Sc
we're structures on his official course or as
to the causes which led him to tender his
resignation. In fact, the patrons of the
office generally know where to locate the
trouble. Mr.. Willard accompanied his
resignation with the statement that he
was thoroughly tired Of the office.
His books are in excellent shape. we
are told.
Mr.. G. NJ. Ufford YVES selected last Sat
urday by MIR. Willard to assist Temporal
rily in conducting the affairs OF the Of
fee, and he complied with the request.
Willard did not resign in any ones IA
vor, but Ufford feels sure of receiving the
appointment as his successor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
THOMAS CADDICK.

Mems, boys and youths clothing
in endless quantity at Caddick's
Ii it is something Of good quality
that you want, | have it. Ii you
want something at right low prices
have that also.
The largest stock of boots and
shoes in this whole western country
is to be found at Caddick's. To call
and examine will establish the truth
of this statement.
One Of the best, as we'll as the
finest, assorted stocks Of groceries to
be found in the west is at Caddick' S.
To add to this, carload of Greeley
potatoes will be here in a day or two.
In dry goods, Caddick has as fine
an assortment as is kept in any store
in this section Of country.
Flour. feed and salt. at wholesale
and retail, at Caddick's.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28

Green grass shows some in the valleys.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28

Mr.. Barnard Wagner's family are going
to forsake country life for the more excit-
ing path which runs through life in acity.
Mr.. Wagner has purchased of Mrs. w. 7.
Hunter the first residence south of b. J..
Hille's home house.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
MORGAN & DAMS
TREES TO SELL!

W. E. DABNEY, of Russell,
Kan, has a full line of Nursery
Stock, embracing everything adapt
ed to the west.
He has appointed j. w. MIL
LARD, Agent at Wa-keeney, to
take orders until next Monday.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
Important.

Important.
When you visit or leave New York City
save baggage, expressage and carriage
hire and stop at the Grand Union Hotel,
opposite Grand Central Depot.
Elegant rooms fitted up at cost Of one
million dollars, reduced to S1.00 and up
wards per day. European plan. Eleva-
tor. Restaurant supplied with the best.
Horse cars, stages and elevated railroad
to all depots. Families can live better
for less money at the Grand Union Hotel
than at any other first-class hotel in the
CITY,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
WAR INAUGURATFD.

We found we couldn't take time to
go to the Inauguration Of
President Cleveland, so we conclu-
ded to get up little In
auguration of our own right here
this Spring, which would
interest everybody. Accordingly,
War on
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
SEEDS! SEEDS!
Field, Garden and Tree Seeds.

Field, Garden and Tree Seeds.
KELLY & WALKER have in
stock:
FIELD SEEDS.
400 bushels German and Small
Millett.
$50 bushels Orange and Amber
Cane.
100 bushels Winter oats.
TREE SEEDS.
Box Elder, Honey Locust, Native
Ash, Usage Orange.
GARDEN SEEDS.
A full and complete stock of fresh
garden seeds in bulk. Examine our
stock before making purchases.
Morgan & Damn have splendid
assortment of Clothing on the way
from the East. Examine their
stock and prices before you buy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28

Mr.. Charles Thiel, of CoEyer, made
us subscription call Thursday. He frs
came to this county ten years ago, and
has had land here since 1875.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
IrGaSQlGlS' Final Notice
To Delinquent Tax Payers.

Notice is hereby given that the follow
ing-described lands and town tots, stu
ated in the counties of Trego and Cove,
state of Kansas, and which were sold on
the 5th day of September, 1882, for the
unpaid taxes of the year 1881, will be con-
veyed to the purchasers unless redeemed
on or before the 5th day of September, 1885:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
TREGO COUNTY TRACINGS.
Served up by the "WorId's Rustling
Reporters.
C0LLYER CARVINGS.
COLLIER, March IL.

COLLIER, March IL.
Oats being sown.
Flowing commenced.
Drummers numerous.
Settlers constantly coming.
Mr.. Peterson spent Thursday in Russell.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28
School Land Sale.

COUNTY TREASURES OFFICE,
WA-KEENEY, KANSAS.
I will offer, at public sale, at my office,
in Wa-Keeney, Kansas, on
Friday, april II, 1885,
between the hours of 10 o'clock a. m. and
3 o'clock p. NJ, the following described
state school lands.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1885-03-28

Our winter goods go at cost to
make room for an immense stock of
spring goods.
MORGAN & DAMN.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
[Cinc:nnati Enquirer

lClnc.nnau enquirer.
Old, but good, is the story told of the
young preachers who were discussing the
subject of off-hand sermonizing, when an
old gentleman declared he always
preached extempore and trusted to the
occasion for inspiration.
A young man declared he never did,
but preferred carefully preparing his
sermons and committing them TO mem
DRY.
"Pshaw," said the old man, "the rea-
son you don't preach extempore is be-
cause you can't"
"Well," replied the young one, "Pn
tell you what I'll do. Next Sunday
we'll both preach extempore I'll preach
in the morning FROM any text you give
me, and you preach in the afternoon from
text Pll give you, and we'll see who
does the best"
Agreed. The affair got noised abroad,
AMI crowded house greeted the young
preacher as he went into the pulpit, and
the old man passed up the text, from q
verse in Numbers:
"And the Lord opened the mouth of
the ass"
The young preacher pitched in and
graphically described the kinds and
breeds of asses, the usefulness, good and
bad traits, and drew moral and adorned
a tale from all he knew of asseology. The
sermon was q success.
Evening came, and the old preacher
assembled the pulpit, and the young one
sent up the text from the next verse in
Numbers: Am not thine ASST
The old gentleman rubbed his glasses
and adjusted them, read the text to him.
self, then took off his glasses again and
rubbed them and read the text aloud.
Then he coughed and looked around at
the audience, for the Westinghouse was
packed, readjusted his glasses, coughed
and repeated the text aud, bending over
the pulpit, said: Eyes. brother, guess I
am"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

Of the victims of this delusions make no
inquiry "a TO the truth of the tale that
has reached their ears, but. calmly as
Stunning to the gospel, limit their inqui-
ries To the exact address of the person to
whom the stamps are to be sent--whetber
there Is any restriction 10 the denomiDa-
tions Of the stamps-whether foreign
stamps will be accepted, etc.
The sober fact is that cancelled post
age stamps with one exception of GER
tain ancient issues priced by those
afflicted with .'Timbromania") have no
value save as waste paper, and the col
lection of them is simply a waste of
time. One who has been at some pains
To trace the origin of this ensnariDg
legend. reports that be has discovered it
in the fact that about forty years ago an
advertisement appeared In an English
newspaper appealing TO the charitable TO
send the cancelled stamps from their let
tiers to a certain address in Brighton to
aid the Efforts of a poor LAD to cover the
walls of his bedroom with those defaced
effigies of Her Majesty-the promise hav-
ing been made him that on the compile
ton of the task the expenses of his edu-
cation would be PAID Tor by some wealthy
crank.
The post-office authorities took the
trouble to investigate the matter, and
found that the advertiser was in fact
lad, but that his educational least in
one branch of learning-was already
complete, the stamps sent in response to
his appeal being cleaned by some pro.
cess he had discovered and disposed of
by him at discount. His infant in
dustry was, of course, quietly suppressed,
and, his operations having opened the
eyes of the post-office authorities to the
danger of extensive frauds, measures
were taken to guard against it by the
use of fugitive inks, which disappear
when any liquid is applied to remove
the csncelling marks. But although
further mischief in that direction was
thus prevented, the young scamp had
laid the foundation for the most annoy
ing of myths.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15

in his earliest DAYS, and later on at the
period of his aifluence he had not forgot
ten the companions of his more youthful
JOYS. It was said that there were no less
than four ladies who lived handsomely at
Mr.. . Brien's expense during his later
years. Not that they were all his mis-
tresses by any means, bu, at some time
or other in their lives he had relations
with them, and be felt the obligation to
care for them. Uncle Billy" was i'll
for several months before he died, and
during his illness be took his old partner
and friend Flood into his confidence, and
between them they provided for all the
ladies In the handsomest manner. To
each was decided the beautiful house she
dwelt in and sufficient sum to support
it, together with furniture, horses, car
riages, etc. Rumor put the cost of all
this to Uncle Billy's estate at $780, 900
but it was all done quietly, and not a
soul but Flood knew. From each of the
ladies was taken a cast.iron document
signed, sealed and delivered releasing w.
). O'Brien and his estate from any claim
whatsoever.
But alas, Uncle Billy forgot one in
amorata of the days of his poverty. A
Mexican woman in humble life called
one day at the Nevada Bank after
O'Brieu's death and asked to see Mr..
Flood. The latter recognized her at
once. She had been friend" OF Uncle
Billy's when Flood and O'Brien kept
the Auction Lunch and : sIoon." The
woman, who seemed quite poor, asked il
Mr.. O. Brien had not left her some little
keepsake. Flood said he had not. He
must have forgotten me-" she said, and
then she pulled from her pockets bDn-
die of yellow, faded love-letters of Uncle
Billy's, written in mixture of pretty
bad English and horrible Spanish, and
said: "He used to think so much of me;
| was greatly shocked to hear of his
death" The woman did not ask for
anything, but the cool-headed Flood
knew that he must get those letters, for
an innocent woman with that budget
was too dangerous quantity to allow to
run loose in community filled with
hungry and inscriptions lawyers He
sent for his co-executor, j. V. Coleman,
nephew of Uncle Billy, and the two took
the woman into private room. What.
ever took place there nobody knows, but
the letters passed into Floods possession,
and it was afterwards learned that the
O'Brien estate was charged with $40, 700
illegal expenses in securing certain quit.
claim deeds"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Was Justifable.
[Arkansaw Traveler.l

A well known planter of south Arkan-
saw, man who has exhorted at more re-
Vivals than any worker in the state, had
trouble last week. While hauling cot
ION along a muddy road, one of the
steers broke the yoke and ran away
The old fellow sat down on a log and
said:
Lord you know pretty well what |
have done for the church, and how many
privations have stood without whim-
per Of complaint If you have observed
me very closely, you know that never
said word when my fences were washed
away, and that even when Josh Chandler
beat me in law suit, did not murmur
but now, after mature consideration.
am compelled TO say something. Damn
that steer. / think that under the cir
cumstances | am excusable. Very few
men would have stood as much as have
especially a man whose wife is in fout
half the time, so ! submit the question !:
Don't you think that am iustifable ia
the course have this day takenl Here
am stuck in the.mud. By the time
can get another team the boat will be
gone, and I'll have to leave my cotton or
haul it back home. If leave it on the
bank, somebody will steal it, and if ]
take it back home, Anderson will catch
ii with mortgage. So, you see, / am
peculiarly situated, and am, before any
court In the world, or ont of it either,
justifable in remarkiDg, damn that
steer"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Early Man I'm America.

According To Prof Brinton, of the
Academy of Natural Science, many
important traces of early man are to
be discovered in the Mississippi Valley.
Near St. Paul begins the modified
glacial drift of an intermediate glacial
period. Fifteen feet below the surface in
it are found stone implements and remains
of workshops.
In Patagonia remains of fires, tools
and implements of bone were found.
These things indicate somewhat adj
vanced stage of civilization and were
left by men who lived here before the
horse was extinct. From these things it
is inferred that race, with race types
and characteristics, existed here AS
early, If not earlier, than elsewhere on
the globe.
The characteristics of the American
race is color ranging from copper to
white stiff hair and little of it; foreheads
retreating, compressed at the sides, and
low; eyes straight; noses dissimilar;
mouths large; chin round, small and
regular; expression hard and unpleas-
ant
The sexes are much alike in appear
ance when they do not wear garments
fashioned for the purpose of distinguish
ing them. The higher the development of
man, the more pronounced is the distinc-
ton between the Sc es
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
A Joke which Mark Twain Enjoy ed.
fExchangel


81 remember one circumstance of by
gone times with great vividness," said
Mark Twain recently to Buffalo audi
ence. 81 arrived here after dark on
February evening in 1870, with my
wife and large company of friends,
when l had been a husband twenty-four
hours; and they put us two in a covered
sleigh and drove us up and down and
every which way through all the back
streets in Buffalo, until at last | got
ashamed, and said:
az asked Mr.. Slice to get me cheap
boarding house, but didn't mean that
he should stretch economy to the going
outside the state to find it, The fact
was, there was practical joke to the
fore which / didn't know anything
about, and all this fooling around was to
give it time to mature. My father-in-
law, the late Jervis Langdon, whom
many of you will remember, had been
clandestinely spending a fair fortune
upon house and furniture.in Delaware
avenue, for us, and had kept his secret
so well that was the only person this
side Of Niagara Falls that hadn't found
it out.
"We reached the house at last, about
ten o'clock, and were introduced to a
Mrs. johnson, the ostensible landlady.
took glance around, and then my
opinion of Mr.. Slee's judgment as pro-
wider of cheap boarding houses for men
who had to work for their living dropped
to zero. told Mrs. johnson that there
had been an unfortunate mistake. Mr..
Slee had evidently supposed l bad
money, where as only had talent; and
so, by her leave, we would abide with
her q week, aud then she could keep
my trunk and we would hunt another
place.
Then the battalion of ambushed
friends and relatives burst in on US, out
of closets aud from behind curtains; the
property was delivered over to us, and
the joke revealed, accompanied with
much hilarity. Such jokes as these are
all too scarce in a persons life. That
was really admirable joke, for that
house was 50 completely equipped in
every detail-even to the house servants
and coachman-that there was nothing
to do but just sit down and live in it.
"Well, the house isn't ours now, but
we've got the coachman yet. All these
| fifteen years he has been living and
constant reminder of that pleasant jest.
He was a spruce young STRIPPING then,
with his future all before him. He
showed himself worthy of high good
fortune, and it has fallen richly to his
lot--beyond his most distempered dreams;
he's gos wife and nine children now.
would not discriminate; would not
show partiality; wish you oil the same
luck"
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
[San Francisco Post. ]


1t is remarkable what bad shots these
nihilists are. Here, they have fired, first
and last, about four and half pounds of
bullets at the present car and the En-
peror William; but instead of turning
those well-known parties into portable
lead mines, no particular harm has been
done. Not so much az a two-bit watch
crystal has been broken, so far, and the
public-particularly the newspaper fra
ternity-is getting tired of so many mis-
cures, especially as the socialists, dyuami-
tiers and internal machine builders are
selling equally low in the pools. 1t is
about time somebody made a record,
and, in this connection, we are glad to
notice that Captain Bogardus and Dr.
Carver are about making tour of
Europe.
Communists and other dissatisfied
stockholders could hardly do better than
avail themselves of the services of these
excellent marksmen.
1t takes an American to shoot straight
after all.
Their terms are reasonable, and they
could be relied upon to watt to happier
land than ours at least forty-five mon
archs out OF possible fifty, on an aver
age-dukes, prime ministers and heirs
apparent in proportion. We don't see
how the nibilists can make any progress
otherwise, as the box of four-bit cigars
filled with nitro-glycerine, recently sent
the car, failed to explode, and lot of
American depot doughnuts donated to
the kaiser, were referred by that tyrant
TO the ordnance department, under the
impression that they were some new kind
of patent grape-shot There is, seriously
nothing left but to arrange the imperial
sweepstakes for the captain at once, and
If he fails there is the DIR" who is
known to be even more deadly with
the rife than he formerly was with the
prescription, which is saying great
deal
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
Wanted am En- blem.
detroit Free Press

A man called in at carpenter shop
on Clifford street yesterday and said he
was in business in the western part of
the city and wanted an emblem to hang
on the front of his building.
"What kind of an emblem had you
thought of" asked the carpenter.
"Well, daunnO."
"What business are you ing
IL run a saloon"
"Ahl How would beaver dor
"There amt enough water In my
business to support either a fish or bea-
ver"
might take an eagleg'
"Too common, and the Eagle saloon is
only a block away"
"HOw would a rooster do?"
swell, | haven't much to crow over,
and the Democratic party seem to own all
the ROSTERS in the country"
Then take a beehive"
"What does that representa-
Industry. The bee is ever busy, you
know?"
"Well, Iain't and the business is lazy
one"
"a gilded ak or hammer would look
nice"
Yes, but that wouldn't do. III state
the case and then, perhaps. you can sug-
gest something. / am S400 In debt, my
wife has run away, and am sick and
tired of the business and want to go West
and hang myself. If you've got any
emblem for that state of affairs trot her
out"
The carpenter had to decline the job.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
A Cat With a Tail Of Fire.

1t often happens that the rat is accused
of being an incendiary, and many are the
destructive fires laid at his door or, rath-
er, hole. 1t is said that he gathers stray
matches from the floor and carries them
in his mouth to his hole, and there, by
experiments or carelessness. he fires them
off to set the building ablaze But prob
ably the first case on record of his old
and arch enemy, the cat, being accused
of incendiarism, was that which occurred
last Monday afternoon on o. ID. Ed
wards place, five miles from Macon, on
what is known as the river road
1t seems that the small boy, as in most
cases where mischief is connected, is ac-
cessary before the fact. Three or four
little negro boys took hold of cat on
the premises and wrapped piece of
small wire around Tabby's TAIL To the
end of the wire they attached a piece
of cotton saturated with kerosene oil.
This they set on fire, and then they
took a seat on the fence to watch and
see which way the cas would Jump.
Tabby sat on her launches for minute
or so, probably TO study out what the
boys had done that seemed to them so
funny. Then suddenly she smelt rat,
or, most likely, the burning cotton, and
dashed off at rate that would have
shamed rabbit.
On one side of the dwelling-house was
a crib filled with hay and fodder. Into
this crib the cat shot, but she did not re-
main long. Her flaming tail had ignited
the fodder and hay, and the room had
become oppressively warm Mr.. Edwards
saw Tabby as she emerged from the crib
and thinking it strange that her tail
should bear such a close resemblance to
the tail of a comet, watched her, with his
back to the crib, that was last being
eaten up by the flames.
He saw her rush into the crib on the
other side of the dwelling, and then saw
her dart out again and head in the dir
rection of the river She had set fire to
that crib also, and before Mr.. Edwards
or his hands could get any water, 1000
worth of cribs, hay, fodder, cotton seed,
oats, ETC., were completely destroyed.
The Indianapolis sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1880-1904, 1885-02-15
IN. World wh.s We Make IL.

It 10 true in psychology that what the
mind itself contributes to the making Of
. conception, is at least as important as
what the outer world supplies for that
conception.
And il 10 NO less true that the things
which constitute our social or moral or
religious world, are affected as much by
our own shaping of them within our
selves, as by the bare materials of them
which exist outside ourselves.
Sbakspeare is not the same to any two
readers; each reader has his own Shak.
speare-a Shakespeare formed by the
growth into the readers mind of those
elements in Shakepeare which are akin
70 the mind of the reader. And 80 it is
with every single object which ia pre-
sented 70 human thought. Each sees
the object; but each puts something of
himself into his seeing. The same blue
sky il shining with joy for one, and is
calmly pitiless for another. The world
of nature takes ON the aspect of our moods
ID but the reflection Of what We know Of
ourselves.
II we are convinced that truth and
faith and purity have died out Of the
world, it is a sure sign that we are sadly
in need of reformation ourselves If we
recognize nobility in another, it is evil
dence that the best within ourselves is
not yet dead. This power, this habit of
shaping our world into our own image,
carries with it a certain respOnsibility
When We are most firmly convinced that
what the world needs is some sharp re-
formation, we ought first to question our
selves how much of tine wickedness
We see is really the worlds and how
much Of it is only the shadow Of our
selves.