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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-12-04
Mind-cure VS.. Common Sense-Necessity SIS
Potent Metaphysicfan

aPotent Metaphysician.
"My DEAR" said an estimable lady to
me the other day, 'you are alarmingly
immersed in matter Rise out of that
matter into spirit, out of bondage into
freedom and the atmosphere Of the
Divine p She was metaphysician. I
was not. She was trying to convince me
that the fever-sores upon my lip did not
exist. Ihad just been looking in the
glass, and knew, alas that they did.
"You have no spirituality" said she.
"But I have common sense" said !.
'Not SO very much of that" said she.
"a good sight more than you," said
I; and SO, over the ledge of difference
of opinion, we fell into the food of dis
putation, and went to pieces on the rocks
below, in wordy, windy spray Of COD
traoiction.
"Just the way women always argue q
question ~ says man, and draws up his
chin from his coat collar, as an eagle
might plume his wing before jackdaws.
No, sir; women do not always quarrel
when they discuss, but if you think I
am going to stand up and allow woman
TO tell me that chalk is cheese, or would
be did either of them really exist; that
spirit is, but matter is not; that even the
chair see before me is only an optical
illusion, and has no place in the universe
Of created things-merely a fallacy and
q vain superstition, as it were; If you
think I can endure all this without get
ting excited, you have mistaken my cali
Der, that is all Granted that there is q
realm of spirit whsreunto few Of us ever
attain until we fash out Of the scabbard
of flesh, that fact does not preclude s
material phase of existence, any more
than the ridge pole and the roof forbid
that there should be foundation. Each
exists as a necessity to the other. A
roof without anything below it would be
impossible; foundation stone with
moving built above it would be useless
and worthless.
It Is not given to all Of us to live in
upper stories, or sit singing in the open
air waiting like dove to fly away into
heaven. "Aunt Candace" got there, but
she had to climb weary lot Of stairs to
do it, and we who haven't got beyond
the first floor yet, If we keep on climb
ing, ray get there, too, only don't let
MS forget to thank the good Lord for
the stairway Of common sense and the
foundation stones Of material means,
which give N good service on the way.
All these faith healers and mind curers
seem to me like Q lot Of folks who want
to occupy the upper chambers without
climbing. The Lord didn't zee it 10
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81 ocK AND FARM NOTES

The Try, Doniphan county Times
ssya: "There have been forty-seyen cars
OF applee shipped from Troy station, so
far, this year, each car loaded with from
one hundred to one hundred and ninety
barrels"
Hanover Democrat: Marshall county
ia to have q farmers institute this year.
which will be held at Blue Rapids on
Thursday and Friday, December 9th and
10th. What is the matter with Washing
ton county, that she cannot have an in
stitute?
Atchison Champion: NJ J. Cloves re-
ports another visitation Of the hog
cholera on his farm near Lucaster.
Seven fine porkers have died. and symp-
toms Of the disease have appeared in the
droves of the other farmers in the neigh
borhood.
Williamsburg Eagle: Tom M. CHM
informs our faber shower that his neigh
Dor, Thomas Collins, has been driving
his 800 cattle about four miles to water
all fall. This week he espied q damp
SPOT near his residence, dug Just two
feet and reached never failing in ex-
haustible supply of water.
Coffeyville Journal: o. M. Judy sue
ceedei in killing an ivory billed wood
pecker last week. This is rare bird in
many localities and the first one that has
been secured in this locality for quite
while. It measured twenty-seven
inches from tip to tip, seventeen inches
from beak to the end of the tail, and it's
tongue was 81 inches long. It was q
pretty specimen,
Cora Union: Thomas F. Stoope, one
of our prosperous and systematic
farmers, living five miles southwest Of
town, put himself on record last Satur-
day as the champion turnip raiser of
this section Twenty four turnips pre-
ssnted by him at this Office weighed just
7Oa pounds, filed bushel sack and are
yet on exhibition, if any one doubts it.
Marysville Neacs: Probably the largest
cattle deal in this county for years was
the sale Perry Hutchinson made last
week of three hundred head of fat steers,
to Degnan & began and an Omaha man.
The cattle averaged 1,407 pounds and
brought $4,000 cash. They we're ship
ped to Chicago and were as fine lot as
were ever put on the market.
Osborne County Farmer: It is grit
flying to note the fact that farmers and
stockmen are supplying better winter
protection for their animals than former
ly. That they are becoming better able
to do SO is principal reason, but another
is the apparently increasing severity Of
the winter seasons, which has spurred
them to greater exertion. That it pays
to give the animals good shelter is a
proposition that not many have ever dis
puted.
Norton Champion: Mr.. Charles A.
Wright made proof upon his timber
culture claim last week. Being travel
ing man (by the way the first man who
ever sold dry goods by sample in Nor
ton he was necessarily obliged to have
the work done and to Mr.. E. L. Howell
his immediate neighbor is due the
credit of having raised the finest grove
we know of in this section. Six years
ago he planted thirty-two bushels of
black walnuts, and 5000 yellow cotton
wood. There are now on the ten acres
planted at least 10000 walnut trees,
many of which are twelve feet high and
1000 cottonwood, which will average 25
feet.
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A "Reminiscences of Artemus Ward.
I shall never forget the last time say
Artemus Ward.


I shall never forget the last time I saw
Artemus Ward.
We were in London, my husband and
myself, and learning from friend that
our Yankee humorist was to lecture Ole
night 10 Egyptian hall we determined
to be among his hearers. I had heard
him several times in America and was
anxious to see how an English audience
would respond to his New World droll-
cry, his unequalled humor.
1t was the hope that we might meet
him and have little chat together that
we went quite early, but though we we're
among the first who gathered there that
night he was nowhere to be seen till
the lecture CT mmenced.
The people came in in a struggling
fashion and occupied the front seats and
those in the body of the house. The
hall was little more than half full, I re-
member the lights seemed dim, the dis
tances dark and solemn and the archi-
lecture dismal in the extreme. The
hall was like huge tomb built for the
reception of dead and gone Pharaohs.
On settee not far from our party five
gentlemen sat together. I fancied they
were clergymen and had come with the
avowed intention of sitting out the exer-
cises in grave and dignified silence.
When Artemus made his appearance
it was pitiful to see the ravages diseaee
had made in one short year. His face
was thin and pallid, his hollow eyes
glistened with light inexpressibly pain
full, and held that strange expression Pc
culiar to consumptives, rs one looking
outside the world. Even as he spoke he
caught his breath, evidently in pain,
and pressed his hand to Ills side.
Ny husband turned to me with the
brief sentence: 1.-THE man is dyingp'
aud 80 he was.
With one expressive glance about the
place, scanning ceiling, lights, shadows
and semi-darkness, the man took step
forward, and commenced in his usual
hating speech and assumed timidity of
manner:
when the Egyptians built this hall
the principles or acoustics were not
fully understood neither, is it presum-
able, had the matter of ventilation been
very extensively ventilated.
There was smile on the faces of
many, but nothing more-and yet the
humor Of the thing was exquisite, I
could not keep my eyes from the five
clergymen, who sat shoulder TO shoulder
like somany sleek. soft coated seals. Not
q tremor betrayed that they were con-
scious of muscles their faces were stern,
their lips compressed, their brows un-
bending. Their stolidity possessed q
fascination for me that even Artemus
Wards inimitable personation could not
shake of. Again and again his odd
provoked from our party both
and tears, bat still that cleri-
cal conclave sat it out and did not even
smile. Could it possibly be that they
were Obvious OF the subtle wit Of his
burlesque, the rare changes in his fsce?
Presently the moon appeared in his
colnical little panorama, wavered, trem-
bled like boat struck BY q sudden
squan and then hung as Il suspended,
limp ind motionlees on some lunar hook,
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rive them wings YET ana tnoy e0okn t0o
Test He did give them. IL they attain
unto the higher places they viii hsve to
uee the means He furnishes to get there,
not depend upon special miracles to car
~ them up. All the sitting helplessly
on the cellar stairs and trying to pray
yourself up garnet is not going. to do
any good; nor all the arguing that You
are not in the cellar will lift you to the
ridee-pole. Faith, as disconnected
fGculty, is like the desire to walk with
out using the feet. 1t can not result
in any progress, any more than can an
effort to get upstairs without the action
of will power on the limbs. The person
who relies merely upon faith without
reason becomes lunatic or an hysteric
emotionalist. If I have headache that
headache is the result of some broken
law, and all my efforts to reason myself
out of it, provided it really exists, will
avail me little until seek the cause and
learn the remedy. The mind cure theory
works miracles in giving an impetus to
selfish people to get outside OF their con-
slant thoughts OF self, and thus, trans
ferring their regard to other matters
than their own aches and ailments,
works wonderful experience Of new
sensations and enthusiasms.
All the mind cure treatment in the
world is not going to cure an actual dis
ease. It will not remove bullet nor
set broken limb, although it may dis
sipate hypochondria and drive away q
purely nervous disorder. Put the bayo-
net of an actual necessity behind the
half of these languid invalids and you
will see as great a miracle of cure as
faith or metaphysics ever wrought.
knew q woman once who never had a
well day in all her adult life. She was
plump as kitten, fair as white feather,
sweet-tempered as an August apple, but
something was always wrong with her.
She laid in bed for days at time, and
the servants brought her milk punches
and dollhouse fruit. The children were
cautioned to step lightly by her door,
and the doctor called with sad frequen-
cy. One day her husband fell down an
open elevator shaft, and was brought
home dead; the money was all swallowed
up in debts. Up stalked poverty and
marked the door posts with a heavy
cross. Actual want sat down in the
chimney corner and the little children
found nobody in all the wide world but
poor, sick mamma between them and the
poor-house. And what did poor sich
mamma do? She went to work like 6
well woman. To-day she weathers al
storms that the heavens blow, and never
rememt ers that once even the zephyrt
were tempered for her through the rose.
lined fleece of love. Was it metaphysics
that cured her? Or that beggarly faitf
which, like an idiotic child, is always
questioning of it's father the common
steps it ought to take alone9 Neither
my dear; it was simply grin necessity
and latent reserve power in q hitherto
idle woman which made heroine out Of
a sluggard.
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Ridiculous Episode.

RIDICULOUS EPISODE.
Here is ridiculous episode of the re.
cent ladies' cycling tour to Cape Ann:
The fair Athenian, we will call her Mrs.
O., was riding on the front seat of q tan
dem tricycle.. the rear seat being occupied
by her husband, when, without Sec
ond's warning, she suddenly felt herself
being drawn downward upon the saddle
until she could hardly move. At her start
led cry the mainline wrs brought to a
stsndstil], when it was discovered that her
dress had been caught in the gearing of
the machine, the dress guard having been
left OF at the repair shop through an
oversight. Two breadths Of the skirt
were SO effectually wound backward and
forward into the machine that bulge an
inch the lady couldn't, while the COM
bined efforts Of the gentlemen of the
party were as unavailing in extricsting
even q fragment Of the blue flannel.
The lady wouldn't permit the dress to
to be cut, and efforts to take the tricycle.
apart seemed fruitless. Finally Dor
iowed skirt was donned sans cercmonie,
right there in the kings highway, the
party meanwhile turning their backs to
gaze of ovez the ruffied bosom of old
ocean; the other skirt was loosened, and
''hub," with herculean efforts, though
not without several trials, lifted the tn
cyclienne clear of the wreck, and she
stood once Isore on terra frma.
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Millbrook Times: On Tuesday q
prairie fire in Morlan township destroy
ed about twenty live tons Of hay for Mr..
Church, twenty five tons for MI. Barnes,
and twenty-five tons OF hay and ten
acres Of fine growing timber for George
NJ Fetherkile.
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Hampton Court Palace, London,
was set on fire on the 10th, and
several of the apartments were des-
troyed, but the Chapel and Royal
State apartments were saved. The
fire was eventually subsued.
The Anarchists of Chicago are
reported to be active, and to have
discussed various "plans" by which
they could greatly damage the city.
The police have watchful eye on
the ''groups," and profess to have
no fears of the plans of the Anarch-
lists ever amounting to more than
boasts.
The Mexican Government has sent
T. Masac, Federal Inspector Of
Colonies and Fisheries, to Lower
California to make a full report
regarding the condition of the
various colonies established there.
The captain of the steamer Nor
manton, which foundered off Ooshi-
ma, Japan, has been committed for
trial of manslaughter, it being held
that he is responsible for the drown
ing of the passengers on his vessel.
The Hon. Charles Francis Adams,
ST., died on the 21st inst, at Bos-
ton. Deceased was the third son of
John Quincy Adams, and was in his
eightieth year.
The Washington Marine Hospital
Service received information on the
10th inst, through the State Depart
ment, of the existence of cholera at
Mayence, Germany.
Great distress is anticipated at
Dantzic. Germany, the coming
winter. Trade is paralyzed, the
Government dock-yards are dis
charging men weekly, and in the
arms factories there are also many
hundreds idle.
An effort is being made to boom
ex-Postmaster- General Gresham as
the Republican candidate for Pre-
sident in 1888.
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A WESTERN ROMANCE.

'There goes young man who
has romance, remarked we'll
known citizen of st. Paul to a re-
porter, as he looked through the
window, as young man of perhaps
twenty-five passed up First avenue,
a remarkably handsome lady hang
ing upon his arm. "Tell you about
it? Certainly; only l won't give
you the names of the parties, for if
1 did you would print it and nearly
every one in the city would recog-
nize in the couple two well-known
Minneapolis people,"
"Some years ago the young man
worked in one of the big mills and
was looked upon as good man in
his position. One day party of
ladies visited the mill, among them
the lady you saw with him. While
looking at the different things
around the mill this young lady
dropped from her finger into lot
of wheat which was being stored, a
valuable diamond ring which had
been presented to her by her mother,
who had died some years before.
"Of course the young lady was
nearly heart broken and refused to
be comforted by her friends. This
young man, who was standing near
by when she dropped the ring, saw
the whole thing and made up his
mind to recover the ring. That
evening as soon as his work was
done, he went to the bin in which
the wheat had been stored, and
there, accompanied by a friend,
sifted all the wheat and placed it in
bags. 1t was nearly morning when
he found the ring. The wheat was
then emptied back into the bin and
the young man went home. When
he went to work again he went to
the head miller and succeeded in
being released for the day. His
next move was to dress himself in
his best suit and return the ring to
the owner.
''To her he related how he recov-
cred it, and by his pleasing man.
ners SO captivated her that she in
vited him to call. This he did, and
the friendship thus begun soou
ripened into something stronger.
The young lady's father took 6
great liking to the young man and
gave his consent to marriage ar.
ranged between him and his daugh,
ter, When the marriage took place
the young man left the mill and was
started in business by his wife'i
father. He is now worth about
100000 and can lay his good for
tune to recovering the lost ring
TSt. Paul Globe.
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1t takes very generous person
indeed to be faithful to self-ar-
ranged plan ofgenerosity. 1t is often
true that people hate their proteges
when those they have helped have
grown beyond the need of their aid.
The reason of this is not always
black ingratitude on the part of the
recipient of favor; it is just as often
due to the restless vanity and in
satiate selffishness of the one who
had set up for a patron saint, and
who, failing to find constant pro-
stration of spirit in the aided one,
turns upon this one with cursing in
stead Of blessing. People who have
influence, people in power, often
press their favorite forward to pc.
sitions of trust, only to find them
selves afterward left out in the cold
by those whom their kindness has
brought out. 1t has become almost
proverbial that women always hate
any woman for whom they have ever
done any thing. This is no truer
of women than Of men; it is far too
true of both. Rut it is true of
neither man nor woman who, by
nature or by persistent cultivation,
has become possessed of large
generousness of soul, a readiness to
do all that is possible for a strug-
Cling friend, because it is possible
to do it., and not from any petty
motives of self-glorification in doing
or in giving. The truest unselfish-
ness is that which does not consider
duty in the relations of life as an
abstract good. Duty is a fine watch
word, when it implies privilege. Too
many people make it miserable
slavery by bringing no freedom, no
pleasure into it's performance. There
is no such thing as duty in graft
tude. A grateful heart offers its
own reward without any forcing.
But a giver who demands incense
burning is certain not to get it. A
morbid desire for perpetual adora-
ton can not, in the nature of things,
be gratified.-[ Boston Record.
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A LOOK AHEAD.

Mr.. Chauncey M. Depew thinks
that if the Republican National Con-
vention was to be held at once Mr..
Blaine would be nominated. Mr..
Depew also thinks that Mr.. Cleve-
land will be nominated by the De-
moorats, Mr.. j. F. Andrews, the late
Democratic candidate for Governor
Massachusetts,, is also of the opinion
that Mr.. Cleveland will be nominat-
ed. Between Mr.. Blaine and Mr..
Cleveland, Mr.. Andrews thinks
Massachusetts, would vote for Cleve-
land. Mr.. Depew and Mr.. An
drews are in = position to take a
long look ahead, and there is GER
tainly ground for their conclusions.
But there is an influence at work
which neither of them has appa-
rently taken into consideration.
That influence is the Labor vote, as
the Labor party vote cannot be di-
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reoted to one Of the old parties, A
Labor organization in New York
would render Mr.. Cleveland's nomi-
ton very hazardous. He has done
nothing to attach that large portion
of the Democratic party to his adj
ministration. He has gained
strength among well-to-do mug
wumps, among employers of labor,
and moneyed interests generally,
but not among the people. If Mr..
Blaine becomes a candidate he will
let the mugwumps go. In their
places he will take in mudsill Demo-
Gratis, men who care more for princi-
Piles than for name Call, Nov.
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THURSDAY. DEC. 2, 1886.
TRUE USEFULNESS.

WHY MoRBIB DESIRES FOR PERPETUAL
ADoRArIoN ARE NOT GRATIFIED.
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This is the Only Original Correct and Complete Record,
Book Form of the Business and Debates of the Legisa
tive Assembly of 1886.
The Book consists of Revised and Corrected of
the Reports published from day to day, throughout the
Session, in the BULLETIN.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-03-04
The Freed Failure.

The largest failure ever in this
section Of the state Is that of Mr.. q
M. Freed, of Dardanelle, who caved
in last Friday. This failure takes on
regular city proportions, the liabiii-
Ties amounting to more than $780,
900 aud his assets in merchandise
$4,000. He has also large assets in
business houses and book accounts,
He has confessed judgment to the
amount of $4O.500. A special Cal
bearing Judge Rose, of Little Rock,
came up Thursday evening who
passed over to Dardanclle in regard
to the failure. Mr.. Freed, we learn,
attributes his failure largely to his
losses on cotton. Being by far the
largest merchant in Dardanelle his
failure created quite q sensation In
that community, as well as this side
of the river. In this year Of grace
the great and small seem to go down
together.
The Russellville Democrat., 1886-03-04
OBITUARY.

Died, Mrs. A. B. Williamson. Of
pneumonia, in Russellville, Ark.
Feb. 2lst, 1856.
Clemmie Williamson, as she was
familiarly known, was born in La
fayette county, Miss, Jan. 24tt
1850, and was consequently 36 years
Of age at the time of her demise
Her father, the Rev. Jas. Veasey, Q
minister in the Missionary Baptist
church, came to Arkansas in 1851 2
and located in Dardanelle. Ia few
years Mrs. veasey died, and when
Clemmie was yet only seven years
old, her father also died, and left
her to the care and management Of
her sister, Mrs. Emily Miller. She
was raised by Mrs. Miller, with
whom she continued to live till this
time of her marriage. She was
married to Mr.. A. B. Williamson
Jan. 81, 1869, with whom she lived
peacably and happily till death took
her from him. She was the mother
of four children; little Ada, the first
died in July 1877 at the age Of sew
en-. And Archie, SOD, died Aug
1872 at the tender age Of ten months
Two, Harry and Annie, are left tc
mourn the irreparable loss Of theil
dear mama.
Mrs. Williamson professed faith in
Christ in 1870, and united with the
c. p. church in Russellville in 1876
and be it said with honor to her
memory. she lived an undertaking
Christian from the time OF her pro
fession OF faith in the Son of God
till the messenger called for her. She
died Sunday, Feb. 81, 1886. at
o'clock q, m. She leaves a husband,
two children, a brother and sister,
and host ofrelatives and friends to
mourn their loss. She had no init
nation that death was so near, but
died rather suddenly and unexpeet-
eddy. However, we have sufficient
grounds for saving that she is now
"a spirit still and bright" amid the
glories Of the home OF the soul.
And, now, we commend all the be
reaycd to the tender care of the Great
Shepherd, who will lead all beside
the still waters, and will gather all
the faithful to the same glorious rest
at last. H. B. MILNER.