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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
TREeO COUNTY TRACINeS.

Served Up by the Worlds" Rustling
Reporters.
ADAIR ADVICES.
ADAIR, TREao Co, March 6
Disagreeable weather.
Farmers again take rest.
F.P. Clark has new pump.
J. B. Ruppe proves up on March Is.
The timber claim in section o. IL, 21
has been sold.
J. s. Smith has been the guest of Isaac
Barnes the past week.
James Samuels is slowly recovering
from his recent sickness.
This has not been very pleasant week
either over head or under foot.
T.. L. Howe was working at his trade in
Ellis the greater part of last week.
The question for discussion at the lit
erary tonight is: "Resolved, That we have
tariff for revenue only"
A number of farmers who did not buy
last year are looking at implement circu-
lars, with the expectation of securing
lister.
Deputy Sheriff W. 8. Knapp was inter-
viewing few up this way yesterday in
regard to their qualifications to sit as ju-
rors. 1t is hard, indeed, when fellow is
forced to 60 counting.
A. s. Barnes and J. B. Ruppe have
formed copartnership for the purchase
of lister. We are of the opinion that
the acreage of listed corn in this section
this year will be considerably above that
of last.
Franklin Douglass is the singer at the
literary, and he always takes down the
house. If the older persons would do AS
much in proportion to age. we would un-
doubtedly have the best lyceum in west
ern Kansas.
The bids for the erection of schotl
house in district Is were to have been
opened yesterday, but the inclemency of
the weather has kept us so much indoors
that we have not learned the name of the
successful bidder.
There was violin duet at the lyceum
last Tuesday night. Upon counting, we
find there are so-called violinists, fddlers,
scratchers and scrapers to the number of
fourteen within a radius of four miles.
Truly, this is musical community.
The dance at MI. Douglass's last Fri
day evening could scarcely be called
success, although it was not altogether
failure. Some of the boys we're so deter
mined to be there that they walked over,
instead of taking their teams out to break
their necks. It's cold day when we
can't have dance.
w. A. Eppler has furnished his house,
and has been waiting for a week for ia
vorable weather to move in. Epp. has
promised the boys 'shindig" when he
gets settled down; so we are about as anx-
ious as he is himself for him to get NOV
ed. Seriously, Mr.. and Mrs. Eppler are
decided ACQUISITION to this community.
LUNATIC.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
WOVEN LINES.

WOVEN LINES.
"A Gem Of tho Heart.
Joy met Sorrow in place
where the branches interlaco.
Very secret still and sweet
Safe from ell profaning teet
Why art hercf' Joy, startled, cried;
Why art herer' Gray Sorrow sighed
n came here to weep" said joy.
Tears are ever my employ"
Aurmured Sorrow: "Yet SEQ
Tears as grateful were to thee;
Come young novice, and be taught
How to ease thy heart DER fraught"
Joy sat down at Sorrows feet
And was taught o lesson sweet
Fain would he make kind return;
Sorrow, art too old to leaynf
Naya Then tarry yet awhile.
TIL I've taught thee how to smile"
Since that hour the two have been
Bound as by mysterious kin;
Since that hour they so exchange
Tears and smiles, tits nothing strange
II sometimes q puzzled heart
Scarce can tell the twain apart
-EdnA n. Thomas, IN Hasaingt0n Critic
A Gentle Leap-Year Hint.
Leap-year is here.
So, maidens dear.
Who're waited on by bashful beaux
That smile and sigh
And oft come nigh
TO popping, but who ne'er propose,
Proceed with skill,
And time NOR, Mill
Proposals from your lovers draw;
- They'll take the cue
Say: "How would you
Like mother for mother-in-laWrs
Homespun.
OF homespun is the modest gown
Wherein my love goes clad;
And yet her regal eyes shine down,
As II their splendid deeps of brown
From under pressure of a crown
Were making my heart glad.
And wooden are the little shoon
That hold her slender feet;
But when the heart of leafy Juno
Is shaken by merry tune,
How light she trips beneath the moon,
With smiles how warm, how sweetl
No glove is drawn upon the hand
Idearly love to hold;
But when upon the silver sand
The sunset hurls its burning brand,
kiss her fingers. where We stand,
Full in the cloVen gold.
What marvel If I love her true.
My little peasant lass!
The very air the sun shines through
Distils for her special dew,
And harebells fringe with sudden blue
Her footprints in the grass.
Curtis Hoy.
She and L
They say that the weather is bad-that tn
snow
Lies thick on the ground. that the skies ar
gray;
That the world is a mourning for Summer;
That the Summers noon closes the Winter
day;
That out in the city the winds sob and moan,
But what do care if the worlds all awryf
Tor with US the sun shines as we sit here alone
For she is at work-and 80 am II
They say that the world-that's to say peopl
Are treach'rous and false when they seem t
be fair,
md the praise OF the mob, when you've strive
to win it,
Is just like an iceberg-it's brilliant-sn
barrel
That nothing is worth half the trouble We Civ
it,
That tears sound through when we're hal
mad with glee,
3ut am content with my lfe-as live it.
For am at work-and so is Shs
they say that life isn't worth living-that so,
row
Lies hid in our hearts when we laugh; we'll
perhaps!
ne care naught for this, and we don't want I
borrow
The joy Of the world-we're content with GU
scraps!
md if you would know why I'm gay, notwitt
standing
The chills of the world, and its people-jus
That my darling and have sweet "unde,
standing
When ell the aDorld works-and so do zoe.
-EdaOard Heron Alien, in Leslie's Weekly
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10

W ethe1bee 6 Morgan
Make long time loans and handle
real estate in all counties in this
Land District. No delay in paying
out final proofs. Call on or address
them at their Office, Ness City, or
Wa-Keeney, Kans.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10

Tho Brave at Home.
The msid VINO binds her warriors sash
With smile that well her pain Ensembles,
The while beneath the dropping lash
One starry teardrop hangs and trembles,
Though Heaven alone records the tear,
And fame shall never know her story
Her heart has shed drop as dear
AS e'er believed the field Of glory.
The wife who girds her husbands sword
Mid Little ones who weep or wonder,
And bravely speaks the cheering word,
What though her heart be rent asunder,
Doomed nightly in her dreams to hear
The bolts OF death around him rattle,
Hath shed as sacred blood as e'er
Was poured upon the field of battle.
The mother who conceals her grief
While to her breast her son she presses,
Then breathes fey bravo words and brief,
Kissing the patriot brow she blesses,
With no one but her secret God
To know the pain that weighs upon her.
Sheds holy blood as e'er the sod
Received on Freedoms field of honor.
Thomas buchanan Bead
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1888-03-10
Only His Way.

Only His Way.
"It is only his way"
An acquaintance will say,
Some ones strange act or speech to smooth
DER;
Hes eccentric, you know,
And he means nothing, SO
Do not bother your mind with it more"
But when this puzzling one
Is coal man whose ton
From the weight 1t should be is astray,
Then the fact is quite plain,
Little comfort we gain
From the knowledge it's only his weigh.
-Bost0n Budget.
The Reason WHY.
viii you tell me. youthful angler"
To an urchin did I say.
As together we sat fishing
One fair morn upon the quay,
Why the fish to you are partial,
And around my hook they plsyf
xhave not had cen nibble
Since the breaking OF the day."
This urchin's face was homely,
his clothes were torn and thin
And attached to his ''gallus"
Were his trousers by pin.
For q rod he had q sapling:
Ia jointed pole had hired;
Yet he sat and hauled the fish In
With skill that made me tired"
Scattered round him were his trophies
Like the rocks along the shore.
He hundred fish had taken;
la cold, and nothing more.
But this urchin made no answer,
He did only ST and grin:
Till at length cried. in anger:
Tell me! Tell, thou child Of sin,
sOr TIL feed you 70 the fishes!
And your bones shall sink from sight
Az the sun sinks In the evening"
Hold!- he cred, 81 have bite"
Then this urchin smiling answered,
While another 6sh he took:
Don't You get excited, Mister.
You forgot - bait your hook."
-Diek Maam
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-03
OUR WHEAT LANDS.

The following extract regarding the
wonderfully successful wheat (and 9th
cry crops of Eastern Washington is
taken from the official report Of Lieut..
Frank Green, of the U. S. signal corps,
in response to a Senate resolution con-
corning the wheat lands of the territory.
The report is dated July 81, 1888:
1.-The cause Of the uniformly success
full wheat crops in Washington territory
is to be found in a variety of conditions,
the most prominent Of which are the fer
tility of the soil, the very general pre-
sence of a great depth Of clay and hard
pan subsoil which acts as a vast reservoir
of moisture, the general mildness OF the
winters as compared with other wheat
growing regions lvsR5 further inland to
the east. a modeT. te amount OF rainfall
during the growing season followed by
nearly totally dry riPening and har-
vest season, the prevalent westerl =, '~'~'
with their moistu t9l olh ~
the scarcity OF ing TIfai
Sign. extent the stu Of The eads
4t- Va giving longer days III the
growing season and consequently more
hours of sunlight in which the plant
grows than in more southern ATTITUDES.
OF the foregoing, the very great fer
tility of the soil must be held as of the
first Importance, for without this soil,
rich in the material necessary for the
growth of the plant and the filling of the
kernel, the favorable climatic conditions
would be fruitless. To the fertile soil,
treated under favorable climate, must be
assigned the first place, and in its depth,
which is shown by reports to be an av-
erage of 3 feet and more. is given prom
Use ofalmost inexhaustibility. This feet
of soil being very frlable, admits with
great facility the percolation of the
greater part of the rainfall and water
from melting SHOWS. The rains are sell
dom heavy, and, except under the in
fluence of Chinook winds, the SHOWS melt
gradually, so that only small part of
the whole amount Of precipitation passes
over the surface All Of the prominent
streams, in fact all Of the streams, have
their sources in the mountains and are
fed by melting SHOWS. The streams be
come very low and some totally disap-
pear IL the winter months and assume
their largest proportions in the months
of June, July and August, when the
heavy SHOWS in the mountains melt"
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-03
"IIOW -
In other words, Good morning!

In other words, Good morning!
And with the compliments of the sea-
son we present you with the first issue
Of Pullman's first paper, The HERALD.
In regard to the "long-felt want =
well, you know how it is, how it has
been for some time past. We are here
to fill that vacuum to the best of our
ability, and to rustic like all get-out for
Pullman and the county, its citizens, its
farmers, its general interests. Incident
ally we shall also rustic somewhat for
ourselves. We are not here for our
health, but for BUSINESS with a big B.
We don't invest much stock in the
stereotyped now-newspaper promises, .
and "resolves," and pledges" as to
what their future course is to be. Deeds
are worth more to the pound than words,
especially in the Palouso country. How
ever, we will remark that the HERALD
lDUelUS TO De, uTSG OI dll, ii LOCAh pap;
devoted mainly to home and county at
fairs, with an obseryant eye upon terri
torial doings Of interest, meanwhile. Po-
litically, it viii be of the Republican col
or, fast-dyed and warranted to wear but
not so deeply "sot" as to be biGoted
How does this strike you? Two dollars
worth?
In nutshell, then: You remember
the proverb, GAS thy days thy strength
shall be" In the case of the HERALD
we Will paraphraso it thus for a motto:
LAS its support, SO the paper shall be-"
That's fair, all around. We are nightly
encouraged with the present business,
and shall be ready at any time to make
our paper larger and give more reading
space If it continues, tho business, we
mean. So, a strong pull, a long pull,
and let us all pull together for Pullman.
THAT pun is rather atrocious, and We'll
stop right here
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-03
THE LEGISLATURE

Colfax Gazette: For representatives
the republicans have this year placed in
nomination two good men. A T. Fariss
is senior member Of the hardware firm Of
Fariss Bros, of Pullman, a successful
business man, and one who will bring
his business acumen to the duties of leg
islator. He comes from portion of the
county that has right to representation
at the capital, and we believe will serve
the county with credit to all.
J. S. Fem, of Rosalia, is well known to
the people of Whitman county. He has
had the benefit of experience in the leg
islative halls, and will return to them
with the benefit of experience, and wide
knowledge of the wants Of his constitu-
ents.
The republican candidate for council
man this year is man whose ability and
character no one can truthfully assail.
Thomas J. Smith has been farmer
of Whitman county for many years, and
is to day one of our most prosperous and
energetic citizens. What he has gath
cred of wealth has been won by the pur-
suits Of agriculture and stock raising.
Mr.. Smith has already served the people
of Whitman oor1nty, and served them
wei. ,-2hcSe- WIG know him have the full
ct ~ -. (his abilities, and he Il
this organizat1onl iorieY ct the polls IN
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-03
PULLMAN, W. T.

~ All my work is guaran1eeGst
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-03
-. nto the composing

<ai%sIAThutt Is that? Why
Progress marches to
= ease" Look at that
n ttle boxes, each filed with
Yves Of metz, What are they? They
az the worlds ogHizers they are tbs
TYPES.
The paper is being "mado l.s Tn,
types, one by one, have been pc zed III
by nimble fingers and placed il -ope
position. The errors have been correct
ed; every punctuation point is in its
place. The scattered columns" are
massed together; the form" or page,
is securely "locked up" and sent to the
press-room, whittier we will follow. All
here is where the wonderful TRANSITIONAL
ton is wrought; here matter becomes
the exponent Of mind. The pages are
properly placed upon the press; the ma
chine moves rapidly forward, its arms
reaching for their strong embrace.
"Stop the pressr' There is an error
of statement to be corrected, or an OBJ
iectionablo article to be removed. The
types are taken out and borne away
corpses of a dead thought.
Look, now, upon that mass Of type on
the press-quiet, dark, inert as the earth
You tread. But, yet again, seo-the
white sheet has fallen upon their up
turned faces, the touch Of the press bap-
tizing them; the life that was in them
has passed upon paper, and the new Gre
alton is pregnant with thought thing
with a soul, for it can move the souls of
men. That sheet so blank before, is
now a living power. A change has
passed over it, as marvellous as if, in an
instant, the unwritten face of a boy
should put on the burrows Of age, the
lines of care, the impress of manhood's
experience.
Here, now, we have 1.-THE newspaper!
Wonderful product of brain and toll!
One would think it should be dearly
bought and highly priced; and yet it is
the cheapest thing in the world. Five
cents will buy it. One or two dollars
will bring it to your home every week
in the year. And still, strange to say,
there are men "too poor to take news
paper" They can pay ten cents for a
glass of beer, or fifteen cents for bev-
erage of unknown composition called a
cocktail; they can,pay fifty cents for a
circus ticket, or a dollar for the theatre,
yet they are I" too poor" to buy a news
paper, which is ticket Of admission to
the great Worlds theatre, whose dramas
are written by God himself, whose scene
slifter is Time, and whose curtain Is
rung down by Death.
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THE NEWSPAPER.

There are some things from which
the freshness over-ffaesdttaas away-out Of
which the E77S5nder never dies. Day by
day we may stand beside a telegraph
operator, for instance, but the mystery
of his performance never becomes clear,
and the sensation of surprise is always
fresh and keen. Just SO the newspaper
is constantly recurring miracle whose
wonder never wears away. Whether "
ing carefully folded in the Office or invit-
ingly open upon the table; whether
wrapping cheese and Goldfish, or thrown
discarded into the street to scare horses
and be trampled on, it is always invest
ed with strange kind of awe.
The newspaper! Look at it. 1t seems
empty. and vacant, perhaps. Nothing
in the paper" You say; yet 20
You will find it an open lct5er oH VERY
many people WIN you ny. never
known. One offers You -li
and another that: .as- napP~ "a II sends
var sJsIce 81 Wedding. another sor-
s9wtalEv informs YOU of a death. Look
ar lfs ufouts closely-its news items,
4seellany, its list of accidents, Of
/ fires, Of crimes-see how sudden wealth
has surprised some, and sudden poverty
saddened others; take into your mind
the import or the consequence Of all
these things, and you will find that you
hold in your hand "the ends Of myriad
invisible, electric conductors, along
which tremble the joys, sorrows, wrongs,
triumphs, hopes and despairs Of as ma
ny men and women" all as sensitive to
pleasure or pain as yourself. Here you
| have the lore of the scholar and the Wis
dom of the sage. Here the divine
breaches, the poet sings, and the Parti-
san lies Here the statesman proclalms
his principles and the auctioneer offers
his wares. Here is the result of the an
tiquarian's research, and through the
very next column throbs a tale of pres
ent love, passion and romance. Here,
indeed, the Old and the New are brought
into contrast, and
"Tradition, nowy-bcarded, leans
! On Romance, ever young.
This is but a feeble portrayal of what
a newspaper is; let us sec how it is
made. Come with us to the Office. We
will pass that pile of paper. Yet, stop:
pick up a sheet of it. We cannot wait
to explain the curious process of its man
ufacture, yet that clean white sheet is
the purified product Of rags and filth
The fiber which forms its texture may
have been stripped from Egyptian mum
mics; it may have come from the city
streets, or from great garrets in country
homes; it may have wrapped the luxu-
rious form Of beauty, or been the scanty
covering OF want. But, whether from
the robes Of a queen or the rags of Z
harlot, it gives no clue now to its for
mer condition. Like a canctifed soul
1t is ready for new life.
We pass into the editorial room. IL
occupant is bus There are papers
ifrem far and near; leGCeSs from widely
scattered, correspondents; te'egraa.s-
inyeligence in everyt form al from
this mass Is 10 be A.otea ThaV Is 0
lteeast 9st md Sc 2fhe work {
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-03
BOARD OF DIRECTOlS

VIM. LADD, Portland A. L Mills J. a PERKINS
H. J. WEBB Pullman ". Y. WINIs. Pullman.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1888-11-03

investigated by every man VII,
ing high rents.
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-27
THE wEsr ~ HISTORY.
Its stsry Has Never Been Written
Dwsrf Historians

wAsHExsToS, DIE. &-The American
Historical Associates recently iHeorpa-
rated b. aef Of rrEgreSs. bsxaa Is dffh
snnnzi meeting this evening IN the lecsu {
rae1sn Of The Co Bnalsn university. Wm,
Z Poole. IL. d librarian Of the <exberry
library Of Chicago. a. president Of the as
eUcisfaoc. delivered TIE op@niAg address.
He seld the sesl3erstsm Of cur time IL .
history Of the Uni,ed States prepared on
the principles taught ia the historical de-
psrtf1enf of Johns Hopkins university
-ach history wOuld recognize the fact
that large and important portion Of cur
cuustry lies west Of the Allegheny noun
tains
Few of the Eastern historians. he said,
had been tail enough 10 look over the Ap-
pAisesian range The Northwest abouEdei
In anvrftfen historical material DR..
Poole called attention - the fact that The
pablieztioz pzrpertiRg to be he journals Of
continental congress were not what they
pr0fessrd 20 he, but were selections made
on some eaprieioEs and incomprehensible
princiftfx
The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1888-12-27
BRKvITIEs.

Box sheet for the JuveniIe Opera CON
psny - now rcady.
Jeffrey. son Of A. L. Beede. died in seat
tie, Tuesday. and was buried YESTERDAY
The. wrestling match {. 10 take plaee
saturday and not Friday night a. stated In
Yesterdays issue.
some one has nisappropriated a cory Of
me code Of Washington from Justice 50
cerberg's Office.
John Il. Bransou. who met his death m
the late accident of the IAef ErisAau. will
be buried to-day from Sh0ney,s
The uniform rank K Of r. will leave to
day on special beat from Yesler wharf AZ
iS.s0 sharp for Port Townsend.
Divorce from his wife was applied for
yesterday By william Seiby Gu the grounds
q adultery. They were married tn this city
March Is. 1857.
Mrs Ella J. Lamb, living on Dexter
street, near Harrison. died yesterday. she
was the wife of Frederick Lamb. and Wss
aged ~ years.
Mr.. +. II. Griffith, the well-knogn real
estate dealer, on Christmas made each A
DIS hre clerks the present Of HANDSOME
diamond pin.
Justice II. v Jones was called down 10 his
Office as soon a. he bad eAica his Christ.
I mas Gimme Tuesday to mary Ole Moran
and Mrs. Lula Bauer Of SnohOmish
Marriage licenses we're issued yesterday
for Luther Davis and Lizzie BRYANT of
Seattle, aud Levi /. snow - ysshon aud
Miss Jennie 7. weiizsi OF White River
Charles o. Ellison. Taomss e.. VAL and
1astai falk of sweden, Aaaaaus RAJ
nenzel Of Germany. and Geo. Hausen o.
Denmark declared their citizenship inien-
Tons yesterday.
The ANIMAL number Of the POsr-fNrEt-
LtsEscEk will contain a statement ~ tbe
exact output of every coal miae in Wash.
ington Territory aud the record OF every
cargo shipped from Puget sound,
The steamer Edith broke a brass cfank.
pin. Christmas day a. Port Ludlow. on her
way from Port Fownseud 10 this port. SIZE
viii BE- In readiness to resume her former
route THURSDAY, aud, in the interim, the
City OF Quincy will take her place
The executors OF the estate Of Robert n
stewart. deceased. have failed II agree, aud
therefore each rendered his resignation u
the probate court The executors were
Aaron Mercer and William Halbraak
They seemed To have been troubled with
lack Of mutual confidence.
Another case Of smallpox aame under
the notice Of Dr. X. ". hames yes ietday
The mans name is Thomas aud he ar
rived ia seattle saturday frafa Olympia. Ia
which town he went from Tacoma All
the necessary precautions were taken by
the city health officer. and the man was
removed 10 the peSi house one 81 The Ia
tienfs was dismissed from surveillance
yesterday and another Will % IN e ecudl
ton for dismissal to-day. Ths disease Is
now wen under control aud very few al
dttionai eases are eX expected.