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The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17

When old Judge Jowler was tucked In his
little bed by Mrs. Mouser he couldn't sleep a
wink uhti! the excellent woman had brought
r bottle Of DR.. BULBS Cough Syrup. Then
he Gro scd his little hands and sunk in sweet
reposc.
General Wayne Stables, Baltimore and Paca
streets, Bal imore, Md
can safyly recommend your salvation on
Ia I'll .nOerii & with rheumatism, rs | was a
tuf 'rrr. asd b fore | hal finished using the
mrs. bottle was entirely cured
JOS s FOX, Cattle Dealer,
III North Broadway, B%al,in'orr, Mi.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
The moon is also supposed To have an
influence over animals and plants.
Delicate Atten,io, 10 The ,u.hol

Delicate Attention, to the author.
Daughter Ito mo.het) -"Ycung Mr..
Lightsome has Just rit'en q book, and
has presented NE with a copy"
Mother-"That is very nice, Laura
Daughter-'Yes, snd as Mr.. Light.
some SAID something about making q call
this evening and | am very busy, | wish
you would sit down and cut the leaves
for Tue, and place it in g conspicuous
place on the parior table"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17

Women have got e5 per cent. OF the 329 0OC
divorces granted 10 the United States IN the
past twesty Years.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17

The President hns lot hpd his photo
graph taken lat-iy, bat several applicants
for uRee Lave taken negatives Of bin.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17

"A furrier is a dealer In furs, but q Gu
rier Is not a dealer In ours.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17

--Geod women are the salt of The earth
VIXEN they are not too fresh.
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17

No Farew ell Tours Permitted.
New York Mercury: May ] come IN,
St. Peter?"
And whe are your"
"My name is Patti-Adelina Andso.
forth Patti"
And are you sure that you are ready
to come inland stay?"
quite sure"
"But VIC give no return tickets in
case you should wish to 60 out for a
while"
But l shall not wish 10 60 out. Why
should | wish TO do so?"
"Well. | didn't know but you might
want to drop down to earth again for an
ether farewell tour"
The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1889-05-17
Building a House in Samoa.

From q profusely illustrated series in
the May Century we quote the following
"The negotiations between the skilled
and willy carpenter and the prospective
Samoan house owner would amuse, but
hardly meet the approval of the business
man of today. Under the propitiating
influences of kava, the necessary presents
are produced to induce the carpenter to
undertake the construction of a house.
II is begun at oncc, without any terms of
agreement, and the work advances unit
the carpenter thinks more presents neces-
sary, and he ceases work. Additional
gifts being made, the carpenter continues
the construction until he deems it nece
sary to demand another contribution,
when he again stops work. If the con-
tribution is not forthcoming, labor is sus-
pended on the incompleted house, never
TO be undertaken for completion by
another of the craft; and forever after
wards it remains unfinished and q public
reproach to the good name of the unfor-
tunste owner, who, at the time of its
beginning, not knowing what may be the
ideas of the carpenter as to the cost of its
construction, must either call upon the
community for aid, which is generally
freely extended, OF suffer the humiliation
# this unfinished monument"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

The cultivation of the tobacco plant
shows no signs of falling off. On the
contrary, the worlds output is con-
stantly growing. The acreage in this
country is increasing every year, and
in Cuba the planters are abandoning
sugar and turning their attention to
tobacco, finding the latter far moro
profitable. In the East Indies this in
dustry has lately been making i'm
mense strides, and the stock. of the
corporations who control the great to-
bacco plantations in Sumatra and Ba-
tavia has advanced nearly 100 points
in the last three months. This seems
to show that the number of people in
the world who find solace in the weed
are multiplying quite as rapidly as is
the human race in general.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

The officials in charge of State pris-
ons are compelled to use every pos
sible evasion of anti-labor enactments,
since the latter prove to be torture of
The wickedest sort, ending in insanity,
idiocy, and physical diseases, as well
as moral degeneracy. They are teach
ing the prisoners mathematics, history
and science; and also allowing them
more recreation in the way of games,
reading, bathing and holding prayer
meetings. Still the great, stout fell
lows beg for work. One man at Sing
Sing says he was sentenced to hard
labor, and if he does not have permits
sion to work, he will go to the courts
when his term elapses and he will
know why. The man is right. The
Legislatures have absolute rights, but
so also have prisoners, and one can
not deprive the other. Our prisons
might as well pass enactments of an
outrageous sort to govern the legis.
lators. No human authority has the
right to create idiots and rob human
beings of health and reason.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24
English Tins,

The complaint of the traveller against
the English system of @tips" WAKES
every year more bitter. It has become
impossible for persons of moderate
means to visit at large establishments,
no matter upon what footing they stand
with the owners, because it costs so
much to fee the servants.
Il came away from England without
going to see my sister," a gentleman
said, recently, because will not sub
NIT to the tipping. Her husband has
big establishment, and it would make
all the servants think she had shabby
relatives for me to 60 there and not do
the conventional thing; and that 1 will
not submit to. When they were here
last year, they stayed with me three
weeks, and when they were going away
he wanted to fee the servants, and I
told him that that was an insult to me.
said that it was an intimation that I
could not or would not have him prop
erly served without his paying for it /;
and that in America it was point of
honor with us to see that our hospital
ity was not paid for by the guest. I
don't think he liked the way I put it,
but he could not think of anything to
say.-BOstO7l Courier.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

imagine the cool Alpine zephyr that is
waited up the dorsal vertebr8 with suff1-
cient force to blow the hair straight up on
end.
The beast was compelled to ride had
one ear cut off near the head and looked
top-heavy in the extreme. AS mules ears
make up goodly portion of it, as seen in
elevation from the saddle on its back, I was
always frightened when he approached
cliff on the unabridged side, and Instructive
ly leaned in to counterpoise the heavy
weight that thought might drag us over
the precipice. He was Familiarity known
by the party as odd Steamboat old
Lumber-yard." and other names indicating
his characteristics; but he was large and so
was I. and he fell to my lot When first
saw his abbreviated auricular appendage.
as member of the society for the proven
ton of cruelty to mules folt incensed when
I heard that it had been lost by the cut OF
whip in the hands of previous driver; but
before we had been acquainted week
had transferred all my sympathy from the
mule to the man, whoever he may have
been. On the level ground he was slower
| than the Cook, who took fifteen minutes to
wash spoon. but on a perilous path OF a
half foot in width on a dizzy precipice
the way he could box the compass with the
lone ear so as to catch some faint sound at
| which he could get frightened at this in
opportune time made me wish could cut
of the other ear at the third cervical YER
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24
A Fortune or a Feather Bed.

Every honsekeeper knows what it is
to have the feather renovator come
around to get the feather beds and
pillows, put them through a steaming
process and return them in new tick
ing, clean and good as new.
There is an old colored man in An
napolis who concluded to have his bed
renovated, but having heard that reno
vators we're not honest he concluded to
weigh his bed before turning it over.
On its return he weighed it, and found
it several pounds short, and said to the
man: Look yere, boss, dis yere amt
my bed; desc amt my fedders.
@The man said: @Ain't, Ell? All
right; but is this yours ?" and he pull
ed from his pocket q roll of green
backs containing "a, 900 which he had
found in the bed.
The sight paralyzed the old colored
man, and he was then willing to admit
the ownership of the renovated bed.
The man who cleaned it and found the
a, 600 is hesitating now whether he
viii give up the money or not. The
colored man will have to prove owner
ship, which he can hardly do.-BGlti.
more american.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24
That,u Teach Him.

A west country farmer attempted to
frighten his wife by sending her the
following note: when you get this
you will be a widow. You will find my
body in the stable" Mrs. Chuffin re-
ceived this startling news with consid-
cradle nonchalance, and, it is alleged,
got out her husbands best clothes and
began to brush them for the funeral.
She sent her daughter to the stable,
who returned, saying he was not dead,
but looked lawful bad" Fastening to
the stable, Mrs. Chufin found her hus-
band suspended from rafter. In her
efforts to release him she discovered
that he had passed the cord under his
arm, and that there was not the slight
est fear of death ensuing from stran-
gulation. Securing good stout stick,
she whacked him till her arm was
tired. She says that'n teach him to
make . better job of it next time he
commits suicide.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24


so little. writes Lieut.. Frederick Schwatka a,
in the Chicago Inter Ocean. There were
twelve beasts altogether. and as motley q
crowd OF mules as were ever gotten to-
gether since the days of Sancho Panza and
Don Quixote.
The Mexican mule is sort of cross be-
tween mountain goat and flying squirrel.
with the distinct difference that its surplus
electricity flows OF from the negative pole
instead of the positive, as with the goat, It
is in its meanderings on the mountain trails
that it shines Respondent. but with luster
pared with any other than can the fash of
q diamond be compared with the fire of the
opal would like to place it alongside of
the American mule for comparison in the
deadly double column" of the newspaper.
but the Mexican beast would kick out the
enough was up to form an opinion.
On the mountain trail this distinct spe-
cies of mule was never known to fall. al
though he has an exasperating and blood
curdling way Of stumbling along over it
that would raise the hair on end of
bald headed man. Many time have
watched the mule was compelled to ride.
with a view of discovering his methods of
trying to scare me to de ath as payment for
past injuries. Oftentimes the trail would
lead past dizzy heights or cliffs. where one
could look sheer down far enough to be
dead before he reached the bottom should
he fall, and every few feet along the trail OF
foot to foot and q half in width it
would have tumbled in foot or so and
again taken up the original inclination OF
the mountain. or about that of the leaning
tower of Pisa. Here the mule would al
ways be sure to stick one foot out and
stumble little bit. but always regain its
equilibrium at the next step. having clearly
done it Intentionally. and for no other pur-
pose than pure cussedness. One can
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24
Don't Jump at Conclusions.

''Then I am to understand that this
is your final answer, Miss Stubbles ?"
'My final answer"
seNothing can move you?"
Nothing"
s'Then my life will be lonely one,
and my fate harsh one, for my uncle
with whom I lived has just died and
left me-"
Gust died?"
eyes, and left me-"
s'That fact somewhat alters the case,
Henry. I cannot be harsh to one who
has sustained such recent bereavement.
IF I could believe that you are sim
cere-"
"Sincere! Oh, Miss Stubbles."
"You have certainly made an impress
sion on my heart. Give me time to
think of it,
Elbow long?"
CATER all, why think of it? Henry,
I am yours"
ooh, Genevieve~
sDo not squeeze me SO hard, Henry,
Your poor uncle! Was he long in?"
''Three days."
cit is too bad! You say he left you?'
eyes, he has left me-"
GLOW much ?"
Chow much? I said he had left me.
He had nothing else to leave. 1 am
alone in the world now, homeless, pen
niless, but with you by my side
Gracious, she's faintedp
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24
tebr@. odd Steamboat had by far too
many interesting traits Of character not to
rafaf tn him In the fnfura

tebra. odd Steamboat had by far too
many interesting traits Of character not to
refer to him in the future.
Carichic's Hotel. like my mules left ear.
did not exist, but the cura Of the little VII
lage most kindly placed his rooms at our
disposal for the time we were there. The
first hour and half takes us over q high
mountain to q beautiful Alpine stream
called the Bacochic. the views from the
banks of which were picturesque in the ex-
treme. A half to three quarters of an hour
in travel brings US to a very similar valley.
that of the Pasigochic. which we assembled
some six or seven miles. toward the west.
We were now we'll into the Sierra Madre
range. and although the scenery was 50 far
about the equal Of the Aleghenies or
Catskills. there was not much level ground
for cultivation. and this was eagerly seized
BY the working Indians, not only to raise
crops for their own use. but to have some
to sell; for from six to seven days travel to
the southwest was the richest silver dis
trict in the world. where all kinds of prod
uce brought prices that would enrich q
Western farmer in one season-fouf 20
rents a pound. and other things in due pro-
portion.
After leaving the pretty and picturesque
Pasig0chic. which is done almost as soon
a. the midday camp is left. high hin Il
sscended. On the high hills were seen the
beautiful madrongy tree, or strawberry
Tree. with blood-red bark and bright green
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24
Sanctioned BY Holy Writ.

Mrs. Al think of all the hdeous
modern fashions wearing . big hustle
Is the most SO.
Mrs. B.-A hustle Is not modern
fashion. It is two thousand years old,
at least.
aHow did you find that out 2"
@By searching the scripture. Does not
st. Paul refer to the hustle when he
talks about forgetting those things
that are behind?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

fonaGe covered With blossoms. . peculiar
paosute. that would hardly be believed II %.
c9rsteiy painted and put on exhibition.
11oy were everyWhere: from the merosf
T T%sa N SIZE to trees twenty feet in height
Ineir form IL not unlike that of q spreading
apple tree with strongly contorted and
twisted branches. Then there were plenty
OF oaks Of different kinds. the eneino
Iooi9s: or everlasting oak. the white oak. and
s9e nttie black variety. There were dozen
n1nos1 knew nothing of in my limited vocab-
e 9Iary OF forest trees. The pines were beaut1-
M. and in many places forty to fifty mer-
cnantaoie trees to the acre. straight as an
arrow, and without q limb for from sixty to
seventy feet from the ground. In one or two
Ctosters noticed groups Of pines like those
ma. an Old lumberman once pointed out TO
me IN the forests of Oregon as good mast
timber; that is. small trees quite high with
put nttie variation in their diameter from
Dutt 70 a number Of feet above the ground;
olstance equal to the height or length OF
aIalr-slzed mast or spar. remember see
ing years ago in the Coast Range Noun
talns OF Oregon near the head Of the North
Yamhin River clusters of Douglas frs that
were not over seven to eight or ten inches
at the butt and that did not decrease over
an inch or two in sixty to seventy feet. and
not limb to be seen this whole distance.
NY guide then told me that if these trees
were cut down and stripped of bark for this
distance and person stood at their center
he would be unable to tell which was the
butt, 80 slight was the decrease in diameter
from that end to the other.
This he pronounced the finest spar timber
in the world. and which has made Oregon
and Washington Territory famous in that
line. / have. however. seen the same dupli-
Gated dozen times on the timbered slopes
OF the Sierra Madre range, and am not yet
half way over the great Cordillera, or to
where the cOniferous trees of it's submits
fade into the sub-tropical and tropical
plants Of the Pacific coast states of Sonora
and Sinaloa. OF course, this peculiar growth
is obtained by dense mass of timber SO
close together that none can obtain sun
light except by small tuft of foliage at the
very top: and were all removed by the az
except one, 1t would look much more like q
them in their isolated state. There is often
times the darkness OF evening at midday
beneath these tall. slim. yet dense pine tree
forests, for so eager are they to get the sun
light that at any point where the least raJ
OF 1t gets through a cluster OF foliage Il
thrown out to seize it and utilize it fol
plant-growth. and thus it fails to reach the
ground. This dense mass of spar and mast
timber. as I shall call it. is nearly always
found on the richest soils of the mountains
generally in the narrow little valleys
where the silt from the sides is swept down
by the spring and summer rains, until the
soil is man ieet in depth.
The great coniferous forest of the north
ern part of the Sierra Madre range of Mex
leo Is probably one of the largest in the
world Gt is undoubtedly the largest virgin
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

WHEN Macmillan, one of the early
German emperors, returned with his
victorious troops from foreign war he
was greeted in Augsburg with salute
which was intended to be of hundred
shots. The master of artillery, how
ever, became confused, and when the
one hundredth shot had been fired he
was uncertain whether it was the hum
dredth or only the ninety-ninth. Pre-
ferring to err on the safe side, he Or
dered another shot to be fired When
the Emperor reached Nuremburg the
people of that city, determined not to
be outdone by the Augsburgers, also
saluted him with hundred and one
shots. This is said to be the origin of
the royal Salute of hundred sid one
guns"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24
ford, the first printer in the middle
colonies of British America.

The military custom of ssluting by
bringing the hand into a Horizontal
position with the eyebrows is thus ac'
counted for: It is supposed to date
hack to the tournaments OF the middle
ages, when, after the queen OF beauty
was enthroned, the knights who were
to take part in the sports of the day
marched past the dais on which she
sat, and as they passed shielded then
ewes from the rays of her beauty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

forest on either continent, and when its
resources are opened by well-constructed
wagon roads. or. better still. by railroad
system. it will undoubtedly prove an enor-
nous source of revenue to the Mexican
States of Chihuahua and Sonora, and to no
little extent those of Sinaloa and Durango:
a source nearly as profitable as its mineral
wealth. and this is saying great deal. for
these States comprise the richest silver dis
trict in the world.
At 9 O'Clock we camped in the valley Of
the Guiyochic. another beautiful mountain
8 ream. where a little park of an acre or
two gave our mules some sweet Alpine
grasses. I called this pretty camp Amer
ica,' and it forms the subject of an illustra-
ton.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

An ingenious young girl, OF Louis
vile, with an eye to information and
an autograph, recently wrote to DR..
Oliver Wendell Holmes and asked him
to tell her his favorite verse of all his
poetical writings. A few days ago she
received a card on which was written,
over the poets signature, the following
lines, which bis admirers will readily
recall:
A few can touch the magic string
And noisy Fame is proud to win them
Alas, for those who never sing.
But die with all their music in them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

but He TAoseht Six Months Lon
Eno1gh 10 Wait.

He WASN'T OVkW4Ub
but He Thosehs Six Months Long
EnesgA 10 Wait.
I had been sitting in the shade Of .
fence corner for q quarter of an hour
when farmer came along with an
OK team and invited me to ride with
him. I was only fairly seated when
he said:
Sad thing happened back there
about six months ago."
"Indeed!"
Eyes; that ERE blamed off OK SHE'D
at q paper in the road and ran us into
q ditch and tipped the wagon over"
EYES,"
Martha was along. Crushed the
gizzard right out of her, and she was
dead when I picked her up. Funeral
cost me forty dollars. was just look
ing at the bill. Had . coffin with six
silver-plated handles. Ever lose your
wife,"
Never"
awful sad thing. Haw there, Buck !!
She had two unmade dresses In the
house, which were left on my hands.
Guess I'll get shet of them, however
guess I will. Whoa! you yaller OK I!
Undertaken said we could scrape along
with four handles to the coffin, but I
told him to make them an even half
dozen. Teller can't afford to be small
about those things. Say, you know
what belongs to manners, eh?"
Il hope SO"
Guessed You did, even if you are
lfoot. I want to ask you how long a
widower has to wait before taking an
other There's no law, yer know, but o
sort Of custom. Is it a year?"
"Some wait year"
"And some only three or six months ?"
Eve heard of second marriage
within a week or two"
"Too soon-a leetle too soon," he
answered, as he stroked his chin whisk
ers. Looks too sordid and grasping,
you see. Neighbors would probably
talk, too. Couldn't complain about six
months, could they?"
II should think not"
"That's twenty-four weeks, or one
hundred and sixty-eight days, you see.
Nothing sordid about that, Ell? It's
coming off next week.
what? Your marriage?"
THAT'S it. Bin engaged five days
now. and it's to come off next Wednes-
day. Her name is Feeble. Awful hard
to get up airly and keep hustling all
day. Had my eye on her ever since
the day of the funeral, but you needn't
mind telling it. Folks is gossipy, you
know. Git up, you lazy beast! Say, I
want to ask bout another thing"
"Well?"
Haven't got Martha any tombstone
yet. Have to get one, won't II"
why, yes"
eff didn't they'd say I was sordid,
wouldn't they?"
"They might"
Would you put lamb or dove on
it,"
"That's just as you feel"
"Has it got to read: Martha, the
first and most-beloved wife of Aaron
'Snyder?'"
mot necessarily"
"Kin I just put on: Erected to the
memory of Martha Snyder, who died
April %, 1882"
"Why, yes"
"And have it quietly taken up and
set up, and not let on to the other. I
see. Nothing sordid about Feeble, but
SIGH things grind, you know. Do you
take the cross-road? Wall, good day.
Glad we met. Seemed some six months
was long enough, but kinder wanted
an outside opinyun. Had six handles,
you remember, but the neighbors might
call me sordid and shut us out on quilt
ing bees and corn huskings." -New
York Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-08-24

THIS is what one woman can do:
Maria M. Dean is homeopathic ply
sician who took little Office and hung
out her sign three years ago, in Hele-
ma, Mont, which has a population OF
$4,000 souls. Miss Dean never prac-
ticed anywhere else. Her income last
year was between 81, 900 and $40, 900.
She was born in Madison, Wis, and
graduated from the Wisconsin Univer-
sity. She is pleasant, agreeable lit
tie woman, respected by all. She has
never been married and, whas IL more,
won't be, if she can help it.