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Coquette.

Coquette.
She was young, she was sweet
Scores of men at her feet
WorshIped blindly in fond aGoration.
She declared she loved none;
But there really was one
Who for her had strange fascination.
He was earnest and true,
And when he came to WOO
She was happy-a stranger could guess 1t.
Her whole heart grew light
II he came but in sight,
She loved him-he made her confess it.
Yes, she loved him, and yet
She so loved to coquet
On wild sea of unrest she tossed him,
Until, tired of doubt,
He tried living without,
And the painful result was-she lost him.
-S0merUilte Journal
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7s1-MErAMoRPHos1s.

A jay few down from branch one dag,
And Lit on a mother sheep's head;
' A piece Of cloth had blown away,
And lit on her back instead.
20, what is that, = the farmer boy said,
That on the sleeps back doth 1ieF'
''Tis but an ell of cloth, said the maid,
THAT hung on the fence to-day"
"And will you please 20 get it for msf'
And away the farm boy went;
But what he brought back for her to see,
Was simple ornament
AIDYL.
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A Dew.Drop.
Little drop of dew,
Like a gem you are;
believe that you
Must have been star.
When the day is bright,
On the grass you lie;
Tell me, then, at night
Are you in the skyf
-Frdnk Dempster Sherman IN Hdrper's
Young People.
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He i. Held Too Tightly.

Buffalo Express.l
1t sometimes is very difficult for man
who is in the hands of his friends to es-
cape therefrom in time to get the nonina-
fiou
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7s4-NUMERfcAL.

The whole, composed of ls letters. is = plant
Of the genus Menthd.
4,1s. IL sis town ID Allegheny county.
6ST,5 2is female name
II, 3 4, 10 is piece Of news.
66, 2 lis talon. DUoURsE1
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AIDYLs
782-DoUBLE AcRosrIc.
Words Of eve letters.

Words Of f5De LetfeTs-
1. A maiden. 2 The great artery which rises
out Of the lett ventriele Of the heart. & To
twist. 4 A Spartan slave. 5. A sea Of Europe
(Web). g. A scriDtural proper name. 7. A
sluggard.' 8 Elfish. O. Oblivion.
Primals and finals will name sfamous author,
FRANZ
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l. Dissolving stone. 2 A solemn, authentic
instrument in writing & A county Of Cali
fornia- 4. A person affected with certain dis
ease. 5. To stay behind 8 A letter. T. Tasted.
8. Genus Of coieopterous insects 9. Dressed
with affected neatness. 10. To become thinner.
IL. One of an order OF insects having the an
terror wings quite rudimentary.
Didgo8dIs: Left, dot0n.-One who reads books
where they are exposed for sale. Right doiDn.
Small. grass-like plants Centrais. dolon.-Cer-
tain cannons. JACK E. LAG.
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Prtze Winners: L Oliver Twist PittsbnrR
2 Anna NJ Parker, Allegheny J. Bosch,
Salem, D.
Roll Of Honor; Lee Rose, R. A c., Sphinx
Lover, A. B. Oy, Robert r smith, 7. G. Nc
Mahon, N. A K. Musry. Cecilia Gardner, 8.
p. N, George Roberts, Helen z. Blake. Jennie
Gormley, Hubby. James Wallace.
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PERsEcUTING ABoLITIoNIsTs.

The meeting, have said, was of the rank
and file of the abolitionists, the men who
paid the money and did the work, mostly.
The names most widely advertised with the
freedom movement were conspicuous by
their absence. Colonel Higginson was not
there, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe was not or
the sufragists generally. General Butler
sent an excuse, and Fred Douglass was just
off on his mission to Hayti One would
think they might have attended the first
abolition meeting in 28 years out
of politeness to their own principles.
They were absent, but not missed.
There was less Burning of joss
stick than would have been required in
the presence of some of these. and other
speakers, feeling free of utterance, spoke
with fervor and sincerity which amply met
the occasion. Samuel May gave the secret
of the reverence felt for the old abolition
movement in saying, "There was no self
seeking in it, no seeking for othce, no build
ing up OF any sect of party" record which
reflects pitilessly on most of the inspirations
of the present. It cost something to be an
abolitionist before the war, even in New
England. Marvin Lincoln, of Maiden,
could say of the old League OF Massachu-
sets Freemen, .sIt was as much as mans
life to be known as member of the league,
and men dared not tell their families where
they spent the evening of its meetings
The young ones Of to-day can hardly know
how blood used to fame and hearts beat in
times not long before the war, when plots
were laid to kidnap Sanborn and RedPath
bv pro-slavery men in Massachusetts,, when
Locke, the editor of small Ohio paper,
writing his first scornful Nasby letters, had
to face irate copperheads aiming loaded pis-
tolls at him on the village street at noon. and
only promptness with his own revolver saved
him. and quiet people found their lives
threatened for opinions they dared to hold
in their own bosoms. My own fathers SEM
mary at Covington, KY, was broken up, and
be was forced to leave with his young wife
on repeated warnings that if he needed not
his house would be burned over his head,
for the crime, first, of being a friend Of the
elder Beechers and other abolitionists across
the river 10 Cincinnati. and of teaching
gray-headed slaves to read the Bible OF q
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7s7-AEAGRAM,

When the overtime approaches
And the moments fit along,
Our Thoughts are turning homeUard-
c. A. Pz1cH.
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769-ANswERs.

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H0-The three liquids are r, n, and I. The
first in '.dend" gives ~friend," the second In
ssbaker's makes hlm "banker.S and mixed n
daytime gives dynamite while the shiFd
in "word" makes the world"
III TI-SIMP PLIFIcAT TroN8
UN RIEND HIPS
q OMPAC TIB It
CAPAHIs
EsTEEMS
'iREa sRE
TOE
RoUTS
OUT8ETS
FINAN cIAN
MISC z EAFIvE
OvERHAS TINEBS
CoUN NTER ScUFTLE
772-Incomprehensiven
773-Three O'Clock, ninety days aftsrWArA
T4-Tney're worsted both.
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at Washington won for her this special
mark of pontifcal favor. The only other
American woman upon whom it has been
bestowed was the late Mrs. Sherman, wife
of General Sherman.
OUR NATIONAL FLOWER.
Now, as regards the United States, it is
certainly strange that, while England has
its rose, Ireland its shamrock, Scotland its
thistle, France its lily, and Sweden its vel
low roses and corn-fowers, we have not
adopted before this some of our very beauti-
full Towering trees or plants as our national
emblem. The country is decidedly old
enough to have flower of its own. The
question to nv mind has been treated by no
writer so thoroughly competent to discuss
all sides of it as Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensse-
laer, who has an exceedingly interesting
article on the subject in recent
number of Garden and Forest. The
golden rod she dismisses, because,
to be rightly used in art, flower must be
! conventionalized, and the golden rod is in
capable of conventionalization. 1t has no
individuality, isolated from its fellows it
looks precisely like numerous other flowers
of the great family of the composit@." The
trailing arbutus is poor flower to wear,
suitable only in masses, stiff in habit, and
very perishable, besides being unknown in
the West. The sunfower, Mrs. Van Rens-
selaer says, has become so much European
flower that no American when he sees it
thinks OF his own country and nothing else,
which rather lnvalidates it as national
emblem. No patriotic meaning could be
read in it.
Now, here, beg to differ entirely from
Mrs. Van Rensselaer,. should be of her
opinion if the American sunfiower bore the
slightest relationship with the tawny gauds
of foreign cottage gardens; big and brazen
bachelors, that flourish on a single stalk.
But the European sunfower is quite dis
tinct from the American dwarf sunfower.
The whole of our virgin soil is alive with
the latter species, while the former was only
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Sunday afternoon. Those were the days Mr..
Fisher, Of Medway, told Of when his adult
Bible class objected to reading chapter % Of
Isaiah a. anti-slavery In sentiment.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
1T IS 4 JUST DEBT.

This week the gates of our city all
swing outward on account of the fourth
annual reunion of the Northwestern Vet
eran Association of Kansas.
Wa-Keeney's citizens feel highly hon.
ored at the selection of this place for their
annual meeting by the old veterans, and
will delight in rendering our post all the
assistance possible to the end that our
visitors be well entertained during their
brief sojourn in our midst.
Americans as rule are not race OF
hero worshippers. Our Republican form
OF government, which makes it possible
for the humblest citizen to obtain the most
exalted station in the gift of the people,
and which delights to honor merit and
ability rather than aristocratic lineage or
titled nobility. is entirely at variance with
the sentiment that bestows adulation and
fiattery upon those who may chance to be
born with golden spoon in their mouth.
There isonsspecies Of homage, however,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
Colonist Sleepers.

The Union Pacific Ry., also known as
The Overland Route, has lately added to
it's service a number of new cars (Which
by the way are built by the world famous
Pullman Company entitled Colonist
Sleepers, and which for convenience and
comfort are little behind the handsome
Pullman Palace Car. The cars are de-
signed for the use and comfort of the COL
onist, who with his family intend moving
west to grow up with the country.
The only difference between these cars
and the regular frst-class Pullman is that
the colonist sleeper is not upholstered.
Thsre are fourteen sections in each car,
and seperate toilette rooms for ladies and
gentlemen. Alright, by means of sliding
head boards and heavy damask curtains,
as much privacy is secured as if in the
regular first-class sleeper. Plenty of fresh
clean towels and a good supply of water
are also to be found. A uniformed porter
each car to look after the
comfort and attend to the wants of the
and no smoking is allowed.
It certainly seems that for cheap and
sleeping accommodations,
while travelling. these cars cannot be ex-
celled. 1872
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28

MAJOR WILLIAM WARNER has posi-
lively and Internationally declined the
office of commissioner of pensions. It now
appears that Kansas has two candidates
for this office, Gen. A. B. Campbell, of
Topeka and Captain Henry Booth. of Lar
ned. Both were soldiers and both are
good, capable men, but we do feel like
entering our objections against the ap-
pointment of Capt. Booth and for what
we consider good and sufficient reasons
He has been more highly honored by the
party and outside of the party within the
last two years than any other man in the
state of Kansas. Not that We consider
he was unworthy of all the henors be-
slowed, but we think in common fairness
that he ought to step aside at this time
and give some Of the other boys chance.
There are several men in Kansas, old SOL
diers too, who are just as capable and de.
serving as Capt Booth, and who have
never asked nor received the recognition
from the party that he has. We believe
in fairness in politics.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
NOrROOM FOR Two.

By the item published in another col.
umn it will be seen that the Wa-Keeney
WORLD and Republican have been pur.
chased by Wa-Keeney parties and consol-
idated. This let's out both Editors Til
ton and Shepard and stops the factional
tight in Trego county. Both got out good
papers, but it was plain to be seen for the
last SIX months that they have been cut
ting each others throats. The buying
and consolidation of the two papers nv ont
side parties is therefore good move Ell
lis Re1vew.
The above is good sound sense. The
WORLD and Republican were both good
papers, but both could not exist. So it
ever has been and so it ever will be in
this county, or at least until the county is
populous to support two Re-
publican papers
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
WE GIVE 1T AWAY

The Kansas Farmer, published at Topeka, Kansas,
despite the close times of the past three years. has
steadily increased Its circulation and usefulness as
well as greatly improved the paper in every respect
and to-day 1t stands one Of the best and most
practical agricultural journals published in America
1t IS everywhere recognized authority western
farm matters, and should be taken by every farmer
who desires to prosper and improve in his business
The Kansas Farmer Is now printed on toned book
paper, with enlarged pages, and contains not less
than sixty-four columns of valuable and important
matter every week
In order that every farmer in Kansas and the West
may have an opportunity to become familiar with
this valuable journal, the publishers announce that
they will send the Kansas Farmer ION trial., three
months-thirteen weeks-for IS cents to new sub
scribers. "A trial subscriber thus getting more
papers than he would by taking a monthly farm
journal a whole year.
By special arrangements, We will send the weekly
Kansas Farmer and the WORLD, both papers, one
year, for only %: or we will give 'rial'' Is
weeks subscription to the Kansas Farmer
FREE TO OUR READERS
who pay the cash, at this Office for one years
subscription to the WORLD, either as a renewal for
back dues or for a new subscriber. Take advantage
of this liberal offer at once.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
REPUBLICAN COUNTY CON-
VENTION.

delegate convention of the Republican party of
Trego county will be held at the court house in
wa-Keenev, Kansas, Saturday. September %,
1885, at 130 O'Clock NJ, for the purpose of placing
In nomination a county ticket for the following
offices: Treasurer Clerk, Register of Deeds Sheriff,
Surveyor, Coroner.
1t is recommended that the primary elections for
the selection of delegates to such convention be
held Saturday, Sept. 81, at O'Clock NJ, in each
township, at such places the Republican township
committees may designate, at which time all Repub
lican voters, irrespective of past differences on
local issues, earnestly requested to be present
and participate IN the selection of delegates.
The representation agreed upon by the County
Central Committee at its meeting held August "a,
1882 shall be delegate at large from every town.
ship and delegate for every Is votes cast at the
November, 1888, election for Hon. William Higgins
secretary of state; under which apportionment
the several townships will be entitled to delegates
as follows:
Collyer. 6 Franklin. ............ s
Glencoe. ........ 2 Ogallah
Riverside. Na-heeney Ii
lOtdl. 100.
By order of the Republican County Central Com
mitteee.
LEE MONROE, n. BLAIR,
Secretary. Chairman.
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TOWNSHIP cAUcUsEs.
oeiegates Elected to the Republican
County Convention Sept %.
wA-KEENFY roNSsH1p.

"AhI6NEI TONNSdlt.
Pursuant to call from the Republican
county committee the electors of Wa-Kee-
ney township assembled at the court
mouse Sept. 21st at 2 o'clock P. NJ, to elect
delegates to the county convention to be
neld IN Wa-Keeney Sept %, 1880.
On motion J. L. Brown was elected
Chairman and o. A. Cortright secretary.
The call was read by the secretary.
On motion it was unanimously carried
that the meeting proceed to elect dele
gates by ballot.
W. b. Damn and Pierce Metz were ap-
pointed tellers.
The following were declared duly elect
ed as delegates and alternates.
Delegates:-H. r. Cunningham, G..
L. Galloway. A. J. McCollum, A. B.Jones,
b, ). F. Hanna, A. J. Harlan, A. s. Pea
cock, F. b. Burnhsm, F. q. Conger, Geo.
McMichael, Frank Walker, W. E. Tilton
W. 8. Harrison, and c. b. Aylworth.
Alternates:-C. H. Gibbs, A. H. Blair,
A. L. Gleason, w. II. Damn, A. T. Green
wood and Joshua Croft.
Everything passed off unusually quiet
and, apparently. it was the most harmon
ious caucus we have attended in the coun-
ty. The candidates nearly all worked
hard, but the universal sentiment so far
as we heard it expressed was, that if they
got left themselves in the race, they would
do what they could for the successful
candidate. There were 121 votes cast in
all.
COLLIER TOWNSHIP.
The following from Collyer including
Banner township were elected:
Delegates:-J. G. Brown, A. w. Purin-
ton, J. M. Rhoades, Geo. T. Hargett, T.
w. Bundy and NJ. A. McMillen.
Alternates:-C. F. Hawkes., John Eber-
ling and Geo. Kessler.
oGALLAH TOWNSHIP.
In Ogallah township G. G. Ridgway, s.
S. Harvey, S. T. 81. Beard, Aaron Cocker
ell, Henry Cutler and J. P. Marquand
were elected delegates.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP.
Isaac Jones, John Hoover and W. E.
Sweeney are the delegates from Franklin.
RIVERSIDE TOWNSHIP.
The delegates from Riverside are F.W.
King, Geo. Palmer, J. w. Tunnel and J.
L. Altman.
GLENCOE TOWNSHIP.
Glencoe township will be represented
in the convention to-day by D. ]. Wilson
and M. II. Johnson.
WILCOX TOWNSHIP.
The following delegates to the county
we're elected from Wilcox
township: W.B.Cypher, William Hoobler
and J. S. Smith.
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Good for Advertisers,

As has been heretofore announced we
purchased among other things the sub
scription lists of both the WORLD and
Republican. This gives us list of SUBJ
scribers seldom equalled in a county no
more populous than this. Business men
will not be slow to see the advantage to
them in the consolidation of the two pa.
pers. They can reach the same num-
Der of readers and at. only half the cost.
This is certainly very desirable these
close times. We shall not advance the
price of advertising at least until times
brighten up little. We have added IL
or Is new subscribers to our list since
last week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28

which all liberty loving Americans 4.
light to bestow. 1t is conceded bv ALI
patriotic citizens that we owe a debt :,
gratitude to the old veterans that can
never be paid. They who have preserved
the government. They who have demon
strated that our form of popular govern.
ment is enduring and permanent Tbev
who have demonstrated the fact IN .r;e.
tocracies.a and despotisms, who were wont 70
sneer at us and to say tauntingly: "You
have not yet tried the strain of great
civil war as We have. Wait until then
before boasting of the permanency of vour
institutions" They who have buried the
accursed dogma of State Rights and
have stricken the shackles from mill.
ions of human beings at one stroke. 80
that we can now truthfully say that we
are nation of freemen, which before the
war, was only theory and not a condi-
ton. Jefferson said. when looking at
slavery. that he trembled when he remem-
bered that God is just. To the living
veteran and the gallant martyr we owe
our very existence to-day as a nation
among nations. Are we mistaken then if We
say that the homage of our hearts are
due these brave men?
We do not consider that our govern
ment has, in all respects, treated the un-
ion soldier fairly, but there is growing
and almost unanimous sentiment that the
brave defenders of our liberties shall all
receive pension, and that liberal one,
as a just though tardy recognition of their
service. We can afford it. We cannot
afford to Withhold it. 1t will only be an
act of justice and small compensation.
1t seems almost an age since the battles
of the rebellion were fought. The ranks
of those who survived are growing thin
ner, and tie graves of those who fell in
the service are becoming more numerous
from year to year. The living veteran is
growing old and feeble. Now, if ever. is
the time for the government to show its
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
"reminiscences.

Wa-Keeney was surveyed and plated
in November 1877.
Ogallah was surveyed and plated in
1879. During the same year the store
building now occupied by c. II. Benson
and G. G. Yetter's large frame hotel build
ing were erected.
1t may not be generally known that
few rods west of the present TOWNSHIP
of Collyer once stood transient town
called Coyote the terminus of the K. P.
railroad. The cellars and foundations of
the building yet remain in some instances
to mark the spot. Collyer is namesake
of Rev. Robert Collyer of Chicago.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28

JUST as soon as we can get time we pur-
pose visiting our subscribers in the coun-
ty. We desire particularly to please our
farmer friends and the best way to do it
is to get acquainted and find what they
are doing and what they anticipate doing
in the future. The prosperity of our coun-
ty and of our city depends almost entirely
upon the farmer. When they are pros
porous and happy we share in their pros
perity. When from loss of crops or from
any cause they are unfortunate we share
in their depression. The farmers of Ire
60 county will always find friendin this
papar
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28
A Card of Thanks.

We feel very grateful to our fellow citi-
zens and those from abroad, who were
with us on the night of the 18th inst, and
joined US in celebrating the 50th annl-
versary of our wedding. Also we tender
many thanks to those of our friends who
were kind enough to bestow upon us the
several beautiful and valuable presents
on that occasion.
The occasion was one rarely allotted to
the welded life, and therefore, most pro-
foundly and humbly do we thank the
Great Architect of the Universe for hav-
ing spared and preserved us to feelingly
and intelligently enjoy the occasion and
the presence Of so many kind and dear
friends. A. J. HARLAN,
DELILAH HARLAN.
Wa.Keonev Kanssa Cant Ord 1890
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28

We offer one hundred dollars reward
for any case of catarrh that cannot be cur
ed by taking Halls Catarrh Cure.
F. J. CHENEY & CO.Props., Toledo.O o.
We, the undersigned, have known F. j,
Cheney for the last Is years, and believe
him perfectly honorable in all business
transactions, and financially able to carry
out any obligations made by their firm.
WEST & TRUAN, Wholesale Druggists To
ledo, Ohio.
WALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo. o.
E. II. VAN HOUsEN, Cashier Toledo Nat
ional Bank, Toledo, O.,
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken internally
acting directly upon the blood and mus
Gus surfaces of tho system. Testimonials
sent free. Price Is cents per bottle. Sold
by all druggists.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-28

Bro. GooD1ER, editor of the Oakley
Nesns Letter, has announced to the busl'
ness men of his town that unless they give
him their patronage he will at once cease
the publication of his paper. Bro. Good
ier is a good newspaper man and it seems
to us that Oakley is standing in its light
if it does not give him generous support.
There is surely room for one good paper
In Oakley.