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Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-08-15
RIFLES FOR EVERYBODY.

The Sedgwick County Bible society has
added to its stock of bibles, and is now
prepared 10 supply the needs OF ali. The
American Bible society publishes bibles
without note or comment and sells them
at cost or gives them TO those unable 10
buy. Sunday schools and churches desir-
ing 20 supply themselves will find the
twenty and thirty cent bibles or the FIVE
and eight cent testameuts just what they
want. This society viii consider it favor
to have any cases Of des;itution reported
to it. The depository is at the ". c 7. L
rooms, corner of Market and Williams
streets. south Of the government building
Young Nj Baltour, son OF }. Spencer
Balfour, ESQ. ". P. OF London. viii ar
rive in the city this morning and remain
several DAYS He comes as the represent
tative of the English syndicate. OF which
his father IS member, which made large
purchases Of realty in this city few
months ago, and 10 familiaEize himself
with the details Of their business matters.
az well as to get fuller and more com
prehensive lay Of the Land, with view 10
more extensive deals IN the future.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

Gfid1a expssused his disappeoval Mr..
Sflmn Vas ono Of many prohibitio1iste Who
believed tAat tho state had constitutional
night 20 ooaAscate the property of thoee
brewers and distillers who refused to - out
OF business. Judge Brewer held in his
opinion that the state must compsnsa6o the
owners for such property seized or destroyed
ms opinion greatly g atified the snti-pro-
moitionists, but the prohibitionists gener-
ally criticised it, Albert Griffin among the
Griffin has not forgotten this decision Of
Judge Brewer, and he is here to oppose that
gentleman's confirmation.
Ihe liquor interests. represented ~ an
irresponsible party, who is the Washington
agent of one of their national associations,
Ii opposing Mr.. Brewers confirm atloA BE-
cause he comes from q prohibition state
and Is supposed to be prohibitonist, and
Albert Griffin, presumably representing the
intensely radical prohibItionits, has joined
confirmation, because his decision in the
Kansas liquor case displeased them.
Charles S. Gleed. of Topeka. who is here,
is one of the Prohibition attorneys in the
cases upon which Judge Bre er's decision
was based. Mr.. Gleed did not believe IN
the decision of Judge Brewer, and his belief
was sustained by the subsequent opinion OF
the United States supreme court reversing
Judge Brewers decision. Mr.. Glee1, who
is well known in Kansas politics as q staunch
prohibitionist, has the following to say in
IF Mr.. Albert Griffin Is opposing the
confirmation of Judge Brewer 1t will be the
most senseless performance CT his life. The
idea is ABSURD. Judge Brewers opinion in
the Kansas cases we're not an opinion on
the question of temperance or prohibition"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
More Judges Needed.


WARRINGTON, D. c., December IA
proposition is under consideration in judi
clal circles to provide for increasing the
membership of the supreme court from
nine to eleven. The subject Is being talked
over by certain membe of the senate judi
ciary committee, and the outcome may be
bill to reorganize the supreme court and
make the additions mentioned. The en-
largement of the court is held to be neces-
sary, because of the rapid increase in the
business from the state courts. besides the
new states will add Largely to the number
of cases on the supreme court docket. If
the reorganization of the court Is sane
toned by congress, it is probable that at
least three of the present members of the
&C urt, Justices Miller, Field and Bradley,
will avail themselves of the privilege of re-
firing on full pay, thus giving the president
an oppor unity to Apo Mt five new judges,
It is also proposed to increase the juris-
diction of the circuit courts, with view to
reducing the number of appeals to the SUI
preme court. Various schemes have been
suggested with q view to accomplishing this
purpose, but it seems almost impossible to
curtail the work of the court, hence the
proposed increase in the membership. II
is not known how the members of the court
regard the proposition, but as they COM
plain Of being overworked they will proba.
bly, welcome two additional justices.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
A Car Famine,

KANSAS CRY, Mo-. December 13.-Such
extraordinary demands have been ma lie
upon the railroads during the past week to
move the crops of the southwest that car
famine is imminent. Seven hundred cars
were waiting on the side tracks in this city
to be sent east or unloaGed. Both the ele-
vator men and the track obbers are unable
to handle their business for lack of acc ON
modations.
Gne cause o. the local blockadeis claimed
to be the delay occasioned by the enforce
ment of the new grain inspection law. The
elevator men state that the inspection force
is incompetent and insufficient ana cannot
handle the recelp.s of day in a day, thus
allowing q balance of receipts to be earned
over for inspection the succeeding day.
The famine of cars extends throughout
Kansas, and the railroad commissioners of
that state are in receipt of scores OF COM
plants from farmers and grain shippers
who are unable to obtain accommodations
for their products. The complaints are
made against all tie roads.
Several farmers have informed the COM
missioners that they have been obliged to
pile up their corn along the railroad tracks
and wait weeks at time for cars. The
the enormous crops, which exceed the car
rying capacity of the roads.
They all agree that never before has there
been such a demand for freiQet cars, and
many of the roads have resort to board
ing up fat and coal cars for the shipment
ment of grain. All of the roads, it is said,
have leased cars from their eastern connec-
ting lines, but still the demand exceeds the
supply,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Jeff Davis Funeral,

New ORLEANS, La, December 13.-Metaire
is the handsomest burial ground IN the
world. It is situated about two miles from
the busiest Part of the city, Is rich IN its
architecture, it's verdure and its possessions.
" thin it lie the remains of thousands OF
confederate Veterans. and here ale most of
the tombs of The military and veterans as
sociations Of New Orleans It is in this
cemetery, in a subterranean vault, that the
southern chieftain has been temporarily
laid to rest. The Army of North Virginia
tomb IS beneath the marble monument Of
the lamented confederate leader "Stone-
walP' jackson. It is situated nearly half q
mile from the stone entrance, nearly in the
center of the cemetery, and surrounded by
imposing tombs of wealthy people of New
Orleans.
On the day of the burial of jeff Davis
there were elaborate memorial services held
at Raleigh. N. c., Columbia. s. c., Norfolk,
Va. Wilmington. N. c., Atlanta, Ga, Mar
shall, Mo-, Nashville Tenn, Montgomery,
Ala, Augusta, Ga, Richmond, Va. Rome,
Ga, st. Louis, No., reports of which are
gwen by the Associated Pres. There were
like services held. generally, in all the prin-
clpal towns of the southern states.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

BosroS, Mass, December A-Over 400
of the solid business men of Boston and
New England crowded the spacions apart
ments of the Hotel Vendom ON the occasion
of the annual banquet of the Boston Mer.
chants association.
Ell resident Cleveland, one of the guests,
spoke to the topic of personal Political
Selfishness as Means of Corruption of the
Suffrage" and also the means to be en-
ployed to purify the ballot. He compared
the growth of ballot reform and predicted
q complete victory for the latter.
Henry W. Grady, of Georgia, the eloquent
southern editor, followed Mr.. Cleveland.
He said that he was invited here to dis
cuss the race problem.
After giving statistics going to show that
the blacks in the south were industrious
and contented, as proven by the increased
production of cotton, by the numerous in
stances of black men accumulatlng wealth.
oy the sums expended by the southern
states for their education. SO out of proper
ton to the percentage of taxes paid by
them, he reached the proposed federal leg
islatiOn to control elections of congressman.
The north" he said, may surrender its
liberties to federal election law, but never
again will a single state north or south be
delivered to the control of an ignorant and
inferior race. Time alone can tell how the
problem presented will be solved"
In reply to the challenge as to the alleged
smallness of the southern vote, Mr.. Grady
said that 1.-THE sixteen southern states in
1888 cast g. per cent. of their total vote, the
six New England states but C3 per cent. of
theirs. The negro has learned that the
ballot box, which promised him the most
has yielded least, and at last has realized
that his best friends are his neighbors, with
whose prosperity his own is bound up.
1T would be we'll if northern partlsans
would understand that the negro vote can
never again control the south"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Overcome With Wonder.

KANSAS CRY, Mo-. December IA very
interesting family left on the Santa Fe for
Oklahoma, consisting of Josiah Watkins,
his wife, son and the latter's wife. Mr..
Watkins Is 75 years of age and his wife %,
and they hail from southeastern Kentucky.
Until last Sunday neither of the old couple
had ever even seen railroad train, and by
the time they arrived in this city they were
almost overcome by their increasing train
of novel experience. The son has been out
in the world many years, and when he To-
Gated claim in Oklahoma last summer he
determined that his parents should see
something of western life. Ever since then
he has been using every effort to stir them
from the neighborhood in which they each
first saw the light of day and from which
neither hadesever travelled fifty miles. Final
ly the old FOLKS consented to take the
wonderful and awful step, and, selling the
old homestead, they bid adieu to their life
long friends and went out into tho busy
world. The couple were very bright and
intelligent, and Mr.. Watkins said that il
would take many days to realize the won
ders OF the present generation, yet he had
tried to keep even with the times BY read
ing the newspapers. They will live with
the sons family in Oklahoma, and ar.
Watkins intends to travel about Q little to
see the country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Merino Sheep Breeders,

ROCHESTER, N. Y, December 4.-In the
convention of the New York State Ameri-
can Merino Sheep Breeders association the
following resolutions we're adopted on the
tariff:
"Whereas, The present administration is
pledged to reduce the surplus revenues of
the government; and
''Whereas, The present internal revenue
collections are practically equal to the ex-
cess of revenue collected; and
whereas, Any and all changes in tariff
or revenue collection laws should be enacted
with the view to the least possible disturb
ance to business interests; therefore
Resolved, That we note with pleasure the
recommendation of President Harrison, in
his late message, of the rereal of the taI on
tobacco and spirits used in the arts.
Resolved, That inasmuch as the taxes
mentioned yield but one-half of the surplus
as reported by the secretary of the treasury,
We demand that congress shall repeal all
internal revenue collection laws, to the end
that there shall remain no further necessity
for tariff reduction"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Chambers Election Bill.

WASHINGTON D. c., December ia gen.
eral election bill introduced by Senator
Chandler provides that whenever in any
congressional district ten voters from each
county shall make an affidavit that they be-
ieve the election will be unfair if held by
the state officers. and shall petition the
United States circuit Judge to have the reg
istration of voters AMI the election con-
Quoted by United States officials. the court
the appointment of United States super
visors of elections, and the court shall ap-
point all necessary officers to carry out the
prayer of the petitioners. One commits
siouer from each political party shall DO
appointed upon the recommendation OF the
candidates for congress; the court, how
ever, to have power to require that any other
person shall be recommended in place of
any person deemed unsuitable.
The commissioners shall make out regis
tration books of the voters in each precinct
and each of them shall also recommend to
the court for appointment one inspector or
Judge of election and one clerk for each
may select two baliffs to keep the peace,
both to be of the same political party, and
they shall also hold the election, publicly
announce the result and make a return
thereof before any adjournment of the
commissioners of election. and the COM
mlssioners shall canvass the returns, declare
the result and make a consolidated return
to the clerk of the circuit court.
In case the state law prescribes no educa-
tonal qualification for voters a voter who
cannot read or write may call on the lnspec-
tor to assist him in voting: In no case shall
there be any removal of the ballot box or
adjournment until the votes are counted
and the returns certified to. The clerks of
the court shall publicly canvass the returns
within thirty days after election, and when
the result IS ascertained two certificates
shall be made out and signed by the Judge
and attested by the c!er.., one TO be given
to the person elected and the other to the
house of representatives.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

baseball, taxes, and politics.
Life is too short and people should
be too busy to get angry. If a man
calls me liar 1 naturally would be in
clined to fight, but my philosophy
comes to my rescue. In the first
place, if I deny his statement he may
be inclined to back it up with his fists,
and I may be whipped. In the second
place, I am liar or I am not. The
assertion that 1 am one does not alter
the facts in the case. If I have told a
lie, I am liar and it is poor policy to
be averse to having the truth told to
me. If I have not told lie, then the
assertion of the man that I am a liar is
false, and the man himself is what he
was pleased to call me. Engaging in
brawl will not determine the truth of the
matter, no difference whether I am the
victor or not. Then, as I said, there
is always the possibility that I may be
whipped.
1t is hard on your clothes, your eyes,
and your religion to be ill-tempered.
You lose half the enjoyment of life,
and 60 hunting around to find some
thing you would be better off without.
The history of the world shows that
few really great men were in the habit
of getting mad and smashing things,
and those few would have been greater
men if they had been more smooth
tempered.
I admire the man who can knock the
ruffian down, or kick at being imposed
on, and still maintain an unruffied ex-
terror. Such a man impresses one as
being truly great, and at the same time
one who thoroughly enjoys life. He
gets the best of everything, and has
more friends than he can count. His
wife and children are like him, and
nothing disturbs the even tenor of his
life.
When a man is mad he will do more
damage in minute than he can repair
in month, and will make his friends
and relatives see what a weak and
silly fellow he is after all. He fumes
and frets, is always busy, and is ex-
ceptionally likely to be mad at meal
time. He would beprovoked at receiv-
ing pension, and the greeting of Saint
Peter will not suit him. It is habit,
and completely controls him.
But the habit of being provoked at
trifes can be overcome, and thrice
blessed is the man who never gets
mad.-ChicGgO Ledger.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
The Indians.

A writer in the Century, who has no
faith in the Indian schools, and who
ignores facts well known to persons
who have taken an interest in the In
dian question, says:
If anything is done to relieve the
condition of the Indian tribes it must
be scheme which begins at the bot
tom and takes the whole outfit" as q
Western man would say, in its scope.
If these measures of relief are at all
tardy, before we realize it the villa In
dian tribes Will be, as some writer has
said, "loafers and outcasts contending
with the dogs for kitchen scraps in
Western villages" They have all raised
stock successfully when not interfered
with or not forced by insufficient "a
tions to eat up their stock cattle to ap-
pease their hunger, and I have never
heard that Indians were not made O.
soldier stuff.
A great many Western garrisons
have their corps of Indian scouts. In
every case they prove efficient. They
are naturally the finest irregular cav
airy on the face of this globe, and with
An organization similar to the Russian
Cossacks. they would do the United
States great good and become gradual
i civilized. An irregular cavalry is
every year a more and more important
branch of the service. Any good cav
airy officer could, I believe, take q
command of Indians and ride around
the world without having q piece of
bacon, or cartridge, or horse issued
BY his Government. So far as effective
police work in the West is concer ed,
the corps of Indian scouts do nearly
all of that service now. They all like
to be enlisted into the service, uni
versally obey orders, and are never
disloyal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Chicago World Fair, 1892"

TOPEKA, KAN, December 14.-The To-
peka Republican Flambeau club, which has
a membership of 200, decided at SPECIAL
meeting to support Chicago for the world
fair in 1892. The club will, at an early
date, issue manifesto to the Kansas repre-
sentatives in congress. In few days the
club will distribute two or three hundred
rubber stamps among the business firms,
The stamp will have a 0rasshopper and sun
Tower in the center and around the margin,
Chicago World Fair, 1892" This is the
club which made the nomination display In
Chicago when President Harrison was nom
ina ed and which created such and impres.
sion.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

An when the day was ended an the field work
all was done
He stabbed all 1.-THE bosses and he fed 'en, every
An then he'd milk an do the chores with hunger
rackin him,
An eat cold grub an crawl to bed, would Big
Mouth Jim.
You know how that thing works, O. course; I
reckon at you've heard
About the way the willin' hossis hustled on an
spurred,
An made to do three times as much as him at
jest hangs back
An std of pullin steddy let's the tugs git sorter
slack?
Well, that's the way it was with Jim; young
Thomas seemed to think
He needed slathers of hard work an little eat or
So Jim worked mighty late at night an in the
mornin' CHM
Out OF his bunk afore the rest, did Big Mouth
Jim.
He never seemed to mind 1t an he never made
Nor kicked fer higher wages as was regular like
An so we got to dev'lin' him, made bleeve onct
An dosed him with boss medicine, a cupful at
q lick;
An then we sneaked his Sunday shoes an spiked
An spoiled 'em SO they wouldn't keep out water
any more.
We sprinkled sand-burrs in his bed-his sleep
that night was slim
Oh, we made it mighty jocular fer Big Mouth
Jim.
An all this time he never got riled up or said q
word
He seemed as sunny-tempered as a chirpin'
woodland bird;
But when we grabbed his Sunday hat an jabbed
1t full of holes
He smiled SO sorter sickly like it acted like hot
Goals
On me an let up on him, but Thomas didn't
care;
He hunted up some smellin' stuff that wouldn't
take a dare
From any skunk at ever lived an smuggled it
to Tim.
Who spilled it:accidentally on1Big- Mouth JIM
Nobody couldn't stand him near fer purity nigh
a week,
An when he showed up fer his grub all us boys
took sneak;
The clothes was buried by the barn an Jim went
bout his work,
Which all this time KEEP CROWN, but he never
was no shirk,-
An took it jest as cheerful as the measley jokes
We played.
An the never was an instance of a single kick
He was full Of ripe good nature an of kindness
TO the brim,
An he couldn' parently git mad, this Big Mouth
Jim.
But one day young Bill Thomas-he was mighty
mean an low
Was orneriern ever an lie had to up an go
An slap his cousin Jennie durin' dinner time
when Jim
Was eatin'-have you ever seen a cat jump from
limb?
Well, then you know how Jim he jumped and
grabbed his boss throat,
An then he stood an shook him till he couldn't
pipe note:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Kansas Patents Granted

WASHINGTON, D. c., November 13.-Kan-
sas patents granted: Daniel Hartley, Ola
the, weather strips: Daniel Hartley, Olathe,
window screen: Edwin FARRELL, Torsion,
spring for vehicles; George w. Little, Car.
oOndale, suspension bridge; Joseph A. Ma
lony. Kansas City, pipe wrench; Franc E.
Parker aud r. NJ. Clark, Kansas City, cut
ter bar; james Peterson, Oskaloosa, harness
attachment; Julius n. Sanders. Lone Elm,
machine for cutting and punching metal;
Edmeston v. Thomas, Kansas City, bal
anced side valve.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
A Costly Hole.

ToPxKA. KAN, December 1a-The Amer
lean Diamond Drill compal ~ 10 still boring
toward the internal regions, in the coal hole
in the east suburbs. The superintendent
of the company in New York has been here
for month or more in an endeavor to
hasten the work. He Is enjoying life at The
Ihroop. In 1885 the company contracted
TO make 1900 foot hole in the ground for.
$10.500 The drill Is down about 1,6 feet
now, and the company Ii over $4,000 IN
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

Albert Griffin and the Liquor Men
Combine Against Judge Brewer.
WASHINGTON, d. c.. December k-Hoo.
Albert Griffin. of Philadelphia, lately Of
New York, and formerly of Manhattan.
Kan. Is in the city on remarkable mission.
At The time Judge Brewer rendered his
decision IN The Kansas liquor ca0ss Mr.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Keep Cool.

'EEP cool. And by
that 1 mean, don't
be getting angry
and losing your
temper and head at
the same time. ]
have figured it out
that worry kills
more men, causes
more gray hair to
show itself, and pro-
duces more wrinkles
on mems faces than
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Departments Closed.

wAsHneToN, d. c., December 13-Tbe
ssase. war, navy and treasury departments
closed q 1880 in honor of the centennial
celebration OF the Inauguration of Wash
tngton q the first president
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
A MANIFESTO.
A Boston Dinner Party Ar
ranged for II.

The North May Surrender It's Lib
critics to Federal Election Laws
But a State Will Never Again be
Surrendered to the Colored Race.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21
Bought a Fishery.

SANDWICH, Mass, December 1a-It 10
sod that ex-President Cleveland and Joe
Lebanon have bought the islands in Wakely
-. where the fishing 10 sai1 70 b e1oei.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

In Siam a man can gamble away his wife
or rather he could if he coald find any. on
willing to take the bet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

''Was Miss Yellowleaf's portrait q good
likeness?" at must have been; she refused
to take it from the artists"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

care you going to the ball this evening?
remarked the musket to the powder flask.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-12-21

Oregon. the Paradise 81 Farmers.
Mild equable climate certain and sbunds erops Best
fruit gran, and stock country N the void Pun In
formsti free Address the Oregon Immigration Board
Port and, Oregon.
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Shoe Manufacturers, Omaha, Nebraska.

It is the lie abilities asset were that make
the successful assignor.