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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

LOOK ont! There is going to b . tidsa
~. uhave. But the danger was averted. because
Sno woman got angry and wouldn't DO
dropped into the water after all
among the stragglers on the beach are q
IsP!iSng proportion Of men who are worth
T1ooking at. il you only knew about them.
aSsnterday 1 saw two chaps lounginR to-
xtetner. and nobody paid any attention to
mem: but whom hoard the name Of Mrs.
.EaneEy mentioned between them I at once
oOK INTO account their identity. One Was
POD 6oD billiard. the actor. who had q row with
Its ars; Langtry last year. and was laughed at
10 ms sentimental exploit of rapturously
kissing the beauty's shoe. He declared
mat it was joke. but she took it for seri:
Gus w0oing. and told of it after they had
quarreled. The other man was Porter
Ashe. the California sportive millionaire.
VINO t has just been extensively printed as
me former law partner of Judge Terry.
Asne has had experience with Mrs. Lang
Isy. TOO. 1t happened last summer at Long
Branch. He devoted himself assiduously
70 the Lily, and she seemed to like it. He
was conspicuous figure in the rapid set
OF which Mrs. Langtry. the Baroness Blanc
and several other social plunpers were tran
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Deep Water Harbor.

A Topeka man who is prominent in
railroad circles has faith in the success
of the deep harbor movement because
he thinks the great railway companies
of the trans Missouri region are already
prepering for the event. ''The Santa
Fe," he says, twas the first to push an
extension through to the gulf, and the
Rock Island has made considerable
Roadway in the same direction, but the
most striking proof that the managers
appreciate the fact that there is to be a
change in the track of traffic is seen in
the effort the Union Pacific is making
to reach the Texas coast. A year or
two ago all the talk was of extensions
IN the west and northwest and one
would have thought that without feed
ers in all parts of Wyoming, Montana,
Idaho, and the western territories, the
future of that original transcontinental
line would be failure. It was thought
then that the trade from the Orient was
to be the life of the roads running be-
tween the Missouri and the Pacific.
Now the old rule is again believed in,
that, after all, the local traffic is what
pays. The Union Pacific has extended
its lines through the northwest pretty
thoroughly; it has tapped all the pro-
ductive valleys of Nebraska, and it is
now looking toward the southwest and
working around toward the south and
the Gulf of Mexico. The very fact that
the Santa Fe, the Rock Island and the
Union Pacific are all heading for the
Texas coast shows that they believe the
surplus from the great food-producing
region west of the Missouri is shortly
going to find an outlet in that direction.
For this reason think that the coming
convention in Topeka is expected to ac-
complish great deal, and that deep
water harbor in the near future is as.
sured."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

A RECENT visitor to the top of Pixies
Peak found the signal-service officer
melting snow for his water supply, the
only one he gets. The officer said:
Sometimes I stand at the window
with my telescope. The wind without
is keen and cutting as knife. I can
see the houses of Colorado Springs,
twenty miles away, the visitors sitting
in their shirt sleeves, slipping iced
drinks to keep cool, and ladies walking
about in white summer robes: I lower
the glass; the summer scene is gone.
Green trees, animal life, men and
women fade away like creatures in a
dream, and I am the only living thing
in world of eternal ice, and snow, and
silence"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

The testimony of John Bright to
American poetry and poets is eminent
~ worth repeating. He averred that
he owed his quickness of imagination
to habit he had long pursued of read
ing little poetry before going to bed.
No matter what the hour or what he
had been doing through the day, he
took his morphine powder of poetry.
1t had in his case sedative and genial
influence tending to sleep. The ano-
dyne is possibly not new discovery /;
but no public man has ever before an
nounced his use of it. Mr.. Bright
added that he always selected Ameri-
can poets-as more clear, ineligible,
and unconventional. Whittier, Long
fellow, and Lowell he classed as always
clear as running brook, as bright as
sunshine and refreshing as breezes,
while the English poets aim 1t SUBTLE
ties. This criticism will undoubtedly
stand as the decision of history.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

A COUNTRY woman was carrying on
a very simple process against a neigh
Dor in one of the small courts of Ger
many. The attorney of the opponent
pestered her with SO much of chica-
merry and legal subtleties that she lost
all patience, and interrupted him thus:
my lord, the case is simply this: I
bespoke of my opponent, the carpet
maker, carpet with figures which
were to be as handsome as my lord the
judge, and he wants now to force me
to take one with horrible caricatures,
uglier even than his attorney. Was I
not right in breaking off the bargain ?"
The court laughed at the comparison;
the attorney was stupefed; and the
woman won her suit.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

AFTER Mind Reader Bishop died his
mother and the wife whom he had late
ly married engaged in wrangle over
his effects, and the question as to their
respective rights is still unsettled by
the courts. just at this juncture, wife
No. l, from whom he had procured q
divorce, appears and produces will
which was made in London, in due
form, before their marriage, and which
leaves everything to her. She is in
structed by her lawyers that subse-
quent marriages cannot invalidate the
document, and proposes to assert her
claims. It need not take q mind-reader
of any special skill to tell with accur-
acy just what each of those three WON.
en- thinks of the others.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

MILLIONS of people regard the Bible
as the most valuable book in the world
aside irony Its mechanical makeup and
appearance. But in a commercial
sense Hebrew Bible at the Vatican
in Rome is said to be the most valua-
BILE book in the world. In 1912 Pope
julius, then in great financial straits,
refused to sell it to a syndicate of rich
Venetian Jews for its weight in gold.
The Bible weighs more than 325
pounds, and is never carried by less
than three men. The price refused by
Pope Julius was, therefore, about
$125, 900, and that, too, when gold was
worth at least thrice what it is now
worth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

silently famous. Fred Gebhardt objected
to any rivalry, and there were open uuarre!s
on the hotel veranda- Then Freddy babe
an angry adieu to his sweetheart and sailed
away to Europe. She hastily followed him
and brought him back, since which thew
1t may not be complimentary to the more
celebrated beauties. but the positive fact is
that Ashe and billiard. famous Washers,
were paying particular attention to two
pretty girls manifestly from the Bowery.
It is safe to paraphrase Gilbert and say that
beauty levels rank" and therefore this
brace of beaux were justified in paying
court to it wherever they found it.
Doubtless the salt air is a relaxer of dig
nifty, for surely have seen men who, eSti-
mating by appearances. were judges, mer-
chant princes. or something else equally
weighty when at home. who on the beach
do not hesitate to frivolously follow every
comely girl who gives the leas invitation.
But you can't MAKE people serious at
summer resorts. Every Sunday some
preachers, o'ten eloquent ones. go down to
Coney Island and deliver sermons in almost
empty hotel parlors; and among the guests
who will not listen. moreover. are many
persons who are pious at home. A musical
authority named Krehbiel, big and very
beautiful blonde at that. went to Brighton
to lecture on How to Listen to Music"
He calculated that Coney Island, with
its three splendid orchestras. was
just the place for the delivery Of his
advice; but the people wouldn't listen to
him. much less take instruction from him
in the art of listening. and poor Krehbiel
Jared even worse than the clergymen. Pro-
fessfonal entertainers will not learn the
truth that folks at watering places do not
want them: or else the places of those who
do learn it by experience are promptly
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

taken by those who have not. At least a
dozen individuals, or small parties. have
this year undertaken round OF the sorts.
and know of only one case. that of Mar
shall P. Wilder, the dwarf jester, who has
made expenses.
show in myself" he said to me, after count
ing up nearly two hundred dollars as his
receipts at Saratoga. -or at least I only
carry along a pianist. am my own BUSH
ness manager. advance agent. and every
thing else except the one musician and the
niece ssary ticket seller and door tender.
So can't lose much If don't make any
thing. Here is another thing. I have
learned the value of newspaper quotations.
cences. and out Of it the journals of the
country have copied very freely. giving
honest credit. So find that everywhere I
go my name is familiar to people in con-
nection with some anecdotc or other. That
is actually the reason why am counting
up almost two hundred dollars to- night in
stead of twenty or thirty.
The great show at Coney Island is free.
and it consists of the ocean. with its beach
and bathers close by and its shipping in
the distance. All the European steamers
pass within sight.
A middle aged man and his daughter sat
gazing seaward. He was using a powerful
feld-glass. ostensibly aiming it at distant
vessels. but really dropping it to range
on the female bathers.
What are you looking at. papa?" the
girl naively asked.
L was trying to make out the name on
that craft, he replied. suddenly lifting his
glass to an aim at u vessel in the dim dis
lance.
Il don't think you will find her name on
her, the daughter remarked. and. judg-
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TICKET 42,75S.

A Pickup of &15, 900 for Three Well
Known Cheyenne People.
Cheyenne (Wy.) Leader, August g.
The drawing of SIS, 900 from the Louisiana
State Lottery in the July Drawing by three
well known Cheyenne people has created a
decided sensation. The children of fortune
are all employed at H. h. Ellis bakery.
They are Louis Salada and wife and Edward
2. Gaylor an old-timer and prominent Odd
Fellow.
Forty Eight hours after the drawing Sala-
da and his wife and Mr.. Gaylor were over
joyed to learn from q list that ticket No. A.
7i8 had drawn the capital prize of 5000
and that they were entitled to one-twentieth
of that sum or $4,000.
Advices from New Orleans confirmed the
list and the money was collected through the
First National Bank of this city, being paid
over to the winners August 1.
Salada and wife are visiting relatives in
Missouri. The lady, who has been an inval-
id for several years, is to retire to an eastern
hospital for several months and will be
treated by eminent specialists.
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better than mamma does. You see / got
dreadfully low and moping and lost my ap-
petite and spirits. and mamma became
alarmed and sent in town for that blessed
old doctor. He came out. looked me all
over. and, better. looked the place over,
took of his glasses. wiped them with his
handkerchief and squinted down at me.
There's nothing the matter with the child.
he said to mamma. except an overdose Of
this Jersey Sleepy Hollow. Take her away
to Newport. Bar Harbor. Saratoga-any-
where where there is life. She thrives on
excitement. It's more than medicine for
her. Give her all she Graves. So our
trunks were packed, we came here, and I
never felt better in my life than do at this
moment.
glanced at the speaker. She was typ
ical American girl slender and willowy in
form. with yet no hint of scrawniness:
large gray eyes. through which her very
soul shone. and a face of delicate features.
whose ever-changing expression indicated
the sensitive emotions and easily swayed
sensibilities of its owners temperament.
A bundle of nerves and quivering percep-
rions. airy. graceful. keenly intelligent.
and altogether charming now. at eighteen;
but with future at forty that is vastly
more probable than attractive. 1 make
that gloomy forecast because she is the
boldest bather at Coney Island. Not in the
risks she takes of being drowned. but in
her ventureSOmeness of costume. As ar
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aged for the surf, she is very lovely and

rayed for the surf. she is very lovely and
very regrettable.
Ccney Island is so near to New York. and
therefore so temptingly accessible to both
residents and tourists. that it assemblies a
most diverse multitude. Manhattan Beach
has hotels Costlier to their guests, think,
than any other resort in America: and from
that high degree of expenditure. if not of
social worth. the horde of visitors reaches
down to the economy represented in beer
and sandwiches. The bathing throughout
the four miles of beach is correspondingly
various. The writer has been to five other
seaside places this season. and everywhere
else has locke in vain for startlingly vivid
bathers. 1t is true that at Narragansett
Pier. Atlantic City. and especially at Ocean
Grove there is considerable bravado o!
dress by the girls, but it is oftener matter
OF negligence than deliberate purpose. For
several summers there was Il succession of
actresses at Long Branch who exhibited
themselves On the sand and in the water in
ways that merited AMI obtained wide publ
cation. but this year there is an absence Of
show figures there. At Coney Island,
however. this lack Of human objects to
admire deprecatins!y is not felt. Several
wives and daughters of wealth are exceed
ingly saucy in their surf toilets, to put it
mildly. and every pleasant day brings. as
excursionists from the city. a few young
women whose disporting in the waves are
as good as a eli Gus. Besides, there are
several actresses here for the summer. and,
doubtless under orders from their man
ayers. they use themselves for self adver-
Using purposes-just as every available
wall in town is utilized for posters just
before the arrival of a show. The most
successful of these stage beauties. measur
ing success by the amount of attention
commanded. hires one of the bath masters
as a constant attendant while she is in the
water. He is stalwart old negro. with
reputation for professional swimming in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

earlier years. and with two life -saving
medals on his breast to prove his bra.ery.
The girl is very handsome. and for a time
her identity was puzze. The ramor went
about the hotels that she was an heiress
from somewhere out West. but the truth
came out. and 1t must be told that she is
an athlete under engagement for q tour
with a variety show.
Mrs. James G. Blaine. Jr., is staying at
one Of the hotels. and Is in sight daily as an
eQuestrienne and a bather. She Is an
nouncing herself for an early theatrical
debut. too. but she does it with an appear
ance OF modesty and with no departure
from a graceful bearing.
That other forthcoming debutante. Mrs.
Leslie Carter. the Chicago divorced wom-
an. has also been at Coney Island. It Is an
even thing between her and Mrs. Blaine Is
to prettiness, but Mrs. Blaine doesn't BY
any means consider that they are on level
socially. 1t happens that the same dramatic
tutor has them under training. ard the
other day he went down to Coney Island to
deal with them. He encountered them on
the same piazza. and was requested by
Mrs. Carter to introduce them to each 9th.
OF. But his discretion led him to speak to
Mrs. Blaine about it first, and she positive
" and pointedly refused the acquaintance.
1t was q bafher with heavy physique.
but light OF department.. who asked the
bath-master to carry her out into the surf,
because. as she explained. her phvsician
had ordered her to submerge herself Ill at
once: He thought that IL she waded In the
blood would be driven to her<head and
disorder. 30 the servitor gathered her
started on his mission. Just then.
m fmpodte and waggish chan. stsnd-
ing on the shore. yelled &C the tor AZ
sis soaoe % mo bathers out in the wstAr:
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The dining hall at the state fair win
be in charge OF the ladies' of the Chris
tian church.
Gov. Humphrey has forwarded to
Secretary Blaine letter, accompanied
by copy of the call for an Interstate
deep-harbor convention to assemble in
Topeka, October 1, addressed to Presi-
dent Diaz, of the republic Of Mexico,
with a request that the same be for
warded to its destination through the
department of state. The letter invites
President Diaz to appoint commits
sion of five delegates from Mexico to
participate in the deliberations of the
convention and requests his own pres
ence in Topeka at the head of the dele.
cation.
Governor Humphrey has issued a
proclamation calling elections for SEN
ators in the Thirty sixth and Thirty
eighth districts. Senator Chapman re-
signed as senator of the Thirty-slxth
district to accept the receivership of the
Larned land Office, and Senator Francis
G. Price, to accept the judgeship of his
district. The governor says that on an
early date he will issue proclamations
calling elections in representative dis
tricts- those filed by Davis, of Riley,
and Walrond, of Osborne, and informa-
ton has reached him that Campbell, of
Cove, has removed to Denver. He will
withhold issuing proclamations from
these districts until he has satisfactory
evidence of all vacancies. The COVER
nor, being asked whether the proclama-
ton should be issued before the call for
county conventions, replied, that .when-
ever the existence of vacancy was
known to the electors of representa-
tive district, it was not necessary for
the district committees or county or
district conventions to wait for the writ
of election. Nominations can be made
the proclamation will be issued in
ample time for the sheriff to give duo
notice."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

An English journal puts the liquor
problem in this form: Twenty
snakes running through the streets
that's free whisky. Twenty-Five snakes
gathered into box in which twenty
five holes are made by authority OF
the court-that is low license. Ten OF
the holes are closed and the snakes all
get through the other fifteen-that is
high license. Drive all the snakes
over to the next village-that is local
option. Kill all the snakes-that is
prohibition.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

Mrs. HAGE, wife of Captain Herbert
Hage, is regarded by the eleven sur
vivors of her husbands lost bark Gu
pico as heroine and as the preserver
of their lives. Her courage, they say,
never tagged; and they were on the
wreck for twenty days before they were
rescued by the bark Belt. Mrs. Hage
kept the courage of the men up by her
example, working at the pumps with
them to keep the vessel afoat. Be-
sides, she prepared and brought their
food to them at the pumps, which they
dared not leave.
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Labor Day.

September 2 witnessed the first labor
procession ever held in Kansas.
About fifteen trades are organized in
in this city: these all cooperated to
make the day success; every member
of trades union seemed to regard him
self as Individually interested in making
the day success.
Probably 1900 men were in line, en-
bracing full representations of stone
cutters, cigar makers, printers, press
men, plumbers, tailors, carpenters, lath-
ers, plasterers, bricklayers, stonema-
sons, newspaper carriers and other
trades. Some of them appeared in their
working costume, and others appeared
in uniform. All wore the sunhower.
The parade was almost mile long
and continued nearly an hour.
The rain came down quietly all the
time of the parade.
The remainder of the day was de-
voted to big picnic at Oakland park.
Thousands of people went out on ''the
electric" in the afternoon and every one
had a good time. It was cool and
pleasant all the afternoon. The exer-
cises began at o'clock in the big
auditorium. Marehall's band rendered
several selections.
After a speech by David Overmyer,
. very interesting programme was wit
messed by large number of people.
First came running race of 100 yards
in which there we're three entries. A.
Barber won the race with w. Spurll sec
ond and John Cleveland third. The prizes
were hat, a walking cane and peck
ct knife. This was followed by wheel
barrow race. The winners, Sad Hod-
gins, first prize Of meerschaum pipe;
A. L. McNair. second prize of pair OF
shoes; Red Brown, third prize Of til
meter square.
In the type-setting contest there
were six entries with but two contest
ants. Sherman PETER, Of the Kansas
Farmer, winning the first prize, a silk
umbrella, offered by the enterprising
house of Brewer & Sons, and Samuel
Montgomery, of the Daily Capital, win
ming second prize, box Of elegant
cigars, contributed by Woolverton Bros.
tho winner of first setting HOO in A
minutes, defeating the other compet-
itor 100 ems.
The evening was devoted to dancing
in the pavilion; it would hardly accom-
modate the large number who were
thers, but they al enjoyed themselves.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

The Shah's English escort during
his stay couldn't quite understand why
his own suite took such elaborate
trouble when waking him If he hap
pened to be asleep when approaching
his railway destination. The cause
was not the dread of royalty, but the
Persian idea that during sleep the soul
wanders away from the body, and if 9
sleeper be so suddenly aroused that
the soul cannot return in time to its
accustomed home, death will be the
result.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

IT is an Ohio man who now makes q
curious discovery. He says if you 60
out to feed flock of chickens and keep
them waiting they will first flock about
you and then begin circuit around
you from right to left, and that no
amount of interruption or maneuvering
will confuse or turn them in another
direction
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

MALE members of the Amish sect of
Somerset Pa, are not permitted to
wear suspenders or own buggy with
q folding top, but if the top is station
airy it is all right. ALI members wear
~hooks and eyes" instead of buttons in
their clothes. This is strictly adhered
to by both sexes. No female member
is allowed to wear q hat or have ruff
ffes on.
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ance of teaching morality, the inter
dependence of the race, the duty OF
every man to his fellows and to him.
self. There can be none as to the
teaching of patriotism, the obligation,
universal regard for which would bring
the political millennium; none as to
the teaching of thrift, kindness, cour
tesy and common sense.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

The Dramatic Drift.-Old Gentleman
(year 1919: 'In my younger days was a
dramatic critic, and 1 have called to beg
the privilege of renewing my youth by be-
ing allowed to write the criticism of one of
the performances this evening""
Newspaper editor: II beg your pardon,
sir, but times have changed since you were
in the newspaper profession. Our critics
write only the advance puffs; the
criticisms are written by the managers of
the companies"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-09-14

THE rainy season in Florida is said
to be delightful, The cooling showers
generally set in about midday, and
from then until night it is cool and
pleasant The mercury drops to about
20, and blankets are comfortable at
night. Meanwhile everything grows
as if by magic.