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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01
Memorial Sermon.

Rev. F. L. Walker, in preaching the
Memorial sermon last Sunday, had for
listeners an audience which neatly filed
tho court room.
He dwslt upon the great result of the
war in making nation wholly free. The
speaker showed, inferentially, at least,
that this splendid victory for new and
higher civilization paved the way for the
successful agitation of temperance and
other questions of the deepest impor-
lance. His scoring OF the rum power by
laying bare the hiGeousness of some of
the mainsprings OF its actions was not a
particle too severe.
We claim the right to believe, and do
believe, that the torchlight of liberty
evolved from the success of the Union
permeated, in different degrees, every
civilized nation, and acted as a sure prel-
ude to host of political and social re-
forms in our own country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

their hall, at which Comrade Tilton Ere
sided. The business of this meeting was
to appoint committee to draft resolu-
tions of thanks to Rev. n 8. Mccoy fol
his excellent Grafton.
COMMITTEES REPORT.
HEADQUARTERS CAPT. TREGo POST
No. 1877, DEPT. OF KANs., G. A: X.
WA-KEENKY KAN, MAY 81, 1889.
This Post hereby gratefully acknowl-
edges the eminent services OF the Kew
n. s. Mccoy, orator Of the day, on the
occasion of our decoration ceremonies,
and expresses cordial thanks to hum
therefor.
Done by the unanimous voice OF the
Post.
JosAUA CROFT,
IL. McGARvIE,
J. Word CARSON,
Committee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Miss Nellie Hardness, sister of Mrs.
J. r. Kershaw's, left for the East last
evening, after visiting friends here for
two or three days.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01
WANTED.

A man to travel and sell Fuel Burners.
I have made arrangements to furnish
fuel oil SO that it will be much cheaper
than wood or coal. A good chance will
be given. Come and see me.
1925 A. T. LlPE.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Colonel Larzelere, commander of the
fourth regiment, Kansas National Guards,
arrived in town Monday evening. Tues
day forenoon, he inspected Company 3D.
at their armory. The colonel was well
pleased with company sd" and our city
generally.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

r. w. Blair, Esq, Of the o. P. law de-
partment, at Topeka, was in town yester-
day, on business before the district court.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

County Attorney Nicholson, of Ellis
county, was in the court room yesterday
afternoon,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Thomas Beldam, of Chicago, we are
informed through the courtesy of A. P.
Lawrence, will be in Wa-Keeney on Tues.
day next to buy horses.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

&C. NJ. McClaren was on business
trip to tho southwest during the first
three days of the week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

The children of Rev. w. 3. Brown
are living at E. W. Browns. about two
miles south OF town.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01
HARROWS,

The best assortment, by far, ever
brought to Wa-Keeney, at Kelly Hard
ware and Implement Co. 419-tf
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Hon. Matt Williams reports plenty
of rain all spring in Franklin township,
and says that crops could not look better
than they do down there.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

"A heavy frost covered the landscape
Thursday morning. It was harmless.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

james Kelly, Esq, arrived home last
evening from his trip to New York city
The trip seems to have agreed with him
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01
Decoration Day at CoIyer.

We have not received our written re-
port of the exercises at Collyer on Deco
ration day. We hear that the largest as
semblage in the history of the town was
present, many being there from the Buf-
falo Park, Banner and Quinter neighbor-
hoods.
Appropriate addresses were delivered
by Hon. 8. G. Robb, and Comrade Davis,
of the Saline valley.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

The mercury in the Thermometer
stood at 48 degrees Wednesday morning
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01
BREAKING PLOWS.

Kelly Hardware and Implement Co.
have just received one hundred Iron Beam
Rod Breakers-the cheapest and best
plow ever brought to the west. Call and
see them.
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&C. 81. Benson, the live Ogallah mer-
chant, was welcome Tuesday caller.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

w. T. Rogers. Esq, an attorney o.
Denver, Col, was in the court room yes
terday.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01
HOTBED PLANTS +!

Ready to transplant. Leave orders at
Geo. Bakers meat market, or by mail.
Soft G. T. GALLOWAY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Judge Osborn delivered an address
at Wallace on Decoration day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Try the Checosa Coal for your heat.
ing stove. At VERBECK's.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

If you want pure home made lard
call at Geo. Bakers market, on Russell
ave. 401
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Best Colorado Soft Coal $3.50 at
5l1 VERBECK'z
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-Lesyenvorth Coal $500 at verbeck's
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Colonel r. W. Jenkins, claim agent
of the U. P. railway, was in town yester-
day. We passed very pleasant hour
with him in our Office in the afternoon.
He and thee ditor Of this paper were reg
mental comrades in the nineteenth Kan
sas cavalry.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

Charley Benedict took Colonel Larze-
lere, OF the fourth Kansas, out riding
Tuesday afternoon. On the home return,
when this side of the creamery, the unmer-
ciful storm of hail overlook them. The
colonel's hat blew off, and exposed the top
of his head to such storm of shot as he
expressed himself ready to swap for
a shower of battle lead. According to the
version of the little child, the colonel's fore
head extends clear to the back of his head.
We are assured that welts of Importance
were raised on that barren strand, but
their actual size is matter of conjecture
at this Office. Charley didn't lose his hat,
but his hands were battered considerably.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-06-01

W. A. Eppler, Of Ogallah township,
recently sustained a loss by fire. His
property is covered by policy in the
Kansas Farmers Insurance Company, of
Abilene. He notified the company on
Saturday, May Is, of his loss; and on the
following Monday Mr.. Staplin received
notice from the company to 60 and adjust
the affair.
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During the storm Monday evening, be-
tween 7 and s o'clock, Miss Ida Black
burn was knocked down by an electric
shock. She was on her way home from
the post-office, and was near Judge Har-
lan's, where she lives, when the visitation
came. The Judge, who was standing in
his yard, witnessed the event. Miss Black
burn was Lot injured seriously.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-14
A NEW JOKE BY OUR OWN EVARTs

Speaking of George Washington
always reminds me of that good sto-
nv of how Evarts told Lord Coleridge
when they were at Mount Vernon
the legend of Washington throwing
a dollar across the Rappahannock.
But" objected Coleridge, 1.-The Rap
pahannock' broad stream. ;"
Yes" retorted Evarts, "but you
must remember that a dollar went
further in those days" At a dinner
party not long ago Evarts was
chaffed little about the many stories
attributed to him by the newspapers,
and incidentally this one was praised
as his best. oh" said Evarts mod
estly, Il don't say all the good things
that are credited to me. Every now
and then some anonymous newspa
per paragrapher says wittier thing
than any of us. Now what | might
have said to Lord Coleridge was
that it was not SO strange that
George Washington threw dollar
across the river since he threw SOW
ereign across the sea-" That was
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-14
DESIGNING SHIPS FOX OUR NAVY.

To appreciate the interesting and
StupendOuS work connected with the
laying-out of the designs for q steel
war vessel, the allotment of space
for the boilers, the engines, the coal,
the water tanks, the provisions for
three or four hundred men for six
months, the magazines for powder
and other ammunition, the quarters
for officers and men, the plans for
guns, the equalizatiO of weight, etc.
the making of the patterns for the
several parts, the melting of the met
ais, the pouring of it into the pattern
molds, the rolling of the plates, the
punching of holes for the rivets, the
setting of the keel plates and skeleton
frames, the riveting of the plates to-
gether, the launching of the vessel
from the ways and the manufacture
of the guns, are one and all interest
ing exhibitions of the progress made
since the building of Noah's ark. The
writer was in San Francisco when
the great steel PROV of the new cruis-
er San Francisco was cast at the Pa
cifc rolling mills few months ago.
In the monster furnaces were PC, 900
pounds of boiling, bubbling steel.
The kettles from which the metal was
to be poured into the molds was
heated to a red heat, and were then
placed on the miniature railroad
track and under the spout at the
bottom of the furnace.
Four sturdy men stood ready, and
at the signal of the foreman broke
away the clay stOpple at the mouth
of the furnace spout, when the stream
of white melted steel began throwing
up shower of fiery sparks in all di-
rections. The kettle being filled, it
was run along the railway for TWEEN
ty-five feet and over a great square
shaped molding-box. A lever open
ed sluice in the bottom of the ket-
tie, and from it poured the molten
metal. AS it entered the nozzle of
the mold, a flash, with q sound like
an explosion, was caused by the con-
tact of the hot metal With the cold
air in the box In less than minute
the great PROV was formed, three
days later the casting was removed
from the molding sand, and then the
stem piece, which was destined to
pillow hundreds of thousands of miles
through the oceans of the world, was
dressed and made ready for the ship.
To give an idea of the actual weight
of metals in these new ships before
being fitted with guns, machinery
and other accompaniments,t the hull
alone of the Charleston weighs 1850
TONS New York Tribune
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-14
ALLEGED HUyTOR.

A Vermont farmer claims to have
some cattle that laugh They are
the laughing stock of the neighbor.
hood Texas Siftings
Miss Emma, loveyou. Will you
not make me forever happy by shar-
ing my humble lot with me ?" us
there nice little house on the lot,
George ?''-[Harper's Bazaar
A lawyer, who is noted for his alb
sent-mindedness, went up his own
stairs the other day, and, seeing a
notice on his door, Back at three
O'Clock, sat down to wait for him
self Bangor Commercial.
Traveller to excited countryman-
rs this your first ride on the rail,
SIR" Countryman-"Oh, no! The
boys gimme ride once BEFORE but
blamed if could enjoy it on account
of the smell of tar Burlington
Free Press.
A clergyman, having called up a
class of girls and boys, began on one
of the former in these words: MY
dear child, tell me who made your
body" She had no idea Of the ques-
ton applying to anything beyond
her dress, and dropping a quick
courtesy, replied: please, sir, moth
er made the body, but | made the
skirt. '-[Texas Siftings.
Class in composition-Teac
''Now, children, | will give you three
workshops, Bees, and Bears; and
| want you to compose a sentence
which will include all three words. ="
Small boy-'I have it" Teacher
John Mccarthy, you may give us
your sentence" John Mccarthy
Boys bees bare whin they goes in
swlmmin' - Harper's Bazaar.
Mrs. Bascom-'Good morning,
doctor. You stopped in to see my
husband this morning?" Doctor
Yes ma am" Mrs. Bascom-"Well,
what did you find his trouble was ?"
Doctor-"Water on the knee" Mrs.
Bascom-'I knew it! l told him
what would be the consequence if he
waded out in the snow and got his
trousers wet. - Burlington Free
Press.
Business man-''I'll be glad when
the republicans get into power gain
ditiOn." Friend-''I have not motto
ed it" Business man-'Well, have
During December | sent out one hum
dred and fifty statements of account,
with requests for immediate pay
ment, and, so far as | can learn, not
more than two of my customers re
ceived their letters. - New York
Weekly.
'Hullo, Billy" shouted a Norwich
public school boy of the primary di-
vision, to a parochial school chum,
I'm studying Hijine and Phizzerolo-
gy nowl Don't teach 'em in your
school, does they? They tells yer all
about yer self, just how many insis-
tiers and molers yer have in yer
mouth, and how yer all tied togeth-
er with hgerments. If these teachers
tell tie truth, Billy, we're dun up
just as carefully as a bundle of dried
apples ISL
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-14
SOME DEFEATED PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATES.

Henry Clay had one disqualification
that neutralized all the possibilities
of good which he possessed. For many
of the best years of his life his brain
was always suffused, like Bismark s,
with the alcoholic poison. The his
tory of parties, from Alexander the
Greats time to this, will disclose to
any Investigator that, of all known
disqualifications for office of trust
and difficulty, this is the most entire
" fatal, because it d1SturbS the Judg-
ment while inflaming all the passions
and propensities which constitute the
task of the judgment Nine-tenths of
a presidents fitness is Judgment.
James G. Birney of Kentucky, the
candidate of the Abolitionists in $40
and 1914, was veritable king of
men, person of the highest type of
character known among us. His life
was a series of the noblest actions,
performed for the noblest reasons
He was brave, steadfast and gentle,
of gracious and dignified presence,
asking nothing from his countrymen
except to turn them from what he
conceived to be their errors. In 1910
he received 1869 votes; in 1914, g.
263 votes. No patriotic son of Ken
lucky could do better service to his
cOuntrymen than to make this adj
mirable man Familiarity known to
them.
Horace Greeley bore his character
in his face-half baby, half philoso-
pher. The sweetest child that ever
looked into its mothers eyes had not
more benevolent expression than
his countenance habitually wore. The
worst portrait does not quite OblIter-
ate it; the best renders it imperfectly.
The politician who said, "A man who
would hurt Horace Greeley would
strike his own mother" roughly eX-
pressed the feeling which the childlike
part of his face often excited His
voice, too, was the pipe of a child.
But above the eyes there was such a
noble dome of head that a Greek
sculptor would have been glad to
take it for the model of benevolent
wisdom. His demeanOr showed SINH
lar contra SITS. From that baby face
what torrents of bad words would
come, with no more malice behind
them than there is behind child's
vehement crying when some one has
broken its toy. With pen i'll his
hand and a subject before him suited
to his talents and disposition, as well
as to the mOmentary needs of the
"Tribune," what editor ever wrote
more effectively p Jas. Parton in the
January Forum
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-14
PRESS COM MENTS.
How About Cider A.?

The farmers of the state are not a
little exercised over the action of the
last legislature, which places ferment-
ed cider with the list of intoxicants.
The law as now amended reads:
mo person shall, except as other
wise specially provided, manufacture,
sell, furnish or give away, by him
self, clerk, servant or agent, spiritu-
Gus or Intoxicating liquor or mixed
liquor of which a part Is spirituous
or Intoxicating, or malt liquors or
lager beer; and the phrase ''intOxi-
eating liquors where it occurs in
this chapter shall be held to include
such liquors and beer and fermented
cider
There can be but one hope left the
farmer under this law; and that is to
sell his cider when new, or else keep
1t until age turns 1t into vinegar.
Attorneys are agreed on this subject.
The farmer who has held his cider for
a rise in the price will have to store
1t for some time or else violate tho
law in selling it 1t is thought vine
gar will be cheap next summer
Burlington Free Press.
Editor Hc(IuPe'S Views Blaine.
Blaine IS the Clay of republicanisn
He can't be president and he won't
be the friend of republican admin
istration that is not in the closest
sympathy with himself and friends
Clay drove Tyler out of the party
and divided the wings by leading the
opposition to TAYLOR, and Blaine
hedged HAYES and Arthur around
with bitterness and rent the party in
twain in three months as premier of
Garfield But Harrison wont be
dominated" Is the ready answer of
all who desire Blaine as premier or
excuse his appointment. Well, if
Harrison can't be dominated, Har
rison will speedily dominate Blaine
out of the cabinet, and what then
Blaine has hundred friends to re-
ward for every one that Harrison
has; he has Il hundred enemies to
punish for every one that Harrison
has. and his friends have borne the
heat of the conflict for years, while
his enemies have been tireless and
malignant With presumed power
to reward friends and punish foes,
and with the president free of either,
how Is Blaine to be dominated by
Harrison ?-[ Philadelphia Times, In
dependent.
Only Ninety Millions Stolen Up to Date.
When the sugar trust began its
national plan of robbery sugar was
about SIX cents pound. Now it is
nine or ten cents a pound. Then a
woman could buy sixteen pounds for
a dollar; now she gets ten or eleven
pounds for a dollar. That is, while
there is no lack of an abundant sup
ply and no increase of demand, a lot
of merciless, INSCRIPTIONS, detestable
traitors to mankind have levied a tax
of 81 80 on every man, woman and
child in the United States, and have
scooped this into their own treasure
vaults Thisis gigantic robbery of
$50. 900. 900 taken chiefly from the
poor
A law ought to be passed at once
making such a conspiracy felonious,
and furnishing the men in it by fine
and Imprisonment In the penlten-
tiarv. Most of the men in the peni-
Tertiary now are worthy saints and
benefactors compared with the men
in the sugar trust Common villain
les. such as thieves and burglars per
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petuate, are blanched into snowy
whiteness by the side of the stupen-
dous and cruel rascality of the inhu-
man sugar trust The men in it
ought not to be allowed to run at
large. Prosecutions have been insti-
tuted in the New York courts to test
the legality of the robber organiza-
ton designated as the sugar trust.
The people are taken by surprise, and
are confounded at the uncommon
scoundrelism developed by the sugar
trust. The States will be compelled
to take hold of it, and punish it, for
it is utterly uncomfortable. A state or
nation that suffers its poor working
people to be Systematically robbed is
not fit to live. We very much doubt
whether our present laws will meet
the emergency. But it must be met,
and this monstrous crime punished
as it deserves to be, even in this world.
AS to the next world, we have a pro-
found conviction that 1.-THE Judge of
all the earth does right, and that
the men who, singly or in trusts,
commit such crimes, will have to an
swer for their deeds at the Judgment
seat of Christ y California Christ
ian Advocate.
A Bit of Vermont Nonsense.
Col. A. F. Walker of the interstate
commerce commission, cannot be
Senator Morrill's successor by any
possibility, solemnly remarks the
fortunately he lives just one mile
west of the western base of the
Green mountains, and Mr.. Morrill's
successor must go to the east side.
In overlooking this mountainous
difference, the Republican is charged
with displaying Its usual ignorance
of Vermont matters"
Old Killington peak, we should ex-
plain to the uninitiated, separates
the home of Mr.. Morrill, from the
home of Mr.. Walker, and the senate
rial seat of the former from the sena-
torial seat of Mr. Edmunds, and no
man unfortunate enough to be dOni-
ciled on the west side can hope for
honor from the east side or steal
eaSt-Side honOrs, and vice versa; and
if we remember rightly, a removal to
the east side of man born on the
west side thereby works corruption
of political blood, and a forfeiture of
all hope of future political honor,
either from the east side or the west
side. Old Killington rises up in the
middle of the state as a fateful
Sphinx, controlling the political des-
TIMES of Vermonters, and as great a
riddle as ever Springfield Republi
can
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1889-02-14
MERIT RECOGNIZED.

Miss Charlotte Morrill,, formerly
of St. .Johnsbury East but now a val
liable adjunct to the faculty of Adel-
phi college, Brooklyn, was presented
on the Friday before Christmas with
a beautiful etching entitled, The
Golden Hour" The gift was made
ed, as one of the teachers said in the
presentation speech, las testimO-
NAL to your unfailing good nature,
to your numerous wcll-pointed jokes
which we have all enjoyed and which
have helped to keepus good-natured,
and last but not least, to your Inva-
riable promptness in paying us our
checks
Miss Morrill, responded in her usual
felicitOus manner as follows
dearly beloved associatesl What
can | say to YOU in thanks? How
shall | reply to your kind fattery?
When Fanny Fern first made Sis
tcrly call in the city of Brotherly
Love and white marble door-steps,
she exclaimed, What have the people
of Philadelphia done to deserve such
butter?' What have | done to de
serve these kind words and this gen
erOuS token of Your regard? If have
attained any measure of success, am
| not greatly indebted to you for it
Can | forget the countless times that
your ninety hands have thrown
ninety very long and very wide man
ties of charity over my short COM
ings? Have not your ninety feet
been swift to run on errands of kind
ness for me? In my behalf, have not
your ninety eyes been kindly blind,
your ninety ears indulgently deaf"