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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13
Her Sons Wife.

A keen-eyed, why little old lady, with
a determined expression upon hel
countenance and an aggressive air gen
orally, sat directly in front of me on q
Western railroad train, writes cores
pondent. We had just left a small,
dreary-looking little town in Kansas,
when the old lady turned around and
asked, "The next stations B, Amt
it?"
"Yes," I replied.
Il git off there" said the old lady,
and having begun her condolences, she
continued:
Eyes, I'm going out there to live with
my daughter Harriet-that is, if we
kin git along together"
"You see, been staying awhile out
in Ohio with my son Hiram, but me
and his wife never could git along in
this world, never! Amt it awful how
extravagant young folks are nowadays
It wasn't so when I was young"
"The times are different" said.
"That's no excuse for a woman throw
ing away whole half-loaves of bread, is
it?" she asked, sharply, and when ]
made no reply, she went on:
"And that's just what my sons wife,
Ellen, did. Then she uses q whole egg
ev'ry morning Tor clearin' coffee, when
anybody knows that the yeller or the
white alone will do. I've often cleared
it with the shell alone, and have
made it without any egg at all, and il
didn't pizen us.
I still kept silence, for my sympathy
was with the sons wife, and the old
lady persisted with her complaints.
another thing she takes good but
ter, at thirty cents q pound, and
spreads it on beefsteak after it's cooked.
Think of that! And she makes hel
gingerbread out OF hall sugar, instead
of all molasses, which is good enough
for anybody! It was just waste, waste,
waste in that house! I expect to see
the whole family in the pore house yit
and told my sons wife so every day
was there"
What did she say?"
Not q word. She never minded me,
but kept right on. So I left, and 4
Harriet carries on like that, I'll leaxl
her, too
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13

means of the scrufT of your neck,
through hooting and madding crowd,
but the policeman who has arrested
YOU sends in signal from the nearest
box, and directly, as the English put
it, or right away, as the American has
it, beautiful silver-mounted droska,
or Rise-up- William iley-and-come-
along-with-me phaeton, drawn by gayly
caparisoned and neighing steeds,
dashes up to the curb, driven by an
Olive street gondolier. You bound
lightly into the beautifully fecked
chariot, tiny silver gong about the
size of railroad timetable tinkles
gayly, and away you go, arousing the
never been under arrest.
But how, asks the keen and pungent
reader, can st. Louis afford to do this,
while in city like New York the
criminal must either walk to the sta
tion-house or forego the joys of arrest
entirely. The answer is simple. Here
the criminal pays $3.50 for an arrest
which he used to get at So. This pays
his droska hire and makes his arrest
something to look back to with pleas
ure. People who yield to the police
and become arrested from time to time
do not care for the expense. Mostly
they refer the expense to q place which
should be alluded to sparingly in q
Sunday paper. And 80 the sum of So. so
doesn't bother them at all. They pay it
if they have it, and if they do moi, IAN OPP
portunity is given them to earn it later
on at some skilled labor like pounding
sand. This makes the arrest an orna-
ment to the city, and the gentlemanly
criminal or misdemeanor obligato pays
for it, thus contributing to his own
comfort and making his arrest deli
cate tribute to himself which the pa
pers can use, and which will read well
in scrap-book when forked over to
future generations.
st. Louis points with pride to her
police system and methods of arrest.
A New York man who comes to st.
Louis and gets arrested is treated just
as we'll as if he had been born here !:
whereas st. Louis man who goes to
New York, when arrested, is at once
looked upon with suspicion.
The people of st. Louis love to
compare their police and arrest system
with those of other cities, and to speak
of Chicago with quiet scorn. They
love to point with pardonabie pride to
their five mayors, neither one of whom
dared for some time to leave town for
fear one of the others would be sole
mayor when he got back. They also
speak with some acrimony of the old
time Chicago justice of the peace, who
used to have his shrine over a gilded
he'll. He had deaf and dumb waiter
built in back of the bench, also a
speaking tube, by means of which he
could refer difficult points of law to a
ow-browed chemist in his shirt sleeves
down stairs, and so, as We say in the
Rue de Bowery, he would ever and
anon roll the rock" And it fell out
that in his court Justice was not only
blind, but she had a bad hiccough as
the day wore on, while now and
then the hoarse overruling power
of the justice mingled it's accents with
the whistle of the speaking tube and
the low moan of the tipless dumb
waiter.
Thus it happened that in the records
of the Office the stenographer has erro-
neously embodied in the Justices rul-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13

A NEW kind of glass has been invent
ed in Sweden. It contains no fewer
than fourteen substances, whereas the
common kind of glass contains only
six. Phosphorus and borax are In
cluded, and they are not to be found IN
any other glass. The result is, accord
ing to those who believe in the new IN
vention. that whereas the highest power
of an old-fashioned microscopic lens
reveals only the l, 400. 0OOth part of an
inch, this new glass will enable US to
distinguish 1-204, zoo, OOOth part Of an
inch. Stupendous, but then who on
earth wants to have look at the 1-2O4 :
7OO. OOOth part of an inchs
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13
An Odd Use for Wheat.

Very few of the farmers boys and
girls in Illinois know how little cash
could be got for wheat in their State
forty-fve years ago, says the Farm,
Field and StocEman. In those days,
trade" or barter" was about all a
farmer could get for his grain, even at
the small prices at which he was obliged
to sell. Speaking of this the other
day, an old gentleman who was an in
terested party handed US the copy of
an agreement made some years ago,
in what was then Stark County, Hi
nois, thirty miles from Peoria. If some
of the school "miss's" of to-day we're
paid in wheat instead of "orders," it
would require larger handbags" than
they would wish to carry.
Article OF agreement made and concluded
this 21st day of March. A. D. 1914, between
Angelina Wyckoff. of Stark County. Of the
first part. and the subscribers to this article.
OF the second part.
.Witnesseth. the said party of the first part
agrees on her part to teach day school for
the term of four months. to commence on
the first day of April. to be kept in house
on w. Trickle'S place. in District No. 4, in
Township No. I'm. r. E. Said school to
commence at o'clock a. m. and dismiss at
CLOCK u. III. IuTlueT, 10 tcdcH Guo lOltOWs
ing branches Of learning. towtt: Reading,
writing. arithmetic. geography. and gram
mar. ANGELINA WYCKoFF.
The said party of the second part agree
on their part to furnish said house and fuel.
and board said school miss. and pay her at
the rate of S1.25 per week. to be paid as fol-
lows: To be paid in wheat at Peoria prices.
delivered at N. Wyckoff's house by the first
Of October. Each of us to pay our proper
ton of said bill. according to the amount Of
scholars we have signed or may send to
said school Said school to be dismissed at
any time the employers may think proper.
-Subscribers' names. No. scholars.
Washington Trickle. Observation-Disclosures.
William w. Riggin. Observation-Disclosures.
CQ61k0S 1OCuW i
Rebecca Eagon. ....................-.....15
Joseph SIQ1GQ. !
BENJAMIN Ably. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. !
Nehemiah Wyckoff. ........... ...............is
Stephen Trickle. ..........................2
c. NJ MANLY.
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ANTICIPATION.

Life's soul Of bliss ne'er safes itself,
Nor credits us for what we're doing;
Our highest hope, our greatest wealth
Lies in the pleasure Of pursuing.
So measure we our ends Away,
In sunshine and in sorrow;
It is not what we are to-day.
But what We hope to be tomorrow
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13

not on the pension roll, was shot dead
D Bangor. Me-, the other day, ct the
age OF IS years. He was the equine
nero at Gettysburg, where the nara
i've runs, having lost his rider, he
headed column of troops and led q
charge. receiving a ball in the neck
tnat left scar always VISIBLE.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13

In the new method for obtaining gas
for balloons the hydrogen is gotten By
heating slaked lime and powdered
zinc, to be inclosed in the cartridges
for safe transportation; BY heating
this cartridge in an apparatus pro-
vided for the purpose. hydrogen gas i
obtained in sufficient quantities to IN
date an ordinary military balloon n
three houfN
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13
II rAD0RI,
4 LOVE SONG.
Wen listen to news

Wen listen to news
That IL trite and diffuse
And lot bores take firm root to the docR.
II they'll only have sense
In the quick present tense
To Let tales be Endorsed by the door.
We love to have health
And We love to have wealth,
And q smile from the one we adore;
But when cold billiards. blow
With swirling of snow
Give us one who shuts closely the door.
Commercial TraveiEer
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13

'CT. LOUIS is
,>the only city ]
ohave ever visit
ed where it seemed
like paying a man
a delicate tribute
to arres st him.
When You are ar
rested in st. Louis
you do not go re-
luctantly to the
nearest station by
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-04-13
DE WATERMELON.
By EUGENE FIELD.

NJ WotermI-
Jlion is de
=, bigge 8, de
bestes, an far
de mos 1icious
vegetable dat
g 70 W S in de
G ar en-. De
T e a son hit
G row 8 on o
vine 'stidn o
bush Ia AZ dat
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1889-07-20
EXPENSIVE INFORMATION.

That little knowledge is sometimes
an expensive thing is well Illustrated in
the following incident. A manufacturer
OF some kind Of patent compound, came
into a chemists shop one day, carrying
in his hand bottle containing an un-
wholesome looking mixture
Il would give one hundred dollars to
know what would make the water and
oil in this emulsion separate, he said.
The chemist looked at it, and said:
Very well write your check"
Check echoed the other.
Yes your check for one hundred dol
lars. You say you are willing to give
that, and for that price I am willing to
tell you what will make the water and
oil separate
The visitor hesitated a moment and
then wrote out the check for the named
amount The chemist carefully put it in
his pocket-book, and then quietly drop
ped into the liquid a pinch of common
salt Instantly the water and oil separa-
ted, and, whether the client was satisfied
or not, he got what he wanted and ne
paid his own price for it.
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Lagarde'S Elixir for sick headache
at VIM. Cleggs Drug Store.
WHIS-KEY.

Whiskey unIocks the doors that lead to
the poor house, penetentiary and the
grave; unfastens the gates of sorrow. the
windows of want, the doors of death;
opens the way into the Jail, up the scaf
fold through the trap; it unlocks the
heart of the wife to let in regret, the
heart of the mother to let in Sorrow, the
heart of child to let in shame; it lets
loose rivers Of tears, ages of sadness,
generations of woe; locks up good inten-
tions, words of promise, deeds Of duty; it
locks the child out in the streets, the
wife in the hovel, the father in ruin; it
looks up goodness and unlocks sin; locks
up health and unlocks sickness; locks up
JOY and unlocks misery; locks up smiles
and unlocks tears; locks up plenty and
inlocks want; locks up usefulness and
unlocks idleness; locks up happy heart
and unlocks melancholy, locks up con-
tentment and unlocks care; locks up
heaven and unlocks hell.-Sunny South.
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SUCH PRETTY WAYS.

"she had such pretty ways with
her." That was the reason an honest,
hard working man gave for marrying
a girl of whom he knew little else.
but who was really professional big
anist, travelling about the country and
marrying husband after husband as a
matter Of speculation.
1t IS the pretty ways Of women
which have ruined many man Of
every age, including the greatest of
generals, statesmen and philosophers.
II the pretty ways come from the
heart, it is all right. If they are the
result Of cold, selfish, calculating art
woe is to him who falls their victim
Nothing is truer than that women
are both better and worse than men
A nan could hardly be so bad as !
woman is when she puts on the pref.
test ways of her sex for mischief
Teas Siiftings.
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A DOG ADOPTS CHICKS.

Mr. Brigham, the dyer Of Orlando,
Florida, has a beautiful and intelli-
gent little dog to whom he is very
much attached. He also has hen.
Not long ago that hen hatched some
chickens. BY some ineomprehensible
mental process that little dog imagin-
ed that she was the mother of those
chickens, and she could not have been
more afectionate to litter of her own
puppies that she was toward the little
chicks. She cuddles and fondles them
every day, and attempts to defend
them against all intruders. When
taken away from the brood she whines
constantly, and when released at once
goes back to them. The hen is COM
pletely nonplused, and Mr.. Brigham
is almost as badly puzzled. The little
dogs and the chicks are the only ones
who seem to understand the situation.
Here is a partner for the Abbeville
NeridionaEs pig-dog. Bro. Felter
might secure the pair and start hog
ranch and chicken farm.
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A COSTLY ESTABLISHMENT.


The taxpayers Of England show in
creased signs of discomfort at the sug-
/ gestion Of further grants to the Royal
Family The Queens granddaughter
/ Is soon to wed the Earl of Fife, and the
sturdy Britons are asked to 90 down
into their pockets and bring forth an
additional hundred thousand, or more,
Ior the new combination.
The annuities now paid to the mem
bers of the Royal Family aggregate
the respectable sum of 52,715, 900. If
the monarchy were anything more than
a name, and the Queen aught than a
figure head, it might be clear that
there was prid pro q'to fora moder-
ate graht to the head Of affairs. But
fora wholly ornamental establishment.
that does nothing save shed an uncer-
tain kind Of Iustre upon John Bull
ana his Island, the enormous sum of
two and thrce-quarter millions of dol
lars ls expended annually, and the
practical mInded Briton is beginning
to inquire whether The expenditure Of
such sums Is iustifiable.
In truth, royalty is beginning to
totter in England. There is no longer
that reverence for the throne that pre-
vailed in ages not far remote from our
own. The success attending the great
American Republic has not escaped
the attention Of our English cousins,
and with each successive application
OF the reigning family for aid from
the National exchequer the murmur-
ings Of discomfort become more pro-
Dounced. The beginning Of the end
Of the English monarchy is plainly to
be seen.
The establishment of the English
Church is not far in the distance. A
majority Of the English people are no
longer IN the membership Of the An
gliean Church, and the day for the
separation of Church and State is near
st hand. Not only those without the
Anglican communion, but many Of
the most devoted members of the Es-'
Iablished Church strongly favor such
action. And with the Established
Church will go that ancient and we'll
ligh useless relic Of former times, the
House of Lords. Already tottering,
I viii soon be gone.
1t is truly costly luxury that the
oeople Of England ere enjoying. How
ong they viii continue to enjoy it cat
present figures is a question which.
he British nation must determine for
tself; but if the signs Of the times
cunt for anything, it is quite evident
hat royalty must go; and go before
many decades have passed away
Times Democrat.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1889-07-20

The following London special to the
N. 0. City Item, of July 9th, shows
that those who take "sugar in their'n'
are largely on the increase:
"To Louisiana, as sugar state, it
will be interesting to note the vast In
crease in the consumption of the sac
charine staple shown by recent Euro
pean statistics. From 1870 to 1889
the annual consumption has increased
in France from $4,000 to 474, 600
tons; in Russia from III, 900 to 5oO,-
600 tons; in Austria from 240, 900 to
$4,000 tons; and in Germany from
$4,000 to / 1,000,0 900 tons. The latter
alone now produces 36 per cent. Of
the sugar consumed in Europe.
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WHAT WILL THE END BE?

| j. h. 1hickston scientist and astron-
omer, living at Metuchen, n. j., while
aIluding to the .Tohnstown horror, said to
Uera'd correspondent that the dreadful
catastrophe was as nothing compared to
what might have occurred
The news from Central Pennsylvania
is awful" he said, ''but this NAV be a
very little thing compared with what may
yet occur. Near and west of the Ale
ghanies great opening within the earth s
crust must be made somewhere by the
escape of natural gas, VIII the earth
settle and fill the empty places. or will
air pass in and thereby make it possible
for the immense reservoirs of gas, stored
away, no one knows how far, to explode
and make an upheaval? Many people
believe there is gas enough under West
ern Pennsylvania and Eastern Ohio to
to blow-the country from Lake Erie to
the Monongahela into promiscuous frag-
ments. When oil was truck at OnCreek
~ t'oJ' UiAsllb 1OihS 1S0iGtt Il CcitdDSc ana
4 sinking of the Oil field, but the danger
was obviated by water running into the
wells as the oil ran out. The dreaded
vacuum never came, as water took the
place Of the removed oil. 1t is not SO in
this case. Water is not filing up the gas
wells, except TO limited extent. What
the outcome may be is not really very
enjoyable thing to revolye in our minds
these pleasant June mornings. A sub
merged valley, lined with the bones Of
fifteen thousand men, women and chill
dren is fearful thing in the history of
the human race, but what of that COM
pared with wrecked continent? What
Of that compared with world blown
open or blown to fragmentsi | am not
IN alarlnist or sensational Virgins. l
10 not believe that old Mother Earth is
ibout to be shot into s1nithereens, but
here may be danger ahead in this direc-
ion, and although we grieve over the
catastrophe. let us be thank
ul that there has not been natural gas
explosion out West, and that there are not
wo rings instead of one set of asteroids
n the material heavens
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1889-07-20
LEARN A TRADE

A good trade is something which bank
failures or commercial panics do not de-
stroy.
1t is passport TO all countries and
climes.
Something which can be carried in our
heads and hands
A demand note which passes current
everywhere.
The one thing that cannot be learned
In an academy or college.
A strong cruteh upon which to lean.
The friend of our youth who will not
desert us in our old age or affiiction.
The only language understood. by the
people of all races or climes
Beyond the possibility of decline at any
tlme-years enhance its value.
The only property which cannot be
mortgaged or sold.
L is calling which can be declined or
taken up at pleasure.
Something about which neither friends
nor Kindred can quarrel National Pub
Nsher and Printer
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a Woman's Discovery.

Another wonderful discovery has
been made and that too by lady in
this county Disease fastened its
clutches upon her and for seven years
she ~ithstood sits severest tests, but
her vital Organs were undermined
and death seemed imminent For
three months she coughed necessarily
and could xot sleep. She, bought of
US bottle Y of DIR, Kings New Dis
covery for Consumption and was SO
much relieved On taking first dose
that she slept all night and with one
bottle has been miraculously cured.
Her name is Mrs. Luther Lutz."
Thus write w. O. Hamrick & Co., of
Shelby, N. C.LGet free trial bottle
at Wm. Clegg's Drug Store.
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Peg5E5c Safe.

Succession Of Aymar Smitb, deceased.
DY virtue of an order from The Hon. 25tl
ID Judicial District Court in add for the Par
ish Of Lafayette. State Of Louisiana, dated
July 3rd, 1859. and to me directed, will
offer for sale al public auction to the last and
highest bidder, at the last residence of the
deceased in this parish. on
Saturday the Goth day Of July, 1889,
the following described property belonging
to the succession Of Aymar Smith, deceased
to-wit:
One lot of horned Cattle.
One horse, saddle and bride.
One lot of household furniture.
TERNs-Cash on day Of sale
BIENVENUE LANGTINATS,
July G, 1889. Administrator.
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Tor The Adsertisar. I
THE OLD TEN LIE OF BRAHIH.

~ M
.r,rr n, !, ,.,,,,x,. !, crp,,
- a. w" l1'A 4" "H Dh-A i-h'
Fsat upon the fragment OF stone,
+ The once gorgeous temple, all in ruin lies
The moon was tinging with her silyery
~, ayes
ii' 'io''''ie'' azure u 'l'e ofleHt SKIES
40 "lo % sum 80 no,y' ana SO sweet
- 60" GO i-0 q "'''- o'li iNeiieu nuiiiaH
-, ~
- - 'o' so MINIS ~ met
With tbair %'t' faat '.'''i anu ! s 'eH
- '-''- - =
: : ~ ,, ~ ~ 80 : 'ie 200. .Oooi sung
NJ s,r@;n @rA0lou Of 'n' s"ee'-y ecHoihS
A thonsand ton5ar ,bor.b+s NV boso,,
rang.
'7was natpre,s evo,irr byr,, so;d
amen
-Aagain the cries of murder rent the air.
The victims on my vision rose, so fair
Dressed for the sacrifice, and drawing
M IN, ,,7
shnddering fear '0A' NV p''''' 'n'
~
The sands are fire-sparks that the vision
se"i'
me soul IS pierced as by burning spear;
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For The AdUsrtiSer. I
JULY.

July in ali her glory
OF fruit, leaf and flower,
Like queen of fairy story,
Now reigns with magic power.
Her majesty is inconsistent,
One day al smiles-again
The woods so dark and verd ant.
Are white with falling rain.
She wraps her veil of clouds
Around her frowning face,
Dark and white like shrouds,
They glide in mystic grace.
Again change; all nature
Is filed with life and Joy,
And to every living creature
She gives gifts without alloy.
Presents of fruit and grain,
Their numerous needs supply;
For she is 4 generous queen,
Orr glorious bright July.
July 7th, 1889. Ivy GREEN
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ATTENTIONS !

The survivors Of Co. A, Goth La. Regi-
ment, are requested to meet at the Court
House. on Saturday July goth, 1889, at 10
o clock a. N. The survivors of Co. Z,
Grow 81 are invited to be present
A full attendance is desirable, as busi-
ness Of Importance viii be presented.
III. EASTIN, President.
G.. DoUCET Secretary.
The Lafayette advertiser. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], La.) 1865-19??, 1889-07-20
ARTHUR LEBLANC,
General Merchandise Store.

i Je me suis seryi des remedies anti-asth-
matiques de Mr. f. Gouaux pour une toux
persistante que M await laisse une attaque
de pneumonia, ct ma toux a etc guerie en-
quelques jours. A mon avis une seule
bouteille de ce medicament vaut mieux
que t0us les sirops qui Sc promenent sur
les etageres des pharmacies.
PIERRE FRAISSE,
stFather Of the Popular Druggist