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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
A Fiend in Human Form.

ut was raining like sin" said Horace
McVicker to group of half a dozen
people, "and was just about ready to
start home to dinner, when man who
lives in my part of town and rides on
the same cars occasionally, came along
and grabbed me as I stood under the
awning in front of the theater-
%'Goin' home? says he.
Yes says /.
Come on an get cigar fist says
he.
Don't want cigar says L
(Here everybody looked at each other
and smiled sceptically)
Yes, you do says he; come on,
and he dragged me after him.
L haven't an umbrella, said I, still
protesting.
'Nuther have l. said he, come on.
well, 1 thought he was only going a
couple of doors east, so 1 started on a
trot with him. He grabbed hold of my
arm, and when we got to the cigar store
1 tried to dodge in, but he dragged me
on down the street.
Where are you goingY said I, try
ing to break away from him.
Just around the corner, said he,
and pushed along.
Il saw WIS in for it, so submitted
and galloped along with him. When
we reached State street, he charged
straight across it, and, having reached
the other side. he headed east toward
Wabash avenue. made another effort
to escape, but he hustled me on, and we
reached Wabash avenue. There we
turned south and my captor hghtened
his grip On my arm. I was nearly out
Of breath and my clothes were soaked
but still we staggered along. We
reached Monroe street and crossed It,
and I began to think that this fiend was
bent on running me all the way to
Thirty-ffth street, when he lodged into
, place where they sell cigars and
things, and hauled me IN after him.
II was five minutes In getting my
breath, during which time the man had
bought some cigars and forced one on
me. I Twas too mad TO say ANYTHING. l
was afraid if I got started I'd do muir
der; so I sat on the neck of my wrath,
as it we're, and made break for car
As it passed. The man who wanted q
smoke so bad followed, and stuck close
% me. After / had aid our fares 1
felt could trust myself, so turned to
him and said:
@'What In the name of prop idol,
lid you do that for?
Do what 2 says he.
~'Chase me half mile In the rain,
Jaws /, sayagely. felt as though I'd
ike to run up and down his form with
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
The Seven RibIes.

The seven bibles of the world are the
Koran of the Mohammedans, the Tri
Pitikes, of the Buddhists, the Five
Kings of the Chinese, the Three Vedas
of the Hindoos, the Zendavesta and the
Scripture of the Christians.
The Koran is the most recent of the
five, dating from about the Seventh
century after Christ. It is compound
of quotations from both the Old and
New Testsments and from the Talmud.
The Tri Pitikes contain sublime morals
and pure aspirations. Their author
lived and died in the Sixth century be-
fore Ch11st.
The sacred writings of the Chinese
are called the Five Kings. the word
"Kings" meaning web or cloth. From
this it is presumed that they were
originally written on five rolls of cloth.
They contain wise sayings from the
sages on the duties of life, but they
cannot be traced further back than the
Eleventh century before our era.
The Vedas are the most ancient books
in the language OF the Hiudoos, but
they do not, according to late comment
ators, antedate the Twelfth century be-
fore the Christian era.
The Zendavesta of the Persians, next
to our Bible, is reckoned among schol-
ars as being the greatest and most
learned of the sacred writings. Zorro
aster, whose sayings it contains, lived
and worked in the Twelfth century be.
fore Christ; Moses lived and wrote the
Pentateuch 1,5OO years before the birth
of Christ; therefore that portion of our
Bible is least 800 years older than the
most ancient of other sacred writings.
The Eddas, semi-sacred work OF
the Scandinavians, was first given to
the world in the Fourteenth century
PHILADELPHIA Dispatch.
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The COYte Ahead.

One night in the early days of Lin
coin, Neb., an Eastern man arrived with
fair-sized dog at his heels, and it was
plain enough to everyone who looked
the canine over that he was a fighter.
After supper we began to chin the man
about his dog, and the way he did brag
that animal up was something wonder
full It was so wonderful that some of
the boys conspired to put up job on
him, and by and by one of them led off
with:
Stranger, Gid you ever see a coyt?"
mo, 1 never did"
"Do you know what they are ike?"
why, I've always understood that
they were sort of wild dog, and very
cowardly."
"You wouldn't want to match that
dog of yours against coyt, would
you?"
Il don't want to insult my dog, sir!"
well, now, mebby you don't want to
see your dog get licked into the grass
In about three minutes"
by a coyt?"
"You bet"
"For how much?"
"Say twenty dollars"
Where's your animal?"
down behind the barn in a pen. He
was captured only two days ago"
"I'll go $50 that my dog ticks him in
side of two minutes"
"Done!"
The hotel man owned a Newfound-
land about as big as calf, and to dis
guise him the boys had dashed him
with flour until he was as white as
sheep. He was in dog house back of
the barn, and when all was ready we
took lanterns and went out. There was
a rail pen about twenty feet square in
the rear of the barn, and it was agreed
that the stranger should turn his dog
into this.
"You see," explained the chief con-
spirator, "a coyote must have room to
maneuver. He may want to run and he
may want to fight"
"Oh, he'll want to run fast enough"
replied the owner of the dog.
The dog in the house was looking out.
He made no move until he saw the
other canine. Then he shot out like a
cannon ball, uttered one roar, and the
little dog was flung five feet high.
When he came down he took leg bail
and circled the pen, yelping in fear and
dismay, and when he found place
where he could squeeze through he
wriggled out. 1t all occurred in less
than a minute, and as the stranger
realized what had happened he gasped:
Great Scots! but the coyote has
licked him.
Square and fair" added the con-
spirator, "and 1 presume you are ready
to give up the stakes"
"Oh, certainly. certainly. but"
"Out with it. This is square deal"
well, see my mistake. I had got
things mixed. It is the grizzly bear
which is q skulker and coward, while
the coyote is holy terror to anything.
The money is yours, gentlemen, but
you can bet they don't catch me on this
lay again Why, your burned coyote is
big enough to eat up three dogs like
minem-NelC York Sun.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
POlIy's Diving Words.

A professor of the Michigan Univer-
sity, who was on a visit to the Sandwich
Islands, was presented with fine par
rott that was able to speak good many
English words. On the professors way
home he gave the bird to boy to take
care Of. The boy. thinking that Polly
needed warmth, put her in close room
next to the boiler. When her master
went to look at her the next day he
found her completely Frustrated with
the heat, and removing her Immediately
to his own state room he did his best to
revive her.
She did rally for q little while, Eat
only long enough to say in very solemn
manner: I'D sell myself for cent?"
A few minutes later she was dead.
Philadelphia Times.
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Then 3 great wave of tenderness
surged over the wronged wife's heart,
and rising. she said to Cecil. take me
to my husband"
sHe is here" replied Cecil, for Mr..
Penfeld had followed the sound of his
wife's voice, and now he knelt beside
her.
~Oh, wife, he said, forgive me
Let me feel your hand in mine, for I
cannot see you; am blind! God has
punished me. 1 vowed never to look
on your face again, and He has
taken from me the power to do so.
Charlton, " said his wife, tenderly,
Il forgave you long ago, and-I love
you'll" Then she lifted his face to hers,
and kissed first the sightless eyes; then,
blushing as deeply as any maiden, she
kissed his lips. $50, love-" she said,
&let the past be buried"
She was very happy when, later, she
went back to her luxurious home with
her husband, his nephew, young Charles
Penfeld (who had been his most de-
voted attendant since the loss of his
eyesight), and Cecil. It seemed per-
feet haven of rest after her years of
restless wanderings, aud life was
brighter than even in the first days of
her welded bliss. Her husband was
her lover again, dearer, truer, and bet
ter loved than ever before.
Married lovers" Cecil calls them,
and declares, laughingly. that some day
she will write their story. But perhaps
she will have her own to write first, for
the night before Charlie Penfeld went
back to Oxford she sang to him:
Better loed We Gamma be-
Will We no come back egain?"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
Not to Re OutdOue

Hospitality is the crowning virtue Of
the Turk. He would scorn to be
thought behindhand in this respect
when compared with any other race OF
men. Mr.. Barley tells story in his
Bulgaria Before the War" which proves
that the Turk will not allow himself
to be oztdone eyeL by any of his eoun-
trymen.
A friend OF mine was one day shoot
ing in the vineyards at Rustehuk, when
he was stopped by an old Turk and told
that trespasseFs were not allowed, and
that he must clear of at once.
My friend turned to comply, but be-
fore leaving said In Turkish, What
manner of man are you? have shot
In these vineyards for years without a
word being said to me, and to-day
have passed over many miles and
spoken to many owners of vineyards,
and you are the only one who has
raised the slightest objection. The
vineyard is yours, and you have the
right to object to my being here, so
shall leave your ground, but never re-
ceived such treatment from an Osmanli
before.
The Turk, who, up to this time, had
been squatting on the ground, jumped
up, and, with marvellous display of
energy, began protesting.
MY gcad fellow" he cried, %you
shall not say sol Others have shown
you hospitality, and I will not be be-
hind them. Go where you like, eat
what you like. carry away all you like,
and all the vineyard is yours to do as
Won like with"
The Englishman thanked him, and it
ended In the two squatting down and
having feast Of grapes together.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
FuIl Particulars.

Sometimes official inquirers get more
information than they demand. At the
taking of the last census In England an
enumerstor In South Ayrshire received
from o miner the following conscien-
tious return. We give it verbatim,
only altering the names. It will be
own In writing numbers. When he
would write 35, he writes 80 and APP
ponds the 5, making 305. The method
seems logical enough, but the result is
confusing.
Thomas Moran boren In ireland
county of armaugh Silver BRYCE cage
BOB years. To the best of my nolege
Am that cage, and am married the
scent time the furst wife Mary Conelly
be longed to ireland in county armaugh
the Scent Wife be lonGed to County
Dereay hur name was ellen niece. Now
hur name is ellen Moran but she run
Q way From me five years and ten
months since and don't now Wheare
she is for if she is Dead or not haven't.
hard from hur since but if she is Dead
before now my father was Farmer and
had great power of land in ireland
Nand when cone to scotland It was.
. navey was working In the Coll Pitt.
but sure am not working no place now
for got my lege broke weeks and 8
days since oon tomorrow.
%Rosey Moran my sister be longing
to ireland is Mxrred and hur name now
is Misses Gross and hur cage is POS
years and she has Fore Of q family the
oulest Is tomas Cross 7 years Of cage
and boren in ireland newery County
armaugh Mary Cross Gagged years gen
the sevene day of augest Boren in ire
land County of armaugh Elsie Gross
Gagged Fore years gen the lot May
Boren In newcastle england CIety Gross
Gagged / yere and month gen Saturday
Boren In newery ireland and the father
Of them is Able Gross boren In england
Gagged 40 years and was a soger and
sarved his Duane and his country 201
years now in the Pitt Working and all
that sins this paper is catholecks-"
CHANGING over this extraordinary
schedule, the enumerator remarked to
the miner that he seemed to have q
rather large household, to which the
man answered IN 9 surprised tone,
Sure, and there's just meesilfE"
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Will YOU LOVE ME WHEN I'm BALD,

There's a Question would mention
II youu listen. wife, to me.
For fearful apprehension =
Now and then creeps over me:
When our lives have reached the summit,
And the turning-point is called
And old age begins to eye US.
VIII you love me If TGn bald?
When no more your gentle fingers
Wander through my waving hair.
But go cropping through the vastnesa
OF the whereness Of the w(hairl;
When Old Times fantastic fingers
Der my face his name has scrawled,
Do you think that you can love me
Just the same if am baldF
When my brow shall shame the tombstone
As it rises bland and bare,
Write thereon: ~This slab is sacred
To his late laInented hair"
Like grinning skull I'll haunt you
Till your senses stand appalled,;
Can you brave the test, my darling,
VIII you love me when I'm bald?
When my present jetty ringIets
Have not dyed, but gone before,
And until go to meet them
They will come-ah l-nevermore-
When the flies of fifty summers
Ger my helpless pate have crawled
and have to wear q nightcap,
VIII you love me when I'm bald2
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12
AHumbIe Follower.

Mr.. Simmons-So your son is in the
ministry? 1 suppose you are quite
proud Of having son who is an humble
follower of the Savior.
Mr.. Willets-I should say am proud,
Why, he is making no less than a, 50d
q year now, with good prospects of an
advance next season.-TeTre Haute En-
press.
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Time Is Money,

Clerk would like small increase
n my salary, sir.
Merchant don't see Ey way clear
to that, but I can do the same thing in
another way. You know that time is
money.
~Yes, sir"
well, hereafter you can work until
six instead of quitting at five."-Har-
peT's Bazdr.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-07-12

WHAT Is the most proper exclamation
for man to make when he banks his
shinss @DOg gone itl'
The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-10-24
The Haskell Ticket Endorsed.

COLUMBIA, S. c., Oct. 16.-About seven
ty-five colored Republicans from nine
teen counties of the State met here yes
terday in the State Capitol to discuss the
moral, physical intellectual and political
status Of the race. Prof John w. Nor
riss Of the Allen University, was elected
President, and A. ]. Jamison, Secretary
The committee on education submitted
its report impressing the Importance of
educating the people, urging longer
school terms and graded system. The
committee on resolutions submitted the
following .'a...
l. Resolved, That we do not deem it
Republican party to put ticket in the
field. ...... H... ..
2 That in regard to the Haskell move
ment, while We believe i'm good govern
men, and a just and impartial admins
tration of the l,w. and while we believe
that our rights, privileges and interests
would be represented by the Haskell
movement yet taking into consideration
all the circumstances we do not think it
wise or practicable to endorse said move
and we leave the matter with the State
executive committee. feeling sure that
the wisdom and discretion of said COM
mttee will decide for the best and highest
interests of all concerned.
3. That we do not desire social equality
nor demand political superiority as q
race, but as citizens of this State and OF
the United States we demand just and
impartial administration of the govern
ment under which we live and fail
share in that administration.
4. That we condemn bitter partisan
feeling and rashness which tend to en-
gender and stir mp strife among the races
without conducting to the interest Of
either race. .'.
The Convention finally endorsed the
Haskell ticket after stormy debate.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-10-24

Tobacco users certainly have no cause
for complain over o trivial advance OF two
or three cents on each cigar "non Dy
simple change of diet they can enjoy the
delights of opium, ]" containing over per
cent. of morphia," absolutely free OF
charge, instead Of paying s1a pound as
heretofore .,
On garden seeds the farmers must still
nav 90 ner cent, but he will find proba,
bly that anise and caraway seed
from which the oppressive tax OF one
fourth cent per pound has been removed
will answer quite as we'll as germs tor
the growth of real necessaries OF life.
The hunter will have to pay III extra
for shot gun, but if he can get along
with shot gun barrel, which is the only
essential part ofa gun after all, he neeo
not pay penny.
The list ends fittingly with the cheer
ing Intelligence that the 25 per cent, cent
formerly extorted from the importer ~
on waters, unmedicated," will now be
left in his pocket as boon to-whom!
The importer? Oh, no, not to the I'm
porter when the boot is on this leg, but
to the man who hicks the waters
With this hasty glance at some OF the
boons conferred by Mr.. Mckinley, the
| grateful consumer is again urged tc
| studious application to the complete ils'
Given above. He will find therein
much food for refection-and, perhaps
prayer.-N Y. World. ...
The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-10-24

az The crop of wheat corn and oats
in 1880 amounted to 1922, ,OOO, 900 bush
els, and at the average Illinois price were
worth 81, 186, 400, 900.
The same crops of 1889 amounted to
3, 1855, ,000, 900 bushels, and at the average
Illinois price were worth only 1898, 1870,
900. That is an increased crop of 733,
000, 900 bushels, being an increase of %
per cent, sold for $193 200, 900 less, being
a decrease Of l6 per cent. The average
unit, bushel, 1880 was worth 45 cents.
The average unit of a bushel was worth
in 1889 less than 80 cents,
The amount of currency per capita in
the country now is considerably more
than in 1880, and SO the currency is not
the cause of this reduction in value
Among the causes is certainly the ad-
verse operation of the tariff laws, and we
may expect still further trouble in the
same line under the more abominable
and stringent Mckinley tariff. The
prices of our surplus agricultural pro,
ducts are fixed abroad, and that price
affects the price in our home market.
Hence We see how the policy of exclusion
and of restricting our commercial ex.
changes bears down the value of our
farm products and adds to the depression
of agriculture.-Raleigh Observer.
The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-10-24
The Mckinley Bill.

No more effective denunciation of the
Mckinley bill could be made by any Dem
ocrat than has been unconsciously made
by the Republican Postmaster<Ge General
cheap John Wanamaker. A short time
before that bill became law Wanamaker
circulated an advertisement calling upon
the people to buy Immediately because
the manufacturers were going to have
their own way and prices would go up.
Wanamaker's prophetic soul has been
justified. Prices of almost every manu-.
factured article have gone up. Some
grades of cheap shoes, for instance, have
gone up seventy FIVE cents a pair. Hats
and all wooden fabrics and almost every
thing made wholly or in part of steel
have risen in price from 10 to 80 per
cent Agricultural products, however,
are not affected. Thus does the Republi-
can party tenderly care for the farmers.
Winchester Times
The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-10-24
He SURPRISED Eliza.
But He Didn't Do 1t in the Way that He had
Intended

John Roberts of North East, is a
farmer we'll enough to do, but he had
always been eccentric about his clothes,
says a Salamanca letter to the New York
Sun. Until week or so ago he bad not
been known to buy new suit OF clothes
for year The ones be wore had been
so often patched and repatched that no
bit of the original warp and woof was
visible. This personal slovenliness On
the part of her husband was source of
| constant annoyance to Mrs. Roberts,
who is a woman of exceptional neatness,
| She long ago became SO ashamed of his
appearance that she would no longer
accompany him to town to do her trad
ing. This singular characteristic of the
farmer was not owing to penurious ness,
for he is a liberal man in his dealings.
A few days ago he went to town to do
little trading, and, to the utter aston
| ishment of the town, he purchased new
suit of clothes for himself His new
clothes were done up in package, and
| he placed the package on the wagon seat
beside him when he started home that
night. Farmer Roberts had got half way
| home when brilliant idea struck him,
He stopped bis horse on bridge where
the road crosses the east branch.
I'll do it, by gum!' he said I'll do il
and surprise Eliza!'' .'...
| Thereupon the farmer rose up in the
wagon and began to take off the patched
and repatched clothes he had worn so
long. AS he removed a garment he
tossed it into the creek until he had
tossed them all in and had nothing on
but shirt
| "Great apple sass! he exclaimed
But won't Eliza be surprised"
Then Farmer Roberts reached for the
package that had his new clothes in. Il
wasn't on the seat. Farmer Roberts got
down and reached under the seat. The
package wsn't there. Then be felt al
over the bottom of the wagon The
package wasn't anywhere on the bottom
Farmer Roberts rose up in the wagon
looked back along the pitch dark road
Then he climbed back in his seat and
away the horses went for home. The
night was chilly and there was three
miles to go. When Farmer Roberts
reached home and climbed out of biz
wagon he danced.
"rhe hull idee didn't work." said he
"but TIL bet SO that surprise Elizar
That he did no one doubts, but wher
he got up in the morning and went ou
TO the barn, clad in the hired mans over
alls, and saw his package of new clothes
hanging by its string on the brake handle
at the side of the wagon he was little
surprised himself
The Charlotte Democrat., 1890-10-24

gB@ At u social gathering up town
recently lady was chatting with a new
acquaintance when he suddenly inter
rupted her with the remark
"You were born in the Eleventh ward"
"How do you know" she piled, sur
prised. -...-.-
"By the way you drum on the table,"
said the gentleman. "Only an Eleventh
warder can let the fingers slip out in
smooth succession that way. / can tell
an Eleventh warder anywhere by that
trick. Every person born in the Eleventh
ward seems to have that accomplish
ment, and l have mover seen anybody
else who did" -s 4 .|.EI. z..,s
j. General attention being directed to his
assertion, everybody in the room wanted
to see what the trick was. The lady
rested her right hand on table, support
ing it mainly upon the inside of the
wrist, and the fingers being almost closed,
she let them fly open one after another
in rapid succession, each making click
against the wood as it opened. She
began with the little finger and moved
them so regularly and rapidly that the
difference in their contact with the table
could barely be distinguished.
1t sounded like the rapid but even rat
tat-tat of an experienced drummcr's sticks
when he is beating a tattoo. Then every
other person wanted to try it, but only
this la aly and gentleman-he, too, being
an Eleventh warder-could succeed
Both declared that they had learned the
trick when they were very young. and
both were sure that it is an accomplish
ment mastered by every child of the
ward-N Y. Sun.