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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08
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The doctor said it was no unusual
thing In delirium, but it seemed strange
ana pathetic to loving watchers that
the middle-aged, care-worn man. toss
ing YEARLY on q sick bed should fancy
nlmsef again child at his mothers
knee. The green grave far away in a
country village where she slept had no
e1lstence so far as he was concerned.
She had never died, but was with her
boy again. The many trials of life had
passed from his memory now, aud boy
lsh woes and condolences alone we're on
his lips.
When his weeping wife laid her hand
on his fevered brow, he looked up and
smiled and called her mother. The
hand that held the medicine to his lips,
that smoothed the pillow, was mother,
and In all the faces that came and went
about his bed he saw but hers, the first
his baby eyes had known.
lie had forgotten her so many years.
He had been so busy all these years,
and a thousand worldly things had
clouded the image of that kind old
mother, but as deaths mighty hand had
set aside perplexing, fretting distrac-
tions, all so little now, clear and sweet
to his parched soul came the memory OF
an innocent childhood and a mothers
love. All at once he knew himself
weary, troubled creature, sick and
faint over earth's fevered draught, and
he went back, like little child, to her
whose tenderness had never failed him.
Your little boy is tired, mother.
The sun is hot"
His children broke into sobs as he
spoke, but his fatherhood was thing
unknown to him now.
"Pm sleepy and I want to go to bed.
I've been bad boy some to-day, amt
l? But I'll ask God to forgive me, and
if you do, guess he will, too. Hear
my prayers, mother. I've learned
them by heart now.
They saw that the end was close at
hand then, and his wife made frantic
appeal to him to recognize her, but his
ears were fast dulling to earthly sounds,
and he only struggled to raise himself
to his knees. They could have re-
strained him, but he said:
why, 1 can't go to sleep without
saying my prayers. I've been a bad
boy to-day, and God would be angry,
mother"
Then they helped him up. and with
tender arms supported the weakened
form, while he knelt with upturned
eyes fast dimming with deaths film,
and clasping his hands as little child
does by its crib side, prayed the sweet
old petition of:
Now lay me down to sleep,
pray, Thee, Lord, my soul to keep.
If 1 should die before 1 wake
pray Thee, Lord, my soul to take.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08
The Three Kinds of Spinsters and Their
Missions.

Inc Three Kinds OF SpinSterS and Thetl
Missions.
There are three kinds of spinsters-
those who are born old maids, those who
achieve old maidism, and those who
have old maidism thrust upon them
and the latter are, it must be admitted,
the greater class, though the cause Of
their solitude is far less their own I'M
worthiness than the unworthiness ofthe
average man to realize the ideal of a
true woman's heart, says writer.
God Almighty creates some old
maids, in His merciful providence, to
take care of imbecile parents, disagree
able old parties, and motherless chill
dren; to care for the sick, attend to
the darning, convert the heather, to do
all the duties that no one else will at
tend to, and to give unhappy married
women the little superior pharisaical
thank God-I-am- -as-other-women-are
sensation that helps them bear with
unkind husbands, shattered ideals, and
wrecked hopes in their own lives. Such
old maids sometimes writhe beneath
the cross they are compelled to bear, it
is so rough and common place and
humdrum, and their natural sweetness
calculates with little sharp sarcasms
occasionally, but they are noble army
of martyrs, nevertheless, and deserve
to be canonized as saints of greater
self-sacrifce and holiness than any
cloister-bred, halo-crowned sister Ii
holy orders.
As for those who achieve old maidism,
their name is legion and their methods
as manifold as their numbers. There
are pretty. attractive women who fiirt
desperately with numbers Of men, play
ing fast and loose with hearts, secure In
the power of their charms, until men
believe them incapable of seriousness,
and they wake up some fine morning
feeling that hollowness and emptiness
of life known only to the queen from
whom the septre has departed. There
are ultra romantic women with absurd
ideals, longing for Greek gods and de-
spising honest men. There are selfish
women who look upon husbands merely
in the light of special providences to
supply them with pin money and pay
the bills, to arrange matters so they
can go shopping in the morning and
have nap in the afternoon, and then
take them to the opera In the evening.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08
Ancient Shop signs.

It seems no risk to assert that IN our
State there are not ten men born within
the Commonwealth, of New England
parents, who cannot read and write. ]
have heard it suggested that the curious
signs above the doorways OF tsverns and
shops, which we're so common 200 years
ago, were really aids to those who were
unable to reed The @Green Dragon,
the Blue Lion" the White Horse
and the Bunch of Grapes" over the
doors of the colonial inns of Boston
rendered them easily identified, where
as a sign-board would have been unin-
telligible 10 the mass of the people. In
like manner shopkeepers were wont to
mark their dOorwsys, doubtless for
similar reason. A relic Of this custom
is seen occasionally even to-day, con-
spicuous examples being a gilded os,
trich above a milliners door, q hd
above q gloyer's, and spinning wheel
above the door of q linen shop. But
the real significance of these signs have
disappeared before the advances OF the
administration Advertiser.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08
GsERMoN IN RHYME.

II Won have a friend worth loving.
Love him. Yes, and let him know
That YOU love him, ere LIES evening
Tfnee his brow with sunset glow.
Why should good words ne'er be said
OF friend-tiu he is dead?
If Won hear song that thrills you,
sung by any child of song,
Praise 1t. Do not let the singer
Wait deserved praises long.
Why should one who thrills your heal
Lack the joy you may impart?
If YOU hear q prayer that moves you
Byits humble, pleading tone,
Join it. Do not let the seeker
Bow before his God alone.
Why should not your brother share
The strength Of two or three in praYer2
II you see the hot tears falling
IRON a brothers weeping eyes2
Stop them. And by kindly sharing
Own your kinship with the skies
Why should any one be glad
When brothers. heart is sad?
If silvery laugh goes ripping
Through the sunshine on his face,
Share it. 'Tis the wise mans saying
For both grief and JOY place.
There's health and goodness in the m1rth
In which an honest laugh has birth
If your work Is made more easy
BY friendly, helping hand
Say so. Speak out brave and truly,
Ere the darkness wells the land.
Should brother workman dear
Falter for a word Of cheer?
Scatter thus your seeds Of kindness,
All enriching as you go
Leave them Trust the Harvest Giver,
He will make each seed to grow.
SO, until its happy end,
Your life shall never lack friend.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08
&c KeHI KeuLn

WeHI WeU!o
That's the way you feel after one or
two of DR.. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets
have done their work. You feel
well, instead of bilious and consti-
pated; your sick headache, dizzi-
ness and indigestion are gone. It's
done mildly and easily, too. You
don't have to feel worse before you
feel better. That is the trouble
with the huge, old fashioned pill
These are small, sugar-coated, cas-
lest to take. One little Pellets q
laxative, three to four are cathartic.
They regulate and cleanse the liver,
stomach and bowels-quickly, but
thoroughly. They're the cheapest
pill, sold by druggists, because you
only pay for the good you get.
They're guaranteed to give salts
faction, every time, or your money
is returned. That's the peculiar
plan all DR.. Pierce's medicines are
sold on.
Can you ask more ?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

Petted Da1ghter-'Papa what has come
over you? never had wish you were not
anxious to crafty. and you even anticipated
my wants, and handed me money for all
sorts of things l hadn't even thought of.
But now have to ask you for every cent
need, and you growl and grumble, and ask If
/ think you are made of money, ard you
rail at women's extravaganza and invariably
asks me what on earth did with the last
check, or dollar or dime you give me. Don't
you love me any Inore!"
Papa-'My darling, I love you as much as
ever, but you are soon to be married, and l
am trying to gradually prepare you for the
change"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

That there Is q rich variation of the
different directions in which this can be
done is readily seen; whether, on the
other hand, the variations are so numer-
Gus as the above number indicates is a
matter about which our readers may
satisfy themselves by counting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

A writer In Boston paper reccmue1ds
women TO study their countenances By
aid Of their mirrors. Good enough Bas
then if they do not cure their colds with Dr..
breaking their rcJIectors and destroying val
ualale property.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

Dramatist-''S een the Clemenceau Case?"
Manager-"Yes. Big thing. Drawing like q
plaster. Crowded house every night. Say
want you to get me up anew play right off. !"
Dramatist-'fAl right. What sort:'
Manager-"Oh, any sort; only l want the
fret act in the life class of an art academy,
the second in a swimmng-school, and the
third in a Turkish BATH
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

business, instead of chattering like q
'riner, remarked the tramp. well.
good day. I wish you could run with
me, but perhaps you know your own
business best. "-ArkdnsdlU Traveller.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

There is not JOY the earth can give Ike
the surcease of sudden and terrible pain. Il
Is like the rest at the gates of Paradise, but
how can it be found? 1t is the simplest
matter in the world. Buy box of Salvation
Oil and rub it in.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

On a tombstone in PhiladeI phia is the re-
cord of young wife with the line added,
"Our first in heaven" 1t is touching, but
suggests the question what has become Of
the others?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

Citizen-''PhewI The doors of Broadway
are enough to knock any one over. Why
don't you have it cleanedP'
Official-'The street is all right, sir. What
you smell is the winter wraps which have
been packed away all summer IN moth pa
per-"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

A hen trying to hatch a chicken from q
rotten egg is unconscIously setting bad
egg sample.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

Blossom Cindignantly)-Pd like to
see the man who would steal my repu-
tation. Dumpsey (quietly)-fes. l
guess it Is perfectly safe.-L0a0Te''cs
american
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

Friend: I shoulc think that in that Arctic
scene, where you are clad in furs, you would
almost bake.
Actor: It is pretty hot s'roE."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

You can never tell how much the lines in q
mans face count till you see hum in a wood
cut.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

One of the first instances of practical jok-
ing known to history was when Joseph was
sold by his brethren.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1890-11-08

The paradox of dining hes in the fact that
the most refined dinner is the course dinner.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28
Bismarck's Predicament.

If Prince Bismarck insists upon publish
ing certain letters of the ex-Empress Frede-
rick and giving away certain state secrets
as he has threatened to do, he is liable to be
treated to a dose of his own medicine.
Allusions appearing in the Hamburger
Ndchrtchten to Sir R. Morier as acting
for a higher parsonage in supplying
the press with means to attack
Prince Bismarck disclose desire of the
prince to publicly implicate ex-Empress
Frederick in plotting against him. The ex-
empress has intensified his anger by warn
ing him that he must publish none of her
letters or her husbands without her con-
sent. and intimating indirectly that he
would be prosecuted if he failed to respect
her wishes.
The official expectation is that the empe-
ror will direct the application to Prince
Bismarck of the rescript which the prince
prepared after the Won Arnim trial, order
ing the ministers of state to take an oath
not to publish anything relating to state
affairs without permission from
the sovereign. Won Arnim com
mitted the indiscretion to allude
to certain state affairs in his
correspondence, and this Bismarck used as
pretext to ruin his rival, whom he
bounded and prosecuted until he was tried,
convicted and sentenced. The same pitiless
hatred with which he pursued Won Arnim
has actuated him in his attitude toward the
dowager empress. There is strong belief
that in expressing so freely his opinion to
the newspapers about state affairs Bismarck
has been guilty of the same offense for
which Won Arnim was condemned, and
that the empress will now seek vengeance.
But the man of blood and iron," if he
still retains his old time vigor, will never
yield to threats. On the other hand, he has
to deal with a woman of influence and
power, bent on revenge. 1t would be a
bitter pill for him to swallow if he should
be caught in his own trap.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28
Tariff Ohiact Lessons.

"Parsee Merchant" Moore lisa perennial picnic
as a conversationalist, and is about as jolly and
broad brain ID German as one meets in many
years of human attrltion He has views" on
the tariff, as congressman an / others who have
agreed to differ with him have found out, and
his good humor never prevents him from using
the napier of satire or the broadsword of fact
when need arises.
II gu IS | made Godkin of the Nation pretty
mad said Mr.. Moore recently while chatting
to a Pioneer Press reporter. Il called on him
to talk about the Mckinley bill, and after we
got little warmed up made the statement,
Your newspapers are all well enough in their
way, but | would rather have one good drum
mer for notion mousse than doz IN of you if
wanted to teach the farmers and laboring men
the unjust exactions they labor under
Then, went on TO explain, would have a
good lively drummer to 90 to country town,
hire a large hall, display his wares and invite
everybody and his wife to come and buy. Then
Iwould have him open up something like this:
"'Here you are one and all, come and buy
come and ouy. Who wants this dozen spools
of thread at 81 cents: You have always paid
81 cents for them before. All, my friend, | see
you know good thing. I'll sell you tn DOZEN
give me the 81 GEMS But before you can get
possession you must pay me % cents. That's
the tariff, with which have nothing to do. 1t
doesn't help my profits a half penny, of course
but it's there, just as hard, and you must pay it
Now, who wants this box of linen handker-
chiefs, etc.
When the customers had such a practical
illustration. as told Godkin, they could appre-
bend quicker than it they read his editorials by
the yard and by the year"
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28
BRIGHT BITS.

SIN has many tools, but lie is a handle that
fits them alL--Denver Road.
THE Christian who never smiles has a good
deal to answer for:-@Rdn1'S Horn
THE light that never was on sea or land must
be skylight -Btnghdmton Republican.
THE largest congregations those summer
Sundays are at the beach.-SomerUlHe Jour
nal
HONESTY never has to crowd anybody in order
TO get room to make a living NiltOduIee
Journal
UNLESS a man has a character that won't
show dirt, he had better keep out of politics 3
Rams Horn.
The import nee of bishop decreases as the
square of his members Increases.-D. F. adams
an the Cosmopolitan.
A MAN who cannot keep his own knife ten
minutes generally can keep a borrowed blade
ten years .-Asbldild Press.
WHAT does the doctor saw"
He says my liver is in bad way, but he
thinks he can save my bacon.-Nelc York Sun.
a VISIT am glad to see you. sir, said the
widow to the editor. Your ooi uary of my
husband was beautiful. l wish be could have
lived to read it. "-Net0 York san.
It's RATHER ODD that of the eighty or more
Irish members of parliament over one-half are
bachelor, who don't know anything at all
about home rule-SprtnQttetd ReDubltcdn.
ELLA (spitefully)-Their marriage was moth
ing but trade union.
Sophie-A trade union?
Ella-Yes; she traded her money for his title
Puck
THwARrED.-"O, George, papa is unchanine
the dog
ITS all right, He used to be my dog. gave
him to the dealer to sell to your papa. Boston
Courier.
DOUBTLESS SHE WAs-Sunday School Teache,
Freddy IGil m why ioftc wifi
turned into pillar of salt.
Freddy Hojack-'Cause she was too sfresh.-
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
F'HEs MEAN sort of fellow"
"What has he done now
II asked him TO lunch and he ordered bowl
of cracked ice | had 10 borrow money to pay
the bill '-Neto York Herald.
FAIR APPLIcANT-And how long do you think
sir, it viii take to prepare myself for the stage.
Manager-That depends first on your ability
in securing husband and then on your agility
in getting divorce.-JLdQe.
HERES a recipe for nice summer drink, -
said an actor to another. You beat an egg
You can't beat an egg" the other inter.
you every time. Washington Post.
INcoMPATiBhE. --Pastor-I should like to see
you taking more active interest in religious
Miss Besse-I-rm afraid it wouldn't do. Mr..
Goodman. couldn't be spared from the choir.
Chicago Tribune.
THE USUAL SCARCITY Elderly Female Rela-
tive TAT the seaside)-For mercy's sake, Mandy
What if any men should see you in that ere
bathin' suit!
Lively Niece (savagely)-No such luck,
auntie Chicago T, ibune.
"AH, HARRY, before we were married you
used to say, Look in the tea, love, that will
make it sweet -
Did ~
Yes; and now you put a napkin over the top
of the cream pitcher when you pass it to me- "
Washington Post.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28
Advice to a Princs.

His royal highness, Prince George of
Wales, will be a stranger within our gates
in few days, and few words of friendly
advice will not be amiss, and may be useful
to him. Above all, worthy prince, do not be
misled by the stories of wild animals, which,
it is currently reported, run around loose on
the principal thoroughfares in New York
1t is true that they have a white elephant
there, and on one of the leading streets,
1t has also been said that there are tigers at
large, and that there is a hunting sport
called buck the tiger. But it is bloodless
sport, and sometimes very expensive.
While YOU hunt the tiger in his lair, you dc
not STAY him with powder and ball. You
simply attack him with pasteboard cards,
and he becomes docile and submissive at
once-that is, if you hold the biggest hand.
But if you cross the noble river on the
setting sun side of New York and enter the
empire Of New Jersey you will do so at your
peril. This is the only place in the
United States where the wild ami.
mails have not been exterminated
They have ferocious amin Is there
that will bore for your life blood, and they
are said to be very rampant this season.
They are called Jersey mosquitoes. There
is another enemy of mankind in that region
called Apple Jack. Persons who have been
attacked by him have been completely
paralyzed With these few suggestions
illustrious prince, you are welcomed to this
energetic empire. Enjoy yourself.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28
Mr. n1aine,s Reciprocity.

Mr.. Blaine continues to pour hot shot
into the republican camp. His guns are
aimed with deadly effect, and he is making
sad havoc in the high protection army. In
his letter 70 Senator Frye, published Fri
day, he reiterates his protest against the
proposition 70 add sugar TO the free list,
while American products are virtually ex-
clu1sd from the markets Of Cuba and Porto
Rico, and gain demonstrates against tie
passage Of any tariff law that would pre-
vent the adoption Of the plan Of trade reel
procity.
He calls attention to the fact that only
six years ago Soain's prime minister agreed
with United States Minister Foster to a
very extensive treaty of reciprocity that
would have secured he free admission OF
sugar. and that a year before-lSS}-a
treaty of reciprocity was negotiated by
Gan. Grant All William II. Tresc) tt as
United States com nissO1erj with the re-
public of Mexico. In view OF the padding
discussion he considers it a SOMEWHAT
singular circumst1nce that botl these
treaties of reciprocity failed to secure the
approval of congress and failei for the
express reason that both provided for free
admissi a Of ugar."
From the domain of fact he proceeds the
domain Of argument, and points out that
not the reciprocal plan. but the free sugar
proposition would, in his opinion, confilc5
with the policy of protection. which mar
rows the foreign market and limits Ameri-
can purchasers to the American market,
whereas it is Mr.. Blalne's purpose to extend
the foreign market. The free trader main
tsins that all commerce. is in the nature of
barter and exchange, that in order to have
commercial intercourse with foreign
countries we must buy of them as
well as sell to them, and
that whatever interferes with this freedom
Of exchange is hostile to the prosperity Of
nations. Mr.. Blaine boldly advances the
idea H openly declares in favor of
reciprocal trade. "Our government" he
says, has heretofore collected a heavy
duty on sugar-amounting one year in the
aggregate TO S5S,000,0O0, and averaging
S50,OO0,000 per annum for a considerable
period. We wish now TO che lpen sugar
by removing the duty. The value of the
sugar we annually consume is enormous.
Snall we pay for it all in cash, or shall we
seek a reciprocal arrangement by which a
large part Of it may be paid for in p1rk and
beef and -four, 10 lumber and salt aud iron;
in shoes and calico and furnture and a
thousand other thing51 In short, snail we
pay for it all in cash, or try friendly barter
in partl | think the latter mode is the
highest form of protection and the host
way to promote trade"
Mr.. Blaine assumes that the Introduction
of commodities into the markets of the
world is the supreme duty of American
craftsmanship The Mckinley bill practi-
cally declares that foreign trads is an
abomination, an evil to be suppressed by
every available means. Mr.. Blaine rates
the advantage Of access TO foreign markets
so high that he would make great efforts to
obtain it. He is giving light to the be-
nighted thousands who have reposed pro-
found confidence in the high protection
doctrines of the republican party.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-07-28

The burning at sea of the steamer Egypt
is startling reminder to the Boston Post
of the danger which turks in cotton on
shipboard. A complete and connected story
of the fire has not yet been given, but the
statement that the fire broke out in the
forehold, where the cotton was stored, is
sufficient reason, according the the Post, for
supposing that the responsibility lies with
that highly combustible material. Assum-
ing that the fire originated in the cotton, is
the risk of carrying a cargo of cotton
greater than in carrying cargo of oil,
powder, dynamite or firecrackersa 1t all
depends on the care exercised, or the
manner in which the cotton is stored, baled
and packed. Cotton can be carried as safely
as cargo of potatoes, if the proper pre-
cautions are taken in preparing it for ship
ment and transporting it Were the proper
precautions taken with the cargo of the
Egypts That remains to be seen when TIE
crew of the vessel, which was saved, arrives
in~r0rt