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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

WHEN DR.. McLallin, editor of the Al
lance Advocate of Topeka, Kan, asserts,
as he has frequently done in his paper
and has recently been doing in inter-
views to be published in the New York
Voice and other eastern papers, that the
mortgage statistics Of Kansas which
have been generally published in papers
receiving associated press dispatches,
are false, he not only lies, but his state
ment is an indictment OF nearly every
county register Of deeds in Kansas. The
statistics were made up from reports
made out by registers of deeds who were
asked to omit from their figures of mort
cages released every release which came
through q foreclosure. Those officers
have made their reports as requested
and in nearly every instance have at
tached their official seals to their reports,
thereby giving them the force OF their
official oaths. IF the county officers Of
Kansas quietly submit to the wholesale
indictments OF their official acts made
BY Calamity Howler McLallin, they are
truly patient set OF men.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

many expeditions of danger and IA
tigue. She and her cousin trailed
Pagan. and Ed Kinsley, noted cattle
thieves, five days in the mountains of
the Cherokee Nation, last fall. Mrs.
Miller was riding alone when, to her
surprise, she came face to face with
Pagan, whom she placed under arrest
before he could realize that she was
an officer and in earnest. Kinsley's
hiding place was soon found, and in
securing his arrest several shots were
exchanged. Mrs. Miller also arrested
the Warren brothers, noted whisky
peddlers.
This remarkable woman seems de-
lighted with her perilous work, and
being well educated, is anything but
bold and brazen. Deputy Cantrell
has been on the Marshal's force for
eight years. He says Fannie Miller's
services are almost indispensable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
'ATARIFF SERMON.

In Great Britain the wages average
about one-half of the wages in the
United States. Few of the working
people own their homes. They have
few if any lu1uries-in fact, many of
our neoessaries of life are considered
luxuries by'them. Every penny earned
is needed to make both ends meet, so
that after years of toll there is not a
dollar saved, and the poor house is the
last home of hundreds of thousands.
In France the condition of the work
ing people is not to be compared to that
of the laborers Of this country.
In Belgium, two thirds of the work
ing class are women. Together with
children they work in the mines, in the
fields and in the mills. Home life, as we
know it, is not found. They simply
exist. In Holland man considers him
self fortunate if he earns $3.50 per year,
eats meat but once week, and saving
is out Of the question.
In Italy meat is seldom eaten, even by
skilled mechanic. Average wages Of
males, 50 per week. females, $3.50.
In Austria mere plttance Is all that
is had by q large portion of the men
and women, even after working II hours
and more per week. Coarse clothing,
poor and but little food, and miserable
life is the result.
In Germany, perseverance, patience,
industry and economy make the labor
er's lot somewhat better than in some
other foreign countries.
In India and China few cents must
suffice the laborer, who lives on rice and
rats.
Free trade in the United States means
one of two things:
Either our goods will be made by the
laborers whose condition is described
above,
Or our laborers must accept the same
wages and mode Of living.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
No Sense of Humor.

Now and then one encounters a
man who cannot comprehend joke;
but as a rule the sense of humOr is
stronger in men than it is in woman.
This seems strange when we consider
her quickness in other directions. l
remember once limiting to lady that
the fair sex were a little obtuse in
this way. OF course she secuted the
idea, and scornfully said that if ever
simply because the so-called joke was
very thin-only the ghost Of joke in
fact. But as I pointed out, this
ought only to make it the more
easily seen through, imagine my feel
ings when she asked me "how?" AM
other time friend was relating how
once, while travelling, he had as COM
panions couple of Englishmen. The
elder of the two was telling the other
how one day at hotel he had noticed
Scotchman eating roast mutton.
@And," said the Englishman, impress
lively, would you believe it, he took
mustard to his mutton" Mustard
to his mutton!" gasped his horror
struck companion; "and did he die?"
My friend, who told this with great
gravity, here paused for moment,
and his wife, who had been eagerly
listening, and who, woman-like,
wanted to hear the end, broke in
with, sAnd did he die?" On another
occasion the story was told of man
who, being badgered by lawyer who
insisted upon plain Eyes" or mo" in
answer to hisQuestions, finally turned
upon his prosecutor and asked him If
he would in turn answer yes or no to
one question. Receiving an af1rma-
tive reply, he said, well, will you
kindly say whether you are as big a
fool as you look?" Now, I think this
isn't bad, and we all had good laugh,
which, needless to say, was renewed
when a lady who had evidently been
over the question, said
with triumphant, pve-discovered-it
sort Of air, @Why, If it had been me
I would have said mol"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

reelected. As In the later case Of Rhode
Iahnd, the political Pharisees, Of whom
Mr.. Cleveland is CHIEF, were not only
ready but anxious to carry an American
state by the use of money. Win either
Mr.. Cleveland or Governor Russell dare
to deny the sending of this money to
Massachusetts, for the purpose named !
The Press offers to publish any denial
they may see fit to make.
The same result was attempted by the
same process in Rhode Island; but
neither the free trade prophets personal
efforts nor the money lavishly contrib
uted by his friends could swing the
staunch little state from her republican
mornings. The experiment succeeded
in Massachusetts,; it failed miserably in
Rhode Island.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
TRY, TRY AGAIN, GROVER.

Cleveland carried Connecticut in 1883
by hair-breadth majority of 1876, and
it is believed that the revival of manu-
featuring interests in the state under
the Mckinley law is having the same
effect on political parties there as in
Rhode Island. The reluctance of Mr..
Cleveland to enter the state campaign
with his free trade platitudes. as he did
in Rhode Island, tends to confirm this
belief. The prospect now is that Con-
necticut's six electoral votes will be cast
for the Minneapolis nominee.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

Among the other plants that catch
and digest insects are the pitcher
plants of the Sierra Nevadas, North
Carolina, and Borneo. The bladder
wort also catches insects, as does the
sundew. The latter has long, sticky
leaves, of sweetish nature, which
curl slowly around the captive. II
the fly happens to light away from
the center of the leaf, the tentacle
it touches bends over towards the
center, where all the tentacles grasp
and hold it while sort Of acid is
poured over it, which dissolves the
food part. One full meal will last
the plant nearly a week, If the food
is Of the right kind. DR.. Darwin
fed sundew on cheese, but it soon
became sickly and died. When milk
was given, the tentacles bent over to
absorb it, while the leaf itself be-
came more cup-shaped, Venus fly
trap is another example of carnivor-
Gus plants.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
A Famous Derelict.

The American ee-masted schoon.
er Wyer G. Sargent, which was aban-
doned of Hatteras on March 81, 1891,
has drifted more than three thousand
miles since that date, and has become
famous among North Atlantic dere-
licts. She was sighted last on Feb.
16 by the steamship w. I. Radclfh.
She was then about one thousand
miles west of the Cape Verde Islands,
in fairly good condition and with the
stump of her mainmast standing.
When abandoned in a water-logged
condition the schooner had go, 900
worth of mahogany under her matches,
and wreckers have sought in vain to
bring this rich prize into port.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
she Is DEAD CANS.

Hsnnis Amer, the Deputy Sheriff as Mus.
kogee, Indian EerratoFy.
Fannie Miller, Deputy United States
Marshal ut Muskogee, Indian Terri.
tory, is one of the bravest women in
the West. She was born twenty years
ago near st. Joseph, Mo-, of respect
able parents named johnson. When
4 years old she moved to Sherman,
Texas, and at the age Of Is, in com.
pany with an experienced officer,
went to Mexico to aid in ferreting out
the perpetrators Of series of crimes
along the border. After two years OF
adventure she married and moved to
Talahana, 1. T.
This little woman is nervy and has
remarkable powers of endurance. She
rides with Deputy B. C. Cantrell, a
cousin, having accompanied him on
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
THE pULLARD DEMOCRACY.

From the Kansas City. Mo-, Journal.
It is an old saying that the democrat
ic party never learns anything. The
saying is not altogether true. The
Bourbon party does learn, but learns
very slowly and through painful expe-
rience.
It has learned, far instance, that this
is nation and not confederacy Of
states. Also that the people OF this ma
ton are too enlightened and too humane
to tolerate slavery as legalized institu-
ton. It cost great deal to teach dem
ocracy these lessons, but they were
finally learned and impressed forcibly
enough not to be easily forgotten.
Many other wholesome lessons have been
taught the same dull pupil in the past
twenty-five years, not with the bayonet
but with the ballot. And the educa-
tionsl process is still going on. De-
mocracy manages with wonderful regu-
larity to get upon the wrong side of
every public question which arises. This
results partly from ignorance or habit,
and partly from desire tc antagonize
the republican party. 1ne outy logic
that reaches it is the logic of defeat.
After being beaten several times in sue
esssion upon given issue. it finally
concludes that it is in the wrong and
casts about for something else to make
. fight upon
There is lesson in store for it this
year. The people of the United States
ere going to teach it that the tariff pol
Scy under which the country has grown
and developed so marvelously is to be
nerpetuated. The first installment Of
This lesson was given in 1888. and to q
moro apt scholar that years experience
WOULD have been sufficient. But democ-
racy Is not satisfied. It wants further
and more emphatic evidence of the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
TARIFF PICTURES,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
R. G. Hood, skilled mechanic, living
in Philadelphia, English by birth, says
that, having no family to support, he
saved 800 year by practicing rigid
economy in England. When he came
to this country he found he could save
$500 year by living just as well in
every particular. This sum is more
than his entire wages amounted to I'M
der free trade. Are workingmen inter-
ested in protection?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

country's Wishes upon this subject
And it viii get it. Let it nominste
Grover Cleveland and declare for ''tarin
reform" and the evidence viii be forth
coming IN November in satisfying guam
titles. The results in Ohio and Rhode
Island and in municipal elections all
over the country, point this out unmis-
takably: After this year the free trade
cry will be hushed. Protection to Amer
lean labor will cease to be a party issue.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

nary 3, ITO, after 46s years had
elapsed, and his body found to be al
most perfect, the face even retaining
its expression.
Canute, the Dane, who crossed over
to England In l017, was found in
1776 by the workmen who repaired
the Cathedral. His body had reposed
in the grave for nearly $50 years, but
was perfectly fresh and life-like.
In 1869, three Roman soldiers were
dug out Of peat bog in Ireland,
where they had in all probability lain
at least 1900 years, yet they were
perfectly preserved even to skin, hair,
eyes, and nails.
In the reign Of James II. of
England, the big church at Warwick
shire fell. In clearing away the de-
bris it became necessary to move the
tomb of Thomas Gray, at one time
Marquis of Dorsetshire. When this
had been done it was found that the
body Of the Marquis was as fresh as
a corpse newly buried, the joints even
being pliable. This discovery was
made exactly seventy-eight years,
three months, and two days after the
burial, says the Philadelphia Press.
Robert Braybrook, who was bishop
of London in 1881, and died in 14O4,
was found to look perfectly natural
when removed from the tomb after
the great London fire of 1866; even
the color of the eyes could be dis
tinguished.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
THERE HE STANDS. LOOK ArHIM.

From the Baltimore American.
President Harrison has surprised the
world by his splendid grasp on the
questions of the day, by his admirable
development in craftsmanship, and by
his all-around qualities as man and as
an executive. He is able. He is honest.
He is prompt. He is comprehensive.
He is firm. He is progressive. And,
best of all, he is safe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
TARIFF PICTURES.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
While the number of factory hands in
the District of Columbia was increasing
from 7,146 in 1880 to 21,855 in 1890,
the total amount of wages paid was in
creased from 1924, 612 to $13, 1891, 008.
In other words, the average annual
wages have increased from $4,000 in
1880 to $635.60 in 1890. No wonder
Free Trader Francis A. Walker says in
the last edition of his work on political
economy that protection does create and
maintain higher wages in the factory in
dustries.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
THEIR DESPERATE STRAITS.

From the Kansas City, Mo-. Journal
A desperate situation demands des-
perate efforts. This is political fact
which the democrats begin forcibly to
realize. The party has parted the sill
yer question and refused to bring it to
an issue, because it might interfere with
the prospects of their candidate for the
presidency, who must be an anti-silver
man. Shut out from this issue, democ-
racy is naturally expected to turn to the
tariff, which has served them as Bogie
man for SO long. But the tariff-what
shall they say al dt it? They are
afraid to tackle it, and their lodging
policy in congress in regard to it, more
picayunish and understandable, If pos
sible, than their attitude towards the ap-
preparation bills, has done them deal
OF harm.
During the last presidential campaign
the democrats were able to scare great
many voters with this tariff bugaboo.
Values and commercial relations were
somewhat disturbed by recent changes
in the tariff schedules, or rather by
fears of what the changes would effect,
and the opposition to the tariff served
very we'll But now the country has
lived for four years longer under the
much abused tariff law, the democrats
have made no effort to relieve them,
and yet no damage has been done by
it's continuance. In fact, commerce has
settled down into its regular channel
and instead of being harmed by the
tariff it has found itself benefited.
In this desperate condition the only
scare that seemed able to serve the pur-
pose of the opposition leaders has been
the tin plate industry, which the McKin-
ley law was at some pains to protect
and foster. There has not been fact
in connection with the tin plate indus
try in this country about which the
free trade organs have not desperately
lied. 1t might be taken for granted
that a lie in politics would serve in place
of the truth if the lie were not found
out, but as matter of fact it is always
found out. So the tin plate lies have
all been found out. Some of the hardi-
or of the democratic dailies have still
the effrontery to run them, but only oc-
casionally. Tin plate is sold cheaper in
this country, since we began to produce
some for ourselves, than it was before
the law went into effect. This in spite
of the democratic statements of how
many millions the protection of the tin
plate industry is costing the consumer.
The tin plate men of the Old World
themselves are becoming desperate also.
They can't import in competition with
the home article. Therefore they have |
begun to move their factories to this
country. One of the latest is Norwood
& Co., of Swansea, Wales, who are
building at Elizabethport. N, j., facto-
~ that will turn out 5000 boxes of tin
plate year. During the ten months
that the new tin plate tariff has been in
operation, there have been thirty facto-
ries started which are now turning out
tn plate for the home market, and as
many more are preparing to start.
There is nothing left for the democratic
party but to swallow their tin plate lies,
and accept the situation. Their position |
is just as desperate there as it is on the
silver issue.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
August.
Flower

Eight doctors treated me for Heart
Disease and one for rheumatism,
but did me no good. I could not
speak aloud. Everything that Itook
into the Stomrch distressed me. ]
could not sleep. I had taken all
kinds of medicines. Through &
neighbor I got one Of your books.
I procured bottle of Green's Aug
ust Flower an took it. I am to-day
stout, hearty and strong and enjoy
the best of health. August Flower
saved my life and gaveme my health.
Mrs. Sarah ] Cox, Defiance, O. .
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
Where the Banana Grows.

Our young friends who are fond Of
bananas, and most of them we feel
sure are, would like to be in South
America. There, as Harper's Young
People tells US, the banana is not
thought of as a luxury. In fact, 1t
takes the place of bread and meat
and vegetables among a large part Of
the people. Every garden has its
banana patch, Just as we have our in
dispensable rows Of potatoes. On
the Isthmus OF Panama the cars spin
past hills covered from base to sum-
NIT with the beautiful broad-leaved
plants, their great clusters OF fruit
hanging from the stems just under
the leaves. The banana plant looks
something like an immense Gala lily.
Its stem is made up Of the bases OF
the leaves, so sheathed or folded
around each other and hardened as to
sustain the weight of the mass OF
foliage above.
1t will In some localities attain a
height of twenty feet. When two
years old it bears fruit and then dies,
but number of young shoots spring
ND from the base of the old stem, so
that it continually renews itself, and
the farmer, who is usually an Indian
or negro, has no trouble except to
keep the weeds and the old withered
trunks cleared away from the grow
ing plant. Even the trunk Is OF use
as it contains a fiber almost as soft as
silk, which can be woven into the
most exquisite muslins. Indeed, some
of the dainty India muslins are made
Of this very fiber.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

TIE spring town elections are now
being held throughout Indiana, and, a.
IN New York, they are all going one
wsy-republican. Twenty towns that
voted Monday show large republican
gains The spring elections generally
foreahadow the November resulte and
L they do this year, New York and In
diana can be counted ON to remain N
the republican presidential column.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
Swans In England.

At one time the number of swans
In England must have been enor-
NOUS. Paulus Jovius, writing three
and q half centuries ago, declared
that he never saw a river 80 thickly
covered with swans as the Thames;
and In 1925, when John Taylor, the
water poet, rowed from London to
Christchurch, and then went up the
Avon to Salisbury, he was amazed At
the swarm of birds In that steam.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
WE KNOW WHAT WE BELIEVE.

From the Boston journal.
Protection, honest money, free ballot
here are three issues which appeal
with irresistible strength to the i'm
pulses of the people. There is a moral
force behind these principles which re-
calls the early and glorious days when
republicanism was synonymous with
victory. These three principles are con-
sistent and coherent. They are ire
vocably interlinked.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
WITH HARD CASH,
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
The experiment of trying to carry an
election with hard cash is by no means
new to the Cleveland democracy. The
democrats of Massachusetts, became
frightened over the prospect Of republi-
can success in that state. Russell &
Co. sent piteous appeal for Cleveland
and for financial help to the Cleveland
democrats OF New York city. The appeal
was answered. Cleveland and the money
were shipped east. By the most des-
perate exertions Russell managed to get
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
A HINT TO GRUMRLERs.

FROM the Indianapolis Journal.
The man who wants cheaper goods
than can be made in this country by
men who are paid living wages should
emigrate to one Of those countries where
skilled labor is paid less than one-haf
the wages paid here.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
MENDAcIOUs AND IMPUDENr,

From the Chicago Evening Journal.
The country was never before so
prosperous as now. The necessaries of
life were never before so cheap as now.
The wages of labor in honest money
were never before as high as now. The
syndicate Of political liars was never be-
tore as voluble, as mendacious and as
impudent as now.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
BUT THAT BELONGS TO CLEVE-
LAND.

From the New York Press.
Hon. Jerry Simpson, Of Kansas, pre-
diets that the farmers alliance will carry
every southern state in November. Our
opinion is that the only state it will
carry is the state of inocuous desuetude.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21
Afser Year in Earth.

The tomb of Edward L of England.
who died in 1907, was opened on jan
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-05-21

Better There than Hero
There are said to be 135, 600 lepers
In India
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-02-02

I.'ORe Me Millinery stock md fix
i hTes hIOd business Stand. Au.
dress Millinery. this Dfiieu. Fest
The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-02-02

Last evening most interesting lee.
tpre WAS delivered by Rev. ". Il.
liuckie Of Philadelphia, on Life in
London" in the Baptist City Mission,
Twelfth and lteald streets. The lee.
ture was full OF the most graphic,
AMI pathetic inaidenfs.-
Tho Rev. gentleman. who Is Interstate
lecturer and superintendent OF Mis-
sioH5 for the femplars OF Temparancs,
dealt with the subject In hind in a
mastorly md original manner. lie
described tho peculiar trades of Lon
don Its pupulaiion, railway syst EN-,
and other modes OF locomotion in d
pleasing manner. giving Il vast num-
! CT u statistics inierlniXed with anec-
dotes and l'n7le5 oil wit that kept his
audience Interested from first To last.
The de5orptioHOf ttsr streets OF London
at night tho DOSING houses tho evils
OF London and the pitfalls were most
graphically given.
A brief sketch Of mission work WAS
given, showing tue vast religious and
le9Gui7es of The MctFoplis
.pI the world, tho irrtFo closed ~
giving some sPr' iHeu- Of the London
boyS VII l,ov. " o. Flucl,lc Is
Inhuut t. Organise temperance work in
many 0t our chutlns in Wilmington.
HE iirst meeting Wlll he held in Ecv.
IN Crises Gtlurrh, Tho VI II. brandy.
wine, IN q fey lays. ha object the
Rev scntienHn has in view is TO
aronse Tie temperance sentiment in
4lie cry, lie Is "A humorous and for,
rIhle speaker, and can be listened To
Win pleasure and profit.