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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
A Successful Party,

The party was given at farm
house, and about thirty couples were
present { told the farmer when ]
first arrived that / should depend
upon him to give at least five min
utes' notice before any shooting be-
gan. and he replied:
''I'll do it; l shall be watchin'
out and / think I can give yo' plenty
of time to get out of range"
"There will be shooting, Of
course?"
"Oh, certainly. The boys would
feel that they had sighted me il
there wasn't row."
s'What do the women folks do
when the shooting begins?"
''Sit right down on the floor till it's
all over. Don't be a bit Uneasy. I'll
give yo' plenty of warmth"
There was only one fiddler, and he
was also the caller. His calls puzzled
me at first, but no one else appeared
to mind it as he drawled:
"Right and left on the head, and
Bill Taylor don't want to drop that
revolver on the floor! Balance four
and half-promenade, and Jim Hender-
son has a knife in his bootleg!
Ladies change, and Luke Williams is
aching to pick a furse with Tom
Bebee! ALI balance to partners, and
when the shootin' begins please re-
member that the fiddler never takes
sides!"
We had been dancing about an
hour and everybody seemed to be
thoroughly good-natured and at peace
with all mankind, when the farmer
beckoned to me and whispered:
81 said I'd give yo' five minutes
warnin', but Pm two minutes behind
time! Break fer the barn!"
! broke, but was not over thirty
feet from the door when the shooting
began. 1t lasted about five minutes,
and I cautiously returned to the
house to hear the fiddler calling in
the same old monotonous voice:
'TaKe partners for Virginia reel,
and don't make SIGH furse over three
men wounded First lady and gent
for ward and back and Bill Taylor has
gone after doctor! Forward again
and sasha, and somebody attend to
that gal in Mysteries. Swing with
the right-now with the left, and IL
this isn't the most successful dance
Of the season then you folks needn't
pay me cent"-Detroit Free Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
NEWSPAPER SCIENCE
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An item Is going the rounds Of the
press to the effect that at the PARIS Ex-
position Of 1900. among the objects OF
curiosity viii be q telescope which
will apparently bring the moon to
within a yard of the exrth. In other
words, we viii be able to observe the
moon about as we do the world
around us.
On which the National Druggist
very aptly comments thus:
To anyone acQua; nted with the
rudiments of optics, this is so absurd
that it would scarcely merit contra
diction: but unfortunately, the great
bulk OF newspaper readers know
nothing Of optics, and care less; and.
also unfortunately, the human being
Is prone to accept as true anything
that smacks of the. marvelous-the
more marvellous, the reader men are
to believe.
The laws regulating the amplifica-
tlon OF an image in compound in
strument like the telescope are fixed.
and enable US to calculate with great
exactneSs the focal length of an eye
piece, and OF the object glass, whose
combined effects shall give any de-
sired amplitication. Not to 60 into
the scientific discussion of these
principles we will state, as fixed
rule, the application depends upon
the focal length of the eye-piece and
that Of the object glass-the shorter
the former the shorter the latter
and hence, of the length of the tube
necessary to attain any given am
plfflcation. The formula for ascer-
tanning the magnifying power Of
telescope, roughly stated, is Fe, where
+ Is the focal length of the object
glass and that of the eye-piece. -
Let US admit for arguments sake,
that at the end of the century engi-
neering skill and manufacturing
facilities will have reached a point
at which the construction Of tube
or body for the telescope, of any de-
sired length and diameter-say 500
miles long-will be a mere bagatelle.
Let US also suppose that by that time
object glasses Of any desired diane
ter, and eye-pieces Of any desired
shortness Of focus. Let us take LIS
inch as the focal length of the eye
piece (many times shorter than at
present possible). which will give an
amplifcation (roughly) of 800 times
the image made by object glass. The
moon is approximately 238, 500 miles
away from US, or say 420, 600, 600
yards To bring her to the apparent
distance of one yard, with an eye
piece of LIS inch focal distance,
would therefore require tube length
of about 42O,0 yards or say 800
miles The object glass would have
to be (roughlY speakingl about
twenty-six miles in diameter. We
think that the reader will agree with
US that this is beyond even the pos
sibilities of fin de steele engineering
and optical skill.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
Narrow EscaDe.

In Arabic there are two different
words to designate an unbeliever.
One Of them is inoffensive, but the
other, which is gafer, corresponding
nearly with our word "infdel" is
habitually employed by the Moham-
medans against Christians, while a
Christian is punished with death il
he applies it to follower of Moham-
med. Such fate nearly befell mis-
sionary, who tells the story.
During my residence in Abyssinia,
the Arabic language had become less
familiar to me, so that inadvertently
in conversation 1 used the offensive
word gafer. Instantly the people
seized me and dragged me to the
judge, crying, '.He is worthy of
death! He ought to die!"
/ perceived that l had committed
fault, and though it was only
fault Of grammar, I felt great re-
pugnance at dying for such an Of
ence, and cried to God to deliver me.
Conversing on the way with my &C
cusers, I caught them giving to a
passage IN the Koran a sense which
! knew to be false. While we were
discussing it we saw not far off an
old sheik, much venerated for his
sanctity, and we agreed to leave the
question to him, but for fear my op-
ponents would misrepresent the case,
l called to him at a distance, 'How
do you understand this passage in
the Koran?"
He interpreted as I had done. I
then asked him what he would call
such persons as understood the pass
age in the other manner.
''They are gafer," he replied, using
the terrible word I had myself en-
ployed.
T. The crowd Immediately dispersed
in silence, and was delivered.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
ENCOURAGING.

The late Marshal MacMahon was
not good off-hand speaker. There
was a colored cadet In the ST Cyr
Military Academy, and once, when
the Marshal reviewed the corps, the
instructor suggested that he should
say something to encourage the black
man.
Let him stand FORTH" said the
Marshal so you are a darky, are
you?" he said to the cadet
Yes, Marshal"
Well. keep it up"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
Cholera.

The Persians resort to curious rites
for the purpose of aterting the at
tacks OF the cholera. One of the
most widely practiced of these is that
of passing under the Koran. Two
elders stand opposite each other hold
ing between them scroll Of the
Koran wrapped In silken scarf.
Under this swinging talisman the
peasants pass, one by one, and then
go home, convinced that the cholera
will not be able to touch them. The
Persians stick to these ancient cere-
monials In spite of the fact that the
epidemic is working sad havoc among
them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
The Oldest Soldier in The World.

Russia proudly claims the oldest
soldier, If not the oldest citizen of
any rank. in the known world. Her
claimant for this distinguished honor
is Col. Gritzenko Of Pottawa, near
Odessa, who, if he lives until Feb.
7, will celebrate his 10th birthday.
Gritzenko entered the military SER
vice in the year 1889. 1O4 years ago,
and received from the hands of EN-
press Catherine herself a gold medal
for conspicuous bravery at the assault
ON lsmail. This trophy, of which
the aged warrior is justly very proud,
bears the following inscription: 'For
exceptional bravery at the assault Of
Ismail, Dec II, 17S9.-St. Louis
Republic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
Botanical Curiosity OF the Orient.

OOS@AAC0A CuFAOSASy "a bHC OEAOHts
The Malayan peninsula is the home
of an extraordinary botanical curl
osiJy in the shape of flower, which
Is simply a blossom without leaves,
vine, or stem, and which grows as a
parasite on decaying wood, etc. 1t
is known to the natives by name
equivalent to a "wonder-wonder"
The extraordinary fowerlike growth
is sometimes as much as three feet
In diameter, with globe ular central
cup having capacity of about five
to seven quarts. This cup distills a
fetid liquid with an odor similar to
decaying meat Botanists believe
that the odor is calculated to attract
flies and secure proper fertilization
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13

and flows into q receiving czn below
IS oil and water. The essential oil
Is thus retained. whilst the water
which Is useless, trickles away. In
the distillation Of peppermint the
water is collected Daily Chronicle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13

You've people are afraid their enc
mics will tell lies about them, but
older persons fear those who hate
them will tell the truth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13
So 1t Seemed.

The following conversation is re-
ported by Good News. The city in
which it occurred is not named I'm
happily it might be one of several
"Wnere have you been?" said Dick.
'.Down town with papa, answered
Henry. 1--WE went into the Street
Cleaning Department"
oWhat's that?''
'.It's place where they tell peo.
BE why the streets are not cleaned. /"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13

No MAN is as brave as he wants bis
wife to I ink he is
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13

THE crazy people are not all in the
asylum
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1894-01-13

"MllIy, come mere, crleQ EJnel,
springing brightly forward. Here's
your Cousin Jim!"
/ The girl stared blanklY at him over
the wheel of the village cart.
! NO." said she, she's an impostor.
He's not my cousin. The real Cousin
Jim rode half way up with me and
jumped off at Beach Corners"
; But nevertheless, said the Span
ishsfaced young fellow, mildly, Il
am Jim Elliott, and 1 am your
cousin. Ask Ethel, here, if it isn't
the truth"
| He looked down into Ethel's blue,
| sparkling eyes; he drew her slim,
white hand under his arm, with a
sort of tender proprietorship that
startled. poor Millicent
''lf you are Consin Jim," said she,
slowly, s'who was the handsome man
/ with the gray suit and the dark blue
eyes, and the little scar over his left
F. eyebrow"
ISIS the child dreaming?n said
! Ethel, with sweet burst of laugh
ter. she talks as ii she had seen
Doctor James Darrow himself"
Milly never stopped to greet this
handsome, unwelcome kinsman of
hers; she rushed franticallY to her
own room, and burying her tace in the
pillows Of her bed, burst into tears
'tOh, what have / done' she
sobbed. ''What have I done? And
all for no use."
The next day there came a letter
to Ethel Moore.
She frowned little as she recog-
nized the handwriting of her affianced
husband-then she broke it open and
read the contents.
s:Jim," she murmured to the young
man who lounged in the cushioned
window seal
swell, my Queen?n
''It isn't necessary for Us to elope
now. IL almost believe / love
James Darrow after all A man that
can be as chiyalrous as that
She laughed. and then burst out
sobbing as she flung the letter to
Cousin Jim.
'Oh, he is so good-so good" she
faItered. The gives me back my
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

THOROUGHNESS.-Th world today
has no room for plodders with their lit
will do" kind of work but it calls for
energetic workers. Those that under
stand and appreciate the great value oi
thoroughne>s The goal to be reached
hy man is "Only to get through" no
matter how or the quality of work
that Is turned off
This is the great reason that so many
of our sewing women, our kitchen
girls and many of our working people
are failures. They would like to b.
classed as good workers and demand
good wages but they are not willing
10 give the time and labor necessary
to attain this success.
Many people we find are unfit for
their chosen work and their places
could he filled at an hours notice.
They do your work we'll only while it
is q novelty. If work is not well done
the rapid method employed never re-
deems it.
"Quickly" is not what we want.
"Well and thoroughly" should he our
motto. Slip-shod, rushing methods
never pay. If we find a person that
has had a successful career we will find
that the way was paved with hard
close work, and the great desire for ac-
curacy and thoughtfulness.
Thoroughness is one of the princi-
nal elements of success aud applies to
the highest of work as we'll as to the
smallest routine detailof kitchen work
and no one need hope for success who
lacks it. There is always room at the
top, and the demand for workers who
are willing and capable is always
greater than the supply. =.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31
The Birdte,s Sunbeam.

Gerty had been sick, and was get
ting we'll. The days were long, she
felt cross. and thought she had hard
time. 80 mamma! I wish Dick
wouldn't sing he makes my.head ache,
she cried, as the canary burst forth in
to a glad song.
Poor Dick ! You see that he sings,
although he is prisoner" said man.
ma. Gerty sti II fretted, 80 mamma
covered Dicks cage with q cloth. The
birb did not like this, and for some
minutes was silent.
Mamma had not covered the cage
very closely, and soon the ird. spying
ray of sunlight, again raised his glad
song of thanksgiving.
"There, Gerty." said mamma, "is a
lesson for you. Dick is thankful for
one ray of sunlight. Don't you think
you should be as grateful for your bless
ings as birdie is for his ?'
Gerty raised her face from the pillow,
and said: "Yes, mamma | am
ashamed of my crossness. l will try to
look for the sunbeams."-Helen Som
erville.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31
MY Foe.
BY ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.

Not from my foes without. but those within,
l pray 10 be protected, hour by hour;
For that aggressive self that leads 10 sin,
And lures TO pleasure with seductive power,
Stands ever by the portal of desire.
nd mocks my spirit when II would aspire.
From that most subtle foe. disguised as friend,
] need he ever on my guard; and when
! cease for one brief moment To defend
The castle of my soul, he seeks ME then
In some unlocked for way, with mien so fair
And voice SO sweet, the while he sets his
snare.
With honeyed words and sophistries and lies
He argues on the pleasures OF the sense;
He pictures duty IN u hideous guise,
And laughs at labor's paltry recompense,
LET DuIlards TOLL" he cries, "thfne Is the
To gather all life's blossoms of delight"
Again, in mask OF teacher be appears,
And cries: "Why seek to lift another's load?
Each soul that Journeys down the vale of
tears
Must carry his own burden DER the road;
Accept thine own, but let all others co."
Despite bis mask, know him as my foe.
NY base foe, self, which. envious of the goal
IT cannot reach, since formed OF dying clay,
Would hinder and oppose my striving soul
That longs and labors for the better way,
And with this foe my spirit must contend
BY prayer and vigil, even to the end.
Copied from the Worlds Advanced Thought,
by Longfellow.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31
IL Altered the Case.

The late French Senator, Renaud,
was an earnest Chistian, and some one
tells good story of his practical appli-
cation of Christianity to daily life:
Wien Renaud first came to Paris
from his home in the Pyrenees, he en-
gagged a room at a hotel and paid q
months rent-in advance. The pro-
prietor asked him if he would have
receipt.
ut is not necessary, replied Renaud.
"God witnessed the payment
"Do you believe in God ?" sneered
the host.
"Most assuredly," replied Renaud,
''don't you"
Not I, monsieur"
"Ah," sail the Senator, "in that
case, please make me out receipt"
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31
Drink and Missions.

For one really converted Christian
as the fruit of missionary labor, the
drinking practices of the English have
made one thousand drunkards.-Arch'
deacon Jeffries after 81 years spent in
India.
The slave trade has been to Africa 6
great evil, but the evils of the rum
trade are far worse.-Rev. James John
son, Missionary in Africa.
We beg of you to send us more Cos
pei and less rum.-Ugalia, a Congo ma
tive.
The native kings are petitioning The
Government to stop the liquor traffic
1t is running their people. One king
says, if they continue, it will cause
him to leave his country and 60 where
the white mans rum cannot reach his
people.-Hon. B. Bowrer, U. S. Consul
at Sierra Leone.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31
The Children's Prayer.

"Pray God, bless my dear papa,
mamma, brothers and sisters, and
auntie, and all my relations and
friends.
"Make me a good little girl. Let
me never he naughty or tell q lie,
which is mean and shameful thing,
Make ME kind to my nurses and SER
wants. aud to all poor people.
"Let me never be cruel to any dumb
creature; for if I am cruel to any
thing, even to u poor little fly, thou.
who art so good, wilt never love
me.
"Pray God to bless and preserve us
all this night and for evermore,
though Jesus Christ our Lord.
Amen"
This prayer Charles Dickens wrote
for his children, and each one of them
was taught to repeat it night and
morning as soon as they could speak.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

! Haddon's dress making department. is grow:
ing more popular every day. Here you Will
find all the latest French and American
fashions Plates.
Al Haddon' g you can have your dress cut
and fit or made to order In the latest fashion,
and at reasonable prices. All guaranteed.
Haddon's "Bargan Counter" should make
their store more attractive than ever. Read
their advertisement this week.
Save money by using gold dust washing
powder at Liv ingston Il Perrin's.
Fresh bread received three times week by
Livingston & Perrins.
Hog head cheese always in stock at Lying
ston Perrln's.
There Is no excuse even at the low price OF
cotton for a man not to wear good suit
OF clothes when you can go to Cohen's Cloth.
Yourself in any cut for $500, color guaranteed.
and good suit for your boy for Sl.oo and
good hat for a man at SOC nd boys for 2oc.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

Do you know the Scriptures better
than you did year ago? You ought
to. Have you more places in the Bible
10 which you 60 as the bird goes to
her retreat? You ought to. Are there
more precious spots in the Bible than
there were once? There ought to be,
Suppose some one had intrusted Inc
with a great matter, and had given me
written instructions as to how to con
duet it: and suppose that when fel!
like it went and read sentence, and
then, after a week, half dozen sen
tences. should have only the most
ftagmentary knowledge of the instruc
tions. But how many Christians treat
the Bible thus -Hoyt.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

The earliest woman's rights conven-
ton was held at Seneca Falls, Eliza
beth Cady Stanton, Frederick Douglass
and Amelia Bloomer, of Bloomer cos
tune fame, being the originators. The
second was held at Rochester in lS48.
And from these small beginnings the
most radical changes of thought and
telling about woman and her sphere
have gradually come about, changes
which only the ultra-conservative can
regret, for we have slowly but surely
learned that it is not what woman
does, but the way in which she does it,
that makes her admirable or other
wise.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

In the family circle, little Mary, one
evening when all was silent, looked
anxiously in the face of her father,
who had ceased to pray in his family,
and said to him with quivering lips,
Papa, is God dead? "No. my child
why do you ask that ?" why, papa,
you never talk to him now as you used
to do," she replied.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

Men who would be insulted if &C.
cused Of breaking their word do NJ t
hesitate to break some faithful, loving
heart.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

The wild chestnut is rich in flavor
and sweet. A number of varieties
are propagated by budding and graft
ing and show much improvement.
Why not devote large tracts to them,
and have a valuable product in the
nuts and still further value in the
timber.
A pinched-back raspberry becomes
self supporting and needs no stalking
If the work be done as soon as the
young cane reaches the proper height.
It is probable that if pinched off late
in the season, few branches only
would come out near the top, which
would make it top-heavy.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1894-10-31

OLord, thou knowest how busy
must be this day! If I forget thee, dc
not thou forget me.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-02-22
CAMPBELL is STILL ALIVE.
But lie is n Candidate for the FOoi-
killer. rs His Reported suicide Was
the Result of His Own joke.

But He is Candidate for the Fool
killer. as HIS Reported suicide Was
the Result of His own Joke.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 15.-lt was de-
vcloped yesterday that instead of being
the occupant of watery grave in the
vicinity of Portland, Me-, Benjamin f.
Campbell, the tin roofer, was alive and
on his way home. Tho story that he had
committed suicide, leaving card to
that effect, turns out to have been a
Campbell himself, and his friends do
not at all appreciate the humor of an act
that brought such acute suffering TO the
young mans relatives.
John r. Campbell, the brother who
went to Portland on Tuesday night to
endeavor to solve the apparent mystery,
telegraphed TO his father yesterday
afternoon that benjamin and his COM
panion, William Jackson, left that city
for Boston on Monday night. Later a
telegram was received from Benjamin
himself, dated New York. and saying
that he was well and would start for
home last night. 1t further said to pay
no attention to reports of his suicide.
Mrs. Denny, sister with whom Benia-
min lived, at No. 2249 North Twenty-
sixth street, received a telegram from
the missing man dated Providence, r. l.,
in which he said practically the same
thing as to his father.
The finding of Campbell's business
card with the message Of intended sui
eide, in the Portland custom house
wharf, is explained as joke, perpe-
trated by Campbell, but for what pur-
pose is unknown. Since the first tidings
of the matter reached his family, his
aged father and mother have been COM
pletely Frustrated. The mother, espe-
cially, was terribly affected, and had the
strain continued any longer, her friends
assert that she could not have survived.
Why Campbell should do such a
thing is what is just now worrying his
family. lie is not in the habit Of play
ing practical jokes and does not use
liquor to any extent
One of Jackson's Portland friends is
reported as saying that he was with
Campbell and jackson on Monday after
noon, and that they left for Boston on
that evening. He says that they were
"haying good time generally" and
that the card was written by Campbell
"for good joke"