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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
THE ROOF TREE.

Home no more home to me, whittier must
I wander?
Hunger nv driver, / go where I must
Cold blows the winter wind over hill and
heather;
Thick drives the rain, and my roof is in
the dust
Loved of wise men was the shade of my
roOf-tree.
The true word of welcome was spoken
in the door
Dear days of old, with the faces in the
freight,
Kind folks of old, you come again no
more.
Home was home then, my dear, full of
kindly faces;
Home was home then, my dear, happy
for the child.
Fire and the windows bright glittered on
the moorland,
Song, tuneful song, built palace in the
wild.
Now, when day dawns on the brow of the
moorland,
Lone stands the house, and the chimney
stone is cold;
Lone let it stand, now the friends are all
departed,
The kind hearts. the true hearts, that
loved the place of old.
Spring shall come, come again, calling up
the moor-fowl,
Spring shall bring the sun and rain,
bring the bees and flowers;
Bed shall the heather bloom over hill and
valley,
Soft flow the stream through the even
flowing hours;
Fair the day shine as it shone on my child
hood
Fair shine the day on the house with
open door;
Birds come and cry there and twitter in
the chimney
But l go forever and come again no
more.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
snanish Pretendera

Senator CASTELAR, is responsible for
this story of a queer meeting of all the
Spanish pretenders: During the Paris
Exposition of 1873 the late Duke Of
Aosta, who had been King Amadeo Of
Spain, was introduced to the ex-Queen
Isabella, and called on her at her pal
ace In the ante-room he passed, going
out, the Due de Montpensier, Isabella's
brother-in-law, who had helped to de-
prive her of her throne, whom the cleo
ton of Amadeo had prevented from Sc
curing the crown for himself. On en-
tering the drawing-room he noticed a.
military-looking young man, whom Isa-
bella led to him, saying: Il want to
present to you my cousin, Don Carlos"
They shook hands and We're talking,
when a chamberlain announced the
Marquis de Molius, ambassador to his
majesty Alfonso XII, Isabella's son.
Whereupon the Duke of Aosta took his
leave, as the puzzle was getting too
complicated.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
THE WEDDING MARCH.

The wedding march from Lohengrin the
organ loudly plays,
The groom and his supporters greet the
gathering public's gaze,
The swelling music trembles as are
touched the polished keys,
But the tremble isn't in it with the shake
in Freddy's knees.
Down the aisle the blushing maids pro-
coed with stately tread,
And each regrets the day is not the day
for her to wed,
But there's a silver lining to the cloud
that hovers Ger
They know they never looked so sweet in
all their lives before.
And now the organ thunders forth a vel
come, loud and clear,
A hundred heads are turned to see the
blushing bride appear,
Her father. who supports her down the
long and dizzy aisle,
win support her and her husband, too, in
just a little while.
Truth.
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But Cyrus stood right up; he wuz the
warrior Bill allowed he was goin' to be;
our boy wuzn't the kind to run. They
tell me there wuz bullet holes here, an
here, an here-an over his breast We
always knew our boy wuz hero!
Ye can thank God We wuzn't at the
'jinin' farms when the news came that
he'd got killed. The neighbors, they
were there, of course, to kind Nv hold
us up an comfort US. Bill an l sot all
day in the woOdshed holdin' our hands
an lookin' away from each other, so;
never said a word; jest sot there, SYM
pathizin' and holdin' hands. If we'd
been women, Bill an I would Nv
cried an beat our eorrids an hung
round each others neck, like the WON
en- folks done. Bein' we wuz men, we
jest set there in the woodshed, away
from all the rest, holdin' hands an sym
pathizin'. From that time on, leetle
Lizzie wuz our daughter-our very
daughter, all that wuz left to US Nv our
boy. She never shed a tear, crep' like
a shadder round the house an up the
front walk an through the garden. Her
heart wuZ broke. You could see it in
the leetle lambkin's eyes an hear it in
her voice. Wanted to tell her some
times when she kissed me and called
me "father'-wanted to tell her: Lee
tie Lizzie, let me help yer bear yer load.
Speak out the sorrer that's in yer bro
ken heart; speak it out, leetle one, and
let me help yer bear yer load"
But is isn't for a man to have them
feelin's-leastwise it isn't for him to
tell Nv 'em. So l held my peace and
made no sign.
She jest dropped, an pined, an died.
One mornin' in the spring she wuz
standin' in the garden, an all at oncet
she threw her arms up, so, and fell upon
her face, an when they got to her all
tibet wus left to US Nv leetle Lizzie
wuz her lifeless leetle body. l can't
tell Nv what happened next-uv the
funeral an all that. said this wuz in
the spring, an so it wus all around us;
but it wuz cold and winter here
One day mother SEE to me: Reuben"
seq she, softlike, ''Marthy an is goin'
to the buryin' ground for a spell. Don't
YOU reckon it would be good time for
YOU to step over an see Bill while we're
gomez
"Mebbe so, mother" SEE 1.
1t wuz a pretty day. Cuttin' across
lots, 1 thought to myself what I'd say to
Bill to kind Nv comfort him. l made it
up that I'd speak about the time when
we wuz boys together; Nv how we used
to slide down the meetin' house HILL an
go huckleberryin'; Nv how jumped in
the pond one day and saved him from
bein' drowned; Nv the spellin' school,
the huskin' bees, the choir meetin's, the
sparkin' times; of the swimmin' hole,
| the crows nest in the pine tree, the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
THE HARTFORD BRIDGE.

a Structure Seventy-siX Years Old
to Be Replaced by a Kew One.
The wooden bridge across the Con-
necticut River between Hartford and
East Hartford, which has been in use
since 1918, is to give place to hand
some steel truss bridge to be construct
ed by the Berlin Iron Bridge Company
at cost of $274, 800. 1t will be about
1000 feet long, and will have five dupli-
cate spans, each 15S feet g. inches long,
one span of 105 feet, and q lift span of
80 feet, 80 in the clear. The, roadway
will be thirty feet wide between the
truSSeS, with q ten-foOt sidewalk on one
side and an electric railway support
twelve feet wide on the other. The
old bridge, which took the place of one
built in 1910 and carried away by a
freShet in 1918, was constructed of ma
tive Connecticut upland pine, which,
though easily worked, proved very dur
able, for, with the exception of one
span, which was carried away in 1889,
the structure stands practically as it
was built in 1918. It's original cost was
$4,000.
AS heavy tolls were charged the old
bridge incurred much odfum and in
volSed East Hartford in burdensome
lawsuits, winding up with a grievous
scandal. In 1889 the Legislature
passed bill providing for the purchase
of the bridge for $2O7, 300 from the COM
pany owning it, the State paying 40 per
cent of the price and the neighboring
towns the remainder. 1t afterward
was found that the towns had paid $780,
600 to certain lawyers for lobby ser
vices in securing the passage of the bill,
and the selectmen of the various towns
had some trouble in explaining this dis
burSement when the annual town meet
ings came around. The bridge became
free in September, 1889. One man had
then been connected with it since 1884,
when he began by caring for the lights;
in 1888 he became toll collector, and in
1877 treasurer, which position he hence
forth retained. The bridge has recent
ly been pronounced unsafe for electric
cars and heavy teams and altogether
beyond repair
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boyhood; thfnkfn' nv the happiness NV
the past an nv all the hopes. them two
children had brought u.s. The tail clock
licked, an that wuz all the sound
there WIZ, excep' when Bill gin sigh
an I gin a sigh, toto tighten the
load, We know. Not word came frsrn
either NV Ms; twas all we could do to
set there, lovin' each other an sym-
pathizin'!
All at oRcet-for we couldn't stand
it no longer-an at oncet we turned
our faces t other way an reached out
SO, an CROPPED with our hands this
away, till We found and held each
other fast in clasp of tender mean
in. Then-God forgive me if 1 done
wrong-then ] wisht I wuz a woman!
Tor, befn' woman, I could have riz
up, an, standin' so, could have cried:
Come, Bill! come let me hold you in
these arms; come let US weep together,
an let this broken heart Nv mine speak
through these tremblin' lips to that
broken heart Nv yourn, Bill, tellin' We
how much / love We an sympathize
with YER
But-no! I wuz not a woman! I
wuz man! an. bein' a man, l must
let my heart break; 1 must hold my
peace, an 1 must make no sign.-Eu-
gene Field.
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she wuz collicky, like the wimmen
folks SEE all healthy babies is afore
they're 3 months old.
you're goin' to have the namin' Nv
her." sez Bill to me.
eyes," seq Marthy, eve made it up
atween US long ago that you should
have the namin' Nv our baby like we
had the namin' Nv yourn."
Then, kind Nv hectorin' like-for I
was always a powerful tease-I SEE:
''HoW would Cleopatra do for a name?
Or Vents? 1 have been readin' the cy-
clopeedy, myself, I'd have you knows"
An then 1 LATED one of them provok-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16

author to take him for some learned
man, moved by the same interest and
curiosity as himself, The stranger
was Samson Warned by NJ Appert,
Balzac carefully repressed all sign of
surprise or repulsion, and, skillfully
turning the conversation to subjects Of
personal interest,", the novelist was ulti-
mately successful in gaining the heads
mans confidence.
In vivid colors Samson gave him a.
narrowing description of the sufferings
and niseries of his wretcbed life. Him
self IoyaIist, the death Of Louis XVI.
and his unfortunate consort had left
the executioner with all the terrors and
remorse of criminal Since those hid
eous days he had known no peace, de-
spite the expiatory mass which he had
caused to be said for the King the
morning after the execution, and which
was probably the only one celebrated
in Paris on that day.-The' Gentleman'S
Magazine.
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THE 'JININ' FARMS.

You see Bill an | WuZ jest like broth
erS; wuz raised on jinin' farms; he wuz
Dis folks only child, an 1 wuz my folks
only one. So, nat'ral like, we growed
mp together, lovin' an sympathizin'
with each other. What l knowed 1
told Bill, an what Bill knowed he told
me, an what neither on US knowed-
why. that warn't with knowin!
If hadn't got over my braggin' days,
I'D allow that, in orr time, Bill an l
WIZ jest about the sparkinist beaux in
the township, leaStWise that's what
the girls thought; but, to be honest
about it, there wuz only two Nv them
girls we courted, Bill an I, he courtin'
one an l t'other You see we sung IN
ahe choir, an as our good luck would
have it we got sot on the sopranner au'
the alto, and bimeby-oh. we'll, after
Deauin' 'em round a spell-a year or
so, for that matter-we up an married
sem, an the old folks gin US the farms,
>linin' farms where we boys had lived
all our lives. Lizzie my wife, had al
ways been powerful friendly with
Marthy. Bills wife; them two girls new
y
kissin' an carryin' on, like girls does.
for women amt like men-they can't
control themselves an their feelin's,
like the stronger sext does.
Il tell yu, it wuz happy times for Liz
Eie an me an Marthy an BilI-happy
times on the 'jinin' farms, with the
pastures full Nv fat cattle, an the
harms full Nv hay an grain, an the
twin cottages full Nv love an con-
Aentment! Then when Cyrus come
eur little boy-our first an only one!
why, when he come, wuz jest so
happy an so grateful that if l hadn't
been man l guess I'd have hollered-
maybe CREDITOR joy. Wanted to call
the little tyke Bill, but Bill wouldn't
hear to nothin' but Cyrus. You see,
he'd bought a cyclopeedy the winter
we wuz all married, an had been read
I'm in it Nv a great foreign warrior
named Cyrus that lived a long spell
ago.
LAND NV Goshen, Bill" SEE I, ''you
don't reckon the baby'H ever get to lie
a warrior?''
eWell, 1 don't know about that SEE
Cyrus Ketcham has an 1ncomm IN
sound for name, so Cyrus it must be,
an wen he's year old I'll gin him the
finest Morgan colt in the deestrick.''
So we called him Cyrus, an he grew
mp lOvin' an bein' loved by everybody.
Well, along about two years-or, say,
rs months or scatter Cyrus came to
as, little girl baby came to Bill an
Marthy, an of all the cunnin' sweet
little things you ever seen that little
girl baby was the cunnin'est an sweet
est! Looked just like one of them
foreign crockery fggers you buy in
city stores-all pink an white, with bic
hrown eyes here, an a teeny, weeny
mouth here. an nose an ears, you'd
have bet they wuz wax-they wuz sc
small an fragile. Never darst hold
her for fear I'd break her, an it liked
10 skeered me to death to see the way
Marthy an Lizzie would kind Nv toss
her round an trot her-so-on theil
Races or pat her-so-on the back wheI
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RaIzac and the Headsman.

A good instance of BalZac's method
may be found in the short and thrilling
Episode sous la Terreur," so familiar
to US from its many services rendered
to British periodicals. and which he
culled from Samson, the chief heads
man Of Paris under 1.-The Terror" Pos
sessed by a strange desire to see this
dread official, and ascertain the
thoughts and prescriptions Of a man
whose soul must, he thought, have
been overburdened with the recollec-
lions Of so many awful tragedies; any
ious to know the effect of his terrible
calling, his miserable mode of liyeli-
hood, had on him, he cOntrived with
much difficulty, through the medium of
NJ Appert, the Inspector General of
Prisons, to arrange for an interview
1t was a kind of study peculiarly at
tractive to the apostle of realism.
Calling by appointment one day on
his friend, Balzac found himself in the
presence of stranger, very pale man,
with a serious air and noble face. The
manners. language, evident culture,
and intelligence of the stranger led the
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An Apt Quotation.

1t is related of Mendelssohn at a
public dinner. at which ladies were
present, and where he was surrounded
by a chorus of aggressive women
clamoring for his autograph, that he
allowed himself to be victimized with
eood-nature until finally a feshy ma
iron of mature years handed him her
card. Whether with malice prepense
or not, it is not stated, but the COM
poser wrote upon the card the music
and words from Haydn's Creation" /:
"And God created great whales" This
brought the autograph-hunting to an
end, and Mendelssohn was allowed 70
go on with his dinner.
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zie wuz more TO us n ever before; wuZ
at our house all the time; called Lizzie
mother" wuz contented, in her wom-
ans way, willin' to do her part, waitin'
an watchin' an prayin' for him to come
back. They sent him boxes of good
things every fortnight, mother an leetle
Lizzie did; there wuzn't a minute in
the day that they wuzn't talkin' or
thinkin' Nv him.
Well-ye see-I must tell it my own
wayne got killed-in the very first bat
tie Cyrus got killed. The rest Nv the
soldiers turnt 60 retreat, because there
wuz too many Cor 'em on the other side.
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Indians of Delaware.

North Cardinals strange people of
the swamps have counterparts in the
mysterious race of so-called Indians in
Southern Delaware. They are Il
swarthy people, with some strong traits
of the redmen. though there are contra
dictory stories as to their origin. They
are fully civilized however, and follow
the ordinary occupations of the region
to which they are native. though they
mingle little with the whites and refuse
to associate with negroes
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Origin of a Scare Word.

Boo, the exclamation used to brighten
children, is a corruption of Bah, the
name of a famous Gothic general. 1t
has been used for a terror word for CEN
turtles
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16

Oh, for the enthusiasm of girl! A
girl who sings in a choir calls three dol
lars a month a salary!
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The press has not the liberty of an
end man in an amateur minstrel show
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
Enough.

There are eight colored physicians
in Baltimore.
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Odd-Looking GrimaIkin.
Siam has tailless cats with purple
ewes
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Send your address to II. z. Bucklen &
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They do not weaken by their action, but
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Those who have used DIR. Kings New
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B. H. Bowman; Pub. Enquirer, of
Bremen, Ind, writes: Last week onr
little girl baby, the only one we have,
wss taken sick with Group. After two
Doctors failed to give relief and life was
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The Pacific Coast Failures.

SAN Francisco, April 27.-The Brad
street Mercantile Agency reports Is fail
ures in the Pacific coast states and terri
tories for the week ended yesterday, as
compared with 13 for the previous week
and l3 for the corresponding week OF
1904
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No Further shooks at Layback.

VIENNA, April 27.-No further shocks
of earthquake have been felt at Laybach
and people are returning to their homes.
The work of demoIishing the structures
in danger of falling has begun.
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Beaten hy 3 MoCarthyite.

LONDON, April 27.-Member of Parlia-
ment Sweetman, who left the Mccarthy
ties and sought election as Parnelite
for East Wicklow, was defeated yester-
day after an exciting election by
O'Kelly, McCarthyite.
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The Wasco Warehouse Go. have on
sale at their warehouse Seed Wheat,
Feed Wheat, Barley, Barley Chop, Oats
and Hay. Are sole agents in The Dalles
for the now celebrated Goldendale roller
mills -four, the best flour in the market
and sold only In ton lote or over. 9-tf
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Telephone Notice

Those who have not already ordered
instruments placed and who desire tele-
phone service from the Seufert-Condou
Exchange, will please order at once.
SEUFERr & CcNDoE.
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Doctor II. R. Fish, of Gravois Mills,
Mo-, a practicing physician of many
years experience, writes De Wits
Witch Hazel Salve has no equal for in
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A severe rheumatic pain in the left
shoulder had troubled Mr.. ]. II. Loper,
well known druggist of Des Moines.
Iowa, for six months. At times the
pain was SO severe that he could not lift
anything. With all he could do he
could not get rid of it until he applied
Chamberlain.s Pain Balm. 81 only
made three applications of it." he says,
and have since been free from all pain.'
He now reccomends it to persons SINH
iarly afflicted. It is for sale by Blakely
4 Houghton Druggists.
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Best cabinet photos in the city, re-
duced from $3.50 to 50, for a few days
only, at Chicago gallery. Second street,
opposite Mays & Groves hardware
store. al6.2w.
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Steam yacht Irma has been thoroughly
overhauled and repaired, is as good as
new. Has just passed inspection. Price
$500 spot cash. H. G. Coz.
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srRAEED.

Came to my place about Feb. 20, 1885,
one black horse with white face, three
white feet weight about ] 200 pounds
branded 3 on left shoulder. Also one
buckskIn horse branded q on left shoul-
der; weight about $50 pounds. Owner
can have them by paying pasture bill
T. s. FLKMINd,
Bake Oven.
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Mrs. T. s. Hawkins, Chattanooga,
Tenn, says, "Shiloh's vitaIiEer saved
my life.' consider it the best remedy
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woodi Wood

We have yet on hand complete stock
of Dry Fir, Oak and Maple Cordwood,
which will be sold at minimum prices.
feb27. MAIER & BENTON.
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Money FOR Paper.

All county warrants registered prior to
May 1st. 1891, will be paid if presented
at my office, corner Sd and Washington
after April II, 1895.
WN. MICHELL,
County Treasurer.
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Investing in Real Estate.

SAN FRANcIsco. April 27.-In the past
Is months Claus Spreckels has pur-
chased 81, SOC, 900 worth of San Francisco
real ertate, most of 1t Market-street
property. In addition, he has invested
$500, 900 in the San Joaquin Valley road,
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Situation wanted by good steady boy
as clerk IN clothing store; he has had
two years experience. Apply at Mrs. F.
NJ. Hendershott's dressmaking parlors,
Second and Liberty street. apr1S-3t
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w. T. Sanford, Station Agent of
Leeper, Clarion Co. Pa, writes; 1 can
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Drug Co.
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La Grippe is here again with all of it's
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81 a reliable remedy. 1t cures and cures
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