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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

case with them. They seem to me-
like people who are put out of their
way and don't know how to behave
themselves, as if STEAMBOAT was trans
ported bodily into Regent Street or the
Rue de Rivoli, and they feel in their
own city the sort of awkwardness and
soggezione that they would feel in the
West.-Life and Letters of Dean
Church
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Anton Rnhinstein

That RubinStein played at times in
correctly, wildly, even insolently, is
quite true, and the critics who enraged
him so were quite right to say so. What
happened was this: Rubinstein soon
perceived-what, alas! all good yirtuosi
are not slow to diScover-that the Eng
lish Tor a good leaven of them in every
audience) ''are not a musical people,"
They can be taken with a claptrap eff
feet, while deaf to more subtle and le-
gitimate effects. Rubinstein would
seem at times to play down to them in
scorn and mock them or stalk through
his part in rage. The critics reproved
him, and he left the country in a huff; ;
but it was temper and want of pa
tience with a public who, though not
musical, paid we'll and offered him ev-
cry kind of homage. He should have
been contented with the cultivated Dor
ton of it who had really created the
taste for him, but Rubinstein was eX-
eremely irritable. l have known him
get up from the table in the middle of
dinner and leave the company for no
reason except thathe was bored Rubin
stein was undoubtedly inaccurate at
times; people who held scores through
those long programs could easily find
that out. He not only embroidered
even Beethoven, but he would invent
Bach. What he invented was probably
quite as good as what he happened to
forget, and always extremely interest
ing; still, it was not note for note, and
that is what the billiards gloated over.
Bulow was more accurate, but even
Bulow forgot or manufactured bar
or two occasionally. But these, If spots,
were spots in the sun, and certainly all
Rubinstein did or left undone serve but
to accentuate his individuality and
display his genius in new and startling
lights.-The Fortnightly Review.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

I'D rather have a nutmeg than
fame said the idiot "Why?" said
the wise man. Because" replied the
idiot, flame is for the great, but the
nutmeg is for the CRATER s-Philadel-
phia Record
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

He-My views on bringing up a fam
fly She-NeveT mind your views.
I'll bring up the family. You go and
bring up the coa,--Yonkers Statesman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

Mrs. Sourface- Come here, my little
dear. What nice, lovely little girl
you are! Tell me why you are so fond
of that cat. Little girl-Cause when
she purrs I know she means it.-Good
News
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

New York Journalists-Their Pay
In New York City the salaries are
higher than anywhere else, partly be-
cause Of the superior standard of pro-
ficiency, and partly because the cost
of living is greater here than in any
other large city. One editor in chief
has the same salary as the President Of
the United States $4,000 per year, and
others receive from $4,000 to SO, 0O0,
or more than members of the Cabinet.
Managing editors are paid from 800
to $3.50 per week, or better compenSa-
ton than that of the Senators and Rep
resentatives in Congress. Editorial
writer's get from $50 to S75 per week, as
a rule, and in cases of rare ability as
much as the average salary of a manag
ing editor. City editors receive from
$50 to $75 per week, and in a few in
stances 500. The pay of news editors
is about equal to that of city editors.
Literary, theatrical, and musical crit
les average $50 per week. Copy read
ers are paid from $40 to $40 per week.
Reporters earn all the way from $40
to $50 per week, with an average of
$40, and space writer's of particular tai
ent have been known to make as much
as $125 per week, though the limitation
Of topics and the pressure Of competi-
ton usually keep their incomes down
around those Of the best-paid report
ers. There are some writer's for syndi-
Gates of newspapers, men with names
that have a certain value, who earn
from $1,000 to $4,000 a year, and there
are others of first-class technical capac-
ity in various lines whose salaries oc-
casionally reach $1,000. The pay Of
all classes of journalists averages 10
per cent lower in Brooklyn than in
New York City.-The Forum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

Sir Joshua Reynolds was the Bach
elor Painter and the Raphael of Eng
land.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

Common sense is SO useful that it is q
pity all of US have not more Of it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27

They were black and small and round,
But one day could not be found,
His mother said they surely had been
taken by a rat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
OUR BOYS AND GIRLS
THIS IS THEIR DEPARTMENT OF
THE PAPER.

Quaint Sayings and Cute Doings of the
Little Folks Everywhere, Gathered
and Printed Here for All Other Lit
tie Ones to Read.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-04-27
TINY LAMPS.
For Use on the Writing Desk and
Toilet Table.

For Use on the Writing Desk and
Toilet Table.
The very latest notion in lamps is Il
charming one The last within of fash
ion calls for small lights upon both my
lady's desk and her dressing table, and
there are some very fascinating varie-
Boston Herald One woman, who is
apt to be a little in advance of most
fashions, has both her toilet table and
her desk fitted out already, and she is
the envy of all her friends. The china
chosen for the writing equipment is still
the popular Dresden, and wonderfully
dainty it is. The ink we'll and pen rack
are combined, and sufficiently roomy
to suggest a generous supply Of ink
and pens of many sorts. The paper
rack is a gem in its way and really
contains a sufficient supply to warrant
it's being. The blotter, the stamp box,
and all the paraphernalia are there,
and finishing all are the two lamps,
which stand always ready to be lighted
and to shed their soft light upon the
page.
The various implements of the toilet
on the dressing table all show handles
and backs of fine china, and the two,
tiny lamps are so placed as to shed a
charming light over the whole and to,
make the work of selection q delight.
The wicks are not large enough to
show any fierce light, nor are these
lights intended as means of illumina.
ton, either. There are others with larg-
re burners and circular draught some,
where around the room, or gas or cleo
tricity is used. The object is to throw
a few extra beams on an especial spot,
and to give that final touch Of beauty
which a well-shaded lamp can always
be trusted to do.
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A Botanical Wonder.
There was a little boy
Who, to his parents JOY,
Was generally as good as good could be-;
But in this little rhyme,
How once upon time,
He got into mischief, presently you'll see.
His father had been i'll,
And the doctor gave pill,
Or, rather, a great box of them, to make
him strong and fat.
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The city authorities of AtchiEon are
talking Of making an attempt to com
pei the county commissioners to pay the
CITY $500, which was paid out last
year for taking care of patients during
the smallpox epidemic. The city au-
thorities claim that the state law pro-
vides the county shall take care or all
paupers and pauper sick. AS all the
persons who were cared for at the pest
house were paupers it is claimed that
the CITY should not have been COM
PEELED 60 pay the expenses of taking
care of them. There is at present a
deficit of $4,000 in the city treasury,
md IN order for the city to meet its OBJ
legations it must either levy an occupa-
lion tax or make the county pay the ST.
500 spent during the smallpox cpl
lemic.
Although the Missouri river has been
flowing into the canal through the ISL
land above Atchison over week, the
current has cut no channel. but on the
contrary the channel is filing up with
sard. 1t cost $4,000.
At Pierceville, George W. Wright was
run over and cut to pieces by freight
train. He was driving cattle across the
track, when the train suddenly backed
up and caught him. He was formerly
county commissioner of Finney county,
snd prominent in business and political
affairs.
The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1895-12-12

I clear voices Of boys steadied and
weighed by one deep bass. The sound
came through the windows Of the
"Englishy chaypel' beside the Kinks.
whats that?" queried Mtckle Rob,
suddenly, like dog as 1t pricks Its
ears, and Gilbert Gray, commonly
called Pow-head Gibby, explains the
matter to him, with many chuckles
AMI bursts Of open laughter. But
curiously enough, Muckle Rob did not
laugh at ALL He was indeed more
than ordinarily grave as he listened,
so that Gibby wondered If after all
he had not got his pay for the con-
tract 'oyer the water
At the end Of the story Muckle Rob
said never a word. But he slowly
took his arms off the dixie and stepped
over In the field. He strobe forward
toward the Kinks as If more closely
to inspect the game. The players
made haste to welcome so mighty
a champion, but Rob went solemnly
to the tee, and kicked out the steel
pins at the end of the rink to the back
back at the end Of the rink to the back
Of which the signal paper was tucked.
He sent the quoits spinning on their
rims into the distant hedge. He took
Tam Galletly and Pate Miller by the
neck, and, knocking their heads to-
gether, he marched them off the field
"DeiPs bucklesw said he, between
every shake, "hae we no the hale
green to play on. that ye maun come
here to raise a disturbance. I'll learn
yer!
1t was not often that Muckle Rob
took so active hand in matters &C.
cleslastical; and while nobody dared
to contradict him, all were naturally
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man snid) when she gat hnme to her
stone ale an mutton pies. 1t was the
grandest season. she had ever had.
But my wee Archie never said ony-
thing. But cam his ways back ia
Lochhnny an gaed to his Wark at No.
4 as he had done afore.
"But for a that he was a different
boy, / could see that. He gaed ABBOTT
that quiet, the day by the length We
Wadna haze heard him lettln' an ill
word DOT o. the mouth i him. Els
mother was fair feared that he was
guam In a decline. I asked Archie
what allied him. But he looked doom
and said, 'NOcht particular, father,
So as he aye took his meal O. meat
regular, / took nae mair heed either. s.
"But there cam mat smash In num-
Der fower the NIGHT the engineman
got fu'-careless drucken deevil he
was-an' wee Archie got the nip. So
we took him hame to his mither,
marchin' slow and careful, We ken
over weel, the way that brings the
women doom the road like bees, to
ken's What's man or BARN it is they're
cArryin' ft
"They brought Archie to the bed,
that he had risen fra sac brisk that
mornin', ta'e en- his bit can and set cot
whistlin' like a mavis. They laid him
doom, and syne DOR doctor cam. He
was kind and quiet touchin' and ban
dagin', and aye wi joke an heart
some word-'' j. E
'"Three cheers for the DOCTOR" said
some one in the background. But
Muckie Bob took no heed, but steadily
told his tale. ~ =
'Neel he babe Archie be guild lad,
to mind his prayers, and do what his
mither telled him, an he wad gafrer
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Conversing by Wh1stltnE.


The inhabitants of Gomera island,
one of the Canaries, converse with
each other by whistling. A German
officer, who has spent some time on
the island, describes the whistling Ian
guage, as follows:
It consists of the ordinary speech Of
the natives, expressed by articulate
whistling. Each syllable has it's own
appropriate tone.
The whistler uses both fingers and
lips, and it is asserted that conversa-
ton can be kept up at the distance of
a mile. Whistllng is said to be con-
fined to Gomera island, and to be quite
unknown on the other islands of the
group.
The adoption of this mode of carry
ing on conversation is due to the geo.
logical formation of the island. which
is intersected by frequent gulches and
ravines. AS there are no bridges
across these ravines, intercourse be.
tween neighbors is often difficult.
A man living within a stones throw
of another may have to go many miles
around to make a call upon his neigh
Dor, and the inconvenience Of inter-
course led the people to cultivate
Whistling as a useful means of con.
verSing at a distance.
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THE WISE GRAY SQUIRREL.

His Art of Keeping Tree Between
Himself and u Gun.
"Of course" said a hunter, "every-
body knows that when a man with a
gun comes along, the gray squirrel
goes around on the other side of the
tree; he doesn't get killed if he can help
it, and he can help himself pretty well.
remember once coming across a gray
squirrel up big oak; he was out on a
branch about forty feet from the
ground. He saw me as quick as did
him, quicker, guess, and when was
ready to fire he was around on the
other side of the branch. This branch
was very small only mighty little
bigger than the squirrel; but he
Rugged it so close and he was in such
perfect line with me that you couldn't
see anything of him at all except lit
tie bit of the tip of his tail that was
blown out by a strong wind. l blazed
away at him and never touched him.
Then I went around on the other side
of the tree, thinking that possibly
could get a shot at him from there;
but, as I went one way he went the
other, and by the time I had got over
on the other side he was on the side
had come from and in just as perfect
line with me as he was at first and
just as safe. I tried him again, with
just the same result.
'"Then pulled stake out of rail
fence near by and planted it in the
ground on one side of the tree and
hung my coat on it and went over on
the other side. thought that possibly
l might make the squirrel think that
there were two men there, or put him
IN doubt long enough to enable me to
get shot at him; but he never paid
the slightest attention to the coat. I
don't suppose it would have made any
difference to him if I'd opened a cloth
ing store there; he knew the man with
the gun, and it was the gun that he
was looking out for.
"Well, we lodged around that tree
for quite spell longer. There wasn't
any other tree near by that the squir-
rel could go to, and he knew his onlv
safety lay in sticking to the one he
was in; and the way he did stick to it
and keep around always on the other
side Of that branch was something
wonderful. I fired five or six shots at
MN altogether, and I filled the branch
under him half full of shot, but never
touched him; and when I thought I
had wasted time and ammunition
enough left him. New York Sun.
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A Novel Idea

Paris is responsible for bringing out
the very. latest fad Of the advertising
tend, says an English newspaper. We
have heard Of the American who adj
Vertised his wares on the passing
clouds at night time, by means of re-
Hect1ng written sentences extolling to
the skies his particular brand of mer
chandise with a powerful magic Ian
tern. we have heard, too, of the en-
terprlslng firm Of patent medicine ven
GERS VINO painted an advertisement of
their wares on the rocks round Mag
ara, and OF those who painted them
upon the roadway. 1t is a develop
ment OF this last method which has
just come out. It is worked as fol-
lows: A tricycle. is built with very
broad tires, but these tires, instead Of
being smooth, are furnished with rub
Der type of large pattern, arranged so
as to form sentences. On the top Of
the wheel is an ink reservoir, supplied
with roller which inks the type, and
at the bottom is blower worked by
pedals, which is constantly blowing
away the dust from the roadway in
front of the wheel, so that it has a
nice clean surface on which to i'm
press it's advertisement. Of course this
novel tricycle. can only print on wood
or asphalt; but as most streets of Paris
are so paved, there is plenty of scope
for it, and the ink, being of brilliant
color and very permanent, leaves it's
mark quite readable for days.
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40 Il he had seen an angel frae

as Il he had seen an angel frae
heeven.
!" I can dee noo!' he cried.
And there the Nnglishy chtel sat,
WI my boys hand in his, a. the NIGHT
till the mornin' while speaking a wee
an while no.
"And so they sat till Archie heard
the doors opening up and doom the
raw and the men gangin' ava to the
pit wi their CANNES and their lamps.
THAT is the day shift, minister
he said, maun gang, too!
"An' that was the way oc'' wee Air
chic gaed DOT WI the day shift!'
And at the road end, there was 81
lence a little when the tale was done,
and Muckie Rob sat with his hand
covering his brow.
At last Pete Miller spoke.
"Well, haze nae mair quoitin' over by
the chappel," he said.
"Na," said all the men, rising to-
gether very soberly. "Nae mair QUOT
in at the Chapel after this!'-St
Louis GlObe-Democrat.
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kissing Unknown in .Tanon

Strange as it may appear" says M.
de Guerville in his account Of Japan
ese women, "a kiss is an unknown
thing in Japan-not unknown to the gay
maidens Of Yokohama, Kobe or Ma
gasaki, who have so much to do for
the amusement of foreigners, but un-
known to the Japanese in general. A
lover never kisses his sweetheart, a
mother never kisses her child. He
made q great mistake, the man who
wrote that "a kiss is natures Volapuk,
the universal language Of love- You
can kiss any Japanese girl. She will
not object, for she cannot possibly UNI
derstand what you mean. She will
only think, What queer people these
foreigners are"
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BEAUTIES LOVE THE BEASTS

Ugly Men Have Generally 'Roon
Most Successful With Women
The illustrious men in history who
have kindled in women's hearts inex-
tlngulshable passions have been, as a
rule, plain. julius Caesar, as great a
victor over the fair sex as over his
own, was far from beautiful. He had
dlstemper in his head, Plutarch tells
us, and was subject to epilepsy. Yet.
when mere STRIPPING, before his fame
IN Rome, girls of his own age sighed
Tor him and mature women lonsed for
his love.
Sir Phillip Sydney, the accepted pat
tern OF Nllzabethan chivalry, whom
women OF all ages adored, was plain
to a degree Of ugliness. He fascinated
by his mind, not his person.
Paul Scarron, the comic poet. re-
noWned in his day and hardly remem-
bered now, dazzled the imaginations
and controlled the sensibilities of the
finest women in France during the
relgns OF Louis XIII. and Louis XIV.
Nature had been misery to him as re-
spects his person, even before disease
had made him a wretched cripple.
Even then he had no trouble in win
ming the young and lovely women
who, as Nine. de Maintenon, subse-
quently subjugated the most fastid-
ious and tickle of French kings
Baron Trenck was a great fayorite
with the sentimental sisterhood, and
yet he was cheated Of attractive fea-
lures, owing all to his emotional sue
cess, as he once wrote, to his uncom-
promising ugliness. There are many
records, besides his own interesting
memoirs, of how, when he sought to
win women, they were incontinently
won.
Voltaire, with all his cleverness,
would never have been chosen as a
typical lover. He was ugly of feature.
but capable of dellghting women, not
withstanding his ugliness.
Rousseau was plain and his manner
awkward. There was nothing in his
appearance to charm a woman's eve:
nevertheless he was most successful
lover. 5..' r--r
JOHN Wilckes was admitted, even by
himself, to be the ugliest man in all
England, but no woman whom he chose
to address could resist him.-Washing-
ton News.
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course, kills the enemy. Thus the
game continues until one side has all
It's soldiers killed by the men Of the
other.
During the war between Japan and
China, those two countries were at
war every day on the sidewalks of
New York. Often I have heard shouts
that called me to my windows, when I
would see the triumphant party re-
]olclng over their victory.-Harper's
Round Table
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FOR TIE YOUNG
BoMBsHELL AN ARrILLEnY DOG.
He Saved Two Little Children From
Serious Danger.

While a gun was being loaded,
Bombshell would sit on the parapet
and watch the operation. That finish
ed, he would jump up and look out TO
sea over the range, and then scamper
down from the. parapet and follow us
into the bomb-proof.
AS usual, BOmbshell was on ha Ill to
see the test Of the new big gun.
He superintendent the loading, and.
while was aiming the gun, he looked
over the range as carefully as did the
lookout; and from his air Of RESPONSE
bility one might have supposed that
to him had been intrusted the duty Of
seeing that the range was clear.
But when we started for the bomb
proof, instead of following us, as was
his custom, Bombshell remained on
the parapet, looking out at sea and
shifting the air. In moment Re dash
ed off through the bushes which coy
cred the narrow beach between the
parapet and the sea.
Though thinking his actions p Gu
liar, was sure that he would not re-
main in front of the gun, because he
had done so once, when quite young
and inexperienced, and. the burning
grains Of powder-which are always
thrown out by the blast of g,ln-had
buried themselves in his skin, burning
him badly. He had never forgotten
this. -...
Certain that he woulG take care of
himself, paid no further attention to
him, but went with the others INTO the
bomb-proof and took my place by the
electric key, ready to fire at the ccm-
mand of the captain.
Just as the command "Firev' was
about to be given Bombshel reap
peared on the parapet and began to
bark furiously into the very muzzle of
the gun.
I called to him, but he would not
come Annoyed at the delay of the
test, tried to catch him, but could
not do so. AS I approached he re-
treated, still barking and apparently
urging me to follow him.
Finally, convinced from the dogs
actions that something was wrong, the
electric wire was disconnected from
the gun and I followed Bombshell.
Wagging his tail with JOY at having
accomplished his object, he led me
through the underbrush to the beach,
There, concealed behind a clump of
bushes, were two little children qui-
city digging in the sand and entirely
unconscious of the danger In which
they had been.-Lieut. John G. W.
Brooks in st. Nicholas.
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shove or shoot it with the finger II It

shove or shoot 1t with the finger. IS It
touches a line the play is q failure, and
the next player takes his turn, but Il
1t stops on space, you make a round
mark in imitation Of a mans head. II
y falls on the part marked war" 1t en-
title YOU to mark in each space.
After the head are formed the body,
the legs lore at a time), then the arms
Zone at q tilne), then the gun is placed
in the soldiers hands; each play in
that space then gives a bullet, so
marked by little balls, until there are
three; then the next successful play
on that space fires the gun, and, Of