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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

trying typewriter girls, but none OF
them suited him. OF course, he
wouldn't take Does girl from him if he
could, but he certainly did want and
need well educated, well-bred lady.
He alluded to the gradual growth of his
business, until the employment of a
stenographer became necessary. He
said:
with ternerity born of ignorance /
advertised. / think every woman out
of a job must have been looking for me
because the very morning the ad. ap-
peared, 1 had about 100 extra letters
from as many women applying for in
formation as to the situation and ask
ing for a job. Worse than that, though
] had expressly requested application
by letter only, Is or 20 called on me at
the office before noon. Most of the
applicants who called were of the school
age. Young girls with their hair
down their back predominated. They
came from every section of the city and
from every grade of life. They per-
vaded' my office. / authorized my
clerk to select one, while / fled from
office to courtroom. That rascal Sc
lected the prettiest girl in the lot, and
put her at work. She was perfec.
beauty. I noted her brown eyes,
blonde hair, creamy complexion, neat
dress, and modest manners at glance,
and inwardly commended my clerks
taste. Some of her work lay on my
desk, and 1 saw that it was very we'll
done. / tried her on some dictated
correspondence, and she did it we'll
at least-weIl enough for me to conclude
permanent arrangement. She was
reserved in her manners, and did not
invite condolences. My clerk tried in
vain to scrape up better acquaintance,
but she politely declined. He soon OBJ
served that very espectable-look-
ing young man met Susie every day at
lunch time. Then he discovered that
the same young man got to coming
down to- the office with her, and usually
met her promptly in the afternoon on
Saturday. On my alluding to this
young man once she blushed furiously,
and, 1 thought, guiltily. l got some
what concerned about the girl, and
resolved to notify her mother. Iwrote
her a note stating that the young man
was dangerously attentive, and that
IL 0OCJ ~ SIdtO IAO 4oN~
To this 1 received an indignant reply
that it was none of my business; that
the young man was an excellent young
man, and was to be her daughters hus'
band shortly. Susie didn't come to
work that morning. nor did she ever
come again, not even to ask for the
balance of her weeks salary, which ]
sent her by mail with my written apol-
ogy and congratulations, and the men
tai resolution to hereafter attend to
my own business"
Thus they talked about typewriters
until their cigars had gone up in smoke,
and then John Doe turned his attention
to business, while Richard Roe went to
his office and-thought about Miss Rus
sell. 1t was a clear case of love at first
sight, so far as Dick Roe was con.
cerned: but Miss Russell seemed to be
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

still a mad rush of gold seekers and ad-
venturers TO all these points. The gold
product of the past year is estimated at
$500, 10000 ,O00-greater than ever before
in the worlds history. Of this amount
the United States produced 25 per cent.
and of this $5O,OOO,COO, Colorado pro-
duced $17,C0O,O00, about half of this
coming from the Cripple Creek district.
Thus it will be seen that & district three
miles square produced one-sixth of he
gold product of the United States. This
years estimate from Cripple Creek is
$1,O00,0OO month. If the other dis
tricts in Colorado, Utah, Montana, Cali-
fornia, Arizona, Alaska and New Mex
leo, but slightly increase, the yield will
be about STE, 100000 this year. And if
the fields IN the other parts of the wcrld
increase proportionately gold must
soon become drug in the market, and
will necessitate n remodeling of the
basis of finance. 1t will become as
plentiful as silver, and also cause a re-
vision of politics. 1t will solve the
problem at which our statesmen are
hammeriEg, by upsetting their theories
and giving them new conditions to con-
slider.
A recent estimate shows that there
is $500, ,oOO,OOO of gold in the United
States, and at the present rate of pro-
duction the amount would be doubled
III IL years. Unless business and pop
ulation increased proportionately per-
haps silver would be at premium.
The cause of this widespread gold
fever is due mainly tc science and
% Ii
which greatly lessons the cost of pro-
duction. Without giving expert de-
tails" that would need explanation, the
matter may be illustrated with the
statement that during the Leadville
boom Is years ago, ore that did
not yield at least ten dollars to the
ton was thrown away as useless. 1t
just about paid expenses. Now there
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NUMBER 2.


"How did you enjoy yourself ct the
show" asked GiIhooly OF a fat friend.
First rate. I'd go every evening II
those contortionists were there"
''What Is there about those coDtCr.
tionists that affords you so much
pleasure 2"
'sWell, you see, when sit there com
fortably in the orchestra snd see those
contortionists twist themselves out OF
shape, it tlckles me almost to death to
know that L don't have to do that for q
living."-Texas Siftings.
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is profit in ore that yields only three
dollars to the ton. Improved ma
chinery and the new scientific process
of extracting ores take almost the last
particle of gold out of the rock, and
as effectually as the life is squeezed
out of a lemon. These improvements
have caused revival in the mining in
dustry, and the wild rush of pros
rectors" TO the new fields. Or. rather,
they rush wherever they believe gold
may be found.
There are. in the west, thousands of
4'prospectors' who follow no other vo-
cation than that OF mining. They
sic not experts" as mining par
lance goes, and laugh at the wise
opinions of experts who have
learned mining by theory. Several
experts have stated that ''by the
eery nature of tho formation gold
could not exist" in the mountains now
known as the Cripple Creek district
the richest in the world. The prospec-
tor trudges over the mountains, exam
II,ing pieces of rock as botanist does a
tower, and when he has found good
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

Indications" he camps. That is, he
and suffering. A few hold on, and join
ties his burro to a stake, unloads his
months supply of provisions. and with
his pick begins to dig. He finds piece
of rock glistening with golden parti-
cIes. His trained eye estimates that a
ton of that kind of rock should contain
$50, $1OO or $1,000. He continues to
dig to satisfy himself of the extent of
the vein, or deposit. After stalking a
claim of 1900 by 500 feet, and posting
notices, he puts several of these ''speci-
mems" in his pocket, and himself and
his burro tramp back to the city. One
of the professional assayers, perhaps
in league with some capitalist, will tell
the prospector that the ore will run
about So to the ton, with an attempt
at looking wise.
But the prospector is slirewd, if he
does wear bucksl1in pantaloons. An
other assayer tells him that it is $40
ore, when it is really $50 ore. They
smilingly ask him: Where did you
get it?" He gruf1y replies: In the
mountains" He then comes to Den
yer, hunts up a capitalist and sends in
ck I)lSCC O1 ILLS 1OCh 1O1 d f1SlIiIlS CdIOs
He is at once admitted. The prospector
and the millionaire 'talI1 the matter
over" and the millionaire has his own
assay made. He knows that the pros
pector has not the money to work the
claim, and offers to buy it for a small
sum, which often is accepted. The
prospector, with his few thousands of
dollars, has a grand time for few
months, and when he is ''broke" he
applies to the capitalist for a grub
stake" of $50 or $100, and returns to
the mountains in search of another
find. In a few weeks his provisions are
exhausted, and his second application
is bluntly refused by the man who has
made 100000 or more by the pur-
chase. He applies to another, and an.
other, and year after year he goes
through the same routine, changing
lis base of operations from California
to Colorado, and thence to other points
where the boom is on. A few strike it
rich, but sell out too soon, and others
reap the benefits of their years of toll
the throng of millionaircs-andf forget
their prospector companions.
When a prospector has found a good
mine, the news rapidly spreads, and
there is a great rush to the new dis
trict. The new arrivals begin stalking
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

''It is a wonder to me-" said Willie
Washington, Ito see how quickly the
minds of some men act. There are
people who can decide in an instant
what it would take others a long time
10 consider. I met a man the other
evening who is that way"
''Was he lawyer?"
81 don't know. But he had an in.
tellectual gwasp that was astounding
I met him in the hall just as he was
weaching foh an umbwella. is that
your umbwella?' he inquiahed. No.
weplied ]. In that case he answered
its mine.' Washington Star.
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The WAY OF the Grade.

"Scrivener lives and writes entirely in
the future"
Thinks the present generation is un-
appreciative and unsympathetic, eh?"
No, not exactly; but he has to write
his Fourth of July jokes abou: Christ
mas time, and his Christmas jokes about
Fourth of July time. Puck.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
She Knew 1t Herseif.

Miss Wanterno-I have brought this
book back. Mamma says it is not fit
for me to read. tt
LibrarianLI think your mother must
be mistaken -
Miss Wanterno-Oh no. she isn't. I've
read it all through.-N.. Y. WorId.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
LATEST THING IN CYCLES.

Il Over in London they have a new cycle
whether to give. il the, prefix uni or bi has
gether different from the models seen in
this country; Instead Of. being on. the
the above picture; taerezars twoswfleels,
one. inside the, other.A The inner. wheel
necessary because 1t thus fastened to it
the riders seat around # reyolves the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
COMEDY IN REAL LIFE.
How Washington Lawyer Found
a Perfect Wife.
And How His Friend Lost Perfect
Typewriter The Pretty Romance
Traced from It's Beginning
to the End.
Especial washington Letter.l

I have recently witnessed a pretty
comedy in real life. There were many
acts, but few actors. The play ran
all the way from chance acquaintance,
through first love, into mad love, thence
into courtship, marriage and coordi-
nate despair.
John Doe and Richard Roe were law
yers and friends for many years, but
they have at last parted company. You
know in Washington we do not have
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
A Pointer.

Mrs. Brown-You should never point,
Johnnie, it is very rude.
Johnnie-But what are you going to
do, ma, when you don't know'th name
of the thing you want to see?
Mrs B-Why, let the man show
you everything in the store till he comes
to ito Date
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

Young De Fast (who has been out
very late the night before Have you
filed the bath-tub as told you3
Vaiet-Yes, sab.
"With cold water?"
'tYes, sah."
''Then lead ME to it"
"Watah's awful cold for a bath, sab.
''I don'twant bath. Iwant a drink"
IN. Y. Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
The Cheerful Idiot.

"Now is the time" said the patriotic
bcarder, ''for some one to get up ma
tional air that shall be distinctly Amer.
lean"
What is the matter already" asked
the Cheerful Idiot, with You Can't
Play in My Yard?'" = indianapolis
Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

outer wheel. with which It has three points
Of. contact, three, grooved whesls- thar
form runway The power is obtained by
the simple action of a spring attached to
the treadles, and II Is promised that great
speed will be made when the Wheel is
properly used. Lightness and simplicity
OF construction seem to be its best points.
The rider, being suspended below the ma
chimes center OF gravity, maintains level
seat whatever the seat ar grade.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
Hurt His Business.

"Say, boss, haven't you an old over
coat you can give feller..s
why, that's fine coat you have en-
.Yes, dat's de trouble, boss. It's too
6ne. Nobody will give me anything on
account OF me fine coat 2 7arper's Ba-
zar. -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
There Arc Others.

She plays a stunningegam of golf
Is winner at the goal;
Looks captivating at the links
And does not miss a hole.
But when the maiden tries her hand
AT making pumpkin pie,
Her victims writhe in agony,
Give UP the ghost and die.
M Y. World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

"Stammering is an awful afIliction."
remarked the young woman. /. Il.
Still it has its. advantages said
the society young man. Fellow
doesn9 need more than two or three
ideas 10 keep him talking a whole even
ing. indianapolis journal. $50
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Chlcago sfrlctly in De.

Jlnls Chicago people have great
many exoelient plans for the future
npbuilding Of their city.
Il Winks-Ycs; the place may be said
to be paved with good Intentions
Town Topics.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

What do you think of inviting Miss
Brown? She always tries to make her
self censpicnous:
: Let her Be conspicuous By her alb
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
Rnrn That War

There's a confidence man. they say
Whose patronymic is Kay,
And his friends all claim
He lives up to the name, ..e,
For he is always after the jay.
-Chicago Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
Agl4 fsid q railY - :

The canse of death, = said the ply
sieian, 'lfss Heart failure
hat vas what j supposed . replied
the yollng man. Most of us die sof
heart 8 iIsire, but what am anxious to
learn Il what caused his heart TO fail.
-tshieago Evening Post.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
So They Have.

The teacher was asking questions
teachers are quite apt to ask questions
and they sometimes receive curious an
swers. This question was as follows:
''Now, pupils, how many months have
2S days?" AA
"All of them, teacher" observed the
boy on the front seat.-Utica Observer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14
His Mission In Life.

Mrs. Bunting James is SD cruel.
He is always torturing the cat, throw.
ing stones at dogs and sticking pins III
little girls. What will he do when he
grows up?
Mrs. Larkin-Oh, he'll easily get I
place as attendant in an insane asylum.
Life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-03-14

Willie-If there was war in South
Africa you would go, wouldn't you?
Cholly-No. Willie. don't think l
would. Why do you ask?
Willie-'Cause l heard Sister Annie
say the other day that you was bore.
IN. Y. World. .
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

CONCERNING the present great rail-
road combine, which was effected by
Pierpont Morgan early in the winter
the Saturday Bee makes some pointed
comments and cOmmendable confess
siOns. II says: 1.-The railroads, how
ever, are teaching the people some
valuable lessons, and demonstrating
the feasibility Of some propositions
which the railroad bosses themselves
have been disposed to denounce as WIS.,
iOnary and impractical. They have
taught the people that the railroads of
this great country can be successfully
directed by one man. They have de-
monstrated that the government could
assume absolute jurisdiction of inter-
state transportation, and appoint one
man to fix all rates. We have doubted
the feasibility Of the effective direction
of the operations of ali the railroads by
an individual or commission; but the
railroads have demonstrated that it
can be done to Cypress the people, and
we now believe it can be quite as sue
Cessfully done to benefit the people,"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09
To Chicngo bHDnyIignt.

The Santa Fe has put on a swift
train leaving Hutchinson at Ills p. m.
running solid through to Chicago, ar
rivlng there the next evening, This
train passes Kansas City at 700 a. M,
making good connections with all
lines at that point; passes Fort Madison
at 500 p. NJ, Galesburg at AS p. M,
and is the only passenger train run
ming between Kansas and Chicago
that crosses the Mississippi river in
daylight. Free chair cars and Pull
man sleepers vestibuled throughout.
Meals are served in dining cars, guests
only paying for what they order.
IL you prefer to leave Hutchinson in
the morning the Santa Fe offers you
the choice of two fast trains, the Chi
cago Limited at 1905 and the Chicago
Express at 1910 a. m.
Ii you contemplate making a trip
anywhere by rail call and make inuui-
ries about our superior train facilities
before purchasing tickets.
]. d. SWEENEY, Agent.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

charge on these plates, but you will
have to pay expressage on them. All
orders for plates must so through our
Office"
This would indeed be an item worthy
of consideration to the country editor,
who grunts and sweats under weary
load, and in many instances it would
be a saving equal to his Office rept.
How they tempt us. BY the way it is
about time some of those silver barons
who are said to be the animating force
of the silver movement are coming
along with similar proposition. Alas
AlasI The poor "pops" were born
askew with these pursey times.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09
special Attention to Passengers

Mr.. Chas. H. Durham has been APP
pointed as special passenger agent
AtchisOn, Topeka 81 Santa Fe railway,
at Dearborn Street station, Chicago,
ILL.,, and will be on duty'at arrival and
departure of all Santa Fe trains. His
duties are to attended exclusively to
Santa Fe passengers and see that they
are properly cared for and transferred
TO and from their proper trains. All
agents have been instructed to adj
wise Mr.. Durham, the name of passen-
gers and when they will arrive for
whom special attention is desired, that
special attention be given them. This
is done to insure the proper care of
women and children travelling alone,
as we'll as aged people. IT
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

0. c. JENNINGS, county attorney of
Stafford county, was in the city Mon
day and of course called at the GA
zETTE Office. Mr.. Jennings is one of
the men now receiving the favorable
consideration of the pOpulist voters as
candidate for the honOrs of appellate
judge for the western department of
the southern division. While we are
no longer in that district. our friend.
ship for Mr.. Jennings and knowledge
of his qualifications prompt US to
make mention of his candidacy. He
was elected six years ago as county
attorney when young and inexperi-
enCed in his profession and although
he stepped into the work of prosecuting
gang of robbers who had plundered
the county of some $4,000 or 800, 900
after landing the chief of them in the
penitertiary, he so well acquitted him
self that he was twice thereafter
elected to succeed himself by large
majorities. His work has been so sue
cessful in fact that we have often
heard republicans say that he is tn
first county attorney the county has
ever had. Mr.. Jennings is a hard
worker, close student and a man of
substantial moral and intellectual
qualities. There are several other men
spoken of for the nomination in that
district, and we presume they are good
men who would fill the Office with
credit, but having considerable per-
sonal acquaintance with Mr.. Jennings
we do not believe they could do better
than to nominate him.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09
THE DEVIL TOOK HIM INTO A
HIGH MOUNTAIN.

II IS sometimes very inconvenient
to have opinions, and especially 80 if
they happen to be on the side opposed
by the men of wealth. If we were only
a believer in sound currency" as that
term is applied by the aggregation of
New York bankers and Wall Street
gamblers known as the"sound currency
committee" our plates would need to
cost US nothing. We are again in re-
ceipt Of communication from this
committee a part of which reads as
follows:
I'm order to push the educational
work for sound currency and to resist
the efforts Of free coinage advocates 10
put this country on silver basis, this
committee has arranged to supply
sound currency matter to newspapers
in certain States. We offer 10 supply
it in woforms Sound currency plates
Wewil supply these through either the
American Press Association, the Yves.
tern Newspaper Union, the A. N. Kel.
log company, or the Century Press com,
pany. A page is issued every foul
weeks; later we may issue as often a,
! every two weeks. There will be ne
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

EVIDENTLY the Monroe doctrine is
growing in favor among the American
republics. At the opening of the Mex
lean Congress Wednesday, President
Diez in his message declared emphat-
ically that every republic on the west
ern continent should announce that
any attack on any one of them by any
European power with view to extend
ing territory or altering republican in
situations should be considered by each
an individual attack.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

IN THE News of Tuesday was an ed
itorial published as leader, in which
we find the statement that the popu-
lists, democrats and prohibitiOnlsts
will declare that, "cheap money and
low prices are the roads to prosperity"
It appears to us that this is even more
mixed than when Edward Atkinson
spoke of free coinage Of silver at six
teen to one as the proposition to coin
sixteen silver dollars to one gold dol
lar. 1t is about as possible to have
cheap money and low prices at the
same time as it is to have daylight and
darkness at once. In fact, to speak of
cheap money means nothing but high
prices. When money IS cheap it re-
quires more of it to buy given set Of
commodities, and as a natural result
of requiring more money to do The
same work, prices are higher. Billy
Morgan is mighty nice little fellow,
but he evidently does not know any
more about the money question than
Bill Mckinley.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

The exploiting rich sometimes build
hospitals for the poor; but they make
the poor to occupy them. They some
times give charity to the poor; but
they often withhold from the poor
what belongs to them and would make
charity unnecessary. They sometimes
build churches and pay preachers to
tell the poor about the GlOries of the
world to come; but they also infringe
upon the rights of the poOri in the world
that now is.-Ex.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

ACCORDING to Sundays Cincinnati
Enquirer, even John Sherman is I'M
easy about the results of the coming
campaign. In an interview with
Gath" the veteran correspondent he
conceded the populist and silverites l7C
electoral votes and thinks the election
will go to the House. OF course he
may be talking for effect, or it may bt
a case of "sOur grapes" since he is no,
in the presidential race. Be that as i
may be is not very far wrong.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1896-04-09

The conference of the pennsylYa-
MIA manufacturers with the silver men
at Washington is having its effect. In
fact it is hurting the goldmongers.
Congressman Adams OF Pennsylvania
got SO sore that he sharpened up his
wits and tried to do job Of SHINING.
Hartman of Montana made him hard
to find in short time. Then too, be.
fore they had all returned from Wash
ington the Philadelphia club to which
they belonged passed goldbug resolu-
ton in hope Of neutralizirg their in,
fluence. But they seem to have gOt