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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
50 Sixteen Pages

While wheat has advanced IL cents a
bushel in Chicago, silver has fallen cents
an ounce.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27

Nebraska Republicans say an approx
mate poll of the State shows that Mckinley
will carry it by at least 10000 majority.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-27
Hetty's Weakness.

fnliaueiphla Press.
nelty Green declares that she Is for free
silver. We always knew that fieftv hnnk
cred after cheap things i'''''A- :
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
A Gold Lake in Alaska.

The latest story of wondrOus gold
find in Alaska is of lake whose bed IS
literally paved deep with gold dust as
ponds are floored with mud. Hans
Christian Pande, a name suspieiously
near that of the great teller of fairy
stories, an old sea captain, told the
story of his find on his arrival in Seat
tie a few days ago. The lake is 1900
yards long. 400 yards wide and 80 feet
deep. 1t is fed by water from glacier.
and it's only outlet is littAe stream two
feet deep, but of incredible swfftness-
According to Nr. Pande's theory, bnsed
on assays of some sand from the shores
end bottom 0f the lake. the glacier has
for centuries been bringing down gold
from the mountains and depositing it
IN the ccp-like basin OF the lake. The
assay showed eight to ten dollars a
cnbic yard, and on this basis man
could alone blast out the side of fhe
lake, drain of the water, and dred. 4
out his gold. Chicago Inter OCEAN.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
Further Information " anteas.

4 very devout gentleman of Boston
who teaches a Sunday-school class of
bootblacks and newsboys the beauties
of the Gospel, recently undertook otell
a story of Jacobs ladder. After he had
graphically pictured the wanderings
Of the sad old patriarch, his dream in
the eastern pasture. and the ladder ON
which the angels were ascending and
descending. he paused and said:
NOW, boys, if there is anything in
this story that have not yet explained,
you may ask me any question you like
and will answer ii"
Say, Mister Minister, did yoG say
dem angels he'd wings?'
Yes. my boy" replied the doctor
angels always have wings"
We'll, denA eff dey he'd wings what for
did they need latl3eFs s,,-Boston Home
Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
WHY DOGS ARE INTELLIGENT.
| Stupid Members of the Family Were For
merly Eaten by Their Masters.


merly Eaten by Their Masters.
Prof. n. S. Shaler, of Harvard uni
versity, in his study of donlesticahed
animals, advances this theory in re-
gard to the dog, which explains III
large measure why the best traits of
the dog have been developed. The dog
of the savage could not have been
cultured creature. He had not been
long enough associated with man TO
subdue his native impulses. The dog
hunted for his master. When game
was plenty, man and animal had
enough to eat. But when game was
scarce the savage ate the dog. To-day,
when in state of famine. Eskimos will
eat some of the pack. But choice is
exercised then. The strongest, or the
most affectionate, or the most intelli-
gent animals would be spared. The
weddings, the cross, the stupid dogs
would go to the pot. '1n this way"
writes Prof. Shaler, ''for ages careful,
though unintended process of selection
was applied to these creatures and to
this we may fairly attribute, as many
considerable naturalists have done, a
large part of the intcllectual-indee
we may say moral-elevatlon to which
dogs have attained.
In his clever study of the dog, Prof.
Shaler, looking more particularly to
the instructive traits of pointers and
settlers, speculates as to how long these
hunting animals have shown their
peculiarities when seeming game.
Some theorists have advanced the i6ea
that the actions of the dogs, as pointers
or settlers, can only date back from the
invention of the fowling-piece. 1t IS a
mooted question among those who have
carefully studied firearms which served
for sport whether Spain was not the
first country using the fowling-p piece.
Now, curiously enough, tradition seems
to indicate that the early pointer-the
dog with an exaggerated split of the
nostrils-was originally Spanish, and
that from Spain the breed Travelled
northward If the idea be entertained
that the pointer appeared with The
use of the fowling-piece, the particular
specialization of the pointer only be-
gan in dogs removed by some 80 genera
tions from those of to-day. Those who
advocate this ingenious theory do not
bear in mind the dogs whis:h must have
been used in hawking, AMI hawking is
of the most remote anticuity.-N. Y.
| Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
LAWYERS IN EUROPEAN STATES
Different Qualifications Required for Ad-
mission to the Bar.

D1nerent qualifications Required Tor Adj
mission to the Bar.
Prof. Edward jerks, of London, gives
review of the qualifications required
for admission to the bar in the chief
European states. The facts are gath
cred from correspondents at he princi-
pal capitals. The article was drawn cut
by Chief Justice Russell, as to the lack
of scientific teachings Of the law in
England. A summary of the facts
gathered by Prof. jerks in the Law
Times article shows that in Germany,
Belgium, Sweden and Norway there is
but one class of practitioners. In
France. Italy and Scotland there is a
separation between the advocate aud
the solicitor. In Holland there is a
theoretical distinction between barris-
tiers and solicitors, but by a recent law
one person may unite both functions.
Prof. jerks says that in Germany,
France, Italy, Belgium, Holland,
Sweden and Norway a scientific study
of law in university is practically IN
dispensable as preliminary to profess
sional practice. In Scotland it is in
dispensable for a barrister, but not es-
sential, though usual, in the case OF a
solicitor. In Germany and Belgium
apprenticeship or service under prac-
titioner is compulsory. In Italy it is
required for barrister, but not for so
licitors In Scotland the rule is the
other way. France, Holland, Sweden
and Norway do not require previous
| apprenticeship. While the inforna-
ton does not cover all the states of LII
rope, it is apparent that England has
been almost alone in failing to oder
courses of study for law at university.
IN. Y. Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

AT the annual meeting of tho
French academy the highest prize
for literary work done during the past
year was awarded to NJ. Jusserand for
his Literary History of the English
People," the authorized American edi-
ton of which is in course of publication
by the Putnams.
Miss Dora Zahn, a Frisco girl,
claims the proud distinction OF being
the first American or English woman
who has ever reached so degrees north
latitude. The event was marked by
planting the Stars and Stripes on the
island of Spitzbergen, amid the enthu-
sIasm of So European scientists.
The privilege of carrying the zu-
chetti to the new cardinals is reserved
exclusively for the members of the
Noble guard. The members of that body
guard who has been deputed to per-
form this service for Mgr. Satolli is
Marquis Sacripanti, who is of an an
cient and aristocratic Roman family.
The empress of Austria intends Civ
ing up much of the violent exercise
which she has persisted in for SO many
years. Her majesty at one time boosted
o. waist of only 20 inches in circum-
fcrence-the smallest in Europe-and
claimed that it was not the product of
corset, but of swinging by her hands
from trapeze bar.
Admiral Lord Clarence Paget,
uncle of Lieut.-Col. Paget. who married
Mrs. Paran Stevens daughter, and
of Mr.. Almeric Paget, who recently
married Miss Pauline Whitney, is now
"a years old and has written his mem
oirs, which will be published soon He
served in the Crimean war. and was sec
| 1etary of the admiralty under Lord
PalmerStOn.
French papers announce the offer
for sale of the library of Renan. The
library is divided into two parts, the
| first including the oriental library, to
whose collection Renan paid great at
tention, and containing books on the
philology and history of the oriental
languages. The second part contains
books on general philology, classical
studies, the middle ages, etc.
H. n. Pillsbury, the Brooklyn chess
champion who is winning new laurels
at St.Petersburg, maintains his wonder
ful control of his nervous system by
great care in his habits. He eats meat
| but once day, never drinks anything
| stronger than milk, is abstemious in
! the use of tobacco, and always sleeps at
| least seven hours out of the "a. He is
all advocate of bicycle riding in limit
Ell amount.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
The Intended ComplIment.

In an old-fashioned home of New Or
leans there was company at dinner, and
the ladies were discussing the woman
question. A gentleman present, after
hearing all the pros and cons, facetious-
ly remarked that two preachers were
discussing the same problem, recently.
in his hearing, and they both agreed
that it portended evil, and that women
were responsible for most of the evil in
the world-insfact that women were
worse than men," One of the ladies
Indignantly retorted: Indeed they
are not; women are the salt of the
EARTH Oats so, honey" put in old
Aunt Susan from the kitchen; ''dat's de
Bible truf, for shore. Women is de salt
OBJ de earth. just think OBJ Lots wife =
And everybody laughed at the sudden
and unexpected application of the old
Bible story-N. o. Picayune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08

Get up and cease thy outcry. The
woman was wise. Thou wouldst have
gone had she not left thee. Here is
! a remedy / will leave with thee, which
will cure thy hurt"
And, behold! he left him a year.
Then, following the woman in hot
haste, he came up with her as she sat
upon a stone by the wayside, weeping.
"For why didst thou leave him?''
asked Time, gently.
cat the bidding of thy brother" she
answered, "who came to me threaten
ing that he would haunt my good lord,
to my undoing, did 1 not leave him.
Go, before Love be slain,' he said, thus
may'st thou hope one day to return
Time smiled.
Here is remedy I will leave with
thee for thy hurt he said.
And, behold! he left her year.
And at the end of that space, Time
| came unto the man, and 10! he found
him feasting and rejoicing. And round
about him were beautiful women, and
one there was more beautiful than all
the others who rested her head upon
his shoulder and upon whom he gazed
affectionately.
Time stopped to look at his hurt,
and found it healed, not even a scar
remaining.
Softly the graybeard sped in the
night to the place where he had left
| the woman, but the stone by the way
side was bare. The Night Wind
moaned down the road.
Spol-a the Wind.
'Whom seel1est thou, o Time?" and
Time made answers:
"a woman whom one year ago left
here weeping"
''Come with me-" sighed the Night
Wind. And he led him to solemn
place of yews, and, pointing to grave
stone, said, softly: 'She lies there
And Time, STOPPING, saw that of his
| gift she had taken but 80 days, for a
mightier than he had come and com
forted her-even Eternity. IN. Y
Truth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Any and all devotional exercises I'm
the public schools of Missouri are de-
clared illegal. They are now fighting
in Minnesota on the same lines.
People of Wapella county, Ia, have
engaged Evangelist Moody and two
other exhorters to convert the town of
Eddyville, which is noted for its scep-
ticism.
Roy York, a 13-year-old boy
preacher, is conducting services in Mis-
souri,, and is said to be stirring up
much religious fervor and causing
many conversions.
David J. Hill, president of the
University of Rochester, has resigned.
The action is said to be on account
of the opposition to him manifested
by conservative Baptists who have not
favored his liberal views and manage
ment of the university.
Dean Farrar of Canterbury thinks
it perfectly erroneous to talk of the
failure of missions, when they started
with 120 despised Galileans, and when
now there are 12O,O0O,000 Professionals,
and they have in their power almost all
Vic AOoOuAICS III TIC NO110s
Henry Willard, the railroad mag
nate, has given large fund for the
State University of Oregon, made lib
eral donations to the University of
Washington, endowed a hospital in his
native town, and spent a great deal
Of money on industrial art schools in
Rhenish Bavaria.
The international executive COM
mittee, representing American Sunday
schools, at meeting recently held
ut Chautauqua, voted to send a Sum
day school worker and organizer to
Japan. The sum of 1000 was raised
rs a beginning, and subcommittee
appointed to secure the right.
The London university conferred
the degree of doctor of literature upon
Miss Elizabeth Dawes, an Englishwom-
an. This degree reflects great credit
upon the scholarship of man or woman,
requiring as it does the broadcast read
ing. The year '95 marked the first
slime a woman had received it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
NY LITTLE DIMPLE CHEEK.

There are days Of care and crosses
Mixed with ledgers, pens and ink,
OF profits and of losses
AS the values rise and sink:
But when dusk and dew is stealing
Ger the mountain and the lea,
There's childish laughter pealing,
And a kiss that waits for me,
Till my burdened heart is beating
With a love it fam would speak,
In the clinging and the singing
OF my little Dimple Cheek
There's a chain Of childish troubles
Then unfolded in my ear,
Which to me doth seem as bubbles
On the sea of childhood clear.
But we share them, both together,
Till my troubles fit away,
And we never mind the weather,
Be 1t winter, be 1t May;
For catch a glimpse of sunshine
That shall hallow all the week,
In the clinging and the singing
OF my little Dimple Cheek.
Tell me what Of wealth's possessions,
And the gay attendant train,
What of honor's bright CONCESSIONS
MingIing pleasure up with pain,
What could they bring to bless me-
Realms below or realms above
Like a dear one to caress me,
And to measure out her love?
For the Lord He doth reward US
In the ways diverse we seek,
In the clinging and the singing
OF a little Dimple Cheek.
Roy f. Greene. in Chicago Inter Ocean
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
HUMOROUS.

II hear the colonel is hard drink
er." "He? He's the easiest drinker /
ever saw in my life" -netroit Tribune.
Maud = What fool you were
making of yourself in initiating Charley
Spooner." Ethel-"Will You tell me
how 1 could initiate him in any other
manner ?"-Boston Transcript.
"A maiden writes: Gan you tell me
how to change the color of my hair,
which all the young men tell me is
'red?" Certainly we can. Get rich;
they will then call it golden OF auburn
Erie Messenger.
-Disillusion.-"Did mammals little
boy hurt his darling head? Come
here and let mamma kiss it and make
it WE'LL" That's got so it don't cure
any more, m2mma. Put on some
arnica." Tribune.
"A health officer recently received
the following note from one Of the resi-
dents of his district: Dear Sir-I beg
to tell you that my child, aged eight
months, is suffering with measles, as
required by act of parliament" - lid
Bits.
Mr. Keep Cash = did you write
that man who advertises to show peo-
pie how TO make desserts without milk
and have them richer?" Mrs. Cash
Eyes, and sent him the dollar" "What
did he reply?" use cream - West
Medford Windmill.
II think I've got pretty good story
here" remarked the occasional con-
tributor, as he seated himself and
lighted one of the EDITORS cigars. The
editor glanced over the story. 'Yes,'
he said, 81 think this is pretty good
story. / tell it myself occasionaIly."-
Chicago Times-Herald.
-''Micky," said Mr.. Dolan to his son.
''Oi do be afraid ye're gettir' to be a
dude" 81 hope not" "WeH, Olive no
tieed yez wearin' yer Sunday clothes
the week trough, an that We gave up
yer job in the blacksmith shop. Oh
want to say, widout barrum till any
hody's feelin's, that it'll do ycz no hurt
10 be rollin' up yer sleeves more an yer
trousers less Washington Star.
-Executor-"Pr sir, what do you
charge for a funeral sermon?' Rev.
Mr. Canter-''I always charge, my dear
brother, in proportion to the property
left behind. Couple of guineas for a
poor man, five g1Iineas for G 10000, and
| so on Executor-"Well, my friend
has left 5000, so that would be 25
but it seems a good deal" Rev. Mr.
Canter- but, my dear brother, think
of the strain on my conscience" ALLY
| SloDer's
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08

How should tell, not knowing him
by name?'' said the man. SIS he named
like to thee?"
NAY, am called Time, but he is
called Safety" answered the other.
The man frowned.
"Your brother does not abide here
abouts," he said.
''Methought I saw him wander hither
but while SINCE" mumbled the old
man. One with whom he hath enmity
dwelleth here, and doubtless he hath
come to seek him."
''And whom may that be?" inquired
the man.
'sMen call him Love-" said Time, and
his dry laugh ratified in his throat.
Safety hlleth Love when he gets en-
trance to where he abideth, and bury
the slain"
"And how doth he get entrance ?'
asked the man, thinking backward.
''Ry many ways" answered the Sage,
leaning for moment upon his scythe
Sometimes through the eyes of a
jealous woman, for she is a WEAKNESS
unto the soul of man; sometimes
through the foolish eyes of man who,
seeing much beauty, becometh blind to
it; and oftenest through the heart of
her who is faithful, but protesteth her
love too greatly, for the great love of
woman is also a WEAKNESS unto the
soul of man."
And the graybeard gazed piercingly
upon the man, then, cackling in shrill
laughter, he went on his way.
Then hurriedly the man sought the
woman, but he found the house empty
and her maidens running about in
search of her. And she was nowhere to
be found. When last seen, they told
him, she was talking to a stranger
who lately had lurked about the gates;
a creature of vast stature, with weary
eyes, and a giant frame, upon whose
brow was writ the sign: Safety"
Then the man, clapping his hand to
his head, fell upon the ground. crying
out that she had found the curse, not
he; that she had slain Love, not he;
that she was false, not he.
Get up, fool" quoth a graybeard
in the crowd about, touching the strick-
en- man contemptuously with his foot.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-02-08
THE AVERAGE MURDERER.
In Prison He Appears Happy, and Ger
tainly He Grows Fat.

In Prison He Appears Happy, and Ger
tainly He Grows Fat.
One of the strangest of all the strangd
phases of human nature IS the cheerful'
ness of the average murderer after con-
yiction and sentence. There are, OF
course, exceptions to the rule; there
are murderers who await execution in
horror and dread, and occasionally one
dies of this torment before the fatal day
arrives But these are rare cases and
do not affect the correctness of the
proposition that the average murderer
is a rather cheerful person, sleeps well,
has a good appetite, grows fat, and, till
his last hour, manifests lively interest
in such worldly affairs as occupied his
mind before he was caught, Gagged and
marked for the hangman.
Trouble of mind is not conducive to
the taking on of fat. a convict whose
day of death had been finally fixed, and
who had no ground on which to base
the faintest hope of clemency, might
affect cheerfulness, or even popularity,
in the presence of visitors. But there
is no affecting growth of adipose. The
man whose weight is increasing day by
day, even in the shadow of the gallows,
is not in mental distress. The mind
and body are too closely related for
either to be tormented without the full
participancy of the other.
Here is an extract from g reporters
account of visit to Harry Hayward, at
Minneapolis, who was put to death for
one of the most cruel, cold-blooded MUIR
ders ever perpetrated:
.''Do you think you will hang?'
eyes, l think will, old man. Hay
ward replied His face did not change
color, nor did he finch. Then he con-
tinued, laughing: y fellow has got to
go some time, and it might as well DO
one time as another. Only wish it
well done and no bungling. But, by
the-by, what do you think about the
ett-Fitzsimmons fighter rather
the one that did not come off? / will
tell you what believe. 1 think "Fitz"
was afraid of Jim. would hate to see
Jim get whipped, for he is an American.
But the fight will never come of, now
he added.
"How is your health, Mr.. Hayward? 2
"'Splendid. When l came in here 7
weighed 16O, but 1 have gained 40
pounds. You see, have nothing to
worry me, have slept well, and eaten
heartily and will continue to do so until
the end
If this were an exceptional case it
would be interesting only as possible
Indication of lunacy. But it presents
nothing that is unusual. It is strange
only because it is impossible for the
average mind to conceive of such cheer
fulness, such Indifference under the
conditions surrounding this man.
Washington Post.