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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-05
The Editors Duty.

1t is not necessary that newspa-
per should print everything that hap
pens, even though it be news. If it
wounds the sensibilities or Injuries
the interest or reputation of some
person when no substantial good can
rise from the publication, it had bet
ter be omitted. There is such thing
as an editor having too lofty as well
as too low conception of his duty.
Unless a good purpose can be sub
served by the publication of an arti-
Gle involving the character or the
interest of an individual no profess
sional or ethical obligation rests upon
the editor to print it. Even if the
printing of it may prove public ben
eft the editor should weigh carefully
the fact whether such benefit would
be Offset by the damage done to pri-
yate character There is no ironclad
rule requiring the publication of
everything that happens. One of the
highest editorial qualities is that of
DISCRIMINATORY Missouri Editor.
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Our Neighb0rS.
Midway Scraps.
December 2, 1896.


1teWS scarce.
Quite wintry.
Thanksgiving was very cold and
dreary.
Look out for marriage bells in the
near future.
Christmas is near and the turkeys
are beginning to get quite shy.
Mrs. M. p. Redmond, returned a
few days ago, from her Nebraska visit.
The young people of Banner and
vicinity took in the literary at Coll
yer last Saturday evening. They re-
port a very pleasant time.
1t is reported that Robert Tague,
while riding on horseback last Sun
day, the horse fell and injured Rob
ert's knee and ankle, so he has not
been able to attend school this week.
The schools in District Al, Miss e.
A. Mapes, teacher, and District 4,
Miss Blanche Mcknight, teacher, and
District "a. Miss Mile Stradal, teach
er, are all doing well. Teachers and
pupils seem to be very much interest
ed and good progress is being made.
JACK.
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Notice.

George Baker has all kinds of fresh
and smoked meats at his market and
will be pleased to see and supply all
his old friends and patrons. Baker
buys and sells nothing but the best in
the market, His customers need not
be afraid of buying diseased or I'M
wholesome meats of him, he does not
buy that kind and never has You
will find him at the old stand.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-05
Report of Victory School.

Report of school for month ending
November 81, 1896: Number pupils
enrolled IL. Names of those neither
absent nor tardy during month-Mil-
mond, Frank Redmond. Names of
visitors-Misses Blanche Mcknight,
Anna Harvey and Messrs. Elmer Har-
vey and Ray Redmond. Number of
days taught 10. EDNA A. MAPEs,
Teacher.
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New Sallaround.
December 3. 1896

December 3. 1896.
Turkeys hiding out.
Fall wheat never promised better
Mrs W. j. Glasby is slowly conval-
escing-
Chris Baugher is painting his new
granary-
L. HI. Morton has completed his
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-12-05
SOCIETIES..

A F. & A. M.-Wa-Keeney Lodge No las,
h meets every second and fourth Monday
evening of each month.
t. r. MOORE, Se'y- w E. SAUM, w NJ
A o. U. W.-Wa-Keeney Lodge No. 200.
"a. meets the first and third Tuesday eve
nIngs of each month.
W. Z. sAUM. Rec. GEO. MCKINLEY. NJ. W.
T o. o. F.-Wa-Keeney Lodge No. 3O4. meets
4. every Wednesday evening. Transient
brethren cordially invited.
G. NJ UFFORD, Sec. o. A CORTRIGHT. n. G.
M w. of A.-Wa-Keeney Lodge No. 1851.
w meets last Thursday in each month.
EDWARD CHALK, V. c. g. W. CROSS, Clerk
q A. R.-Cap plain Trego Post, No. 1877. meets
~ in the evening of the second Saturday
of each month.
W. c. OLsoN.Com. s NJ. HUTzEL. Adg't.
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Do You Know Hanna (?)

COAL is the best coal in the market
for the money?
Try it. Price reduced to Sc. 90 for
lump size at
VERBEcK s. LUCAS
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Local Happenings.

Read Bestor's new ad.
Fresh pork at Bakers.
slO-suits at Nerbeck's.
Picked pork at Bakers.
Smoked hams ut Bakers
Apples at Verbeck's, 15c.
Good fresh beef at Bakers.
December came in like a lamb.
Look at-our s1O-suits. Verbeck.
PatroniZe your home merchants.
Coal oil 15c per gallon at Eerbeck's.
Drop in and get our prices on job
work.
Rev Hendricks is slowly GONZALES
cling.
Package coffee only zoe at Yer
beck's.
bars of Lenox soap 25c at Yer
beck's.
A. Spena, of Bosnia, was in town on
Tuesday.
Fresh oysters at Bakers at So cents
per quart.
20 lbs. of graduated sugar S1.OO
at Verbeck's.
1t will pay you to look at the 80
suits at Verbeck's.
Go to Cortrights for your tablets
and school supplies
Miss Matte Beach has taken rooms
over Verbeck'S store.
Baker does not buy lump-jawed cat
tie to sell in his market.
Black dress suits at Verbeck's good
enough to be married in.
Mrs. F. Danford, of Hays. was the
gnest of WORLD this week.
We are pleased to note that III. O..
Hodges is improving. Good
VIM. Walsh, of ColIyer township,
was in the county hub Tuesday.
A. B. Redmond, of Banner, is husk-
ing corn for James Kelly this week.
Merchantsl Now is the time to adj
vertise your Xmas goods in WORLD.
Miss Beach enjoyed visit from her
sister, Miss Gertie, of Hays, this week.
Verbeck & Lucas unloaded two cars
of lumber and one of posts this week
Francis Ridgway, of Ogallah, inter-
viewed our county officials on WedneS-
day.
Bring your job work to WORLD. We
will execute it with neatness and dis
patch.
The price of wheat is. steadily adj
vancing and the price of silver is de-
Ginning
c. NJ. Bell, of Franklin, transacted
business with our county officials on
Thursday.
As we go to press, we are panied to
note that Probate Judge Cowick is
very low.
Expert Accountant Patterson came
in from Wichita on Thursday even
ing's train.
We are pleased to chronicle that W.
S. Mead is up and around by the aid
of clutches.
W. B. CIPHER and daughter, of the
south side. were in Wa-Keeney on
Wednesday.
For tablets, books, writing paper,
and everything in the stationery line
at Cortright's.
Probate Judge elect G w. Tunnel
has rented the old Willard property
north of town.
III. M. Davidson, the merchant of
Ogallah, paid as high as 20 cents for
wheat this week.
Dr. Raffington, the dentist, will be
in Wa-Keeney, December Is and Is.
Office at Ferris hotel.
Gus Ellemyer and I. B. Grim, of the
Saline, were in the county capital on
Tuesday buying horses.
If you want a nice, clean and TASTY
job, one that you are not ashamed to
send to your friends, come to WORLD.
A. III. Cox, land the Kansas City
Star is our authority wants a lucra-
tive clerkship under the Leedy adj
ministration.
Rev. Lee, of Manhattan, held Epis-
copal services at the Baptist church
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Union Pacific Time Table.

Union Pacific Time Table.
Eastern limited Aforementioned Due 6:se5 a. m
2-kansas City Fast Line Due 10:O5 p. N
WEST.
3-Denv yer & Pacific Coast lmt'd Due7 :05 D.
Tickets sold and baggage checked to all
points in United States and Canada.
E. p. BRADSHAW. a gent.
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DANGEROUS TO TRIFLE WITH.
ScripturaI Texts Are Not Good Foot
balls for ThOughtIeSs Amateurs.

The Scriptures may be a dangerous
weapon to put in the hands of those
who pervert their meaning, either in
tentionally or through want OF under
standing. Everyone has heard how
Lorenzo Dow, having resolved to
preach a sermon against women's tall
bonnets, took for his text the words:
"Topknot, come down." which he had
ingeniously perverted from the lines,
Let him which is on the housetop not
come down."
Less artful than this, but quite as
amusing, was the unconscious error
made by young student of theology
at Wilbraha.n Seminary, whose case
was recently related by an old divine.
The student went out one Saturday to
preach his trial sermon. When he re-
turned Monday the venerable DR.. X
said to him:
'Well, how did you get along?"
ooh. very well, thought"
"Glad to hear it. What was your
text?"
How shall we escape if we neglect
so great salvation?'
'Very good text-very good text.
How did you handle it?'
'Well. first 1 showed them how great
this salvation was
That's right And then?"
"And then I told them how they
might escape if they neglected it,
Youths Companion.
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phere of earth. Therefore I dipped un-
der the little fall and made my eau
tious way to the margin of the cata-
ract.
/ was surprised to find for how long
time the phenomenon had absorbed
me- The moon was already high in the
heavens and making towards the ra-
vine with rapid steps. Far below the
tumbling waters flashed in her rays,
and ON all sides great tiers of solemn
trees stood up at attention to salute
her
When her disc silyered the inner rim
of the slope l had descended, returned
to my post of observation with tingling
nerves. The field of the great object
lens was already suffused with the radi-
ance of her approach.
Suddenly my pupils shrank before the
arparition of a CHASTITY gray light, and
all in a moment 1 was face to face
with segment of desolation more hor-
rible than any desert. Monstrous
growths of leprosy that has bubbled up
and stiffened; fields of ashen slime-the
sloughing of world of corruption; hills
of demon fungus swollen with the fat
ness of putrefaction; and, in the midst
of it all, dim convulsed shapes wallow-
ing, protruding, or stumbling aimlessly
onwards till they sank and disappeared
Madame Barbiere threw up her hands
when she let me in at the door. My ap-
pearance no doubt was CHASTITY. / knew
not the hour nor the lapse of time COW
nv nd a no hills
my face hidden in my palms, drawn
feeling about my heart, my lips NUT
tering-mutterin fragments of prayers
and my throat perking with horrible
laughter.
For hours lay face downwards on my
bed
Monsieur has seen it?''
II have seen it, Camille
Il heard the rain on the hills. The
lens will have been blurred. Monsieur
has been spared much.'
God in His mercy pity thee, Camille
and forgive me my sins
He has held out His white hand to
me. / go, when l go, with a safe con-
duct
He went before the week was out. The
drought had broken, and for five days
the thunder crashed and the wild rain
swept the mountains. On the morning
of the sixth a drenched shepherd re-
ported in the village that a landslip had
choked the fall of Buet and completely
altered it's shape. Madame Barbiere
broke into the room where 1 was sitting
with Camille, big with the news. She
hnr = lie
teners.
THE Bon Dieu,' said Camille, when
she had gone, has thundered His curse
on nature for revealing His secrets. 1,
who have penetrated into the forbid
den, must perish
And /, Camille?'
He turned to me with a melancholy
sweet smile and answered, paraphras-
| ing the dying words of certain noble
| lips:
BE good, monsieur; be good."-Ber-
| nard E. J. Capes, in Cornhill Magazine.
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THE FULL BACK.

His towZled hair was long and damp,
His nose was mashed and mellow;
His lips were blue, his jaw was too;
And his port eye glowed with yellow.
The starboard one shone out in blue,
Four teeth We're down his 'tummy";
His back was lame, his legs the same,
And his mouth was dry and gummy.
His checks were decked with rainbow
tintS,
Both ears were frayed and fringed;
His neck was scratched, his head was
patched,
And his ankle joints unhinged.
One collar bone was flying loose,
Both knees We're swelled and leaky:
The soles of his feet were just raw meat,
And his lips were dry and squeaky.
But what cared he for smart or pain?
With joy his senses reeled,
He yelled, he pranced, he jumped, he
danced
He'd kicked goal from field.''
Up to Date.
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THE LOST BIRDS.

De mockin' bird done fol- he wing
Ed hide away fun fros';
He des amt got no heart ter sing,
Kase all he chillun los.
Los away
En- gone eStray-
En- so, he monful night en- day.
He bull a straw neS' fur away,
In blossoms sof' en- deep;
En- dar he tell he chillun stay,
En- sing 'em all ter sleep.
But de winnie say;
Come, fly away
En- so, he miss 'em night en- day.
He look up at he big blue sky
What change fun long ergo.
En- t'ink he larn 'em how ter fly,
En- den-dey lef' him SOL
Los away
En- gone eStray-
Dat why he mo'nful night en- day.
En- so, he take en- fol- he wing
En- hide away fun fros';
He des amt got no heart ter sing,
Wild all he chillun los.
Los away
Los'-los awayi
En- so, he mo'nful night en- day.
Frank L. Stanton.
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Webster Revised.

A gander is a masculine goose.
A goose is feminine for gander.
A goat is a creature whose atmos-
phere is inauspicious.
A gate is where you meet her and
sometimes you share it.
A gaiter is worn in winter and is
large or small in proportion to that
which it covers.
A goal is what you aim at. yet you
may reach it against your will under
another pronunciation.
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NASAL
CATARRH

LOCAL DISEASE
and is the result OF
colds and sud
den climatic
changes.
This remedy d oes
not contain mercury
or any other injuri-
Gus drug.
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hollow tinkle of a gutter pine P,It the
crash in this echoing gorge was ap-
palling indeed.
For some moments I stood IN tho
brink of the slope. looking across at the
great knife of the fall with a little
shiver of fear. Then 1 shook myself.
laughed. and without further ado took
my courage in hand and scrambled
down the declivity and up again toward
the cleft in the rocks
Here the chill of heart gripped me
once more, the watery sliding tunnel
looked so evil In the contracting gloom.
A false step in that humid chamber.
and my bones would pound and crackle
on the rocks forty feet below. 1t must
be gone through with now, however.
ard taking a long breath, set foot in
the passage under the curving down.
pour drawn taut as an arched muscle.
Reaching the burnt recess, a few mo-
ments sufficed to restore nv self-con-
fidence, and without further hesitation
l dived under the inner little fam
shaped fall-which was there indeed as
Camille had described it-and recoy-
cred my balance with pulses drumming
thicker than 1 could have desired.
In moment l became conscious that
|, same great power was before me.
Across a vast, irregular disc filed with
the ashy whteness of the outer twilight
strange unaccountable forms. misty
and underlined, passed and repassed
and vanished. Cirrus they might have
been. or the shadows flung by homing
flights of birds-but of this could not
be certain. AS the dusk deepened they
showed no more, and presently 1 gazed
only into violent fathomless dark
ness.
My own excitement now was great,
and I found some difficulty in keeping
it under control. But for the moment.
it seemed to me. pined greatly for
free commune with the liberal atmos-
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Rev. Peter Wawrzyiak of Srem, Ger
many, is at present the guest of friends
in Cleveland. He was delegated by the
Pope to inquire into the condition Of
the American Polish Catholic churches.
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Mount Tamalpais
Military Academy,
San Rafael, California.

A BOARDING SCHOOL FOR BOYS.
THOROUGH INSTRUCTION IN ALL
English Branches, Classics, Science.
Fifteen teachers Regular Army Officer
detailed by War Department. Accredited
by State University.
Special attention given to the Moral and
Physical Training of the Boys
For information and testimonials ADDRESS
ARTHUR CROSBY, A. NJ,
ThSu Head Master.
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ELY'S
CREAM BALM

Opens and cleans the
Nasal Passages, Allays
Pain and Inflammation,
Heals and Protects the
Membrane from Colds,
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San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-05
DAYS THIS WEEK.

Sunday, July 5-St. Peter of Luxem-
burg, A. ID. 1887: Jerusalem taken,
100; battle OF Carthage, No., 1861.
Monday, July est. Goar, priest, A.
ID. $50; st. Palladius, apostle of the
Scots, A. ID. $50; John Huss burnt,
1415; battle of jamestown, 1871.
Tuesday, July 7-St. Pantaenus, A.
d. PIG; Sheridan died, 1916; Lincoln's
murderers hung, 1865.
ENTHUSIASTICALLY S-St. Elizabeth of
Portugal, A. d. 1858; Washington
chosen as capital, 1892.
Thursday, July est. Ephrem. A.
ID. 37S; Crimean war ends, 1855! sur
render Port Hudson, 1868.
Friday, July 10-Seven Brothers
martyrs; French allies land at New
port, 1850.
Saturday, July list. James, bish-
op, A. d. $50; John @. Adams born,
1867: battle of Rich Mountain, 1861.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-05
NOTICE.

This is to notify the public that
from and after this date, July LIST, !
will again have exclusive charge of
my garden on River avenue, and here
by invite the public generally, and all
societies particularly, that they will
at all times receive hearty welcome.
In conclusion with this it is hereby
announced that there will be a high
tight rope exhibition on the afternoon
of the 4th and 9TH of July, by the eel
ebrated Madmoiselle Narva Clifford,
on fifty foot high rope. Concert and
dance each evening from s pm. to
a. m. Admission free.
7-1-3t III. LIMBURGER.
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wheeler Elm and mini ON DIE

run the Wheeler gin and mill on the
Cibolo.
The good people of Sutherland
deputy sheriff of that precinct, and
have so petitioned the sheriff.
A goodly party of our citizens left
yesterday for Rockport to enjoy the
bathing and boating on the coast.
Superintendent James of the county
farm has leave of absence and goes
to Mexico accompanied by his wife
who is an invalid.
There is some excitement over the
Injunction suit brought by Mrs. Maria
de Flores to prevent her daughter re-
moving the remains of the husband
and father to San Antonio.
A herd of thirty horses stampeded
by a passing train, dashed down the
street of the town one day this week
and made things lively. They were
headed for the coast.
The corn in this county is about
half a crop and rain within a week
will give us a good crop of cotton.
A. l.. Yelvington, of Lavernia, re-
turns home from his four weeks out
ing on the coast much improved in
health
Reports from Amphion, AtaScosa
county, show half a corn crop gather
ed in that section.
Prof. Vincent will open a private
normal in this town late in the month.
Tuition will be low and the opportn-
nifty will be embraced by those
looking for certificates.
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TAYLOR TOPICS.
Hot and Dry and Rain Badly Needed.
Corn Almost an Entire Failure.

Hot and Dry and Rain Badly Needed.
Corn Almost an Entire Failure.
Light Special.
Taylor, Tex, July 4.-Ex-Alderman
Geo. w. Payne, of this city, who, at
the last term of the county court, was
convicted of receiving and concealing
property stolen from the l. & G.. N.
r. r. depot at this place and sent to
the county farm, has been pardoned
from road duty and has returned to
his home. He is 65 years of age.
In consequence of a ten weeks
drouth the corn crop in this section of
the country is almost an entire failure.
The average yield in Williamson coun-
ty will not reach Is bushels to the
acre. Cotton is in splendid condition,
free of weeds and grass and growing
nicely. With a good rain during the
present month the yield will be enor-
nous, far greater than that of last
season.
A grand cattle roping contest, big
free barbecue, baseball games, bicycle
and horse races, constituted the 4th of
July celebration at the Taylor fair
grounds today. OF course all the
county candidates were there.
IN anticipation of an immense cot
ton crop the coming season a number
of additions are being put to the Tay-
Tor compress in the way of sheds, adj
ditional platforms, etc.
The weather continues hot, dry -
dusty. with no Indications of rain.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1896-07-05
STRANGE AND FUNNY.


The Pie-Hunters Trying to Get Into
the Mckinley Band Wagon.
For the Light.
| observe from the local press that
the (so-called) Republican executive
committee of Bexar county has had a
meeting and made arrangements to
form a Mckinley campaign club.
Now this is both strange and funny.
1t is strange that the chief promoters
of this move should, in two or three
months after they had gone into po-
litical conspiracy to defeat Mckinley
for nomination, by casting not only
the two votes of the Twelfth Congress
sional district, but the four votes from
the state at large against him at st.
Louis, should so soon be found trying
to form clubs TO elect him. This
thing can only be accounted for on
the grounds that the conspiracy to de-
feat McKinley's nomination was Sc
cured in BeXar county by the use of
the money sent into the state and
county of BeXar by the combine
and discussed by Wright Quincy, and
considerable sum furnished by a GER
tain politician to get into the com
bine" against Mckinley.
The combine" came to grief and
now the BeXar county conspirators,
with a cheek equal to government
mule, cry out for Mckinley clubs, in
the hope of Office when he is elected.
Gentlemen, the thing will not go;
the mark of traitor is as plainly
written on your foreheads as the mark
of murder upon Cain.
The thing is not only strange, but
also fun provoking. Why did these
fellows call the executive committee
together to father their club? A po-
litical club is usually voluntary as
ISOLATION of persons for political pur-
poses, outside and in aid of the regu-
lar government of the party Is this
all to be changed? Shah the execu-
tive committee hereafter organize
and run our clubs? Gentlemen, did
you feel too weak to get up a club
without the aid of the executive COM
mittee?
You used this same committee a few
months since, with partial success, to
carry out your political treason to the
Republicans of the Twelfth district
and state of Texas; now do you wish
to use it further?
In other words, are you or not Me
Kinley republicans, or traitors, trying
to crawl into the Mckinley camp to
get Office, if he is elected?
What is this executive committee,
anyway? We answer that for the last
six yeaIs past it has been nothing but
prop, adjunct and support of the of
fetal syndicate or officers trust,
known as the big Six" and today is
the mainstay of that trust. 1t has
never called Republican convention
i'm six years to nominate candidate
for a county Office, to oppose big
Six" county Democratic ticket, mol
supported for election any Republican
running for Office against the big
Six" and it is safe to bet one thOus-
and dollars to one that it will not do il
this year. The big Six run this
(so-calle0 Republican executive COM
mittee of BeXar county.
This (so-called) executive Republf
can committee stinks in the nostrils
of all honest men of all parties, and
it's dead-rotten carcass should be
promptly buried out of sight.
STRAIGHT REPUBLICAN. I