Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-01-09
WA-KEENEY, KANs., JANUARY 9, 1897.
SCISSORINGS.

sCIssORINGs.
Most men are certain that they
could keep a ''good name" along with
''great riches.'
Bad banking should not be disguis-
ed with any name finer than ''rob-
berry
The Bryan Free Silver club of Par
sons is a thing of the past, and in its
stead has been organized the Parsons
Bimetalic club.
That was a mistake about wheat
and silver bullion always going down
and up together. 1t is corn. This
fact has just been s'discovered.''
In this day of insurance companies
galore,it it is strange that one to indem-
Nifty men and women against break
age of New Year resolutions has not
yet been Incorporated.
Mark Hanna keeps wheat up, al
though the election is over now nigh
onto two months. It looks as if, like
Bryan, he has already commenced the
campaign of 1900.-Marion Record.
Mrs. A. c. Stech, of Independence,
aspires to a princely estate in En-
gland, and County Attorney w. E.
Ziegler has made a trip to West Vir-
ginia to secure information to help in
establishing her claim.
The Wichita Eagle says the report
that Mrs. Lease has permanently To-
It-1e-ss not relate, however, what she
will do for a living besides raising less
corn.
THE SAME HERE.
Forty-three converts were made at
a recent revival meeting in Lyons,
and Bill Morgan, contemplating the
returns, sadly remarks: 'If this had
occurred six weeks earlier the Repub-
icans would have not lost the COM
missioner
The present system seem to be good
enough for the crowd who fused
themselves to the cribs in Kansas this
year, except that it may become nee
eSSary to create few more salaried
positions to keep down revolution
among the pie crowd. In some places
the salaries are not quite as large as
the occupants would like to have
them. World, Pop.
The inaugural suit that Major Nc
kinley viii wear March 4, next, will
be all wool, and, unlike Cleveland's
less than yard wide. The cloth was
woven especially for the occasion by
the Hockanum Manufacturing Com
pany, of New York, an1 was a single
short piece all wool aud no more than
will suffice to make the suit.
The men who make mistakes are
to stand by them. The
PopuliStS have commenced max
ing the mistakes usual with
them when placed in power. First
the governyr-elect appointed dis
barred attorney as his executive clerk.
Now it is disclosed that man elected
to the important position of presiden-
bial elector was deserter from the
Union army. The score stick will be
full of notches before the Popalist ad-
is six molths old.
Jerry Simpson is buying cattle ana
his Barber county ranch be-
;ause, he says, Sowing to a scarcity
Of cattle big money can be made out
Df the business the next few years"
1t was not long ago that Jerry WAS
,ayorting over the plains of Kansas
lelling the common people that sup
ply and demand had nothing to do
With it. and that low prices were due
to robber legislation By the
Republican party City Re-
public.
Wichita, under the lead Of ex-Goy-
.rnor Lewelling, viii try to load it's
and boomed-out Gar
ield university on the state for Il
Normal school. There will be an ef-
ort to work the coming legislature
N the scheme. There are lots Of 9th
bIiIdin o. reaS n :. lie
iLs fart:lar westward t9at the sJ1I.
o:.id get even cheaper Put s-se:s-d
/ i.iaks sach inv sst.ia9ts-