Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-01-30

just as applicable here as anywhere:
There are quite a number of women
afflicted with that peculiar form of
disease which prompts them to buy
ing everything, or as much as possible,
out of town. This habit is as insidi-
Gus as the morphine habit, and as a
rule has no more good reason in it.
1t grows on the old patient by de-
grees, until the case becomes deS-
perate. Finally the victim becomes
convinced that to have gown made
or hat trimmed, piece of ribbon or
some buttons, it is necessary to send
her order to a larger city, or perchance
the patient feels it necessary to go
in person to one of these places for
everything. In the first case the
selection is usually intrusted to some
one else and the cost is usually as
much or more than if purchasing
through a home merchant; in the
second place, there is the railroad
fare, hotel bills, etc, and after all the
garment is no better, but it is city
gown Honestly, dear lady reader,
is not that all there is to it? Does
the woman with the mania for for
eign purchases ever stop for a moment
to think that it is in way disloyal to
do this? That her husband or father,
perhaps, depends on the patronage of
his neighbors? There is no excuse for
sending away, for our town is well
supplied with good stores and large
stocks of goods, and anything special
can be ordered as well, or better,
through the home merchant. If it
cannot, then you have reason for your
side. Just make a self-diagnosis and
see if you have contracted the disease
or are laboring under the above-men-
toned. We cannot find our Greek
dictionary, or we would give it long,
hard-sounding name. If the money
for purchases made outside were kept
at home it would be great help.
The shopping woman is power and
no mistake. She can do much good
to home trade, but when this disease
becomes epidemic she works much
damage. Think this little item over.
| Maybe it will serve as an antidote or
germicide to the foreign purchase
bacteria"
Every person who has lived in
prairie country understands the ma
ture of the tumble weed. 1t grows
up from Mother Earth attached by
only a slender green stem. 1t sways
back and forth in the popular wind
until it reaches maturity and then,
with the first good frost, snaps loose
and goes bounding over the prairie.
The c nd no fnSt
goes. 1t may go up on a hill, but it
don't stop there. 1t may catch on
some wire fence, but it only hangs
there until the wind changes AS
long as there is wind it goes before
il until it lands IN some deep gulch or
ditch, never to come out or be seen or
heard of again. The tumble weed is
not particularly dangerous, only in
case of prairie fire, when it is liable
to cross the widest tire-guard in a
wind and ignite the grass supposed to
be protected. The tumble weed re-
sembles some boys or men. Like the
tumble weed attached to the ground,
some boys grow up very green. Held
in by mothers apron string, they only
sway in the wind until an early frost
snaps them loose and then away they
bound. Evidently without particle
of judgment of their own, they go
with the first wind that catches them
They may blow up on Il hill and catch
for a time on the wire fence, which
we will fancy to be the church of God,
but they don't stay there long. The
moment a breeze comes from an oppo-
site direction they are off with it,
going just as fast as it will carry
them. Their Influence is very Ii United,
and only when supplied with weapons
of fire, like the tumble weeds, can
they deal out destruction to others.
Finally they reach their ditch or
gulch and into it they go, never to be
heard of again.-Barnes Chief.
Bank failures should be looked upon
with regret, no matter under what !
administration they occur or what
occasions them. The banking inter-
ests of the whole country are so closely |
connected that any extensive bank
failures, no matter where they occur,
affect the prosperity of the entire
country. We desire to remark, how
ever. to those who are gloating over
the late bank failures, and particularly
the failure of the National Bank of
Illinois, that the Republican party !
has not been in power for four years, |
and will not and can not be held re-
sponsible for any failures occurring |
before it does get into power. And |
we would further call attention to the !