Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1897-02-13


pomp and splendor-Inland Printer
Hicks. the weather prophet. gives
aid and comfort to the coal and ice
dealers by announcing that from now
on mild weather will not be with US.
cold weather. snow and billiards TAX
ing its place. He predicted that
steady, cold weather would take place
between January 81 and -. This
period of bitter cold will last through
February and March, and up to April
Is. During the months of February
and March there will be plenty of
snow storms and Billiards. Spring
will put in late appearance. and in
consequence of the protracted cold
weather, the early fruit crop will be
materially damaged. Thus saith the
prophet-Osborne Farmer.
We now and then hear a man croak-
ing about the hard times, the suffer
ing poor, cursing the government and
the low price of corn, whose breathe
smells so strong of whisky as to make
you think you are in the region of a
diStillery and he never stops to think
that at the present price of corn he
swallows from a buShel to buShel
and half of corn every time he takes
drink. II he would invest the
money in corn he spends for whisky
and take it home to his family they
would be well fed and clothed even at
the present price of corn, and lie
would be much more of man in the
I,,r in q yun1116 aIS no
prsed at the pile of corn he would
have on hand.-La Crosse Republican.
We are sure all teachers and many
others among our readers will be in
terested in the following extract from
private letter from Prof. Rose, who
is serving his third year as principal
of the High school of Kansas City.
Kansas, and apparently more busy,
earnest and methodical than ever:
Zone hundred and twelve pupils have
just been promoted from the grades
to the High school which now has an
enrolment of 525. We have eight
recitation periods during the day.
Our pupils come when due for reci-
tation and go when they are through
as a rule they carry four studies. /
have systematized matters SO that
can tell any moment in which of the
ten rooms to find any boy or girl. just
what study he is reciting, or if not
reciting, where he is sitting; also,
when he is due at school, how many
studies he has, how many he has com
| pieted and what they are in both
cases. besides several other little mat
tiers of interest. In addition to this
[ teach five periods out of eight. look
up all Irregularities and settle all
cases of bad department which may
occur in the several rooms.''
The Independent says that G. NJ
Ufford testified In Judge Tunnels
contempt court that Supt. y. S. Pea
| We presume Mr.. Ufford will not DENY
it, nor dispute the word of the only
authority he seems to recognize. The
testimony is untrue and, if true, it
would be of no advantage to Mr.. Bal
com, who is made ridiculous by the
| rule or ruin policy of his friends (?)
and admirers. The facts are, as
stated before, that Supt. Peacock has
furnished a bond of two and one-half
times the required amount and in
strict accord with the law. 1t is
probably the only bond so furnished
in Trego county. As the county clerk
has been ''off duty" several times in
the last few weeks, ignorance of the
| facts may be his excuse-his only eX-
cuse-for what would otherwise APP
pear as wilful perjury. This same
county clerk assumed to approve the
bond of /. G. Balloon which would
not have been presented to the COM
miSsionerS, the rightful authorities,
had it not have been called up by
one of the board who knew his bust
ness. A combination of domineering
egotism, ignorance and cupidity may
get an official into a ''snarl' when he
fully surrenders it.