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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

Less than one hundred dollars, spent
by the Improvement League of Mont
clair, New Jersey, has done more to
cleanse and beautify the place, says
the town council, than the thousands
of dollars the town has expended in
conventional ways. The league began
by offering prizes for clean and orderly
back yards and alleys, and went on to
give prizes for the best vine-covered
fence, the finest vegetable plot and the
most beautiful towering plant Then
it organized the children to pick up
waste paper from the streets, keep the
school yards neat, and tidy up the
vacant lots. In six months Montclair
became a noticeably attractive place.
and a wholesome one, too, for the
death rate had perceptibly 1essened.
Like methods will yield similar results
in any other town, and it will not be
necessary to spend much money pro-
vided few people are willing to use
inspired common sense
After chase which had led him
from Galveston to Buffalo, William
Curran, of ST. Louis reported to the
police of New York that he had been
unable to capture his 13-year-oid son
Louis, who ran away eighteen months
ago, and asked their help The boy
first went to Galveston His father
traced him there When he heard his
father was in town looking for him
the boy left that city for Buffalo. Again
the father pursued, only to find that
his boy had started for New York Now
both are in that city-somewhere. The
police promised to search for the boy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

One way to have housewarming is
to put in lots of coal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

Colonel Hanson did receive him with
four hundred Yankees brave,
Like patriots of old they fought their
home and friends to s-ve;
Morgan asked him to surrender, but
Hanson did reply,
ssCheer, boys. cheer. we will fight him
till we die!''
They fought two hours or more; no as
sistance came to hand;
The little band of Union boys could no
longer stand;
Although a victory they did gain and
Morgan badly beat,
They surrendered to five thousand
rebs, which was no defeat.
He marched on to Hoosier, expecting
friends to find, s
But he found out too late at last his
friends he had left behind;
Old Hoosier it was Union, no sympa-
thizers there.
The Stars and Stripes, the good old
flag, was floating far and near.
Then he turned his course to the aid
Ohio State,
Little did old John think what would
be his fate;
But poor old John was caught at last,
with every rebel man,
They all belonged to Government, to
good old Uncle Sam.
Now cheer, boys, cheer, we will raise
the joyous shout,
For General Morgan and Colonel Luke
have both lust gone out
Then another rousing for Shackleford
we all will give;
We will raise on high the Stars and
Stripes and praise it while we
live.
(This song was written by N. A.
Bloor in 1863 and was sung to the tune
of 1.-The Bonny Blue F1ag.'')
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

Truth is stranger than fiction be-
cause it is SO much more rare.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

In these days it is hard for a man
to get to the front without backing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12
JOHN MoRGAN-s RAID.

JOHN MORGAN'S RAID.
On Independence Day John Morgan
made his raid,
With five thousand rebels, he did not
seem afraid;
He marched into Lebanon with his
guerrilla band
Laying waste and robbing this once
happy land
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

RED CROSS BALL BLUE
Should be in every home Ask your groc
for it, Large or package only cents
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

Hurrah. hurrah for Northern rights,
Hurrah, hurrah for the Union,
Hurrah, hurrah, hurrah!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-10-12

In order to get the benefit of the
greatest of all markets British manu-
facturers are establishing plants in the
United States.
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Endeavor for Middle-aged Women.

In the case of most women of middle
age, who have health and leisure, there
opens vista of most encouraging and
stimulating possibilities. Even when the
latter advantage, leisure, is lacking,
middlc-aged woman whose health is firm
may put her time and talents to good ac-
count. 1t often happens that the time
from 40 to so, or even to 20, years of age
is a season of serenity, and almost unim-
paired health, to women who have lived
in accordance with natures laws, in their
early days, so that these years may be
exceedingly fruitful.
Successful endeavOr implies, at any age,
resolution and energy. Self-sacritce is an
essential part of it, and attention to rOu-
tine is Indispensable. Also, the woman
who means to succeed must not be too
scattering in what she attempts, nor
spread her time over n half-doZen studies
and projects. This one thing | do" must
be her motto. She must concentrate her
efforts, and give herself the same kind
of intellectual discipline which she ac-
cepted in childhood from her teachers,
remembering that, though the outward
may perish, the inward may be renewed
day by day. She must set, for her own
benefit, stated tasks, and insist upon their
performance. AS the little Puritan maid
did her morning "stint' before she was
allowed to play, so must the great-grand-
daughter of the Puritan, with light frost
whitening her brown hair, and experience
enriching where hope once animated and
spurred her on, be stern in her determina-
ton that there shall be daily, regular and
conscientious work along some definite
and elected line.-Margaret Il. Sangster,
| in Success"
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Boxer and Jim. the Cougar Hounds.

Age had made Boxer slow, and in adj
dition to this the first cougar we tackled
bit him through one hind leg, so that for
the remainder of the trip he went on
three legs, or, as Golf put it, packed one
Leg" but this seemed not to interfere
with his appetite, his endurance or his
desire for the chase. OF all the dogs he
was the best to puzzle out a cold trail on
bare hillside, or in any difficult place. He
hardly paid any heed to the others, always
| insisting upon working out the trail for
himself. and he never gave up Of course,
| the dogs 1-.:c much more apt to come
upon the cold than upon the fresh trail
of a cougar, and it was often necessary
| for them to spend several hours in work
| ing out a track which was at least two
days old Both Boxer and Jim had enor-
| nous appetites. Boxer was n small dog
and Jim a very large one, and as the re-
| lations of the pack among themselves
were those of brutal wild-beast selfish
ness, Boxer had to eat very quickly If he
expected to get anything when Jim was
| around. He never ventured to fight jim,
but in deep-toned voice appealed to heav-
en- against the unrighteOusness with which
| he was treated; and time and again such
appeal caused me to sally out and rescue
his dinner from Jim's highway robbery.
| Once, when Boxer was given a biscuit,
which he tried to bolt whole, jim simply
took his entire head in his jaws, and CON
WINGED him that he had his choice Of sur
rendering the biscuit, or sharing its pas
sage down Jim's capacIous throat. Boxer
promptly gave up the biscuit, then lay on
his back and walled a protest to fate
his voice being deep rather than loud so
that on the trail. when heard at a dis
tance it sounded a little as if he was
croaking. After killing cougar we usu-
ally cut up the carcass and fed 1T to the
dogs, if we did not expect another chase
that day. They dcvoured it eagerly
Boxer, after his meal, always looking as
if he had swallowed a mattress.-Theo
dore Roosevelt, in Scribner's.
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BARRICADES.
Tricks Resorted1 to by the Ma
tives in Panay.
BY A VOLUNTEER.

Our battle at Balantang on the morn
ing OF Nov. 81, 1885,, was undoubtedly
one o. the most successful fought in the
Philippine campaign in several ways. In
the first place, so to speak, we had simply
moved on the enemy before daylight and
had fought him to a finish in season to
return to our barracks in Iloilo for late
breakfast. There had been, therefore, no
long, tedious marching over mountain
ranges and through swamps to get at the
enemy, as is usually the case. Further
more. a good and effective battle had been
fought without the loss of many men.
But best of all, the results were far reach
ing. Previous to that attack on the In
surgent forces the latter had held all ter
ritory in the Isle of Panay except the lit
tie footing gained by the Americans in
and around Iloilo and Jaro, and even
these places were very often fired upon
from the jungle a few hundred yards
away. The fight of the 21st disbanded
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DISTINGUISHED BUNKIES.
Two congressmen Under One Blanket.
Mount Gilead co. Union-Register.)

| WI
In October, 1861, Samuel p. Snider,
at that time n youth of II and student
at Oberlin College, but resident of Mt.
Gilead, enlisted in Co. d, Goth Ohio, which
regiment was a part of the Sherman Bri-
gade recruited by the late John Sherman
from his old Congressional District. The
| Brigade was commanded succeSSlvely by
Gems. J. 7. Wood, James A. Garfield and
Charles G, Harker, and is listed in FoX's
"Regimental Losses" among the fighting
brigades of the Union army. About the
time Snider entered the service, Washing
ton Gardner, then lad of 16, working on
farm near the village of Westheld, in
this County, also volunteered in the above
named company and regiment. Gardner
was the youngest soldier in his company,
| if not in the regiment. Both of these
youths served in the ranks under Maj.
James Odds, the first Captain, and under
Capts. John G. Baxter and Asa a. Gard
ner, who subsequently commanded the
company. Snder was first wounded in
the battle of Stone River, being one of
the first of his regiment to be hurt. He
was subsequently made Sergeant, and
in the battle of Chickamauga, after all the
commissioned officers in his company had
been disabled, commanded his company
and did it so well that he received COM
plimentary mention in the official report
of his regimental commander. On the
second day at Chickamauga Snider was
badly wounded and taken prisoner on the
field. Gardeners clothes were pierced and
his bayonet-scabbard cut in two by bullets,
but he, himself, was unhurt. In this COM
pany these two young soldiers were pards
and as such slept under the same blanket,
drank from the same canteen, pounded
coffee in the same cup and broiled bacon
at the end of the same stick.
After sufficiently recovering from his
wound, Snider was commissioned Captain
in regiment of cOlOred troops, and as
such served until the end of the war.
Gardner was made a Sergeant from the
ranks for bravery at Chickamauga and at
Resaca, in the Atlanta campaign, was
badly wounded.
The two soldier comrades and bunk
mates, separated by the fortunes Of war
on the field of Chickamauga, had met but
twice since the war until this Reunion.
Snider settled in Minneapolis, and after a
time was chosen to represent the district
of which that city is part, in the Con
gress of the United States. Gardner re-
turned from the war still disabled and
suffering from the wound received at
Resaca. He entered school almost imme-
diately and took his degree at the Ohio
Wesleyan University in 1870; later he
was admitted to the bar, and settled in
Michigan. He served as Secretary of
| State of Michigan for five years, until
elected to seth Congress, and last Fall
was reelected to the 5Ith Congress by
greatly increased majority. We would
like to know if there is another instance
| in the Union army where two soldiers
serving in the ranks in the same company
and sleeping under the same blanket have
risen to honorable membership in the
Congress of the United States!
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"REMINISCENCES OF THE OLD NAVY.
Mediterranean Cruise With Dewey the United States Fgate
Colorado.
By W. W. STONE.

| As he was thus seated, Lieutenant Com
mander Watson NOW Rear-AdmiraD came
along, and noticing the little piece of tape
on the boys right arm, denoting that he
belonged to the starboard watch, ex-
claimed:
why, Johnny, what are you doing
here?"
Looking for Strombelly," said Johnny
demurely, standing up and touching his
cap.
But" said Watson, in a fatherly way,
"your watch is below, isn't it|'
"Oh, yes. SIR said Johnny, with a
twinkle in his eye; my watch is below
just now, but Brown (the Bosn'ns Nate
will wind it up in a minnit."
This sally amused Watson, and he
FASTENED up to the bridge, where Mr..
Dewey stood and related the incident to
the Executive to that officers evident en-
joyment.
At midnight I was awakened by the
shriIl whistle of the Boatswain's pipe, and
the noisy scrambling of the port watch,
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NoTE.-The FiipnOs scent much labor constructing
pitfalls in the public highways for our soldiers They
contained sharp bamboo poles and were coy
cred with light sticks and earh to conceal the trap
that about half of the sand-bags had been
removed and bags of rice thrown il. The
intention was for our men to take shelter
behind this barricade, suppOsing the bags
to all contain sand, which of course
would stop a bullet. But as rice bags
had been substituted, it was evident that
the natives hoped that bullet would
pierce the few sand-bags left, and not be-
ing INSTRUCTED in the rice-bags, would
kill the soldier back of the barricade.
PACKED BAMBOO POLES.
The bamboo pole is very feeble stuff
with which to stop q bullet, but the native
soldiers and bandits often have gangs of
native prisoners at work pounding up sea
shells into a powder, which they mix
with. cOcoanut oil and form sort of
plaster, with which to pack the interior
of the bamboo and make a very solid pole
of it. In fact, the interior cementing
often dries as hard as iron. A series of
these cement-packed poles will stop a bull
let. The setting of the poles is at an an
gle by means of split bamboo which Is
entwined between each series.
The only time that these cement-packed
bamboo poles are effective in stopping a
bullet is when the shell cement inside is
as hard rs a rock. The wiley natives
have been known to remove the plugs of
the upright poles after deserving the bar
ricade, knowing that the rain will fill the
hollow and soften the cement as to
make the same non-effective in stopping
ball.
On some occasions the rebels have re-
moved the plugs and poured in water
when hard pressed by the American, and
then, waiting at a distance until the
United States forces approach the bamboo
barbados, have opened fire in hopes that
some of the balls would penetrate the poles
and do damage on the other side. L have
seen instances where balls have, gone
through the packed poles under these CON
ditions, but have no definite knowledge of
any of our men being killed as Il result.
But the warning made our men avoid
native-built shelters, preferring to trust
to the open than to a trick barricade or
faulty trench filled with poisonous stuffs
as soon as deserted.
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to be found in this story. The reader
of these pages will go with the author
into his life and see how the boy was
transformed into a soldier; will march
with him over mountains and across riy-
ers; will camp on the hillside and stand
guard in the moonlight and in the rain
storm; will be with him as videt in the
lonely forest, and again in the wild charge.
The humorous, the pathetic, the pre-
posterous, the eXtravagant phases of war
are all told with the pen of Il master.
Finally comes grim battle; the defeat the
as prisoner of war: the experiences in
Richmond prisons and at CHASTITY Belle
Isle; then comes the climax in the prison
stockade at Andersonvile itself, with its
10000 men, its poverty, its starvation, its
death. All these things are told with the
dramatic power of truth, and they are
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Remarkable Engraving by Lord Provost
Uondon Daily Mail.)

The Lord Provost of Perth has Just
completed a work of special interest.
On one side of a small plaque of gold
the size of a threepenny piece he has
engraved: o. The Ten Commandments;
90 the Beatitudes, as in Matthew V, $40;
90 the Lords Prayer; a. Numbers vi,
24-26; and % the Doxology.
There are 43 separate lines of letter
ing, 30 verses of Scripture, SO separate
words, and 2,153 letters.
On the other side of the tiny plaque is
engraved, within circle of about half the
diameter, the profile of the Saviour, cop
led from the portrait reported to have
been given to Pope Innocence VIII. by
the Sultan Bajazet.
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Missouri Troops at yicksburg.

Capt. John T. Grove, Captain of Co. I,
Goth Mo, Luther, Mo-, has been APP
pointed a member of the Missouri Com,
mission, to cooperate with the U. S. Gov
eminent Commission in locating and per-
manently marking the positions occupied
by the Missouri troops, Federal and Con
federate, at the siege of Vicksburg. Capt
Grove invites readers of The National
Tribune who participated in the siege 10
give any information which in their judy
ment will aid him in the work of identi-
flying the true position of the several
bodies of troops engaged in that memoir
able siege. He requests that letters be
addressed to him at Vicksburg, Miss,
mailed so that they will reach that city
about Oct. Il. The Commission meets on
that day.
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gone through the other system of poles,
it would have stopped midway.
A NATIVE TRAP.
There is no doubling that the Insurgents
had many sympathizers among the so
called peaceful population in the Philip
pines, for | personally saw evidences In
various forms. On one occasion we were
to surround, close in on and capture a
barrie in the mountains for the purpose
of taking a band of brigands which were
reported as being there. AS we ap-
preached the barrio the guides two
nGtives) went forward 10 investigate, for
no one in the town would suspect any
thing wrong if they saw them, whereas if
they saw one of us they would at once
give an alarm and the bandits would
escape to the jungle. Our guides saw sew
eral natives working at some sand-bag
barricades which had been thrown up
about 300 yards outside the town. Moth
ing was thought of this at the time, but
the guides reported it later. 1t seems that
the natives had, after all, seen our ap-
proach and the band of guerrillas. if they
were there at all, had left. But the sand
bag barricade was examined and we found
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ever-changing panorama
of active warfare, the
voice of heroes dying
in prison-pens was lost.
No news came from the
men herded like cattle
beyond the mountains of
the South. The Nation
knew little of the horrors
behind the stockade.
The author of Ander-
sonville has told a thrill
ing story. If it has hor-
rors they are not of his
invention.
The book, however,
will be found to treat not
only of prison life, but to
abound in incidents OF
the camp, the march,
and the battlefield. In I
better narrative extant of
Address
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EXAMINE YOUR SHELTER

EAAMlNE 1Olh
The English officers in the war with the
Beers have nobly facedsthe bullets of the
enemy and expOsedl themselves for the
encouragement and inspiration of their
men. But many officers were sacrificed
through this exposure, and the army lost
some of its best commanders when it
could least afford to. Officers as well as
men are worth considerable to their coun-
try when they are in the field in foreign
land, and ought to live as long as pOssi-
Bile, so as to take part in the defense of
the flag for which they are fighting. There
fore, i'll this Philippine campaign it was
always a point with commanding officers
of regiments to instruct their officers to
avoid needlessly exposing themselves, and
OH no account to make an exhibition Of
bravado.
The officers also endeavored to make it
plain to their non-commissioned officers
and men that reckless exposure for the
sake of gaining applause from comrades
was not to be tolerated. Consequently
few of our men ever made any attempt
at dramatic effect, and although no
cowardice ever came to my notice, l OBJ
served that our forces were wise enough
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FfNIII 7 A
TIE TEp pINNINC. nm no TUE rrPEE
| the army of the enemy, and they were
never apie 10 asaih 10TH DIS an ors"ni|eu
We felt that we had accomplished
great deal of good that morning, and as
soon as we had the chance we commenced
writing letters home as if we were vet
Grams of several hard fights.
The fight made great change in the
men. Before the fight the men were al
ways fretting and worrying for fear that
| they had enlisted and come thousands of
miles to a foreign country, and would go
home with only a record of faithful gar
rison duty or guerrilla chasing. The bat
| tie settled this question, and having had
our fight we felt satisfied, and content with
anything that might come. More inter-
est was at once taken in the routine duties
of soldier
| Even months of training on the drill
| ground, or one battle, does not make a
regiment a perfect fighting machine, and
our regiment had still many things to
| learn before the organization could be
termed competent to handle all the COM
plicated portions of guard, garrison, Of
| fensive and defensive, and other work pc
cular to campaigning against Insurgents
and bandits in the Philippine Islands. We
could drill and march fairly well, and had
/
running matches with the guerrillas, and
! this soon became an important part of
| the warfare in the islands.
nrcprpsrrc c1-rpp1rrA p,vns
In the Philippine campaign we soon
learned that in order to be good piece
of lighting apparatus, we must also be
capable of fast running, for tie broken
bands or lnSurSem forceS had rapidly
taken up bandit warfare and were or
ganlZed all over the Island IN DandS OF
from 30 to 100 men under the leadership
of former officers OF the native army.
These bands, acting under the directions
| of AguinaldO, were TO harass the Amerl-
can advance as much as possible. Con
sequently, we had new branch OF the
service to learn, and about the only way
to learn it seemed to be to go right out
into the business.
Our Colonel was an old Indian fighter,
and he issued order after order from
headquarters directing how the work of
capturing and destroying the guerrilla
bands should be done. These orders were
carefully preserved and the directions fol
lowed closely, so that at once our regi-
ment seemed to be split up into small
fighting sections, each with territory to
cover, and the work of clearing the cOun-
try of bandits began i'll earnest practical
ly without loss on our part, while
on the other hand there were almost daily
shipments of captured brigands from the
mountains to the fort at IiOilo.
Our small bodies of troops accomplished
effective service at once, and it was sell
dom that we lost heavily. But we had to
do considerable running, for the fleet
footed native bandits are under trained
guerrilla leaders who know every noun
tain trail and can easily elude our adj
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to abstain from needless exposure to the
bullets of the enemy or the spears and
boloes of the guerrillas and bandits. But,
as things will happen sometimes. shelter
Is not always to be depended upon. For
instance, in one hike with platoon from
my company I saw a man pinned to
tree by a splinter from the wood, which
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T is i m p o S S i b | c,
briefly, to give an ad-
equate description of
the scope and char
acter of this immor-
tai chapter in the
history of the civil
war. 1t deals with a
great subject, and
one little understood,
because it was a
tragedy enacted be-
hind the scenes, OBJ