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Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-12
BROKE THE NEWS GENTLY.

;
 sWhat do you want little boy?''
 t.Is this where MT UpJohn lives a'am ?' z
 ssYes.''
 srhe MT Upjohn that runs the bank ?''
 "He is an officer in a bank.''
 The Mr Upjohn that went down town on "a trolley car this morning ?"
 .I persume he went on a trolley car What
 Is he the MT Upjohn that was in that hor'ble street car accident ?f'
 q haven't heard of his being in any street ear accident. 5. s4 s \ "Didnst aear at he'd sprained his ankle jumpin out O the car when the train run into it?"
 No. Little boy you Tighten me. What has"
 Didn't hear how he run to a drug store fur a piece O. court plaster to stick on little cut he'd got over one eye?'
 'sNot at all. For mercy's sake-''
 He isn'tfin, is he maam.'
 No, he's" es
 Names John U. Upjohn, isn't it?''
 ssYes, that is his name"
 aThen he's the same man. He won't De Here LOT dH uouI OI atWO, guess, cause he's stoppin' to have one of his teeth frightened that got knocked a lit tie bit loose when he was jumpin' out O danger, y'know."
 Little boy tell me the whole story. think I can bear it now.'
 Well, a'am, he's in the hospitt1e with four ribs broke, an one leg in a sling, an his nose is knocked kind O. sideways, but he's gettin' along all right, IT he'll be out again in about a month, an here's letter from the doc tor, tellin' ye all about it, ma'am.''--- Chicago Tribune. :.
Waterbury Democrat., 1901-06-12
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12. 1901.

President Mckinley says he will not be third term candidate, but Chaun- cey Depew says he will, so there you are. It is long time until the next presidential nominating convention, and there will be many changes in the meantime. so it is we'll to wait and watch out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
A WOMAN'S HEART.
Mrs. Samuel G. Dyer Tells q Narrowing
Tale of Suffering.

Mrs. Samuel G. Dyer Tells q Narrowing
Tale OF Suffering.
M'Carron, Mich, April ESPECIALLY
Mrs. Samuel G. Dyer of this place
has given the following interesting let
ter for publication:
For years l suffered intense pain in
the region of the heart. 1 doctored
with the best physicians. Some of them
would relieve me for a short time, but
the pain always returned. My heart
was SO bad that 1 would have to sit up
In bed for hours, to get relief. l would
lie awake almost all night. l am 62
years of age. and no one can under
stand how much l suffered with this
Heart Trouble.
About a year ago I heard of Dodd's
Kidney Pills, and commenced to use
them. From the first my condition
improved. The pain in my heart grad
ually grew less, and my general health
much better, and now l can say posi-
lively that 1 am entirely cured. I can
sleep all night. and enjoy almost per-
feet health. l thank God for the cure
that has come to me through the use
of Dodd's Kidney Pills.
81 have thought long over the matter
of giving this letter for publication,
and am doing so now without any So
licitation whatever, and simply be-
cause feel it to be my duty to express
the profound gratitude 1 feel for my
recovery, and to let others who may be
suffering as 1 was know how they may
find a cure. l know that nothing else
but Dodd's Kidney Pills cured me, be-
cause l have taken no other medicine
for over a year. 1 feel better now
than 1 have for many years, and it Is
all due to the use of Dodd's Kidney
Pills"
Mrs Dyer's case and it's cure has at
tracted a great deal of attention. and
her letter is a splendid tribute to the
curative properties of Dodd's Kidney
Pills.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
PRESIDENT CASTRO.

Venezuela must either give guaran-
tees of security to and respect Tor
American officials and other American
citizens in that repu bile or respect and
security will be enforced by the Unit
ed States.
This position of the United States
with respect to Venezuela is pregnant
with dramatic possibilities in the near
future. The attitude of the United
States, while pretty clearly defined,
will not be officially declared until af-
ter Minister Loomis has discussed with
Secretary Hay the cause of the quarrel
between the two countries.
The United States and Venezuela, al
though the fact is fairly well dis
guised at the State Department, are
again on the edge of war.
The international case appears to be
this: Venezuela desired the recall of
Minister who was believed to be COM
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
Tn. Atom stu, an Abstraction.

A writer in McClure's Magazine says
that the atom. of today is still a scien-
tif1c abstraction. Many facts have
been brought to light hat make it ap-
pear certain that matter is not con-
tinuous-is not capable of infinite SUBJ
division. Dalton, the Quaker school
master of Manchester, was the first one
to bring the atom down to earth and
make it a useful idea The atomic
theory, proposed by Dalton in the cary
years of this century, lives today, and
is stronger than it has ever been, not
withstanding the efforts that have been
made to show that it is built upon
sand. 1t has been and is today an
extremely useful theory. Whether it
will always continue to be so is anoth-
er question and one that need not
bother us.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

mftted to the interests of the asphalt
trust, and in the interest of which he
put an affront, on Venezeula by having
warship sent to Venezuela to settle
by shot and shell an ordinary case in
the civil courts.
The State Depa; tmept having so far
Endorsed Mr.. Loomis, still indorses him
and makes the counter claim that
Venezuela is guilty of persistent out
rage against American officials and
citizens; that there must be a reckon
ing by diplomacy or otherwise.
AS the first step toward the chastise-
ment of Venezuela the United States
brings away the American minister on
a warship- The next step is the pre-
servation of a serious and mysterious
silence which creates a position OF
menace toward Venezuela.
The fact that Mr.. Loomis has been
recalled, if only temporarily. taken in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

connection with the understood inten-
ton of Senior Pulido, the Venezuelan
charge d'affaires in Washington, to
leave soon for Caracas, indicates a con-
d1tlon that is exceedingly serious.
When General Castro assumed the
Presidency of Venezuela he found the
treasury empty and the people too poor
to stand further taxation. Having no
other recourse than to tax foreigners
doing business in the country. it is
claimed he protected the Warner
Quinlan-Sullivan syndicate in an effort
to take possession of the property
claimed by the New York & Bermu-
DEE company.
This government notified Minister
Loomis is that it did not take sides
with either company, but that the con-
troversy must be settled in the courts.
This may be regarded as the beginning
of the serious aspects of the case.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

dial of the clock at once, and they so
indicate the time that no mistake is
possible, and indicate it SO accurately
that valuable minutes need never be
lost. Under many ordinary circum-
stances a minute over or under time
will cause a great inconvenience or
trouble, but there are many conditions
when even the loss of few seconds
means the loss of millions of money.
or even the wrecking of lives.
The inventor by his new system has
evolved not only a singular time indi-
cation for clocks, but he has also de-
veloped clock mechanisms radically
different from present practice, which
will probably in a short while absorb
much of the business in time indicators
and become the standard system of the
twentieth century.
The inventor says: When the hour
of the old-fashioned timepiece is dang
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
o,a-r..bi.,.a N.ms. nj vogue.

O.d-HAshio7ed Names In Vogue.
a Presbyterian minister, who IL an
charge of a church in fashionable
section of Philadelphia, says he is
Eratified to observe that the plain, old
fashioned names are once more COM
ing into vogue. My attention has been
called to this in christening babies, -
be said. THE fancy names for girls
are now very seldom used. The Mar
guerites, Maries, Babettes, Maybelles
you know the style-have given way
to the good old names our-mothers and
grandmothers used to bear. Still,
there may be a danger in going to the
other extreme, although as yet there
has been no indication of coupling two
names, such as Sarah Jane and Mary
Ann, which used to be done. But of
late great many girl babies have
been christened with such good old
names as Ruth, Martha, Maria, Jane
and the ike.'-Philadelphia Record.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

Among the old letters addressed to
George Washington, now collected in
the State Department library, is one
from a lady who writes in the post
script that she is sorry not to be able
to use note-paper worthy of his royal
station, but had she used gold that
would have required an outer wrapper,
and it would have been too much to
ask one in his position to open two
wrappers in order to get at so unwor-
thy a note as her own This polite
speech suggests that even in paying
compliments there are fashions, as
in other things. 1t is not certain,
however, that the letter to Washing
ton typifies the fashion of that day.
Doubtless President Mckinley would
be greatly surprised to find such a
compliment in a letter addressed to
him. and perhaps General Washington
himself was surprised and amused by
his ELUSIVE correspondent. The things
done in jest or in eccentricity in one
generation are often taken as wholly
serious by those who read of them in
a later one.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

ling in one direction between VI and
VII and the minute hand is losing it
self in another direction somewhere
between XII and XII, the new time
piece will read simply and conclusively
o-5S In another minute the last figure
magically disappears and 9 takes its
place, and in sixty more seconds all
the figures vanish and in their place
appear 700. To state the system clear
ly and tersely, time will be told as
the railroad time table tells it, And
with the general introduction of this
system would be done away with such
bungling expressions by the
old circular dial plate with its wreath
of f1gures-as 20 minutes past 9, IA
minutes of IL. Instead we shall adopt
the crisp, accurate terminology Of the
time table, and say nine twenty, elev-
en- forty-six, etc. The invention has
lately been patented
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
* ~ The Latest II, Cine GeIIers ~ -

An inventor of New Haven, Con-
necticut, is making an effort to have
the clock face that all humanity has
been consulting for centuries changed
for one made suitable for the progress
sive people of the twentieth century.
In stating his objections to the pres
emit system of telling time the inventor
points out that there is a bewildering,
brain-trying number of figures which
are never necessary at one time for
one hour indications on the face of
the clock of today, and he further says
that some of these figures are right
side up While others are upside down.
some repose on their sides, while
others are placed at various angles
This. as can be readily seen, creates
confusion and often renders it difficult
to tell the exact time at a glance.
In the latest system there are never
more than four figures shown on the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

houses of the geocentric horoscope, IA
vorable or otherwise. Here is point
in which the two systems harmonize
and agree as to the time of an evil
period, especially during transits of
Uranus and Saturn According to the
rules of the science, if people drift
blindly during these periods they are
apt to do something which will cause
them financial losses, or mental worry
from other sources Do not under
stand that some dire calamity awaits
you if your birthday happens to be
mentioned in, the following list
of dates "Forewarned is forearmed,"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
weeds F.t.r to cattle.

The cattlemen of the northwest have
been complaining for many years
about the growth of poisonous weeds
upon their ranges. and last summer
the secretary of agriculture sent out a
couple of botanists to make an investi-
cation. They found six plants of a
poisonous nature growing wild in diff
ferent parts of the territory, all fatal
to cattle. Antidotes were discovered
for three of them, but the other three
thus far have no cure.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

The billion-dollar steel combina-
ton will have one interesting result
at least. in that it will serve to show
whether we have yet developed bill
ion-dollar man. Americans who are
equal to every demand of a million
dollar business are numerous. and the
reader will recall masters of trade and
finance who successfully manage en-
terprises representing many millions:
but the billion-dollar man-if the steel
magnates can find him-will be one
Of the most interesting figures of the
twentieth century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

A woman was recently arrested for
begging in the streets of New York
She was well known to the police, and
when her case was called some curious
information about her was brought
out. She always had a thin, fretful
baby in her arms, and the baby con-
stantly cried. That was her capital,
and to keep it unimpaired and produc-
tive, she made a practice of pinching
the child whenever it seemed inclined
to settle into quiet. The ruse was so
successful that the beggar had a COM
Portable bank account and we'll
furnished home. All of which bears
out the wisdom of little investigation
before bestowing charity, even when
the case appeals strongly to the SYM
pathieS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

when the evil is indicated and then
being extra careful of your health
and financial matters. and also being
particular to see that your conduct is
such as to be above reproach, it is ex-
pected that you will counterfeit at least
the greater part of the evil indicated.
The evil dates are April % to May
IS. June 1 to II. June % to July 10,
August to %, September 1 to II. Sep
TENDER % to October 10. November 8
to 81, December 1 to -, December %
to January 10. February 20 IS, March
to 12.-Prof- c. w. Cunningham
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
Asfrofosfcof Periods.

When, by their progress in their or
bital transits. Saturn, Mars or Uranus
reaches certain points in the Zodiac.
at which they come to within five
degrees either forward or backward
from the exact degree, of the conjunc-
ton, square, or opposition to the place
of the sun in a geocentric. or the earth
in a heliocentric horoscope. it is a
warning of an evil. or at least an an
noyance, period for people born any
year on or between any of the dates
given below. This does not take into
consideration the transits in cardinal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
SFMIhOLFS IN florida


The remnant if the once-powerful
tribe of Seminole Indians comes in for
a deal of sympathy among the people
who have taken up their homes in
Florida, writes Miami, Florida, cor
respondent of the Chicago News Rec
ord. Those who are supposed to know
say there are not more than 600 Of
them left, and they are hidden away
in the everglades, very seldom max
ing their appearance among the white
settlers. That they do not increase in
number is owing to the fact, so it. is
said, that the ravages of disease among
children have sadly thinned their
ranks. They are unable to understand
the nature of many of their Affections;
do not know how to treat them, and
in consequence the race in Florida
threatens to become extinct
The tribe was originally a vagrant
offshoot of the Creeks. They gave
great trouble to the early settlers of
Georgia and Florida, and after a tedi-
GUS war an attempt was made to re-
move the remains of the tribe to In
dian Territory. This. however, was
an undertaking never fully accomplish
ed. For years they hid themselves in
the dense foliage of the everglades.
In recent years the interior department
has endeavored to get title to some
Florida land with view to turning IL
over to the Seminoles, but up to a
few months ago the abstracts of the
tracts offered were not considered sat
isfactory by the department. The mat
ter is still under consideration. The
legislature of Florida at one time had
before it a measure to turn over some
land to the red men and their families
but this has not yet been done, so that
to-day they are running as wild as
at the time their warrior fathers set
foot in the region.
j. S. Frederick, civil engineer of
Miami, tells interesting stories of. his
experience with the Seminoles and
their families. He has occasion once
in awhile to make his way by boat far
into the interior of the southern part
Of the state. The boat is tied up to
the banks of some stream while ex-
plorations of the everglades are being
made. Frederick has some knowledge
of the Seminole tongue and has been
able to gather small numbers of them
about his campfire. On one occasion,
he relates, his wife, who accompanied
him on the trip, was so much taken
with the bright faces and sparkling
eyes of the little Seminoles that she in
duced him to invite company Of them
into the sloop to take dinner with the
surveying party. The commissariat
was well stocked and about a dozen
of the little red boys and girls sat
down at the table. Frederick says they
came near cleaning him out-in fact,
the larder was empty when the young
guests took their departure
Frederick says the Indians live most
ly from the products of the hunt and
the gathering of roots and herbs, which
they trade at the stores within reach
of their homes. Like all Indians, they
are fond of colored goods and SNOWY
articles, and buy literally of such
things. He says that while lingering
about the trading places they are scru-
pulously honest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

An order has just been filled in Con-
necticut for 100000 pounds of coppe-
trolly wire for an electric road in IL
dia. The reels upon which the wi e
was wound required nearly 100000 feet
of lumber for their construction I he
reels and wire combined will w gn
1 100000 pounds Twenty-s3ve ca:
and two engines will be used in ans
porting the shipment to tidewa e..
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

There Is more Catarrn secrlon or the
country than all other diseases put together,
and until the last few years was supposed to be
incurable. For great many years doctors pro-
nounced 1t a local disease. and prescribed local
remedies. and by constantly failing to cure
with local treatment, pronounced 1t incurable-
Science has proven catarrh to be . constitn-
tional disease. and therefore requires conStt-
tutfonal trcatment-- Halls Catarrh Cure. man
afactured By F. j. Cheney Co. Toledo. Ohio.
1t is taken internally in doses from 10 drops TO
a teaspoonfuL It acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system They oner
one hundred dollars for any case 1t fails to curA
Send for circulars and testimonials Addr~ps
F. J. CHENEY & Co. Toledo Oh,A
SoId by Druggists, 75c-
HAlra Eamt1y Pulls are the best
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

Boston, like New York, suffers from
an inordinate waste of water, and the
waste is, increasing in deplorable dis
proportion to the increase in the pop
ulation. During 1900 water to the
amount of 1852 gallons was used daily
for each inhabitant, as compared with
Ill gallons in 1899 and 1O3 in 1898. A
reasonable allowance for each inhabit-
ant is eighty gallons daily.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

When Henry NJ. Stanley was a re-
associated in that work with Eugene
Field, Stanley Waterloo, the novelist,
and Stanley Huntley, afterwards well
known as the author OF the -Spoopen-
dyke Papers" Ernest McGaffey. now
a promising writer of verse. was then
an Office boy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

One of the striking things shown by
the last census is the remarkable in
crease of tenant farming. The per-
centage of farms operated by tenants
showed a considerable increase by the
census of 1890. For the whole cou l.
try this percentage has increased in
the last ten years nearly twice as fast
as the per cent of population of the ma
ton, four times that of the purely
agricultural population and twice tn t
of the farms operated by their owners
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

Giovanni Andrea Scartazzini the
well-known Dante scholar, died recent
ly at the age of 65 years at Fahrwan-
gen in Switzerland, where he had been
the village pastor for thirteen years.
He was Swiss-Italian, native of the
Grisons.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

In circus performing in Paris there
is a troupe of dwarfs. Two of them
the leading lady, height two feet, and
the strong man, height three feet
were, the other evening discovered at
the railway station on the point of
leaving for Vienna They were taken
charge of, and brought back to the
circus just in time to allow them to
appear in the ring for their ordinary
turn. But the ringmaster, another
member of the troupe-height feet 6
inches-was already the lover of the
leading lady, and the news of the at
tempted elopement gave him such a
shock that he had a fit, and now lies
in a precariouS condition.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

A Roma. mob unveiled a new bronze
fountain in the Villa Nazionale by
force recently An injunction had
been obtained against the exhibition
of the fountain, on the ground that the
naked figures of Maids that adorned
1t were immoral. A crowd armed with
tools marched to the place and tore
down the boards that enclosed the
fountain.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
ons OF Ten Thousand

At sale of crown mining lands re-
Gently held in the Klondyke, man
named Dawson purchased a claim on
Gold bottom for 81. He Immediately
began digging and next day struck a
rich streak. Before the week was end
ed he had been offered $4,000 for the
claim, but refused to sell at that fig
nra
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
Hand-to-Mouth Living.

In all the Chinese cities very large
percentage of the population lives in a
sort of hand-to-mouth fashion, buying
food from restaurants Hot water Ia
sold from stands by people who make a
business of providing it. The great
necessity for economy in fuel seems to
be the primary cause of this mode OF
living
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn

Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot
Ease, a powder for the feet. 1t makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions. Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores, 25c. sample sent FREE.
Address Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, NY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

AS a curiosity of the recent German
census, it is recorded that the returns
showed the village of Reutenbourg
contained 444 inhabitants, 222 being of
the masculine and 222 of the feminine
gender.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20

In a house where there was small
pOx every one was vaccinated- One
tot of 2 years is just learning to put
words into sentences. When any one
approaches too closely to her inocu ated
arm she cries: Look Quit My ras-
sinator."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-04-20
Ar,.tocr.tlc Funeral of a Dog.

At Wichita on Wednesday dog was
buried in a fine coffin with a satin pill
low under his head, and the coffin was
covered with flowers. The dog was not
the smashed nose pet of some wife
who doesn't love her husband, but a
setter belonging to man who hunts,
and who says it was the best dog in
the world.-Kansas City Journal.