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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-28
Hopes of the Future.

With the coming of the New Year
all our hopes of future good for our
selves and for humanity at large re-
receive a new impulse and an accession
of power. If we are alive to the wide
extension of knowledge, the conquest
of the material world, the imminence
of new and important discoveries and
changes which shall make the possibil-
tiles of life more interesting and beau
tiful, we cannot but rejoice that we
are born into this wonderful epoch.
Tennyson's poem, written in the flush
of young manhood. voiced the scien-
tific fact in eloquence that can never
be forgotten, but the thoughts Of men
are widened by the process of the
suns. 1t is truly to the thoughts of men
that we owe all the triumphs of civil
ization, the triumphs of religion, art,
industry and science, as in the last re-
sort all that is and all that we hope
for resides in the thoughts of men and
in the feelings and emotions which
give birth to these thoughts, and be-
tween which there is such a constant
interaction.
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Pilgrim Memorial.


At a public meeting of the Pilgrim
club held in Brewster, Mass, July
Is, the first steps were taken toward
the building of a memorial monument
at Provincetown to commemorate the
landing of the Pilgrims in the May
flower on November IL, 1920. The
subject of building the monument has
been in agitation for some time, until
J. Henry Sears and Roland Nickerson
sent out invitations to the Cape peo-
pie to come together and perfect plans
for the fitting observance of the an
niversary of the landing of the Pill
grims and the signing of the compact
on the Mayfiower- This monument is
intended to be the consummation of
plans formed some time ago at Prov
incetown. Previous to the Pilgrims
landing at Plymouth they had signed
a compact while at Provincetown
which is believed to be the most i'm
portant document in the history of
this country. A fund of nearly twelve
hundred dollars is now in the treas
ury. and this will be increased so that
active work may soon be commenced
and a high monument erected-Bos-
ten journal.
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To the Younx

While the opening of the New Year Is
significant season for persons of all
ages, it is especially so to the young
and those in early maturity There is
so much ahead of the youngsters: so
much for them to look frward to, to
hope for, achieve; SO much that will
help them to make their lives worth
living and to make the world the bet
ter for their having lived in it
Welcome the new year. Welcome
its work. its cares, its responsibilities.
its trials, crosses, losses. sorrows and
bereavements. Welcome it's work,
because it is only by work that we
achieve successes and make ourselves
strong for the tolls and tasks that are
to come Welcome its cares, for they
are the worlds educators, developers
and teachers. and they lead us into
those ways of prudence. thoughtful-
ness and moderation which are the
forerunners of prosperity and plenty
H s. C.
Brace up, Acquit yourselves like men:
Swear of, And don't swear on agai-
IL A W. Bulletin
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-28

When the year is ended and the
final summing up of accounts is finish
ed, it is comforting to look back and
to be able to say, in all sincerity, that
we have done the best we could for our
selves and for those about us. 1t is
more than comforting to see that we
have gained something, that our eff
forts have been crowned with success,
and that we are by this advance
ment enabled to score a victory, even
though it may be. trifiing, over adj
verse circumstances. 1t encourages us
to redouble our efforts to make bet
ter showing for the years to come, to
so order our affairs that this seasons
gain will be but the beginning of bet
ter things, and that the great and
grand fabric of our future may rise,
ever increasing, ever more and more
beautiful, and end in a noble, manly,
womanly, Christian, symmetrical char
acter that will make its possessor
known and honored of all men
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-28
H0rdships Of Surveying
Perry in Africa

1t would be hard to find in the whole
history of African exploration a story
OF more hardship and suffering than
that told by Major H. H. Austin of the
British army, who has just arrived in
London from the East African coast.
Last December fifty-nine men set cut
under the command of the major from
Omdurman to survey the line of de-
marcation between Abyssinia and the
British sphere of influence in that
part of Africa. Last June fourteen
haggard, wayworn and nearly starved
men reached little Portuguese settle
ment on the east coast They were
all that had survived of the expedition
which set out from Omdurman with a
fine equipment and high hopes of a
speedy march to the sea coast
The soldiers which Major Austin
took with him were black troops be-
longing to the tenth Soudanese bat
TALON. The expedition started out
through region entirely unknown to
white men, and encountered burning
deserts, where men and beasts fell
down and died from heat and exhaus-
ton, and great swamps around which
they had to make a long detour and
from which deadly miasmas reached
out shadowy arms to drag down vic
Tins. Tribes of giants belonging to
a hitherto unknown African race dis
puted the passage of the country with
the surveyors, and killed many of the
expedition.
For a whole month water was al
most an unknown quantity. Even the
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ISOLATION. his lawyer friends went to
his house and offered him their con-
gratulations. Mr.. Simpsons small SON
was in tie room, and for several min
utes he watched the scene with round
eyes. Then he made his way through
the crowd until he reached his fathers
side. A gentleman had just said, Il
congratulate you, Mr. Simpson," when
the newly elected president felt tug
at his coat tails. Looking down he
saw his son. Well, what is it, my
boy?" he asked. It love you, papar'
piped tiny voice in reply Overcome
with feeling, the father lifted up his
son and kissed him, then set him down
As the little fellow trotted on the men
nearest Mr.. Simpson extended their
hands in silence. Conventional con-
CALCULATIONS somehow seemed out OF
place.
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Il KNOW YOU NOT. SWEET CHILD.
will allow me to say that 1 think your
real name is Herbert Wilton" pro-
ceeded the mysterious stranger.
Carson was utterly unprepared for
this. and his surprise was painfully
manifest Appearing not to notice it,
the lady went ON:
You are unhappy. l know, Mr. Will
ton I shall not call you Mr.. Carson
am certain of it. because 1 was watch
ing you for ten minutes before you
opened your eyes, Can I be of any
help to your
- don't understand you, madam, :
answered Carson II have no trouble.
at least none that you could assist
hue in
Has it any connection with an old
love AFFAIR."" very slowly asked the
yelled visitor
81 must decline to discuss my pri-
vate matters with an utter stranger
replied Carson, jumping up
Am 1 an utter stranger. Herbert ?''
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7 of the happy crowd seemed to mock
| him. He rang the bell and ordered
some tea The demure little maid
| looked at him, and, going down stairs
said:
Poor Mr. Carson. he looks SC
strange and miserable,"
Returning, she found him sitting 10
his chair gazing with half-closed eyes
into the fire. Placing the tea on a
small wicker table by his side, she at
tracted his attention by the question,
Anything else. sir?''
No" was the reply; but, see, this
is New Years Eve. You've been a good
servant to me. at least. Buy yourself
something" handing her a sovereign.
The amount of the gift bereft the girl
of the power of speech, and with a
curtesy. eloquent in itself of gratitude,
she left
Carson, slipping his tea. again solilo-
quiZed. Its now within an hour and
quarter of the New Year. What
will that year bring into my life? 1t
cannot bring the light of love and
companionship. The same round of
weeks and months, and SO it will be
to the end. Ten years ago. in Old
kentucky. we said 'Good-by.' 1t was
'good-by' forever"
Apostrophizing the absent woman,
he continued: Leila, Leila to my
grave l take with me the love 1 bear
you. Why did we live to be parted SO
ruthlessly? What strange fate has so
guided our destinies?"
He turned to the story of Evangeline
and read of the sufferings of that
heroic character. The reading soothed
him and he fell asleep.
The clocks were striking the twelfth
stroke of midnight when he awoke.
He barely opened his eyes, then closed
them again, and listened to the joyous
salutations of people meeting in the
streets. He was not selfish, neither
was he bad patured. No man who
every truly loved can be altogether
either AS he listened he said:
81 wish for all bright New Year,
and Leila, my absent Leila, whom l
shall never see again, may your life
know no sorrow, may yours never be
the aching heart, and may you be
blessed in your children growing up
around you. My Leila
He did not finish the sentence, but
the tears came trickling down his
cheeks as he realized his barren life
Then he became conscious that some
one had come into the room and been
a witness of his weakness and his Sc
cret-secret because society said Wal
ter Carson carried his heart on his
sleeve and was incapable of deep affec-
ton. So sitting up and turning round
he was startled to see seated on a
chair a tall lady clad in deep mourn
ing and yelled so heavily that he was
unable to distinguish her face.
Madam" he inquired. too taken
aback even to get up. 81 should like to
know why 1 am thus honored?"
81 came in with the New Year. Not
an omen of ill-luck, 1 hope replied
a musical voice: but / first want to
know if Walter Carson is not an as
sumed Manner
why do you ask such a question? p
For the best of good reasons. and
as you Will not tell me. perhaps you
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1 cannot joy with those who hail
The newborn year;
1 rather grieve with those who give
The dead Old Year
A tender tear.
The New-what know I of the New!
1 knew the Old!
Gods benson upon his corse.
On which the mold
Lies stiff and cold.
Here in the shadow let me stand
And count them Ger,
The blessings that he broug-A TO me,
A precious store
/ asked more
He brought me health-a priceless boon
To me and mine;
He brought me plenty for my neeoS'
And crowned my shrine
With love divine
All, when I think-suffused with tears
/ feel my eyes
OF all the dear delights he brought;
Yet stark he lies
Meath Winter skies.
Therefore I cannot hail with Joy
The newborn year:
1 rather grieve, with those who give
The dead Old year
A tender tear.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1901-12-28
Perfume and tho voice.

An eminent throat specialist at Ber-
lin has discovered that the perfume of
certain strong-smelling flowers is
particularly dangerous to the voice.
He specially mentions the violet. the
rose, the lily of the valley, the narcis-
sus and the white lilac. He asserts
that singer can never sing so clearly
in a room where the scent of flowers
prevails. One well known vocalist,
Maris Sasse, informed her doctor that
once between acts she lost her voice
from smelling violets. Christine Nils
son discovered that the perfume Of
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,uld Just staxser across the arid

waste
At the same time Major Austin and
his companions were making their
hazardous journey along the Abyssin-
ian border and through Somaliland
there was an active campaign going on
not far away from their route in which
the British and the Abyssinians were
fighting side by side. Almost at the
same time Major Austin arrived in
London, Major Hamburg Tracy and
Captain Cobbold came back from
Abyssinia, where they had been with
the Anglo-Abyssinian expedition
against the Mad Mullah. The army
with which these two officers have
been serving consisted, when it set
out, of $4,000 men, the flower of Meme
lik's army The Mullah's force was
driven in the direction of the British
Major Austin's command may have
been some stragglers from the de-
feated army of the Mullah. When,
after several severe defeats, the Null
lab had escaped into the Midjertam
country, the army found itself practi-
cally without food and the command
ers were obliged to kill all transport
animals in order to support life. A
return to the Abyssinian city of Harar
was decided upon and the starving
trt ops began a march which in some
respects was like that of Major Aus
tins command. The heat was excess
sive and the starving soldiers. satu-
rated with malaria and afflicted with
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struck TO- and he sonorous boom
from Big Ben came floating over the
Green park as sort of benediction
on the rapidly dying year. The roar
of the great city without was not lack
Ing in its element of melody, and the
noise Of merry jewellers in Piccadilly
completed a strange yet fascinating
tout ensemble. Passing down the
street came three young men singing
that old Southern song, Use gwine
back to Dixey." The words and the
melody startled Carson from the rev.
erie into which he had fallen. Sitting
upright in his chair. he said. aloud:
What memories that song recalls.
How my loneliness grows upon me,
What a fool 1 was ever to have in
'dulged in the thing called love, But
there. I've tasted the poison and must
abide by the result. What's that re-
suit? Pleasing? Why cannot 1 be of
the gay throng outside? Here in this
mighty crowded city 1 am lonely
as a man lost in a desert" He rose and
going to the other side of the room,
opened a cabinet and took from it a
bundle of letters, some dozen They
were faded and bore traces of much
handling After reading, -. replaced
them, and, walking to the photograph
of child on the wall. INDUCED in
soliloQuy.
Il know you not, my sweet child
but your mother was always, and al
ways must be everything to me. How
hard and cruel seems the world! Your
mother and 1 parted ten long years
ago this night, to meet again in two
years time. What happened to pre-
vent us? / wrote many times, but no
rep,y ever reached me. Three years
after we separated letter came from
her. and in it 1 read: Now that l am
married, perhaps you will write Life
seemed d blank. and 1 came to Lon
don. a wayfarer, caring not what be-
came of me- 1 turned to literature.
and have been what people call sue
cessful. But what is success without
the power to experience that which
makes it other than a metallic graft
fication? Eighteen months went by
before L next heard from your mother,
and then your photo only reached me,
since when all has been silence. Your
mother married a good man, and 1
pray for her and for you. too. baby.
that you may grow up in her foot
steps,"
The circumstances under which his
letters to the girl went astray were to
him mysterious. but. as a matter of
fact. easily explained The girl was
the daughter of country lawyer, and
he had made her acquaintance when
she was staying in a boarding house
in Bloomsbury, in which he was also
a lodger- Her reason for being in
town was that she might improve
somewhat neglected education. and
she was taking singing lessons at a
school of music in the neighborhood-
An aunt. took away this unwanteo
daughter from among the large family
at home. to be companion across the
Atlantic. and suspeeting her CT fighti-
ness. opened her letters in the scapa-
city of guardian The first of Carson's
epistles-he was a cautious man and
did not commit himself to paper until
he could not resist doing so-arrived
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roses impaired her voice, and carefully
removed all strong-smelling flowers
from her house. Similar testimony is
given by the famous bass singer, Del
mas, Nine. Rene Richard, the great
Paris teacher of singing, noticed that
girls who came to her classes wear
ing flowers always sang better when
the flowers were removed into another
room. Faure, another great author
ity, says vio1ets are most dangerous,
their perfume being as hurtful as to-
bacco or alcoho1.-Detroit Free Press.
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Soudanese troops, accustomed as they
are to the country and to undergoing
it's many hardships and privations,
began to falter and fail upon the plain,
where the tropic heat took the life out
of the men and their leaders The
Englishmen tried their best to keep up
the spirits of the men, but the Sou
danese became ill and listless- The
transport animals were still held by
the major, though for days at a time
there was no water for them and they
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when the aunt be-
lieved she was ar
ranging a highly
desirable engage
ment for her niece,
and on the prin-
ciple of dong
wrong that good
may come, she kept
back the notes of
this obviously poor
sutton.
Carson often felt
desolate, but never
so utterly as then,
and as he paced the
floor the laughter
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connections made by snap couplings
on the gunwhale- A rheostat, for
governing the speed of the motor. is
located on the top OF the tilIer post.
The turning of the tller post turns
motor, screw and all. and this takes
the place of the rudder- The action
is much quicker than caa be imag-
ined-
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Now
Something new. for people who now
have small row boats and want a boat
with power, has lately been put on the
market 1t is portable propeller
operated by means of an electric mo-
tor, which Is inclosed in a metal wa
ter-tight case. dropped a few inches
below the water line 1t can be placed
in any row boat by simply replacing
this machine instead of the old rud-
der. The wires from the motor run
up the tiller posts and are used as til
Ter ropes The batteries can be placed
anywhere in the boat AID the electric
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no better than sayages. Some of them
have good educations, and about 70
per cent can read and write, but they
are idle and lazy. Their food is not
choice in the least They eat baked
grasshoppers and June bugs with rel
ish- Snails are smother great dish
for Them OF course, these are deli
cacies for them Rice is their main
dish They cook big pot of it, and
then all sit down around 1t and eat
with their fingers
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Something of the poetry of the home
appears in a little story told by the
Philadelphia Times AS soon as it was
announced that Mr.. Alexander Simp-
son had been elected to the Office of
president of the Philadelphia Bar As
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OMM7a2Ka1:
GbeGo 2 q M<NewYeas Ives

ALTER CARSON
leaned back in the
easy chair, drawn
up before his sit
ting room fire at
his Duke street
chambers in Lon
don. The clock had
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A Kansas solder serving ~ Tarlac,
in the Philippines. writes home- THE
natives here are not so backward in
many things. while in others they are
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Billy Stuart, with a number OF
bachelor friends. lives on Mcmillan
street, near Woodlawn avenue, East
Walnut Hills, says the Cincinnati En-
quirer. He usually takes constitu-
tional short walk each morning, and
not long since noticed that the upper
parts of the telephone poles in the
vicinity of his residence were being
decorated with coats OF vivid green
paint One morning as he was pass
ing one of the poles an Irishman seat
ed on top carelessly let drop a can of
the green paint. 1t struck the side
walk and was literally spattered
about; none of it, however, by exceed
ingly good luck, besmirched the i'm
maeulate trousers of Mr. Stuart.
moment later another Irishman APP
peared on the scene, and noticing the
green paint spilled all over the side
walk, looked UP and inquired of his
comrade aloft: ..Doherty, Doherty. hav-
We had hemorrhage?"
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dyseBtery, died off like sheep. Only
a small remnant of the invincible ar
my of Menelik came into Harar.
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When bread is wanting, oaten cakes
are excellent
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his wife listened to the hour of mid
night strike, they thought, with hearts
full of love and gratitude, of the joy
Gus meeting twelve months before.
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Political dreams are often but a
nightmare spasm caused by a foul
stomach
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-07
An Eight Hour Day.

HIS SPEECH at Forest city
yesterday President John Mitch
II ell of the United Mine Workers
tod large aSsemblaGe of miners
that he will advise them to ask for
an eight hour day next spring and if
the operators refuse to grant If he
will advise them to fight for it.
These are radical words for the lead
ers OF the miners. a fight for an
eight hour day would seem to be un-
necessary from the fact that the usual
complaint of the miner is that he does
not have work enough to do. The
average miner will freely admit that
he would be comparatively well-to-do
If he had what he calls full time"
which is only possible when there is n
brisk demand for coal and nature
favors us with days of sufficient length
to make it possible to operate a coal
breaker for ten days.
Ordinarily the mine worker considers
himself fortunate IT, taking the year
as whole, he averages three-quartor
time. In the face of this it would
seem that no wonderfully urgent rea-
sons exist for fighting for an eight
hour day except for the purpose of
restricting the output OF the mines at
times when mine owners are able TO
ship coal by water routes, over which
freight is cheap, and store it for sale
The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1901-09-07
A TIME OF ANXIETY.


From the TunkhannoCk New Age.
The proprietor Of newspaper that is located
in a town where an industrial strike Is in pro.
grcss Is in crucial position We have watched
a number of them during such periods in tho
past, and have tclt tnat the position ot editor
or local reporter was anything hut cnyiahe.
There is always two sides 10 quarrel and to
hc fair to both and not incur tho enmty "
either is an almost absolute imposshitv. Whore
a newspaper has large patronage among the
workcrmcn tho proprietor'S synpa,hcs naturally
lean IN that direction. With a desire 10 get all
the news concerning the trouble. and lot
oi idle workmcn ready and anxious TO give it to
him. according TO their own standpoint. hc is
more than ordinarily level headed II he does not
present a distorted view of the case. On the
other hand, II he interviews the officers Of the
corporation in whose establishment the strike has
occurred, he gcts an entirely opposite view u
the trouble, which. II reflected in his paper. IL
likely to call down upon him the wrath of the
workmen and in all probability will result in
keeping him busy for some time checking of the
names of indignant subscribers who stop their
paper, An impartial treatment ~ labor troubles
at considerable distance is rare enough, but
when ono is in tho midst of it the difficulties
are mlgnfcd a hundred told Those editors who
are situated and have desire to deal fairly
hv both sides have our sinCorcst sympathy; those
who are .atSfod TO take sides regardless OF facts
do not need sympathy.