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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11
HUSTLfNG TO THE GRAVE.
New York Proudly Exhibits the Advan'
tage of Premature Death.

New York Proudly Exhibits the Advan-
tage of Premature Death.
Travellers between New York and
Philadelphia who do Eol read or sleep
during the run may have noticed
that a large number of cemeteries are
to be seen from the trait. There are
probably more "cities CT the dead"
along that line than ara to be found
during any other journey of the length
in this country.
A New Yorker, Phila ielphian and
an Englishman made this trip to the
Quaker city in company The Eng
ing number of places of 1urial along
the route. Whereupol tie Philadel-
phian gravely explained that the
frantic rush and excessive strain of
New York life broke up its victims
with little warning, and that the
scared Gothamites esca ping but with
mortal injuries, succum bed soon after
quitting the deadly ciiy and were
buried by the way. Sor1e o. them, he
added, die within sight of the Calm
city (Philadelphia) itself.
Banter gave place to spirited dis
cussion on the relative outpr. of work
of the two cities, Philadelphia rep
resentative urging that the deliberate
ness which characterized It'll natives
made for better workmanship, and in
the long run for greater output The
outstanding features of Nsw York
business life were, he declares, scurry
and superficiality.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11
( dllllPfirsIdles
BOOSTED BY VANDERBILT BONDS
1.-THE PRIDE OF BATTERY B."

And SO thought when beat the drum.
and the big guns were still,
I'd creep beneath the tent and come
out here across the hill
And beg, good Mister Yankee men.
you'd give me some Lone Jack.
Please do; when we get some again,
I'll surely bring it back
Indeed will, for Ned-says- he-f ]
do what / say
I'll be a general yet, maybe, and ride
a prancing bay
We brimmed her tiny apron Ger; you
should have heard her laugh
AS each man from his scanty store
shook out a generous half
To kiss the little mouth stopped down
a score of grimy men,
Until the sergeant's husky voice said,
"'Tention, squad" and then
We gave her escort. till goodnight the
pretty waif we bid,
And watched her toddle out of sight
or else twas tears that hid
Her tiny form-not turned about q
man, nor spoke a word,
Till after a while a far, hoarse shout
upon the wind we heard!
We sent it back, then cast sad eyes
upon the scene around:
A baby's hand had touched the ties
that brothers once had bound.
That's a1l-save when the dawn awoke
again, the work of hell,
And through the sullen clouds Of
smoke the screaming missiles fell
Our general often rubbed his glass
and marveled much to see
Not a single shell that whole day fel
in the camp of Battery B.
F. H. GaSsaway.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

had in his possession a revolver in.
scribed with his name. He had got
it from a southern soldier. Col. Man.
derson journeyed to the writer's home
and there joyfully received the
weapon.
His story of the recovery of the
other twin" eight years later is thus
told by himself:
In the cloak room of the senate
one day Senator Pugh introduced to
me an Albanian, typical southern
colonel.
Suh,' said the colonel to me, i
believe 1 have something which will
interest you
And he handed me a revolver
bearing my name engraved upon the
handle. 1 grasped it eagerly. 1t was
the other pistol.
The colonel said he got it from
one of his soldiers, and had used il
during the remainder of the war. II
had thus fought under two flags
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

The youthful Marquis of Blandford
will be, if he lives, the tenth in line
from his distinguished ancestor, John
Churchill, the hero of Blenheim, who
was created the first Duke of MARI
borough in 1902. Like a number of
future British peers, he is half Ameri-
can.
It was in November, 1895, that Miss
Consuelo Vanderbilt, daughter of Will
liam K. Vanderbilt, married the ninth
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

South mountain lowered upon our
right, far off the river lay,
And over on the wooded height we
held their lines at bay.
At last the muttering guns were still;
the day died slow and wan;
At last the gunners' pipes did fill, the
sergeant's yarns began.
When, as the wind a moment blew
aside the fragrant flood
Our brierwoods raised, within our
view a little maiden stood,
A tiny tot of 6 or z, from freside
fresh she seemed,
COT such little one in heaven one
soldier often dreamed)
And as we stared, her little hand went
to her curly head
In grave salute. And who are your"
at length the sergeant said,
"And where's your homer" he growled
again. She Hsped out, who is
me?
Why, don't you know? I'm little Jane,
the Pride of Battery B.
My home? Why, that was burned
away, and pa and ma are dead;
And so l ride the guns all day along
with Sergt. Ned.
And I've a drum that's not toy, a
cap with feathers, too;
And l march beside the drummer boy
on Sundays at review.
But now our 'bacca's all give out, the
men can't have their smoke,
And so they're cross-why, even Ned
won't play with me and joke.
And the big colonel said today hate
to hear him swear
He'd give a leg for a good pipe like
the Yank had over there.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

family, a title created by Queen Anne.
along with the dukedom of MarlboTs
ough.
The young Marquis of Blandford IL
not wanting in American influence.
His step grandmother is an American
woman and he has an American grand
aunt. His younger brother, Lord Ivor
Charles Spencer Churchill, is 311 years
old. Our illustration is from the New
York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11
Same Set of Resolutions
for Gen. Hooker and Gen. Franz Siee

the late Gen. Franz Sigel had the
singular felicity OF writing resolutions
on the death of Gen. Joe Hooker.
twenty-three years ago, which were
30 eminently appropriate to his own
career that the association of the
Eighth New Jersey volunteers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

Duke of Marlborough. In September,
1897, the first of the two children of
the duke and duchess was born. His
name was made up out of those of his
father and grandfather and of King
Edward, then Prince of Wales, John
Albert Edward William Spencer
Churchill.
The Prince of Wales was the boys
godfather. AS the heir to the duke
dom he uses the second title of the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

The Gothamite wound up his de-
tense thus, says the New York Mail
and Express:
well, if we do hustle ourselves
into premature graves, we get there
early and secure the choice lots"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

tHooker's old guard" for which they
were written, adopted them again,
with only the change of name, In hon
or of Gen. Sigel himself
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

Beware OF the woman who loves
money more than she loves love
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

The fellow who hides his light un-
der bushe1 never blows it out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

The 1uve o. the BARN is the maist
unselfish in a. the weary warld.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-11

The weather man is mixed in his
LOT
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10

ton without the assistance of other
persons. Such an understanding clause
involves no little trickery. No doubt
the Virginia constitution will give that
State a good electorate, and 1t Is a
good constitution, but that it is any
better than the one adopted in this
State is a mistake. The permanent
plan in this State is ideal, and the
temporary plan is shorter In duration
than Virginia's, while it Is fully as
efficient. Alabama has no reason to
regret the adoption of her new con-
stitution in the light of the one adopt
ed at Richmond. Each calls for an
intelligent electorate and each will Sc
cure that, and as long as each State is
content with what it has there is no
need Of further comparison.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
Mules for South Africa.

At Port Chalmette near New Or
leans are cattle pens and shipping
facilities, and there the horses and
mules are sent that have been sold
to be used in the British army in
South Africa. The government Is in
vestigating the course of business at
Port Chalmette, and until a report is
made no one can say that the neutral
ity laws have been violated.
This case brings up the old issue
that has been discussed from time out
of mind as to the sale of supplies to
one or two belllgerents elsewhere. We
have been selling horses, mules and
food supplies to be used by the Brit
ish army in South Africa. We cannot
sell the Beers because they are power
less on the sea. We would sell them
supplies If they had any way to trans
port them to South Africa.
Such sales have not of late been
considered violations of neutrality
The horses and mules are transported
on unarmed vessels, and an unarmed
vessel, even when loaded with Mis-
souri, mules, is not a military expedi-
ton. Attorney General Knox says the
carrying on of commerce with the bel.
ligerent in the manner usual before
the war is not giving aid within the
terms of the neutrality act. "The
mere increased demand" he says, "for
warlike articles and their increased
quantity in the commerce do not make
that commerce cease to be the same
as before the war" This is the COM
mon sense of the case, and all nations
have practically adopted this view of
similar acts. We may sell mules and
horses, in other words, for export to
South Africa without reference to
what is going on there. We are in
the mule and horse trade. We cannot
follow to the end the uses that those
horses and mules are to be employed
in. The contrary rule would involve
us in endless trouble, and the world
is coming to hold that belligerents car
buy supplies wherever they can find
them for sale. The markets of the
world stay open, and the fighting is
to be done where the belligerents act
ually are.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
President Roosevelt On His First
Southern Visit
method of demonstrating himself to be

method of demonstrating himself to be
false.
This is why Mr.. Hanna has been ma
hgned. His greatest virtue has lent venom
10 dispersion, and that very quality of
his which southerners most of all would
esteem manifest and bravest has been so
perverted by critics who never saw him %
to deceive our people into regarding him
as man. no more like the real leader
that he is than mud is like to marble
Mr.. Hanna, to shift the comparison
bears no more resemblance to the Mark
Hanna of the partisan cartoonist and
chatterer of paragraphs in false syntax
than he bears to King Henry Willard
everybody of every political view con-
fesses that Mr.. Hanna's private life is
above the compass of the swiftest shaft
from the bow of malignty; and to his
innate humanity, which we call by the
other name of democracy, a million work.
ingmen appeal todayl
To the South Mr.. Hanna sent three
months ago the most memorable message
of material value yet sent to that part of
the Republic by any one man-sent 1t
through ne ABe-I1erdlu anu Hldue Ile us
grateful bearer. The other day in Char
lottesville he in part repeated that mes
sage. dwelling again upon his firm faith
that in good time the great industrial
center of America would be transferred
to Alabama and part of Tennessee--to
territory of which Birmingham is the
, natural capital Mr.. Hanna speaks with
authority that is of immense signif-
canoe, for he is one of the greatest and
most successful business men on this con-
tinent He has been nearly forty years
In active business. and has made for him
self an ample fortune If he be not
competent judge of business and indus
trial conditions, where shall we look for
such a Judge?
In his remarkable interview in The Age
Herald he proclaimed his abundant faith
in the whole South as regards material
greatness, and specifically dwelt upon
the greatness OF, Alabama and Birming-
ham.
This is not politics; it is practical
friendship and practical business. The
South ought to know Mr.. Hanna as
powerful friend and Jolly good fell
low" LUCIEN JULIEN WALKER.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
TO A LADY ADMlRING HERSELF IN
A LOOKING GLASS.

By Thomas Randolph.
Fair lady, when you see the grace
OF beauty in your Iooking-glass-
A, stately forehead, smooth and high,
And full of queenly majesty:
sparkling eye no gem so fair.
whose luster dims the Cyprian star;
glorious cheek, diyinely sweet,
wherein both roses kindly meet;
A cherry lip that would entice
Even gods to kiss at any price;
You think no beauty is so rare
That with your shadow might compared
That your reflection is alone
The thing that men most dote upon.
Madam, alas! your glass doth lie,
And you are much deceived; for l
A beauty know of richer grace
Sweet, be not angrR) tits your face.
Hence, then. o, learn more mild to be,
And learn to lay your blame on me,
If me your real substance move,
When you so much your shadow love
Wise nature would not let your eye
Look on her own bright majesty,
Which, had you once but gazed upon.
You could, except yourself, love none.
What then, you cannot love, let me
That face I can. you cannot see.
Now you have what you love-" you'll
say,
What, then, Is left for me. pray?'
My face. sweetheart. If 1t please thee,
That which you can, I cannot, see;
So either love shall gain his due
Yours, sweet in me, and mine in you.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Paul Talks of silk Worms.

Paul Gilardoni, Birminghams well
know chef, besides understanding how to
feed the human race, is an expert at rails
ing silk worms. He can prepare for them
as delicious and tempting a mulberry leaf
as he can satisfy hungry mortal with
n beefsteak la Klotz. Paul, as every
one calls him, comes from Lombardy,
where the raising of silf worms is quite
an industry In jefferson County there are
two negroes who live beyond Red Noun
tain and who have been raising silk
worms for some time 1t is proposed by a
large company to start silk culture in the
south. and they are preparing to buy
large tracts of lands wherever the null
berry will grow to advantage.
Rising silk is less trouble and more
profitable than raising cotton" said Paul
yesterday. THE main thing to raise them
successfully is to have the right kind
of mulberry leaves. This depends on the
way the mulberry trees are planted. They
require a hole four feet square and four
feet deep, and this hole should be filled
with leaves and muck and other rich
soil The tree will then grow to perfec-
tion. When it first puts out leaves in the
spring these are pulled off for the silk
worms and a second crop of leaves begins
to grow.
1.-THE silk worms are of course raised in
doors. The eggs, which are the size of
pinhead, are placed on the leaves. When
they match, out comes a little worm
with hairy skin which eats and grows
for eight days; then it goes to sleep for
three days and wakes up and crawls out
of its skin. 1t then eats and grows for
eight days more, ant by the way it is
vociferous animal and eats mulberry
| leaves very fast when it again goes to
sleep for three days and energies and
crawls out Of its skin. 1t does this four
times and before going to sleep the last
time 1t wraps itself up in the cocoon,
which contains the silk. 1t energies from
this butterfly, lays It's eggs and dies
The cocoon is then dipped In boiling water
to separate the silk, OF which there are
two threads, one of better quality than
the other. About dozen of these threads
are spun to make an ordinary silk thread
There are mulberry trees in this coun-
try concluded Paul, "and 1 see no rea-
son why silk could not be raised here"
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
Available Standing Timber.

The wooded area of the country
the area upon which the timber crop
is growing-has recently been sur
veyed, or rather estimated, by Henry
Gannett, chief topographer Of the Geo
logical Survey. He finds that, includ-
ing Alaska, 81 per cent of the coun-
try Is still forest. In some of the
States the wooded area is very small
lin North Dakota is but 1 per cent.
In that large State there are but 600
square miles of woodland, and in
Rhode Island but 400, and IN Mary
land 700. These are, however, extreme
cases of woodland scarcity. Most of
the States still contain plenty of stand
ing timber.
The wooded area in Alabama is put
at $4,000 square miles, or "A per cent
of the State. In other words, three
quarters of the State is timbered land.
There are 1885 square miles of long
leafed pine in this State; 2307 square
miles of short-leafed pine, and 17.108
of hardwoods. The consumption in
this State in the census year was
1,101,3S6 thousand feet, or about one
thirtieth of the consumption of the
country.
Arkansas contains the highest per-
centage of woodland-S4 per cent.
Maine has 70 per cent. Washington,
West Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia
and Florida, each have over 70 per
cent. These are the States that have
Che highest percentages of timber 1t
is impossible to say with any degree
of accuracy what proportion of all this
timber is of merchantable size, but be
it large or small it is all living timber
IL is growing, and will be available
If preserved, for commercial uses
sooner or later.
The figures that Mr. Gannett fur
MANI II pain LldI IHSle Is III
man living who will see timber fam
inc in this country. He may SEE
higher prices as the timber near navi
gable streams is swept away, but he
will not see an entire exhaustion OF
the timber supply. These facts do not
however, lessen the Importance of pro
ttecting against fire and the like the
forests Of the country. These forests
are a great blessing In many ways
and they should be made to serve
mankind as long as is possible. The
wooded area of the country has been
and still is great source of wealth
and all of 1t is needed, and all of it
will become increasingly valuable
None of it therefore should be wasted
unnecessarily.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
YANKEE HOVES IN SIGHT.
Proposes to Enter Mexico as Meat
Competitor With Spaniards.

Mexico City, April 9.-Hitherto the sup
ply of meat for this city and suburbs has
been almost exclusively in the hands of
the Spaniards who have monopolized the
grocery business. They have stock yards
in their possession, flour mills, retail meat
shops, the tallow candle trade, ETC. Now
the American beef company enters this
city and will establish retail meat shops
on the American system all over the city.
This company will fatten and kill its own
cattle and send meat here IN refrigera-
tor cars from interior points and make
effective competition with the Spaniards.
The grocery trade is already showing
the effects of sharp American cmpe-
tition.
There is much alarm in some quarters
over this SPECIALIZED Yankee invasion of a
long monopolized field.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
virginia's Suffrage Plan.

The constitutional convention of
Virginia, after sitting ten months, has
adjourned until May %, when it will
meet for the purpose of deciding
whether the instrument adopted shall
be submitted to the people or shall be
proclaimed as the fundamental law of
the State. The members are greatly
elated over their work, especially over
their suffrage scheme, and they have
gone home to see how the people re-
ceive it. 1t will probably be pro-
claimed in May as the binding law of
the State.
The suffrage clause was adopted by
a vote of 81 to II, and the members
of the convention think they have done
better than any other State. 1t is
really an adaptation of the Alabama
idea of two sets of electors. The
elector that is to be accepted before
January /, 1904, must meet these quail
fications:
First-That he can read, write or
give a reasonable explanation of the
meaning of any clause of the consti-
tuition.
Second-That he or his father be-
fore him served in the Confederate or
Union armies or nayies during the
civil war.
Third-That he pays taxes upon
about $500 OF property situated in the
State of Virginia.
After January /, 1904, an elector, in
order to be registered, must be able
to write his own application, and must
pay poll tax of $3.50 annually.
1t is difficult to see wherein this
constitution is better than the one
adopted in this State without pro-
longed sessions. Virginia's grand
father clause extends to 1904, whereas
Alabama's has nearly run It's course
SO far as new registrations are con-
cerned, and the Virginia constitution
contains a permanent understanding
clause when it requires man to write
out his own application for registra-
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
Not TO Die Out.

The anti-conventionists, especially
those who live by and in politics,
think the demand for a State primary
on the part of the people is a passing
Wilma mere furry that will soon
blow itself out and will not be heard
from again. They think that long be-
fore August the people will forget their
rights in the making of Nominations,
and will be content to ratify the selec-
lions made for them by middlemen
practically self-appointed, as they have
long done.
Never was there a greater error
than this. Every mans electoral GER
tiicate. newly received, spurs him to
demand his plain undoubted right to
The election of those candidates is in
this State a mere formality, because
there is no real Republican party in
this State. The nomination Is all in
which there is any choice, and this has
heretofore been usurped by a few self
chosen middlemen.
AS the elector, spurred on by his
certificate and by the self-evident fact
that he has been robbed by his politi-
cal privileges, considers the situation
his anger rises. 1t increases instead
of decreases, and the more he thinks
over the matter, the more he dis
cusses it with his neighbor. the more
insistent does he become. The truth
is, We are but at the beginning of
popular storm that will sweep all be-
fore it in this State as it has In Geor-
gia on the one side and in Mississippi
on the other. No one in those States
felt themselves strong enough to stand
against the people, but it is different
in Alabama.
The Age-Herald ventures the predic-
ton that the demand for State pri-
mary will become stronger among the
people each week until it is fully and
frankly granted, simply because it re-
lates to each mans plain rights, and
no man likes to be robbed of his
rights. We have no classes before the
law in Alabama. The law does not
recognize political or ruling class.
All men are-on paper, free and equal,
but thus far 1t is on paper only. The
new electorate proposes to turn the
immortal principle into fact. 1t Is now
theory only in this State-in August
it will be fact, or the voters of Ala
bama will know the reason why and
the men who stood in the way.
The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-10
The Baseball Enthusiast.

1.-THE practice games of Haller's men
attract many fans who are willing to ac-
cept even the shadow of the sport" said
the baseball enthusiast. There is a
healthy spirit in this town that makes
men hungry for baseball, the best of
all outdoor sports. 1t is game that
Is played successfully by strong arms
Joined to cool head, and no others need
apply. The GOODNESS and judgment of the
athletes in an emergency is always inter
esting, and this 1t is that attracts the
people. All they ask in return is good
ball playing, and Haller's men will be
ready to give them the real article when
the season Is opened in the last week Of
this month.
pitcher Smith is TO be the star this
year, that Is plain. He is hardy and
there Is very little in the game he cam
not do well. He is a terror in the box,
and he seems to be as good at the bat
or in base running as the best of them.
He may not hold up to present promise.
but at the outset he will fill the star
part"