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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
The Youngest Spy.

Henry S. Carr, now a deputy at the
county jail, was one of the youngest
spies in the service of either side in
the war between the North and the
South. At the age of 10 Mr.. Carr re-
ceived his first instruction.
1t was the year that the Louisville
forts were built. The order for all
able-bodied men of certain ages to as
sist in the construction of the forts
had been issued, and many Southern
sympathizers were looking about for
some way to evade the edict, says the
Louisville Courier-Journal. Judge s.
A. Carr, father of the deputy jailer,
openly declared that he would do no
work for the soldiers from the North.
He also declared that his negroes
should not help build the forts, and
the officer in command of the federal
troops heard of it. A squad of soldiers
was dispatched at double-quick time to
the Carr homestead, which was with
in hundred yards of Western Park.
When the soldiers arrived they
found a barefoot boy sitting upon a
fence post. He was swinging his legs
and whistling as only some boys can.
A lieutenant was in charge of the sol
diers and he drew rein when he saw
the boy. He inquired for Judge Carr.
The boy shook his head and answered
that he did not known him.
The soldiers passed. An hour later
they returned and the boy was still
upon the gate post. All day the sol
diers searched in the woods and all
day the boy sat upon the gate post.
The following morning the soldiers
returned and again the boy was upon
the gate post.
Il sat there for about four days."
said Mr.. Carr. MY father and several
neighbors and all of their negroes
were hid in the woods, and by means
of signal code we were able to COM
municate with one another.
Two or three men were stationed in
the treetops. We all had white hand
kerchiefs. / watched the soldiers. One
wave meant that they were in the
neighborhood, two meant that they
were leaving, and three meant that
they were not in sight and that all
was we'll"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
Mrs. Lincoln,s Pension Petition.

Col. Walter H. French, file clerk
of the House, has, perhaps without
exception, the finest collection of
scrap books of any public man in the
country, says the Washington Times.
Not only scrap books, however, but
autographs of statesmen long since
passed away, and rare old public doc
uments, the history of which is most
fascinating.
Among his collection is the original
petition of Mrs. Lincoln, widow of the
martyred President. to the Congress
of the United States. asking for a pen
sion- The petition is signed Mrs. A
Lincoln"
A copy of that petition was printed
a few years ago. Just now it is of
peculiar interest, the statement having
been recently made that the widow of
no President had ever applied for a
pension.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
He Knew the Dog.

From Defiance, Ohio, comes the
story of a negro named Crow employ
ed on the Maumee stock farm, neal
Toledo, that state. The overseel
missed a valuable sheep dog, and
asked Grow as to it's whereabouts
Crow done sold him 'safternoor
TO- ten dollahs, sab.
Overseer-You sold him! Why, you
black hulk, what blazing right have
you to sell anything around this
place? Go and get him back again OF
I'll break you in half!
CNow-Doan' lose yo' tempah, sab
-doan'. He'll be back in tn mawnin
sah He allus comes back. I've done
sold him a dozen times afore, an he
allus come back in tn mawnin', sab.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
He Did Not Know.

While making speech in favor OF
admitting Arizona and New Mexico
as one state Congressman Lacey re
ferred to the probability that Dele
gates Smith and Rodey might then
become United States senators. "And
they would be a fine pair he added
ITO draw to- said Rodey, who sat
near by. Lacey looked at the man
from New Mexico a moment and then
said with impressive so1emnity: 81 dc
not know what the gentleman means
Then everybody said: oh, no." for il
is believed that the Iowa congress.
man knows the value of a pair OF
aces about as well as any poker play.
er in the house.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

difference in dialect renders COM
munication very dificuIt. The ''ka-
matok," or custom of killing the sick
and aged, commonly practiced on the
Siberian coast, and ST. Lawrence Is
land, is almost unknown, but the in
exorable rigor of nature on this bar
ran rock efficiently provides for the
survival of the fttest only.
Sometimes the island has been
swept by epidemics which have
threatened determination of the
tribe; as in the summer of 1900, when
disease carried on at least a third of
the entire population The previous
winter had been a hard one, and the
passing of the ice had found the peo-
pie weakened by hunger and unable
to take advantage of the spring hunt
ing season; few seal or walrus were
taken, and a whaler visiting the
island to trade had left the disease
which spread rapidly and disastrous
1y, as it always does in the fertile soil
of a primitive race. When the United
States revenue cutter Bear visited
the island on the I'd of July, 1900.
many had died and nearly all were
sick, but little could be done except
to give them the food so much needed
On the second visit of the Bear in
August the island was found entirely
deserted by the natives. Lean dogs
walled dismally from the rocks as our
boat approached. Not live human
being was to be found, but the trail OF
the pestilence was everywhere visible.
Later it was learned that the sur
viving King Islanders had crossed
over to the mainland and established
themselves near Cape Nome and Port
Clarence. Some have returned again
to the island, but the time ceems not
far distant when the remnant of the
tribe will be absorbed by the natives
of the mainland, and ore of the last
and most interesting relics of tbs
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
or dll[l4pfirsa Idles

brigade meet the charging rebel lines
in crash well calculated to develop
all the ferocity in soldier nature.
Il remember that as / looked at the
faces of our men as they went over
the first rebel line and into the second,
/ had a feeling of dismay at what
might happen Every face was ablaze
with fury, and the men as they sprang
forward into the melee looked like so
many demons That was a time for
cruelty. That was a time for brutal
thrust and merciless stroke, but in an
instant, it seemed to me, two or three
hundred confederates threw down
their rifles, unbuckled their belts, and
threw their cartridge boxes to the
ground, and there, in the midst of the
battle, / saw our men offer their cam
teens to and shake hands with the
men who, ten minutes before, they had
been striving to KILL Inter
Ocean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
HELLENEs SHOW AMERICAN SPIRIT
A Greek Newspaper Published In the
American Metropolis.

A Greek Newspaper Published In the
American Metropolis
The man in the street does not hear
the newsboys cry, "Ere's yore Their
mopylae,'' and is ignorant of the ex-
istence of a newspaper published in
New York in the type that has not
met his eye since he laid down his
Xenophon and Homer, and, in the rush
of business, proceeded to forget his
little Latin and less Creek Yet
"Thermopylae," which justly claims
the title of 1.-The only organ of HELEN
ism in the United" is a thriving news
paper, and its extra number just issued
in honor of the anniversary of the
declaration of Greek independence is
an unusually interesting publication.
The national colors of blue and white
are shown in the ink used, and edi-
torials by the most prominent Greeks
and philhellenists of the country flank
present-day advertisements that look
queer in their old-new alphabetic
dress.
''Lordos Buron'' does not seem so
strange that it needs his picture to
identify him. But it takes more than
a momentary glance to detect in Sam
uel G. Khaou, the personality of
Samuel G. Howe. The masquerading
of other well-known English and
American names and phrases is
equally fantastic. The Greek compos-
itor is at times troubled by the numer-
Gus English quotations, as when he
alters Byron's invocation to Greece. so
that it reads:
yet are thy skies as blue, thy
brags as wild,''
But on the whole "Thermopy1ae'' is
highly creditable to its publishers and
to the Greek colony whose interests it
representatives. York Mail and Ex-
press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

toned stone lamp comprise the entire
culinary outfit. This lamp, fed with
seal oil, emits more ill-smelliag smoke
than light or heat, and serves all the
purposes Of a stove, but most of the
food is eaten raw, or nearly so. Seal
oil and walrus meat. and at certain
seasons sea fowl. with an occasional
dinner of tom cod or ether fish, boiled
or dried and eaten raw, form the
almost unvarying diet of the King
Islander. OF vegetables they know
nothing from one end of their lives to
the other Tea and tobacco, their only
Injuries are shared impartially by
al ages and both sexes.
In appearance the Kins Islanders
most resemble the Eskimo OF the ad-
5acent Alaska coast, who are the only
people with whom they have any in
tereou-se, and with whom they are
closely allied In their customs and su-
perBf1tions. and even With 3eso the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
Tn. rr..,a.nr. rnoasnsfula....

1t was expected that during his re
cent southern trip President Roose
welt would pass through Stallsville
s. c.. and the town got ready to give
the best reception in its power. The
school children were to sing for him
and the whole place was to be en- fete
But bad spot in the road forced 8
change Of route and Sta1lsville was
much disappointed On learning
all this the president sent an auto
graph letter to the teacher of the
school expressing his regret at his in
ability to keep to the program. He
also sent to the school a large photo
graph OF himself.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

The Only Pensioned Veteran of 1912.
Hiram Cronk of Ava, veteran of
the War of 1912, and the last surviving
pensioner of that struggle, was 102
years old April 20. Heretofore the day
has been celebrated in some appropri-
ate manner by the relatives and
friends of the old veteran, but owing
to the advanced years of Mr.. Cronk
and the fact that he has been some
what feeble for some time past, it was
deemed unwise to mark the occasion
this year by any special event
Mr.. Cronk was born in the town of
Frankfort, Herkimer county, April 20,
1900. but in his early youth moved to
this county and lived for some time at
Wright Settlement, the family later
moving farther north and locating IN
the town of Ava. During the last
months of the War of 1912 Mr.. CronK.
then a mere STRIPPING, enlisted with
his father and two brothers and served
about 100 days at Sackett's Harbor.
For a long time he received but So
month pension, but within the past
few months, by a special act of Con-
gress, his pension had been increased
to $25.-Utica Daily Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
sznHH,
At Gettysburg.

AS the One Hundred and Forty-sev-
enth New York was making its glo-
rious record, the Iron Brigade swept
forward and entered the woods just
as Reynolds was being carried to the
rear dead The West had in that line
its noblest sons, there to defend and
to crimson the soil of our state with
their blood, and what a fight they
made on that July morningi OF this
brigade the Twenty-fourth Michigan
lost 60 per cent killed and wounded,
and, in addition, SO missing; the
Nineteenth Indiana lost Sc per cent
and so missing; the Second Wiscon-
sin AZ per cent and 20 missing; the
Seventh Wisconsin Al per cent and
AZ missing. This regiment had 10 Of
ficers and 271 men killed in battle
during its term of service Taking
the i've regiments of the Iron Brigade
as a whole. we find the killed and
wounded to have been 49.5 per cent.
with 249 missing, many of whom were
among the dead
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
a sever. comparI.on.

We sincerely trust that when the
question of state aid and state en-
couragement to agriculture comes to
be seriously taken in hand by the gov
eminent of India the reports of the
board of agriculture in England will
be studied merely for the purpose of
learning how things should not be
done. As well take a half-crow7 en-
CINE as a model for an up-to-date loco
motive as the board of agriculture in
England as a model for imitation in
India--Madras Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
AN ESKIMO VILLAGE


Few maps show Oo-ghee-a-book or
King Island, which is situated in
North Behring sea, about thirty miles
south of the straits ond about eighty
miles below the Arctic circle. Its pre-
cipitous walls of volcanic rock rise
almost perpendicularly from the deep
icy sea to a height of nearly eight
hundred feet. and the never-ending
surges of these restless waters dash
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
The Loving Dead.

The Loving Dead.
We hold our sacred dead aIoof,
We put them by like treasures old,
No more for them hearth roof,
But narrow dwellings lone and cold
The dear warm hearts that fell asleep.
Why shun them in our secret thoughtz
Why ever at a distance keep,
As if some change were IN them
wrought?
They cease not from their constant love
They are not strange and far away;
Their presences about US move
Closer than presences of clay
How it must grieve them. when they come
Heart-close. and find no welcome there!
Or whisper love. and find us dumb,
Forgetful, hedged with servile care!
Oh, let us hold our dear ones close
Closer and closer. when they move
Beyond the veil. For no one knows
The preciousness of human Lowell
james Buckham in Christian Advocate
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

1T was not necessary" SAID the cap
tain, Ito restrain the boys from cruel
ty- 1t was not in the soldiers of forty
years ago to be cruel l served from
first to last in the same brigade with
General Jacob H. Smith, now in the
Philippines He was an Illinois boy
and 1 was an Ohio boy. but we both
enlisted in the Second Kentucky vol
unteer infantry. mainly because it
was reported that Major Anderson,
just arrived from Fort Sumter, was to
command the brigade.
Our. first experience of war was
in the mountains of West Virginia,
but our first great battle was Shiloh,
where Captain Smith was left on the
Held wounded He recovered rapidly,
however, and was soon with his COM
pany. At Stone River. saw that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

The secret may as well be out NJ
Santos-Dumont does not spend his
spare moments in putting at cigarette
or in slipping innocuous-1ooking mixed
drinks Far from it He devotes his
time to embroidery, to knitting and
even to the more df1icult accomplish
ment of tapestry-making. He revels in
all the light bits of needlewcrk that are
supposed to belong exclusively to fem-
ininffx. and, what is more, does not
care VINO knows ft--Detroit Fxee
Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

the civil war is claimed by Gilbert
Van Zandt of Kansas City. Van Zandt
was 10 years old when he enlisted as
a drummer boy August 6. 1852, in
Company d, Seventy-ninth Ohio Vol
unteers, in the little village of Port
William, Clinton county, Ohio. His
discharge at the close of the war de-
scribes his as a soldier Is years old
and feet high He was born at
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

ssWhy, Jack Benton. what's the mat
ter with your" she exclaimed in aston
ishment and alarm
Are you i'll? You're as white as a
sheet,''
Jack rose unsteadily- Then he pulled
himself together with a mighty effort
Nothing, nothing at all, Nan, ex-
cept, don't you gee? I'm the other fell
lowi"
Turning toward the gas jet he pulled
out his watch.
Its half past nine, now. I'll just
have time to catch the train for the
South, if I run for it Oh, my poor
darling, what she has suffered Good
bye, Nan, wish me lucki" and the
front door closed behind him. almost
before the girl realized what he was
doing.
Nan still stood where he had left
her. The study light burned clear, the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

TUCK! ana inc ITOnt uOOr CIOS6Q
behind him.
fire cleaned red in the CRATE. Pres
emily the sight of these familiar things
soothed her and she came back to
everyday life.
who ever imagined such a thingi"
She picked up Sadie Aliens letter,
and held it irresolutely between thumb
and foref1nger.
"And yet, poor Jack, Good position.
good looks, good family, good habits,
everything except good judgment
Why, the chances are that she'll refuse
him. Women are such fools!"
Then she resolutely laid the letter on
the Goals.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

You find yourself refreshed by the
presence of cheerful people; why
not make earnest efforts to confer
that pleasure on others? You will
ind half the battle Is gained IL you
will never allow yourself to say any
thing gloomy.-Lydia NJ Child.
The fertile field becomes sterile win
out rest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

men of the stone age will pass inte
legend and tradition.-World's Work
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

GO, 1110Sc0s NC 5eI0s SlEu
please Begin
had, according to the poor. pftiful ut
tie note she wrote me- When she
reached home that girl found that Tom
Andrews had married her mother, and
was her step-father instead Of her
lover! It seems he had found out
where the money was in that family.
BY this time. you must have guessed
that the girl was Ethel Fanshawe.
Now. did you ever hear anything
Mko that ?" said Nan. folding the let
~, e put It back into its envelope.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

Gilbert Van Zandt at the Time of His
Discharge from the Army in 1865.
Port William, Ohio, December 20, 1851.
He is a member of the Farragut-
Thomas Post, No. 8, Department or
Missouri, G. A. r.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
The Youngest Soldier.

The honor of having been the
youngest regularly enrolled soldier of
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-29
NO SUGAR WAR
DECLARED YET
California Beet Interests Not Con-
cerned in forming New
Trust.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 21-The pro-
posed consolidation of beet sugar inter-
ests which has kept the speculative mar
ket guessing for so long a time, seems
TO be well under way in the East, but
the men prominently identified locally
with the industry profess TO have no in
formation on the subject. Dispatches
yesterday told of the arrival of former
CONGRESSMAN James Hamilton Lewis OF
Washington, in Chicago, with the an
nouncement that deal had practically
been completed whereby the many indie
pendent beet sugar companies of the
West would unite to form a single cor
poration, capitalized at 800, 0.co0. and
fight the Havemeyer sugar trust to
finish. Lewis is president of the Idaho
Sugar Refining Company. and he said
that he spoke for a number Of corpora
lions besides his own. II was intlmated
that the Oxnard influence OF this city
was back of the movement
Vice-President Robert OXnard Of the
American Beet-Sugar Company said yes
terday: The first news 1 received of
sugar companies came in my morning
bur you can say positively that the
American Beet-Sugar Company is not
in the deal. 1 never heard OF James
Hamilton Lewis before and he does not
speak for US in any way am quite
sure that he never approached US on the
subject"
In reply to a direct question as to the
probability OF the formation of a trust
TO fight the Havemeyer trust, Mr.. OK
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-29

BUSINESS much
of
another traction TO the ] Oh ~ s hi shows the trend the d,v
for
hold long lines and who feel that they are safe with
able and paid which was taken without any waiting at sou o
and the Manager Mcsker and his personal
holders of the stock
Should of this stock
O. r. 8 L. Co and oaha are quoted at y" ana .hsa "a s n
bylaws
which
me, na S Of other @ ,bns denied in the old by
of the original corporation
part of the schmidt estate The main body the lands
the old Schmidt house. and there already
seems to be sympathy with stocks the sree ha,
There have been some changes prospect but these have
will reach
with holders that within short
There have been
homeb 81
THE YEARS ASSESSMENTS
assessment
practcaly
the other islands hope to get
and assessor whfOns for Hawaii -, - -,
plantations this year said Assessor Pratt yesterday The Board OF
% an @ n n rnaivsd for their
mates and though the returns made oS the managers M @
independent valuation based
upon
thought Of The
whether they
in making these maj estimates me vaau s d year
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-29

The Grippe. This can be avoided by
taking teaspoonful doses OF Pain-Killer
in hot water. sweetened, as well as by
external applications; fun directions on
each bottle. A bottle Of the Pain-Kill-
err kept in the house will prove valua-
BILE. not only for the grippe. but for
ordinary coughs and colds. Avoid sub
stitutes. there Is but one Pain-Killer,
Perry Davis. Price Is cents and so
cents.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-29

nard said: THAT has been proposed
time and again. Perhaps some day the
suggestions that have been offered may
materialize and it is not impossible that
some such results as Lewis speaks of
may come OF present plans. But all that
is a matter of speculation. Up to date
there has been no consolidation and no
definite plans made, far as my COM
pany is concerned"
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-03-29
Bells!
Bells!
Bells!
All Kinds, Shapes Sizes


We will install one for you complete
and in first class working order. for 81.
There is no EUREKA or Improved
Eureka Paint INCLUDED in above
contracts, but we sell it just the same;
SIPS per single gallon. or s1.Oo per gall
lon in five-gallon lots and over.
This is conceded to be the best paint
on the market for foundations. boilers
or smokestacks. and for submarine
work Send US trial order.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06


sediment or set
thing indicates an
unhealthy condi-
ton of the kid
neys; if it stains
your linen it is
evidence of kid
ney trouble; too
frequent desire to
pass 1t or pain in
the hack ie aI,>
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1902-03-06
NO IMPROVEMENT.
What about 1t?

When we reached the close of 1901
It was general remark that the first
year OF the new century had been
quite disastrous one In many res
poets. Every one was willing to ex-
press the hope that this year would
not be marked By so many distressing
accidents and calamities throughout
the country but there seems little, if
any, improvement over last year.
There seems especially scourage of
fires throughout the country already.
Conf1agratlon after ccnfagration has
been reported from various parts Of
this country, and other disasters have
been reported from foreign lands.
Let US all hope that we have seen
the worst, and that with the opening
OF balmy spring We shall hear less OF
these things that are painful to con-
template.