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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03
Nesv york.s Edsf Side.
Peculiar Life and Society that is a World
by Itself-A .S1umrnins n Trip

There WON'T be d3thin' but things doin'
then
The agile mans prophecy was AL
ready being fuInlled and when the mu-
sic stopped there was a general ''gittln
together" The men who had been
dancing placed their partners In chairs
and standing before them famed them
Vigorously, One young man who
could not find a seat for his partner.
gently tipped her against one of tho
pillars and famed her frantically with
a handkerchiefzwhich he held by two
of it's corners. twas evidently looked
upon as a great joke and when another
young man called across the hall.
Save your strength. Danny, she'll be
side steppin' when you are dragged to
your corner" the Other Half applauded
uproariously.
The lancers was announced as the
next dance by a pasteboard sign hung
from the piano. and as the sets were
being formed Rrggies calmly asked
his compaion If he might have the
pleasure of the 1ancers." He did not
wait for a response, but took the girl
by the arm and led her to vacant
place in one of the sets. A prefer
naturally solemn man and an icily
naughty, blonde made up the couple
opposite her mi .sess
She was beginning to look upon this
man with a good deal of difhdence.
when suddenly in "a forward and
back he clutehed her convulsively
around the waist, drew her close to
him and with the ease and rapidity
of cream separator whirled her
around eight times in a space that did
not seem to her larger than a twenty
five cent piece. When she had OBJ
tanned her bearings once more she
was surprised to find that the man
still retained his immobility.
Not long after the square dance one
of the. amateur slumologist's pupils
discovered him and with grave cour-
tesy brought one of his friends to be
introduced to the slumologist's COM
panion. From his manner and make
up the friend evidently was a young
man of sporting sprocivities. He wore
a deep red stock. a thin striped waist
coat affected by coaching men a short
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03
storm OF Feathers.

There was storm of white feathers
in the business district of Kansas City
the other day. The downy feathers,
like snowfakes, were borne upon the
wind. whirling around corners, twist
ing in eddies behind billboards and in
alleys, piling up in banks in the shell
ter of curbstones, and buildings, and
clinging to electric wires until they
were festooned in long strings of
white that looked like real snow. The
feathers came from the factory of the
Kansas City Feather company, and
there were about half a car load of
them altogether. The feathers es-
capped from the factory by an accident
to the machinery. 1t will not be per-
mitted to happen again, for the feath-
ers that were lost were the best goose
feathers and were worth to the COM
pany about SIS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

The Hon. John C. Linehan, insur-
ance commissioner of New Hampshire.
and one of the prominent members of
the pension committee of the Grand
Army of the Republic, is one of the
most accomplished Gaelic scholars in
this country, and received a degree
from Dartmouth college for marked
proficiency in the ancient language.
The other evening he remarked to the
writer: up in Canada, not far from
Did Arcadia, there is a large territory,
:omposed of nineteen counties where
English is never heard. Gaelic only
is spoken, and it is taught in the
schools and preached in the churches.
The people are largely Catholic and
Presbyterian, and the old tongue
keeps them on excellent terms. 1t is
a country where vice and crime are
unknown, and where bolts and bars
are never considered necessary"
Mr. Linehan's brother is pastor of
one of the Portland (Me.) churches,
and on one occasion recently an old
lady from that particular country
and who was born and raised there
went to confession, and 1t was found
that she had no word but Gaelic.
Luckily the good father was versed in
the language and was equal to the
emergency--New Century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

An Absent Minded Ribbon Clerk,
jacket and peg-top trousers. He ap-
peared to be quite at home at such
social affairs, and when the young
woman, having apparently no alterna-
tive acceded to his request for the
next waltz, his hand went involuntari-
ly to the. side of his forehead During
the dance he talked to her in the gay
persif1age of the world as he knew it.
He told her that her dancing was just
like stepping on eggs and that she
was beautifully gated and bitted, and
when he found a place for her and
she had thanked him. he replied gal
lantly, keep the change"
Beer and ale were sold at a counter
in one corner of the. hall and between
dances there was a spirited demand
for these beverages.
After the dance the young lady went
home to the -Other Half with far
better understanding of the East Side
of New York The s"Other Half is
eminently respectable at all it's func-
lions, and SO are its manners.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

A curious business has just been dis
covered by the Russian police. For
some time it has been known that q
large number of political prisoners and
exiles succeed in escaping across the
frontier when once they are out of the
clutches of the police, but their method
of doing SO has been q mystery. BY
an accident, however, secret factory
for forged passports has been discov-
cred at Odessa The factory was ad-
mirably organized and did a vast and
lucrative business. A big stan of
printers and engravers was employed.
as well as secretary, who possessed
the peculiar qualification of being able
to forge the signature of any ponce Of
fetal in Russia The owner also OBJ
tanned genuine passports from poor
citizens in his employ, who had, Of
course. no difhculty In getting them
from the police. and from these the
original names were erased by chem-
1cal meann-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

There Is more C&tatrL IN TINS secrIon or tho
country than all other diseases put together.
incurable For q great many years doctors pro-
nounced it a local disease, and prescribed la4el
remedies, and by constantly failing to cure
Science has proven catarrh to be a constitu-
tiOnal disease, and therefore requires conStl-
tutional treatment Halls Catarrh Cure, man
ufactured by F. ]. Cheney s. Co, Toledo. Ohio,
is the only constitutional cure on the market
1t is taken internally in doses from 10 drops to
q teaspoonful 1t acts directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system They oher
hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure.
Send for circulars and testimonials Address
F. ]. CHENEY s. CO., Toledo, Ohio.
SoId by Druggists, 7oc-s ii;sss
Halls FamiIv Pills are the best
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

A bull which was brought to town
on a steamboat to- be slaughtered
broke away from its custodians yes
terday and was chased to the rivers
edge. Plunging, into the icy waters
of the Ohio it started down the stream
and swan a distance of four miles to
the foot OF B1ennerhasset Island and
found its way into the stable where
it belonged. It was brought back on
steamboat, and escaped the second
time, sWimming the river to the Ohio
side. fafle below Here, where it vas
captured this neutrality-suspicious.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03
The MAKING OF 4 BILLIARD BALL


Care and Time Required to Produce the
white Spheres
It takes more than a year to make
q billiard BALL Few devotees of the
game probably are aware of the infin-
lite pains that have to be expended
on this important part of the equip
ment that contributes to their enter
tainment.
Billiard balls are made from ele-
phants tusks, and only the small
tusks, from four to six inches in
diameter, will do, for these furnish
the best ivory. The price of this ivory
has greatly increased of late, and the
demand is far in excess of the supply
This stringency in the market has IN
duced a prominent billiard company
to offer SIC. 900 for a perfect substitute
for ivory.
factories cut up in sections, each hav-
ing been cut just large enough TO
allow of the turning of a single ball.
Only skilled labor is employed to
work upon it. The exact center OF the
piece must first be discovered by
measurement. 1t is then placed in
socket, and one-half of the ball Is
turned by sharp-edged steel instru-
ment. The ivory is then hung up in
net for a time Later the second
half is turned, and the ball again
hung up as before, in a room where
the temperature is from 60 to 20 de-
grees.
The ball must be kept thus suspend
ed for about year, when it is rubbed
and polished so as TO near a certain
weight as possible, and to dame
ter of two and three-eighths inches.
Even with the greatest care it is i'm
possible to make two balls of exact
ly the same weight.
The life of billiard ball after 1t is
placed in use is an uncertain quantity.
If the room in which it is kept is too
hot the pores of the ivory may close,
and crack ensues. Then it has to be
returned to the factory, where 1t 10
shaved OF and consequently reduced
IN size. A second-rate billiard room
gets it next. By and by it develops
another crack, and again goes back TO
the factory, where this time it is prob
ably fixed up for a cue ball in pool.
When it has reached its last limit OF
usefulness as ball it is bought by
dealers in bone and ivory and turned
into buttons.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

have been it was without doubt cosmo-
politan- Surely there was at least one
patriot for each flag on the walls.
When they had found chairs a man
In an evening suit that obviously was
used to working in night and day
shifts, darted through the throng
with agile and elaborate grace and
stood bowling before them.
''They amt really got together yet"
be said, apologetically waving at the
same time to the men leaning against
the windows and the girls m the
chairs The men were smoking cigars
and the girls were for the most part
looking at their neighbor's Jewels
~Hcuse Nait till they gita warmed up.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

This is the tale of young lady
visitor to New York, who had an in
tense desire to go stunning"
The great difficulty she found in the
carrying out of her plans was the alb
solute indifference with which her host
and hostess looked upon Summing
they were New Workers. When she
limited that a few gaslight glimpses
of the city might prove more educating
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03


rience. Hundreds of dollars went to the
doctor and the druggist was simply
q walking medicine chest and phys
ica1 wreck Ny sister residing in Ohio
wrote me that she had been cured OF
womb trouble by using Lydia e.
Pinkham'S Vegetable Com
pound, and advised me to try it. /
then discontinued all other med icines
and gave your Vegetable Compound q
thorough trial. With, four weeks
nearly all pain had left me; rarely
had headaches, and my nerves were in
a much better condition, and 1 was
cured in three months, and this avoided
a terrible surgical operation. y MRS
EcKIs STEVENSON, $50 So. State St.,
Salt Lake City, Utah.-S5000 forfeit II
abo0s testimonial is not genuine.
Remember every woman IL
cordially invited to write to Mrs.
Pinkham If there is anything
about her symptoms she does not
understand. Mrs. Pinkham's
address is Lynn. Mass.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

Senator Hoar received word the
other day that a friend who had been
supposed to have appendicitis was suf-
fering not from that eilment, but from
acute indigestion That is good
news" said the senator. Il rejoice
that the trouble lies in the table Of
contents rather than in the appendix. %
DIR. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin cures in
digestion and constipation. All drug
giStS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

A man loses lots of money expert
menting with schemes to make none
without work ~
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

Superior quality and extra quantity
must win. This is why Defiance Starch
Is taking the place of all Others -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03
Do Your Rect Ache and Durn9

Do Your Feet Ache and Burnt
Shake into your shoes, Aliens Foot
Ease, = powder for the feet. It makes
tight or New Shoes feel Easy. Cures
Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Hot and
Sweating Feet At all Druggists and
Shoe Stores. 35e- Sample sent FREE.
Address Allen s. Olmsted ,LeRoy, NY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

Bloobs- Miss Oldgirl actually cried
when 1 kissed her." Slobbs-"Cried
for more, / suppose ets..--
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03
The SURGEONS KNIFE


"DEAR Mrs. PNKHAM 81 suffered
with Inflammation of the ovaries and
and pains which none can dream of but
those who have had the same expe-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

Pfso's euro is me best medicine NO ever use<
for all affections Of the throat and lungs--W1g
O ENDaL1x. vanburon. Ind. Feb. 10. 1901
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

II there is anything worse than tn.
man who whistles it is the woman
who tries to.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

Every sensible man always makes
his wife an allowance so, he can have
so1He one to borrow from and not pay
back.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

This would be q far more desirable
world to live in were it not for the
fact that too many people are always
doing their best to do their worst.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

Necessity is not the only mother Of
invention but the divorced wife of
plenty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-05-03

Keep them white with Red Cross Ball Blue
All grocers sell large o. package, s cents
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16

4 y FL - "a.
on to Omaha Tuesday evening to- at
tend the big meeting of the Christian
church there of which church he is a
preacher.
Jimmie Rutherford got back last
Wednesday and began Immediately to
work in the Farmers store for John
Rutherford. Jimmie has been up in
Crawford county last summer work
ing and has worked in the store before
and knows where to go to find things.
Quite number from here went to
Ames on the excursion last Friday to
take in the sights and become some
what acquainted with the workings of
the school. 1t was good trip and
many learned things of the general
work that they had not learned before.
II. H. Williamson, over southwest
of town, went up to Manning Tues
day to meet an old comrade who
served with him during the civil war
in the seth Ind, and whom he has not
seen since '64. They had only few
short hours together but they spent it
nicely talking over old times and
when the time came to part there were
still SO many things to say that it was
with hungry hearts to tell more that
they knew.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16
origin Of the Jinrikisha.

Most travellers in Japan would sup
pose that so general Japanese insti-
tuition as the jinrikisha was of native
origin, but not SO. An old resident of
Yokohama writes to the Kobe Chroni-
Gle: "For several years after the insti-
tuition of the jinrikisha it was general
ly understood among foreigners in 70
kohama that Mr.. Goble, half cobbler,
half missionary was its inventor. Mr..
Goble, though rough looking sort Of
man, was regarded by the foreign resi-
dents Of the port as an honest, con-
sistent missionary. believe 1t was he
who built the first missionary chapel
in Yokohama, and as long as it lasted
it was known as Coolies church, He
was in the habit Of taking long ram
bles in the country and doing little
peddling business, and, if my memory
serves me rightly, he gave commits
sion to q blacksmith either in Kawasa-
ki ION the Tokaido, between Yokohama
and Tokyo or in Fujisawa to construct
the first jinrikisha. The vehicle took
at once with the Japanese, but not so
among the foreigners, with whom it
was some time before it became a pop
ular means Of locomotion. Mr.. Goble
was an American citizen"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16
A Poor Compliment.

"People don't often insult you when
they mean to be gracious" said an art
list the other day. Insults are the Gre
atoms of Ill nature and not mere mat
tiers of words. But l had an expert
ence that made me laugh and yet irri-
tated me-"
Somebody take one Of your snow
scenes for a spring landscape?" in
CURED an amiable friend.
NO." replied the artist; this was
not matter Of professional pride. A
tradesman sent me a bill in which he
unintentially charged me only about a
third Of what owed Kim"
Thought he stood better chance
Of getting 1T, l suppose" interrupted
the facetious friend.
''Now, hold on, Billy, and let me tell
the story. Well, that was the second
time he had sent a bill for less than I
owed, and l wrote him note calling
his attention to the error. This morn
ing 1 got letter from him in which
he thanked me for my honesty A
man may thank you for your courtesy
or for your Kindness, but when he
thanks you for being honest it is an
insult. One might as well praise a
man for not beating his wife,"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16
Taking Him at His Word.

Joseph Jefferson in his biography
relates what was probably the last jest
of Artemus Ward When the famous
wit lay dying in southampton, he was
attended by his devoted friend Tom
Robertson, the author of Caste" who
was also friend of Jefferson.
"Just before Wards DEATH" writes
Mr.. Jefferson, Robertson poured out
some medicine in a glass and offered
it to his friend.
Ward said:
"'My dear Tom, 1 can't take that
dreadful stuff
"'Come, come said Robertson, urg-
ing him to swallow the nauseous drug.
There's a good fellow. Do, now, for
my sake. You know would do any
thing for you
"'Would youT said Ward, feebly
stretching out his hand to grasp his
friends, perhaps for the last time.
"I would indeed said Robertson.
"'Then you take it, said Ward.
''The humorist passed away a few
hours later"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16
Their Teeth Betray Them,

"There is only one feature Of an ac-
tor which will give him away when
disguised in perfect makeup" re-
marked a young actor, "and that fea-
ture is the teeth. Let man do what
he will to his face, let him cover it
with all kinds Of paint, beard, whisk-
ers and what not, but the teeth will
disclose his indubitable indemnity d.
rectly he opens his mouth to speak q
line or to emit laugh.
II myself, when sitting in the front
of house watching other peoples per-
formances, have frequently been puz-
cling myself as to the identity Of a
cleyerly made up player, but no sooner
has the said player disclosed his ivo-
ries' than I have at once spotted him,
provided, of course, he has Glanced to
be man whose face 1 know moder-
ately well. Strangely enough, hardly
any one is aware of this curious truth,
but it remains an undeniable fact all
the same"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16
COLLISION WITH A COMET.
What Such Catastrophe Would
Mean For the Earth.

Although 1t is exceedingly improba-
BILE that the earth may be destroyed by
collision with comet or some huge
meteor, still the fact that such con-
tingency is possible is sufficient ground
for discussion on the subject and for
imagining what the result might be,
says the Woman's Home Companion.
The earth is moving around the sun
at velocity Of eighteen miles a sec
onds while the sun, with all its attend
ant planets. is being hurried on toward
the great fiery constellation of Hercu-
les at a far greater velocity. The very
fact that small meteors exist proves
the possibility of the existence in space
of meteors Of inconceivable magnitude.
Even great black dead worlds may lie
In our path, like breakers in the path OF
ship. Fifty miles second is not an
unusual velocity for heavenly bodies,
and some are known to move at a
speed even in excess of a hundred
miles a second, five hundred times the
speed Of a rifle ball. Small meteorites,
which reach the earth at velocity of
from twenty to thirty miles a second,
are instantly consumed by the friction
generated with the atmosphere. Large
meteors, however, occasionally reach
the earth, escaping destruction from
their size, but are found to have theh
surfaces fused from heat generated by
the passage through the atmosphere.
Although it is not probable still it is
possible, that the earth may some time
encounter such shower of small me.
teors, perhaps in the form of comet,
that the heat Of combustion from fric-
tien with our atmosphere and the poi.
sonous gases thereby generated might
destroy all terrestrial life.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16
The Royal Color.

Purple has always been considered
the royal color. The ill fated Charles
I. was, however, at his own desire,
crowned in robe of white Although
he was seriously reminded that Of the
two exceptions to this rule, Richard II.
and Henry VI, who wore white satin
robes at their coronations, both had
come to violent end, one at Ponte-
tract castle and one in the Tower,
Charles I. was resolute in his decision,
and, when, twenty three years after
ward, almost to day, his body was
conveyed to It's grave through heavy
snowstorm, the superstitious could not
help remarking that the third white
king" had suffered violent DEATH
st. James Gazette.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1902-10-16

Jack Lancelot got back home Sun.
day from his Missouri trip and ex.
poets to again leave next week. He
suited couple of investors so that
they have purchased about five hun
dred acres of the land and now has
quite number who are interested.
Mrs. Wilson has been enjoying a
visit for the past two weeks from an
uncle and his wife from some point in
Pennsylv al ia. They departed for
home last Friday after having had a
splendid good time. She also had a
neice who lives in the east part of the
state here visiting her.
Geo. Gray is back this week attend
ing to matters of business. He Is
thoroughly imbued with the possi-
bilities and greatness ofTexas and is
talking that country to all his friends.
He expects to go back down there
next Monday and if possible take
along lot of excursionists.
Honas Mundt was busy the first of
the week moving into the upstairs of
the building just west of the bank.
He is also cleaning out the down
stairs and fitting it out for stock of
general goods that he expects to put
in soon. Honas is we'll known to the
whole community and will doubtless
be able to get his share of the patron
age.
Some of the citizens are promoting a
lecture system for the town. They
could get hold of no better thing than
this to help to upbuild the town in
every way. 1t will afford place of
amusement and the amusement will
be good, wholesome and constructive.
They have planned for five or six
entertainments, part lectures and some
musicals. The citizens have to back
it or guarantee ninety-five dollars and
every one in town or vicinity ought to
go in on the guarantee to make the
thing thorough success.
About twenty-five from this vicinity
took advantage of the annual excur-
sion to Ames last Friday and went up
to catch sight of the real workings of
the university. Among them were,
John Cameron's young folks, Stella
and Mahlon Hepp, Gus Forsbeck and
wife, Jim Huffman and wife, Jack and
Geo. Bald and others whose names we
did not learn. They came back sur
prised with the magnitude of the work
done. Carl Forsbeck is there and has
entered the civil engineering course.
1t is one of the strongest courses in the
school and he Is getting along nicely.