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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14
Poor Man,

Poor Man!
On subjects culinary
For magazines she writes;
Advice to cookers many
With pleasure she indites.
In fact, she is so busy
These duties all to meet,
Her husband seeks restaurant
To get enough to eat.
Pa Was with Them.
do you think your father likes me.
81 am sure he does
what makes you sure?"
Because it was only yesterday he
Lsked me when you and l were going
O be married, as he wanted to live
With u.s.
Its too bad about those crullers
vou made said the new husband
sadly.
"Why?" asked his wife quickly.
"Wen," replied the husband, "they
and too small for quoits.'
Art and q.
"Are you not sometimes downcasi
% think that you are obliged to ap
ply yourself to art for money!"
Yes" answered Mr.. Stormingtor
Barnes; "but not as downcast as l am
when 1 am applying myself to ART
and not getting the money"
An Unpleasant Precedent.
"All the members of the English
royal family have been vaccinated.'
Il wonder if that establishes I
precedent"
What sort of a precedent"
Zone which forces the kings fami
Iy to bare arms
No Novelty About It.
ssI see that King Edward wore I
gray overcoat at the Newmarket race
that buttoned through the cloth, Their
being no fly to it. Novel, isn't it?'
"Oh, 1 dunno. 1t has been very gen
orally admitted that there are nj
flies on Edward"
Faux R09.
Miss Koy Tin street car)-It's reall.
very kind of you, Mr.. Crabbe, to Civ
me your seat.
Mr.. Crabbe-Not at all. We men ar
getting tired of being accused o
never giving up our seats except t.
pretty girls
PLAINLY of Law.
This seems to be lawless town.
remarked the stranger
.eLawless,' echoed Rattlesnak
Pete. wal, now, we hev lynch Law
an mob law, an civic law. No, rard
ner, I wouldn't call this lawles
town."
Gave Themselves Away.
She-And am really and truly tn
first girl you ever kissed?
He-Do you doubt it. darling?
She-Yes, your manner savors O
long experience
He-How do you know it does!
C1are-I hesitated to tell you of ma
engagement for fear you wouldn't be
lieve it.
Maud-Nonsense. I've got to tn
point where I'll believe almost ana
Free Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-06-14

One business firm in Howard, &C.
cording to a local paper, is so stingy
that it refuses to rent a box at the
postoffice In order to save twenty
cents every three months this firm re-
ceiyes all it's mail through the general
delivery, and one of the proprietors,
or of their many clerks, takes his place
in the line and when his turn comes
waits patiently until the postmaster
sorts through a big stack of mail for
Tom, Dick and Harry, and then
marches away with an armful of mail,
proud in the consciousness that he is
saving a grand total of eighty cents q
year by not renting postofice box.
The Santa Fee has given 1000 and
a site for Y. M. C. A building in To-
peka An additional SIC, 1000 must be
raised in Topeka
Some careless perso n shot a bullet
through a window in the Office of the
register of deeds in Pratt last week,
and the Union voices the sentiments
of the community when it says he
should stbe careful
A little packing house up IN Me-
braska City which doesn't realize that
it is selling meat at less than cost"
rs finding a ready market for the OUT
put in Atchison at a cent and half
below the trust schedule.
Not a Kansas woman was elected
to any ONCE by the Federation of Club
Women
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

save fashionable clothes upon his family's
back, aud lives in a fashionable house.
washington city has very many such
people engaged upon department work
whose sole aim seems to be to move into as
large and snowy front a building as they
can ford and loll around like miniature
Vanderbilts. Large-sized showy female rel
atives toften department womenl are taken
out in steam buggies (they ought to have
freight engine whistles to scare away stray
dogs and little negroes) to see the sights,
green grass, spring chickens and recently
woke.up snakes after 4 p. m. by small-sized
male gallants of the department persuasion.
And there are pink teas and blue teas and
teas of all colors, and other things to match,
but nary a thing which could be attached
for the citys taxes. In fact You would
make great deal more ont Of free for all
slack wire performance than in conceiving
that the District is going TO obtain a red
cent from the department favoritism class.
Considerable of the District finances have
been spent in time past by trying to push
picturesque wild land into quick sAling
real estate. Good enough roads have been
obliterated; new ones pushed through and
partly finished; small streams have been
often spanned by new iron bridges to meet
new roads, and the face Of nature has been
rapidly changed, but not always improved
upon (Roek Greek country is sample) in
the push and rush.
In summing up the personal tax it will
amount to this The small homesteader is
already taxed for his building. and if he is
not allowed household goods TO the amount
of fve.hundred dollars. at selling valuation
well he will pay double taxation; the mer-
chant and manufacturer will pay taxes both
on goods, tools, plant, buildings, outbuild-
iugs, etc, while the ready-money rich man
and the department employe of the show
favoritism class will go scot free. In other
words one part of the population pays all
the taxes for the other part and for the pur-
pose Of beautifying the capital city for the
present dawdliug butterfly class as well as
for the future generations. 1t may be well
to increase the taxation, but it is also well
to go slow, If the white people, Demo-
Gratis, Republicans and plain niggers had a
chance at the ballot here-well, the funds of
the District would be often more carefully
spent. c. B.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15
smoke Up Carmaok

Chairman Carmack, of the literature COM
mittee, is being presented choice samples
of campaign documents by his Republican
colleagues. The speeches Of Senators Hoar
and Mason, and now the revelations de-
veloped by the Senate committee in the
Cuban sugar scandal should be Immediately
printed and circulated by the million while
the subject is fresh before the country.
Senator Teller uncovered the Ethiopian in
the sugar cane when he forced Mr.. Thurber
TO confess that Governor General Leonard
Wood and Octopus Havemeyer furnished
him money to educate the leaders Of thought
(subsidized and blackmailing newspapers)
in favor of a reduction in the Cuban sugar,
importatious Of which Havemeyer et al
owns the bulk of the product Further
that he was salaried by the Secretary Of
War to push the propaganda of 'reciproc-
ity that rs, the admission of Havemeyer
sugar at as large a reduction of tariff duty
as the American Congress could be edu-
Gated (by the subsidized press) TO grant;
Havemeyer, in the meantime, by way Of
reciprocity" was to fatten the Republican
Congressional campaign fund!
The American people should have these
facts from the record presented them with
out delay and before the Republicans re-
cover their second mind and the people
their amazement at such corruption in high
places.
OF course, it is Republican fight, this
Cuban tariff reduction, but none the less it
is the peoples fight and right to be in
government officials adopted and put in
practice to favor the Sugar Trust and Have
meyer, its head center, and contributor TO
the Republican campaign fund.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15
THE OFFICIAL RECORD
OF the DOctOr-Count Alberto de Sarak
Now Swindling Heightened Wash.
ingtonians.

Extract from Old Diary Leaves H. S
Olcott, President Founder of the Theosoph.
ical Society, The Theosophist, Madras,
India, March, 1902, page 329. Congressional
Library.)
Among the incidents Of the last quarter
of 1892 was the formal expulsion of a man
calling himself by the pseudonym of AL
berto lde Das, a member of the Spanish
group of oW society at Madrid. He was
the most accomplished and audacious con.
fdence man of whom have ever had any
personal knowledge He had a taste for
starting mystical societies with high-sound-
ing titles, himself figuring as an adept and
inspired agent of the White Lodge, associat-
ing himself with local group long enough
to win their confidence, spread our teach
ings around that center, and exploit his col
leagues and the public. His real name ap.
pears to have been Alberto Sarak In my
recent visit to Buenos Ayres found that he
was only too we'll remembered, having got
away with some $4,000 of money obtained
from his colleagues in a local branch which
he had been instrumental in founding. This
was after his expulsion in Spain and fight
from his creditors in Europe He got his au-
thority to form the branch by addressing me
officially under an assumed name in a letter
which was admirable as to both compost
ton and sentiments. / have in my posses
sion one of his bogus membership diplo.
mas in which he entities himself Delegate
to the Supreme Occult Council of the Ma
hatmas of Thibet. He also passed himself
off as a doctor.
In due course, after gathering together
the branch aud starting a magazine, he
fitted to Brazil, whence, after two or three
months, he actually returned to Argentina
and with amusing hardihood called himself
a Persian ambassador, or some such title,
and had the imDudence even to call upon
the consul-general of Persia, to give him
free transportation to Chill. Of course he
did not get it, and so again transferred his
industries to the west coast of South
America, where, have been told, he was
thrown into prison at the suit of some new
victim. The picturesqueness Of this man s
operations to some extent gilds his rascality
and maKes him worthy of so much notice as
the present When made the acquaintance
of the dupes of this adventurer at Buenos
Ayres, who are the members of the several
branches there, found them to be a
superior class of persons, most of them oc-
cupying responsible public positions. /
found, also, that the review, started under
Sarak's auspices, was a most creditable
publication, exercising a decided influence
for good. This was to me an interesting
proof additional to others which I had
previously obtained, that even the worst of
persons may come into our movement, and,
whether unconsciously or not, contribute to
its prosperity. How curious all this is to
the student Of karmie law, and how it shows
that if wicked person yields to even
momentary good impulse. he may engender
good karma that will go towards balancing
his account of moral responsibility.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

public is not enlightened as to the charges.
How much the National City Bank made
out Of that transaction and what was Van
derlip's compensation or commission as
real estate broker, is only known to the
officers of the bank, TO Gage and 70 Wander
lip. Whether Vanderlip is still a go-be-
tween between the bank and the Treasury
Department is as yet unknown but the
charge has been made that he was and is,
and il has never been denied Two more
discredited and dishonored worthless never
eft the city Of Washington, yet no move is
made to uncover their iniquities.
So with expenditures by the War Depart
ment in the Philippines. 1t has not been
furnished and probably viii not be furnish
ed. There is too much to do. Too many
favorites to be looked after 20 let in the
light
The resolution asking for facts concerning
the dismissal of the lady who dared TO criti.
eize the Philippine policy will not be passed.
There will be no investigation, The policy
is to do and dare and make no defence hop
ing patient public will forget.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15
Son of a Vet on Miss Taylor.

Editor Sunday Globe.
1t looks as if Miss Taylor. late of the De-
partment of War, had come into possession
of some of the secret, OF censured-out. Of
the-press information of the general public.
She evidently had convictions, and strong
ones at that, and was not fearsome of airing
her sentiments through the press In deny.
ing not her authorship, she certainly showed
a courage mot exactly wisely perhaps) far
beyond the courage and honesty possessed
by the greater number of Department en-
ployes of the so called masculine (?) gender
She has proved herself to be stump
speaker of no mean quality, and will but
win the respect of every honest and think
ing citizen outside of the Government pay
roll.
A few years back one Of the Department
female employees made statement 10 the
effect that General Sherman ought to have
been dead and in hell long ago, and we have
never heard that she was fred for her veno-
nous remark either. In fact at one time
remarks of this nature were current to such
an extent in the Washington Departments
as to be of no consequence, nor were they
always voiced by the Reb relatives In fact
the Copperhead breed claiming legal resi-.
dence in states other than Southern were
given to this kind of ditch-bred, back biting
phrase.
Now days, however, well Office people
are so changeable, so straddle. e.the-fence-able
you know.
Again, from certain remarks voiced by
certain G. A. R. men. claiming to be vete-
rams, regarding other actual vets and the
relatives of such, despite the veterans oath,
we'll some claimed that they might get more
truth, honesty, and plain justice from their
former opponents who fought under Lee
and Stuart
So you see there has been talking before
today and the cowardly back-biters, lack
ing the courage Of honest Miss Tavlor. are
there yet. SON or A VET.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

Your write up of the dog nuisance in
Lincoln Park did no good. Mr.. GLOBE, "
said a solemn faced citizen on an street
car who knows the GLOBE man.
How is that-are the dogs still admit
ted?'
Worse than ever. In fact don't permit
my children in the park any more unless
I accompany them"
Afraid of the dogs2"
Yes sir--that is the children complain of
and are afraid to play there because of one
big foolish dog especially which accom-
panies its owner, who is regular visitor to.
the park. You see the park officer is an old
chap partially deaf and little timid. He
doesn't like to interfere and earn the ill
will of the dog owners. In fact the old chap
is somewhat eccentric and ought to be re-
tired with pension
This park is one of the few in Washington
which is rarely visited by strangers, being
out so far, and it is exclusively the breath
ing spot Of the neighbors in the vicinity, all
of whom know each other, by sight at least,
1t is in fact kind of family park and hence
this nuisance of dogs running around loose
is very Objectionable to the heads Of fami-
lies with young children. If the owners of
these animals have neither the courtesy nor
sense to leave their dogs at home they
ought TO be compelled to muzzle the CANNES
as a measure of protection to the children.
wish you would call the Commissioners
attention to this matter and oblige the resi-
dents in the vicinity Of the park"
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

THE President must have felt compli-
mented at your comparison Sunday last
with Mark Hanna, " said an Ohio Democrat
to the GLOBE man.
How did it strike your"
"Ohl all right, what you said about Hanna
but say there is something wanting in the
President"
How is that?..
did you note the way he treated that
Cleveland affair and turned down Burton
and Foraker for Hanna1 A clear case too,
of violation of the Civil Service. Hanna.
has him hypnotized like he had Gov. Bush
nell when he appointed him Senator 1t
killed Bushnell when the latter had 1t in
his power to kill off Hanna. He is playing
the same game with the President. He
landed him in the Rathbone affair and now
be has hoodwinked him in the Cleveland
scandal"
Anything else troubling your"
"Yes-have we Civil Service or have we
not1 Look at the Quay convention in Har.
risburg the past week Two car loads of
clerks from the departments with free
tickets distributed by McCalla, a clerk IN
the Pension Office who marshaled the gang.
These clerks have spent two days drinking,
feasting and whoOping it up for Quay over
at Harrisburg. They have returned and
now numbers of them are on the sick list
Of course thew will get sick leave and the
taxpayers will pay their salaries just the
same. Is this Civil Service ask you Mr..
GLoBE2"
'Well-it appears to be the Republican
brand of the article at present on tap"
Talk about the Cleveland violation pass
ing unrebuked. Why here is the Times
band hired by two car loads Of Civil Service
clerks who go over 70 Harrisburg for two
days to help Mat Quay down his rivals and
no notice taken of the violation by the Civil
Service Commissioners, the President or
anybody in authority. Why not repeal the
farcical law at once and be honest, square,
upright partissns, not sneaking, hypocriti
cal, pretended Swivel Service Federal
officials clerks and employees" and the
Ohio Democrat lit stogie and--smokedl
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

is fully aware Of the stainless, Christian
life of Marion Britton, but for his one ire
sponsible sin which God as we'll as Cover
nor Nash's board pardoned. Britton's
expiation Of that one sin, the impulsive
shooting Of his prosecutor under the belief
that he was rising from his chair to shoot
him, has been a fearful one. For over
fifteen long years he has been a prisoner.
From being one of the wealthiest farmers
in Highland county he has been reduced to
absolute poverty His young children have
grown to man and womanhood the best
beloved of his boys became a suicide brood
ing over the disgrace of his father in prison
and his wife, like ALL the wives whose
husbands meet misfortune deserted him.
His children love and idolize him and
finally as stated almost a year ago secured
the recommendation for his pardon from
the state board of pardous but Governor
Nash still holds him in the iron grip of the
dread penitentiary, where the fear of dying
is more exquisite mental torture than the
fires of hell itself to the souls and bodies of
the damnedl
The comrades in the Ohio prison whom
grateful country is rewarding with shackles
and gives for having saved it in its hour of
peril will accept our grateful thanks and
the truthful assurance chat in comparison
with the sins of those whom we have met
and who are high in place and power in
this outside world their souls are as white
as the driven snow and they need have but
little fear to face that last tribunal where
neither pull" nor influence operates, as it
does here, in favor of the Nashes and the
politicians who have consigned and who
retain them IN the earthly hell of a convict
prison.
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15

Il read your two articles on the Downey
Good Samaritan Home on L street and also
the Star write up, " said lady who dropped
in at the GLOBE Office one day the past
week.
" want to say" she continued that it
reflects little credit on the Stars enterprise
or appreciation that this home has been in
existence seven years, as il states, and mo-
body ever read about it in print until the
GLOBES article of June Ist and the Stars
article the week following. Now what
want to say besides complimenting the
GLOBE on the superiority Of its articles,
both as specimens of smooth even English
and scholarly composition over the stereo-
typed write up and pictures in the Star
is this, since the Star initiated youand took
their cue for the write up of the Downey
Home from the GLOBE why has it neglected
to also follow your lead in the shocking
treatment you published from the mouth of
Mrs. Kate Black of the poor, innocent and
friendless children of the District Industrial
Home School" D" Pausing to wipe her glasses
moistened by the sympathetic tears which
welled up in her eyes, the lady continued
Surely the Humane Society and the
Christian people of Washington will in
terest themselves ia having this McCaslin
and his childless wife removed from the
charge of these helpless children. Every
mother who read your article of Sunday
last must have shed tears for pnor, little
Guy Knott. And what rage must have pos
sessed the gentlest breast over the remarks
of her husband that these children must be
whipped as they were little helions. The
community owes the GLOBE a debt of
gratitude, which the Star, with its big
white building will never earn or receive
for neglecting its plain duty in the Indus
trial Home outrage, and so slavishly imitat-
ing you in its write up of the Downey
Good Samaritan Home. All honor to Mr.
Downey, he deserves all the praise bestowed
on him and the GLOBE showed that it can
commend as well as criticise and condemn. -
Sunday Washington globe., 1902-06-15
Rebecca of the Pen.

'Rebecea a. the we'll" is not as pictur-
esque a figure as OUR Rebeeca Of the PEN.
Among the men entirely great
The pen is mightier than the sword.
This is true today more than ever but
when men are not entirely nor compare
lively great, when in fact they are pigmies,
then the sword is mightier than the pen
and Miss Rebecca Taylor a clerk in the
War Department, has had convincing proof
of this assertion. This talented lady ex-
pressed her opinions on the Philippine
policy pursued by her fellow citizen, Theo-
dore Roosevelt, who has himself several
times and on numerous occasions exercised
his undoubted rights to express HIS Opin-
ions on this and other subjects Now if
Miss Taylor, for the expression of her views
in the public press is to be held disquali-
fed from serving the Government in the
humble capacity of a clerk why should not
Theodore Roosevelt be equally disqualified
from serving the public in his capacity as
chief servant?
Millions agree with Miss Taylor's views
and other millions agree with Mr.. Roose-
H@AN . aAAN We W d~NN ~ AAl~ ANaAN NAl-i~ ~
the accident of power the views Of the
higher servant does not disqualify him aud
that he is immune while punishment OF
deprivation of Office is inflicted on Miss
TAYLOR because she represents the views
and convictions Of the minority millions or
political party to which they pay allegianee2
What is this but the enforcement of the doc
trine that the minority has no rights that
the majority is bound to respect2 We can
go even further and calmly state that it is
the enforcement Of the despot's doctrine
which muzzles all views but those he enter
tains. The autocrat of all the Russias could
not go any further than the official or
officials who ordered Miss Taylor's dis
missal from the public service of her
country.
Leaving out her legal rights under the
Civil Service law, because that law is notori-
ously a fake and is only obeyed in the
breach and not in observance by the Repub-
lican party, as witness. Cleveland and Har-
risburg conventions. we challenge the vici-
GUS and mOnarchical principle Of depriving
a free born American man OF woman Of the
inalienable right to express his or her con-
victions on public questions affecting the
welfare of the nation without fear Of
punishment
Upon what meats doth this our Caesar feed
That ne has grown so great?"
Who is the high and mighty god that will
have no other Ganymede or rather Hebe,
but she who will hold nectar to his lips?
Miss Taylor might well exclaiml
Is thy servant dog, that
I'd do such a thing2"
If the women of America have that di-
vine spark in their compositions which the
Turk denies, but the Christian admits, the
Republican administration and party Of
Theodore Roosevelt will hear from the Miss
Taylor outrage in the ides Of November.