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the balance of their days.

and but a short time will elapse
before they will be ready for
shipment of coal.
So great was the demand of the
Shamrock Coal Company for the
new siding at their mine that a
large force of men were at work
there last Sunday.
Mining Engineer Frank d.
Rash was called to Webster coun-
ty again last week on business
in connection with his calling.
Mr.. John Morkle, the well
known anthracite operator of
Hazleton, Pa, says:
"The whole drift and purport
and aim of Mitchellism is to
teach the man who is employed
that his natural enemy is the
man who gives him his employ
ment. And the corollary to this
proposition is that the work.
mans best friene is the man who
throws him out of employment
by precipitating strikes"
Seven new coke ovens are near
ing completion and quite a force
at work on the foundations of
others. The orders for coke so
far exceed the supply that work
on the new ovens is being rushed.
The st. Bernard Mining Com
pany are having their old tele-
phone line replaced with new
copper wire here in the city,
where the sulphur smoke de-
stroys iron wire.
The Hopkins county Republi-
can convention in its platform
strongly denounced all trusts,
whether capital or labor. The
U. M. w. is a fair sample Of the
latter.
From daily reports now seen in
the papers one would be almost
justified in saying the strike in
the anthracite region is almost a
thing of the past. The daily
output shows a large increase in
coal production at these mines,
and while the president of the
U. M. w. claims nothing is being
done that shows a weakening of
his forces, many skilled miners
are daily added to the mine force,
which indicates that Mitchell
don't know what his men are do
ing any more now than when he
said they struck against his wish
es. Please read the following
from an exchange and see wheth-
er coal is being mined in the an
thracite field:
Reading, Pa, Sept. 20.-The
Reading Railroad Company today
increased its coal shipments.
This morning 140 cars containing
over 1900 tons went down the
main line, all of it from the west
ern end of Schuylkill county.
Sixty-nine cars of anthracite coal
also passed through Readiag yes
terday for Philadelphia. There
are 365 cars of coal of va
rious sizes now in the ward at
Cressona, Pa, all of which came
from the Kalmia washery and
Brookside and Good Spring col
lieries in Schuylkill county.
Good Spring colliery now has
nearly a full complement of men
at work. and the breaker is work
ing four days week. The men
employed there are all skilled
secured from many Sec
tions of the coal regions. The
breaker at Brookside is being
run two days a week, the compa-
ny having about One-third the
number of miners required. This
force is being increased from day
to day with men gathered from
different sections. 1t is estimat-
ed that the Reading company has
about 10000 tons of coal in the
of Cressona, and it is
from this stock that the public
schools of Philadelphia are to re-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
First Coal Oil Lamps
Georgetown Family Regards Heirlooms Two
Specimens Used in Early Days.

A family living in Georgetown,
who have taken care of old heirlooms
left them by a long line of ancestors,
have in their possession a number
that are exceedingly rare and curious.
The objects in question are specimens
of the two earliest coal oil lamps in
vented. The mind of man runs very
much in groove, and although he
appears anxious for change and prog
ress, there are few Things that annoy
him more.
The first coal oil lamp, of which
this family has a specimen, was made
of brass, in imitation of a candle and
candlestick, even to painting the
upper part white in imitation of the
former. The interior of this imitation
candle held the oil, the wick,
small affair-the same, in fact, that
were used in the candles-emerging
from an aperature in the head of the
metal candle, just as in the real one.
Such thing as a chimney or shade
was unknown.
A short time after this lamp ap-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
Ravages of Insects
Hundreds Of Millions Lost to Agriculturists Of
the World Annually.

~~~~~

For many years past France has
been at war with an insect, and at
one time it really seemed as if our
neighbOrs across the Channel would
be beaten in the conflict and robbed
of one of their most profitable trades
The little insect in question, the
phylloXera, has from first to last cost
France $4,000. 100000. Year after year
it attacked vineyards, spreading de-
struction wherever it settled. Vine
growers were ruined by tens and
scores every twelvemonth; it seemed
impossible to stamp out the plague
At last things became so serious that
the vine-growers, urged by the French
government, decided that the war
should be waged on more scientific
lines, and invoked the assistance of
many great scientists.
Millions of dollars were spent in ex-
periments which might show how the
phyllOxera could be destroyed and it's
attacks guarded against. The money
was well spent, for the tide of war has
turned in Frances favor, and vine
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
The Alligator Pear.

There is a growing demand for a
tropical fruit, now very little known.
the alligator pear. 1t is a pear only
in shape and is served as a salad or
relish rather than as a fruit. The
pears now bring from 80 to 60 cents
apiece in the markets of New York,
London and Paris, a ridiculous price
due to the fact that, being in small
demand the supply is very small, but
they are steadily growing in favor,
and Porto Rico is able to-day to send
them to market in large quantities
and of the very best quality
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
LESSON FROM THE BEES.
Habit of Industrious Insects Pointer
to Humanity.

Habit of Industrious Insects Pointer
to Humanity.
Don't stir up a beehive unless you
know it is a rich one," said an apiarist
to a visitor at his bee farm
Il think that 1 would leave them
alone altogether" was the reply.
They have too angry a buzz about
them to win my confidence"
You are not used to them, that
ALL said the beeman. For example,
these hives are full of honey, and If
pun little smoke into the doors, so
as to sort of suffcate the sentries, 1
can topple a hive over, handle the bees
like so many beans, clean the honey
combs and carry them of The bees
won't harm me- AnG to prove his
words the speaker performer his ex-
pertinent, and came back to his friend
with a smile and several heavy combs
of honey
IF those hives had been nearly emp
IT," said the apiarist, 4 would have
been lucky to have escaped with my
life. The tenants OF a poor hive sting
to kill"
That's strange said the visitor Il
should think that they would defend
their hoards with especial jealousy,
and the more they have the hotter
they would fight"
~The reason is,' said the beenan,
Chat when alarmed the bees hy to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

strength in its individual members an
army will become vanQuished by the
very fatigue of campaigning possibly
before once encountering the enemy
For hundred years our American
size regulations for recruiting have
stood the severe test given to them
by many wars; and there is not the
slightest reason why they should be
changed because the bayonet charge
is now being passed up into the his
torical attic of the obsolete, and bat
tie tactics are taking on more and
more of a guerrilla cast No matter
what the effective range of firearms
will prove to be, the commandant
must still, as always, bring his men
into action as healthy, as strong
nerved and as unweary as possible;
and to be sure that they have the con-
stitution needed for this the recruit
ing regulations must always look to it
that they are of tae good average
size which has hitherto given the
best results.
What is said here of the fighting
army applies equally to the National
Guard of the several states; because,
while national service is not the aim
in raising and training its regiments,
the men are the first to enter volun-
teer national regiments when they
are needed, and it is proper that they
should be excellent1y fit to do So
Nathaniel B. Thurston in the Wash
ington Evening Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

peared, some other person invented q
coal oil lamp made of glass, in imita-
ton of a very large candlestick. The
middle part swelled out into some
thing like a globe, in which the oil
was placed. 1t took some five or six
inventions before the coal oil lamp
became what it is to-day. The George.
town family has a specimen of the
second lamp invented, as well as the
first.
The first coal oil lamps are to-day
rarer even than candlesticks, for the
reason that only a few were made,
the improvement being so rapid lat
the first awkward imitation OF can
die had hardly reached the market
before some other person began in
venting lamps, each a little more like
the coal oil lamp of to-day than the
first, until the invention was perfect
ed. The specimens in question are
some of the first ever brought to
America, at time when they were a
curiosity and when every one used
caEdles.-W Washington Star
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
DON'T
GET TIRED"
CLUB
English Women Said to Have Formed
Unique Organization.

English Women Said to Have Formed
Unique Organization.
English women have formed a club
which commends itself to considera-
ton. 1t is called the Don't Get Tired
club Its main object is the organiza-
ton of a hygenic basis of shopping
as pernicious a habit, if carried too
for. as the bric-a-bac habit. The mem
bers pledge themselves on their word
of honor as gentlewomen, not to shop
the whole of the day without suitable
and proper refresh-nent-" Stringent
rules are drawn up of what is and
what is not allowed under this head
ing Then each member swears to do
her shopping Systematically, to make
out list of everything she wants to
buy and never to toll from shop to
shop to see if she can get it cheaper.
A limit is placed on the amount of
shopping that may done in one day
three hours for town women and
five for suburbanites. The carrying
of parcels is absolutely forbidden.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

certiorari
The report that young Stratton is
willing to compromise with the execu-
tors for 100000 has been given
wide publicity, but it is not regared
seriously by persons who have inquir-
ed into the law in the matter, it be-
ing the opinion of. all the attorneys
VINO have been questioned about it
that the executors have no power
whatever to make any compromise
The entire case is at a standstill
now until the certiorari order has
been argued and decided
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

growers are now beginning to recover
a portion of that colossal fortune
which the phylloxera has cost them
in the past.
Immense though it has been, what
the phylloXera has cost is a trifiins
amount compared to the losses in
which the locust has involved the
world and continues to cost farmers.
No one can possibly pretend to esti-
mate what the locust has cost, so gil
gantic must the total be; but it is cal
culated that it STILL despite the war
ever being waged against it, destroys
upwards of 500 OOo. 900 worth of crops
in the course of every year. Locusts
lay waste some 100000 acres of land
and do immense damage to half as
much more each year. Yet the hand
of every man who has an interest in
crops of any kind is turned against
lOcusts, and they and their eggs are
destroyed by hundreds of millions an
nually.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
Literature as a Trade.

To write successfully means to
serve long and hard apprenticeship;
it means to do many things badly in
order to learn to do few things well;
to read many authors, and good ones;
to live with words till one knows their
value, and 1t means, too, that one must
know something about the reality of
life In short, writing is trade, just
like bockbinding or typesetting, says
the Woman Home Companion 1t is
different. of course; it has a higher
side, we believe, but to think only
of the higher side and ignore the trade
part of it is to prepare ones self for
a great disappointment Decidedly
the novice should not expect to earn
pin money by setting down her day
dreams, when successful authors are
obliged to sing daytime and nighttime
in order to learn the mechanics of the
arc
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
MISS BIGGAR TELLS STORY.
Insists She Was Married to Million
aire Bennett in Hoboken.

aire Bennett in Hoboken.
Actress Laura Biggar, who is
charged with conspiracy to secure the
millions of Henry NJ. Bennett, made
statement regarding her relations
with Mr. Bennett She said:
1--WE were duly married in Hobok-
en-. The wedding certificate, called
spurious in court the other day, is
genuine. At least, it is the one given
me the night of my wedding and had
not left my care until it was handed
to the court as evidence of my mar
riage.
why did we keep the marriage
secret all these years? Simply this:
Mr.. Bennett wanted it kept secret,
and had been led like child to obey
him in all things. He wanted 1t kept
a secret because his first wife had
been dead only three months when
he married me. He had courted me,
followed me, pleaded for my love and
favor even before the death of his
first wife
And yet we never. despite the ap
real secret of our marriage We were
Mr.. and Mrs. Bennett on the regis
tiers of the hotels when we went trav-
cling; we were Mr.. and Mrs. Ben
nett at every store where accounts
were charged. 1 was known as Mr..
Benefits wife in every line of our
daily domestic life.
THE care l took of my husband
before his death was such as entities
me, even if 1 had been nothing more
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
The Best Soldiers
Many Reasons Why Big Men Are Superior to Small
IN Times of Actual Warfare.

The great Importance of keeping
line, insisted upon in our own modern
tactics, and exemplified most forcibly
in the recent fighting in South Africa,
has suggested the theory, / am in
formed, that good size is a detriment
to the soldier even now, and will be
worse as the range of fire grows
greater and the possibility of hand
to-hand battle fades entirely away.
1t is easy for the theorist to de-
veiop this fancy to the point where
the choice shall be for soldiers as
small as possible, tS whom any fair
sized boulder would give cover
But neither that objectionable fan
tastic view nor the one nearer reason
to which my attention has been call
ed, considers the toilsome training,
the heavy hardships and the miles of
marching that lie between the recruit
ing station and the firing line. 1t
must be conceded that, being in face
OF the enemy and within range, and
being as good a shot as his big neigh
Dor, the small soldier has the advan-
tage of needing less cover and of pre-
senting a smaller target when cover
is unattainable
But long experience has shown
that, while the little man often mani
tests strength and energy out of all
proportion to his inches, the rule is
that good size in true proportion to
weight means strength; and without
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
Remarkable Harvest Feat.

Stradbrooke, in Suffolk (Eng.), has
been the scene of a remarkable har-
vest feat A local farmer last week
carted a field of wheat during the
morning. threshed it in the afternoon.
sold and delivered it to a local miller
early in the evening; the miller ran
some through the mill. and within
four and-twenty hours of the wheat be-
ing taken from the field in which it
had grown he had sold flour that had
been manufactured from it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
LORD cuRzoN's HEALTH POOR
viceroy of India Seriously III at His
Official Home.

viceroy of India Seriously III at His
Official Home.
Lord Curzon, viceroy of India who
is reported seriously ill at his official
home in Calcutta, is more intimately
known to the people of this country
because of his marriage in 1895 to
Miss Mary Letter of Chicago. He has
been prominent in British politics
since his appointment as private Sec
rotary to Lord Salisbury in 1885, rep
resented his county in parliament. was
undersecretary of state for India and
previous to his present appointment
in 1898 was parliamentary secretary
for the foreign affairs department. He
has been a great traveller in Oriental
countries and voluminous writer on
the various eastern questions He is
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
A Jersev Feat

1t was facetiously said years ago
that at fire in a Boston hotel some
of the guests made their escape on a
sentence uttered by Senator Evarts.
The senator probably was no match
for Secretary Payne of the New Jer-
sey board of riparian commissioners
who, in granting a conditional permit
Tor 2OO-foot extension, wrote two
sentences, one of which contained 2SS
words That was somewhat more
than a word per foot.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
A Deathbed Story.

Here is a deathbed story, given,
as far as 1 can recollect. in the words
of a Roman Catholic Chaplain. The
dying man asked his neighbor
whether he thought he (the dying
mani would go to Heaven. mo, lad,
you won't" was the reply: you'll go
to hell, and you ought to be glad there
is a hell to go to-" Hearing that, the
patient turned over, and died quite
peacefully.-Pall Mall Magazine
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
Morning in the Country.

Only the born countryman rises
with the sun to enjoy the freshest
and loveliest part of the day, which
Is between sunrise and a. m. The
casual or vacation countryman rises
with the breakfast bell, which is gem
orally rung at the accommodating
hour of 1880. The farmer rightly
thinks that the urban visitor is fit
only to take money from.-Boston
Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

The car drank to the health of the
shah, to the glory of his reign, to the
prosperity of Persia and to the devel-
opment of her relations with Russia
especially to the development of her
relations with Russia
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Automobile racing has taken the
place of horse racing at some OF the
county fairs. AS long as the people
can sit in the stands and be safe let
'em scorch.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Miss Helen Gould has been made
an honorary member of a fire COM
pany of Binghamton. to which she
had given $4,000 for a hosehouse, but
nobdy expects that she will ever run
with the machine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
THE sTRATToN WILL CONTEST.

Report That Son of Dead Millionaire
Is Willing to Compromise.
A compromise was reached in the
Stratton will case whereby the Dis
trict court at Colorado Springs as
sumed jurisdiction, taking the affair
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

They had kosmopolitanischer
tanzboden at Milwaukee's Jahrmarkt
a few evenings ago. Owing to the
wonderful presence of mind exhibited
by the doorkeepers there were no
casualties.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Many a man who is a walking en-
cyclopaedia is anything but a peram-
bulating bank.
Some women's idea of being econ
omical is to have their ball dresses
cut lower
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

The New York young man who de-
veloped case of appendicitis because
his fiancee baked some miniature
china dolls in a pie she made for him
is not now In = condition to appreciate
the feminine idea of humor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
a sure Test.

Words, money. all things else. are
comparatively easy to give away, hut
when a man makes gift of his daily
life and practice. it is plain that the
truth, whatever lit may, be-. has taken
possession of him.-Lowel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

A Massachusetts, judge has decided
that it is Ri right to kill a burglar
who has entered your house. Occasion
ally the law gives the ordinary citizen
a show for his life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Now that handsomely engraved
divorce cards are coming into fashion,
stationers will soon be offering them
as bargains when ordered with the
wedding invitations.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Moving sidewalks are proposed for
the streets of Paris. AS things are,
some of the Americans who have been
there have seemed to see the side
walks move.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Will Erect Monument to CASTELAR,.
A committee of prominent Span
iards has been selected to raise fund
to erect monument at Madrid to the
late Emilio CASTELAR,. The subscription
has already reached 100. 900 pesetas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

An old maids coterie having been
formed in Williamsburg to keep sin
gle, a fine is inflicted if any girl
wears a decollete gown. That club
must be pretty well formed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18
Touching BenevoIence.

1--WE want the people not to patron
lie the hated opposition that is now
springing up" walled the man who
represented an incompetent monopoly
I'VE are not afraid of competition, but
we know the other people will lose
money at their venture, and we can't
bear TO see them do it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

1t is safe to venture the assertion
that in most cases the people who kill
themselves because they fear losing
their minds have mighty little mind
to lose.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

The sight of King Edward in kits
ought to be enough to tickle even the
Scotch sense of humor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

1t is reported that the annual crop
of football hair is unusually advanced
for this season of the year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

their storehouse and gorge them
selves When full of honey a bee
can't bend its body and sting
Which should be a lesson to u.s."
said the other. Don't get too FULL.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

A girl in Oklahoma won $4,000
prize in a land lottery, and at once
received an offer of marriage, which
she accepted. Thus does one lottery
beget another.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Kentucky welcomes the profes
sional pugilist as a possible cure fol
the mountain feudist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

There appears to be a good deal OK
rivalry among arctic expeditions just
now, but the one that reaches the
pole first will be the one that cuts
the most ice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Maurice Maeterlinck says riding in
an automobile gives the poet inspira-
ton. But where does the poet get his
automobile?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

The founder of the Don't Worry
Society is dead. He has quit wor-
rying at last.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

The greatest liar on earth tells the
truth to his doctor. The most truth
full man alive is tempted to lie to the
assessor.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

The remarkable thing about some
of these self-governing Latin repub-
lies to the south is their vitality.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-10-18

Prudent people are beginning to
save their burnt matches now. Fuel
is going to be scarce this winter.