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The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1903-07-29

Z ci Sicch aiCy Inuiouay ultVi-
noon. The pastor would be glad to
see many of the adults as we'll as
the children in the party to enjoy
this outing.
THE discovery that there is no
ghost in the library is by an evening
contemporary is about on a par with
the struggling original and exclusively
newsy announcement Of an erstwhile
editor. "Its raining outside One
statement is just about as necessary
to an intelligent reader as the other.
THE company which owns the big
road machine used on the West Side
has not decided yet what they will do
with it. II is still being used by the
road builders. If it is removed before
/, the road is completed, it will leave the
builders in bad predicament.
LAST year the city council took a
vacation in August and September,
meeting only once in two weeks, and
the affairs OF the city suffered no neg
lect on account of it. This year it is
different The city has grown to such
proportions that it requires a long SEES
sion each week to look after the mat
tiers that demand attention.
THE Summer School will be thing
OF the past after this week. Tit
teachers who have been here will b
missed when they leave, and it Is hop
ed that all will return next year to tn,
biggest summer school in the histor,
OF the University. This one has beer
gratifying success 10 every particu
lar except that OF numbers perhaps
The causes which kept the attendant
down will be renewed by that time.
A MoReANTowN man has trie'
with some SUCCESS new way OF get
ting bi wife to cut her visits out Q
town short, and come home. He cut
clippings from tae daily papers an
sends the papers to her. Three o
four days Of this, and she gets inter
ested. She comes home to find on
what hubby has kept from Der eyes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
"SOCIETY" HAS NEW FAD.
"Munching" Now the Proper Thing
at Swell Dinners.

One of the popular fads at Newport
at present is 'munching, which
means merely eating very slowly
Munching is one of the numerous pre-
ventatiYes of growing avOirdupOis,
and as it has the recognition of King
Edward it is naturally regarded with
much favor in Newport. The theory
is that every particle of food must
be chewed slowly and carefully until
no solid material remains to be swal-
lowed. Slow eating is merely car
ried to an extreme by the new treat
ment. All London society threatened
with too much flesh is said to be
chewing very long and very thorough
ly and American converts to the sys-
tenn are already numerous. Its effect
is said to be noticeable at dinners.
which have come to be known as
munching parties and are much less
Fivacious than they were when eat
ing and drinking went on rapidly.
Persons who eat slowly also eat much
less than those who eat rapidly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
EZLHL/ ROOZ

has not informed the president when
he, will present it.
1t has been a struggle between Mrs.
Root and the president, and Mrs Root
has won. She has been DESTROYS for
year and a half that her husband
should return to the practice of law,
as he made a considerable sacrifice
when he succeeded Secretary Alger in
1899, for he practically abandoned his
law practice. Mrs. Root never was
fond of Washington society and she
felt that her husband should follow
his profession for few years before
retiring.
That Gov. Taft will be Mr.. Roots
successor as secretary of war there
can be little or no doubt. He is famil.
lar with many of the problems which
the secretary of war will have to meet
and solve; he is a warm personal
friend of the president, who has an
abiding confidence in his ability and
patriotism, and it is understood that
he would welcome the change in.
volved
OF course his appointment as Sec.
rotary of War would necessitate the
appointment of a new president of the
Philippine commission In all proba,
bility Gen. Luke Wright would sue.
coed to the presidency of the COM
mission, his work as a member OF
that body having been eminently sat
isfactory to the administration. Some
other changes also would be involved
in the appointment of Gov. Taft as
secretary of war, but nothing defin-
tie concerning them can be said at
this time.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22

It is officially announced that Elihu
Root will resign as Secretary of War.
the resignation to take effect about
the first of next January, and that he
will be succeeded, unless present
plans miscarry, by Judge William H.
Taft, now governor of the Philippines.
For a long time, as Washington
gossip has it, Secretary Root has de-
sired for pressing private reasons, to
retire from the cabinet. When Mr..
Roosevelt became President Secretary
Root indicated his wish to leave the
cabinet within a year. but his friend
ship for the president and his inter-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22

est in pending questions before the
war department caused him to re-
main for longer period than he had
intended.
Even now he has not indicated to
the President just when he may
leave the cabinet, but he and the
president have discussed the subject
many times and have a mutual under
standing regarding it.
1t is not expected that the Secretary
will present his resignation to the
president before he leaves for Eng
land to take up the work of the Alas
kan boundary committee. He has not
presented his resignation yet, and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
SuperStitionS,

II two persons raise their glasses to
their lips simultaneously they are in
dicating the return of friend or rela-
tive from foreign parts. The same in
timation is conveyed by bubbles in cot.
fee or by the accidental fall of a piece
of soap on the floor.
A Pickering flame in the fire or an
upright excrescence in a burning cam
die is interpreted as predicting the ar
rival of a guest, whose stature is
judged by the length of the flame or
excrescence.
If one drains glass of the contents
of which some one else has partaken
he will learn the secrets of the latter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
Your Dietary.

Eat when you are hungry-if you
have the price. Drink beer with your
ice cream if you like to. Eat grated
cheese on your raw onions if you
think it good. Drink milk with your
cucumbers and sleep the sleep of the
just man made perfect. Take a
cracker with every drink Of liquor
and live to be 1000 years old. Drink
whisky with your bananas and forget
the cramps. Take vinegar with your
salad; it retards digestion. Eat
cherries with milk and sugar. Drink
Chinau with macaroni. Drink tea
while eating meat. Avoid salt; it
dries up the skin. In plain English
do as you please-so long as your
'stomjack" is able to stand it. Vio-
late all the established rules of
health and you may live to a good old
age.-New York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22

the tree TIL the rope was all used M
and the bar was a prisoner Mt the
stake.
Then Aunt Hubby went back to bed
and was snorin' away as ii nothin'
rore had happened than only jest git
tin mp to give the baby peppermint.
Long in the forenoon o. next day
Uncle Jep come a-stragglin' home.
Hubby says he, if it hadn't been
fer Jonas b0rrying that other gun o.
mine and not fetchin' of it back, I'd a
killed that pesky bar dead, yisterd'y,
an won them $780, he says, ding his
ugly pictur'sl he says. meanin' Jonas.
well, Jeptha,' says Aunt Hubby,
it's an all-pervadin' good thing that
you didn't do it, she says.
"sWhat fur?' says Uncle Jep, hard
ly believin' his ears.
"'Why, cause if you'd "a killed that
bar dead yisterd'y,' says Aunt Hubby.
I couldn't "a ketched him alive last
night says she.
.Arter Aunt Hubby got through
laughin' at Uncle Jep standin' there
starin' at her with his mouth wide
open and his eyes almost bulgin', she
took him out to t'other side O. the pig
pen, and there, sure enough, was the
rampagein' old bar that was worth
$50 alive tied so fast to the big pine
tree that he couldn't hardly holler
Uncle Jep didn't say nothin' He
couldn't. He jest chopped down the
tree, trimmed the limbs often it to
make it log, hooked the steers to it,
and drug it and the bar over to the
Eddy. Old Nose forked over the $50
only too quick, and $40 besides for the
pine log, SO that Aunt Hubby and
Uncle Jep didn't only git their COW,
but they had quite a snug figger to
stuff in the old coffee pot fer future
reference, besides. And what did
Aunt Hubby do? She made Jonas
present of the borried gun and
thanked him fer borryin' it and not
fetchin' 1t back.
Though 1 dunno as 1 ought to
thank you, neither she says to Jonas.
1t was a smilin' Providence that done
it, she says.'-Ed. Mott in New York
Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
CANADIAN PATROL IN RIGHT.
No Action Will Be Taken as Result OF
Firing on American Fisher.

No Action Will Be Taken as Result OF
Firing on American Fisher.
The contemplated case of Capt.
Christopher s. Chau against the Cana
dian government for the action of the
patrol boat Petrol in firing upon the
fish tug Silver Spray, when the vessel
was alleged to have been in Canadian
waters, will be dropped. Skipper Chau
was advised by Collector of the Port
Brown OF Erie. Pa, to ascertain his
exact location at the time of the trou-
BILE before taking the matter to the
United States authorities. He has
done SO, and states that he was over
the line. The statement is also made
by one of the captains of the fishing
fleet that nearly all of the tugs were
over the boundary and that the Silver
Spray was at least two miles beyond
the American waters.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
CELEBRATE TAKING OF MANILA,
Veterans of Army of the Philippines
Have Parade and Banquet.


Eight hundred veterans of the army
of the Philippines celebrated at Ma
Mia Aug. the anniversary of the oc-
cupation of Manila by the joint land
and naval forces of the United States,
which occurred on Aug. 13, 1898, one
day after the signing of the peace
protocol at Washington
The obsolete uniforms were resur-
rected and there was a parade in the
streets in which the delegates from
the southern islands, clad in blue
shirts and khaki, participated. This
was followed by banquet.
Commissioner Smith, orator of the
day, reviewed the history of the insur-
rection and development of the pres
ent government. He said two-thirds
of the veterans now are enrolled in
the civil service.
The Philippines commission will ap-
propriate $873,000 for permanent inn
provements. including 1912 900 for the
completion of the coast guard cutters
in course of construction at Shanghai
and improvement of the insular navy
yard at Manila.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22

his dyin' kick that the bar was COM
in for him hotfoot. before he had
even thought O. loadin' his gun. And
the bar KEEP him dodgin' and skirmish-
in 'mongst the trees for half an hour
before he could git load into his
gun. And then see what that bar
done. Soon as he see that Uncle Jep
had his gun loaded, the aggravatin'
bruin begun to dodge amongst the
trees himself, and he done it so slick
and quick that Uncle Jep couldn't git
his gun onto him no way, and the
first thing he knowed the bar had
lodged out O. sight
eff that amt dirty. mean trick l
wouldn't say sou says Uncle Jep.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
Would Make War Impossible.

On the day before his death, which
occurred recently in Moscow, Prof.
Phillipoff addressed a letter to a pa
per of that city stating that for years
he had been experimenting with a
view to evolving a death-dealing in
strument of such power that war
would become impossible, and had
found a means for transmitting the
effects of an explosion over a distance
of thousands of miles. The professor
announced that he would shortly i'm
part his discovery to the ST. Peters
burg Academy of Science and it is
now being questioned in scientific cir
cles whether he has taken his secret
to the grave. His death was due to
poisoning from prussic acid.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22

Aunt Hubby had some amazin'
p'ints,' said the loquacious and rem
fniscent man from the Knob country.
$50 had that bar. He was a genuine
speciment O. what the Knob country
could turn out in the way O. bar when
it sot out to do it, that bar was, and
he had been raisin' the very old Ned
amongst the pigs and farm produce
generally for so long, and had KEEP so
regular and aggravatinly shet of all
the traps and tricks that was sot and
tried to way1ay and circumvent him,
that at last what did old man Nose,
over to the Eddy, do but declare he
would give $40 in cash for that bar
fetched in dead, or $50 if anybody'd
run him in and hand him over alive.
"'Alivel' folks hollered when they
heerd of it. Anybody that tries to
fetch that bar in alive they says,
will more than likely find their own
selves bein' fetched in dead,' they
says; but folks didn't know it all, and
they hadn't stopped to consider Aunt
Hubby.
"Jeptha,' says Aunt Hubby to Uncle
Jep one day, jest about that time,
'Jeptha,' says she, seems to me that
If 1 was you I'd sort O. take holiday
this AFTERNOON and wander over lords
Big Injin Swamp. Mebbe you mowt
run foul O. that pesky bar. OF course
seys she, you can't hardly expect to
get him alive, but all things being
mortal here below says she, you
mowt accidentally git him dead. If
you do says she, it'll be $40, and $40
will buy cow says she.
Uncle Jep didn't see but what
a
knocked of stump-grubbin', took his
old smoothbore rifle and started out.
Jonas went and borried that 9TH
er gun O. mine, ding his pictur, and
hain't brung it back yit,' says Uncle
Jep, as he started
1.-The bar IL fetch jest ezac'ly as
much if you git it with the smooth
bore as it will if it had come a tumb-
lin down before the gun that Jonas
borried,' says Aunt Hubby. SO don't
waste your time grumblin',' says she.
Go look for the bar
so Uncle Jep went, sayin' that If
he got on to the trail o. the cunnin'
old varmint he'd foller it if he had to
camp on it all night. He got over
jest this side O. Big Injin and hadn't
See no sign O. that bar or any other
bar, and was beginnin' to think that
If him and Aunt Hubby didn't git
COW till they got it with the price O.
that bar they'd never quarrel about
who'd do the milkin', when he heerd
somethin' snort. He turned, and there
he see the bar, standin' right out in
plain sight and actin as if he was
afeard Uncle Jep was goin' on with
out seem him. Uncle Jep knowed it
was him, cause that bar was the only
one in the hull Knob country that had
a white spot on it's brisket.
"'This is the first time 1 ever was
to a shootin' match for GOVT says
Uncle Jep. and the idse tickled him so
that he had to take his gun down from
his shoulder till he could git through
his laughin'. "A shootin' match for
cow says he, and he hauled up a'gin
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
"PuIIed it Tight and Jumped Behind
the Big Pine Tree"

'Sneakin' away like that, you pig-steal-
in thief O. the night. you,' says he.
If I'd had the gun that Jonas borried
and hain't brung back yit, I bet you
wouldn't a-done it, consarn his picturi
But sence I'm on your trail I'll foller
it, by cats. and show you some tricks
that maybe you hain't heerd on yit!
says Uncle Jep, and he fol1ered the
bar till night, and then bunked in at
Ellis, t'other side O. the swamp, SOS
he could be on hand early next morn
In to show the bar them tricks.
Aunt Hubby woke up in the night
some time and heerd the pig squeal-
in. She jumped out O. bed and ran
to the winder. The moon was shinin'
bright as day. Aunt Hubby jest give
one look, and then says:
Bar arter the pig!' says she. "A
sockin' big bar, and he'll have that
pigpen smashed down in less than a
jiffy,' says she. And there amt a
gun in the house! If there was says
she, I'D sneak out and blow the top
O. that bars head off, says she. The
idee O. Jeptha lendin' his one gun to
Jonas. who hain't brung it back yit.
and then goin off with t'other one
and campin' all night on a bars trail!
Consarn that Jonas. If 1 had him
here Pd-no. wouldn't, neither,' hol-
lers Aunt Hubby, who'd been looking
out O. winder all the time she was
talkin'. No, I wouldn't, neither!' she
hollers, c1appin' her hands. Tt was a
smilin' Providence that made Jeptha
lend that gun to Jonas and KEEP Jonas
from fetchin' of it backI' she ho1lers,
and then she scooted down to the
oil linz od
slippin moose in one end of it, and
started out on run lords the pigpen.
The bar stood on his hind feet
bangin' away at the pigpen, and the
splinters was flynn tremendous. Then
the door went smashin' in, and the
bar reached in an yanked the pig
out He hadn't much more than done
it, though, when from round the barn
Aunt Hubby come a rushin'. She give
yell The bar dropped the pig like
hot p'tater, and fore he could turn
and see what it was that had skeert
him Aunt Hubby dropped the moose
end of the clothes line down over his
head, pulled it tight, and jumped be-
hind the big pine tree that stood jest
a comfortable jump away.
ct was a smiiin' Providence saws
she. that made Jeptha lend his other
gun to Jonas and KEEP Jonas from
fetchin' Of it back, says she, for otS.
erwise me and Jeptha would be out
jest ten do1lars,' says she.
THE bar come to himself and
sprung after Aunt Hubby. He slung
his big fore legs around the tree to
ketch her where she stood, holdin' on
to the rope, and in less time than it
took him to fetch a good breath Aunt
Hubby had circled round that tree
enough times to bind him to the trunk
as snug and lastin' as if he'd been a
knot CROWN there. and she KEEP right
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
Mr.. POOLE AND THE PRINCE.
Tailor Who Made King Edwards
Clothes to Be knighted.


Clothes to Be knighted.
Poole, the London tailor is about
to receive the accolade. Why not?
Has he not done more to make Ed
ward VII presentable than all other
artists in the United Kingdom put to-
gether? Clothes make the king as
well as the man. Poole makes the
clothes; ergo, Poole makes the king.
When Edward was simply prince of
Wales he owed Poole at times as
much as 100000, and even suffered
the tailor to address him in public
places without fear of the tower.
There are several distinguished
Pooles in England, but none so
famous as Tailor Poole.
Speaking of Poole, one of his Gus
toners says: His accounts are rem
dered once a year, just around
Christmas. If not paid, he waits
twelve months and sends a second
bill. Such as do not pay on receipt
of the second statement are dropped
from his books, and never again are
they allowed to give an order in his
estaoHshment."- York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
Born, Lived, Died Together.

Mr.. and Mrs. John l.. Wayne of AL
bany, N. Y, born the same day six
ty-eight years ago, died Aug. 10 with
in few hours of each other and were
buried Aug. IL. The aged couple were
devoted to each other during a long
married life.
The husband died first of apoplexy
When she realized that he was gone,
Mrs Wayne took to her bed and short
ly after died.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
Want to Leave Newport.

Many estates are for sale. The fine
estates of Mrs. Frederick w. Wander
biit, of BENJAMIN Thaw, who objected
to the marriage of his sister to the
earl OF Yarmouth. and of Mrs. Her.
mann Oelricns are in the market. The
Bell and Malone estates and Cross
ways. owned by Mrs Stuyvesant Fish
wife OF the president OF the rlfnois
Central railroad, are for sale.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
Wyndham,s characteristies.

George Wyndham, chief secretary
for Ireland, who now figures promi-
nently in the public eye in connection
with the Irish land bill, is sometimes
spoken of as 'the knight Grant of
English politics." because of his in
stinctive love for forlorn causes. Mr..
Wyndham has written some pretty
verses and rumor credits him with
being the author of a clever novel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22

and whanged away at the white spot
on the bars chist-
THE bar give a start. felt of. his
chist with one O. his paws as if some
thin was ticklin' of him there, and
then turned a look on Uncle Jep, as
much as to say:
handlin' that gun so ding keerless
around here for?'
THE bar looked mad, too, and Uncle
Yep was so took back at the unmiti-
rated critters pot tumblin' and givin'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
A Floral Clock.

In the public gardens of Edinburgh,
Scotland, is a great floral dial made
of golden feather pyrethrum with the
twelve hours marked ON it. A zinc
receptacle in the shape of clock
hand, planted with dwarf vegetation, is
moved by clockwork and marks the
time with great correctneas
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22

Alfred Smith, now general manager
of the New York Central and Hud-
son river railroad, began his success
full career twenty-five years ago as a
railroad man in the office of the Lake
Shore in Cleveland. Then he joined
a gang of laborers and received $1.50
day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
ORIGIN of ox.Tail Scum.

Ox-tail soup, now regarded as a ma
tional English dish, was first made by
the very poor of Huguenot refugees
from France, after the revocation of
the edict of Nantes, because OK tails
then had no market value
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
The Irony of Eate

A lady purchased a nice new door
mat the other morning with the word
Welcome" stamped thereon in glow
ing letters, and the first to come along
and put his number elevens on it was
q tax collector.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
Exclaimed.

The way the mosquitoes are avoid
ing all efforts to crush them suggests
that possibly they have incorporated
under the laws of New Jersey.-Sioux
City Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-08-22
The Mexican Pantheon,

President Diaz OF Mexico has fnau-
gurated the work upon the Pantheon
which is intended to be q monument
to the fllustrious men Of his countxY.
The National tribune., 1903-11-12
"HOMEWARD OVER THE RANGE"
ACROSS THE sERMs FROM EDEN TO THE DESERT.
The Great Silver Statewide Domain and Scant Population
Political Economy Taught by Recent story- There Fu
ture for Nevada?

not afford to enter into any fight to make
change. This is really wonderful
State" he continued, changing the subject
abruptly from the gloomy political outlook;
there are many wonders that you have
no idea of. Your trouble is that you have
to go so far to find them. Now, in Lin
coin County there is n great spring of ice
cold water, which bubbles over and then
disappears altogether, no one knows where.
Not SO far away is another great spring
about 20 feet square with wonderfully
clear water and an apparently sandy bot
tom with depth of only 1S to 20 inches,
but when You come to look at it closely,
you find that the bottom is really sand in
perpetual motion, and there is really no
bottom to it, as teamster once found to
his cost. His tires had been loosened by
driving over the hot desert, and he took
off his wheels and rolled them in the
spring to soak up the wood again. They
disappeared utterly, and no fishing would
bring back any trace of them, so he was
left in the desert there to get his wheel