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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-14

The best thing about the new GER
tificaJe law is that it allows the asso-
ciate examiners pay for double the
number of days formerly allowed
without much increase of work. They
never received enough and will not
be over paid now
To-day. March II. Trego teachers
are having a meeting and, incident
ally, celebrating the birthday ami
versary of an eX-county superinteEd-
ent-but they don't know it. Prob
ably Hudson Harlan is the only OF
who ever suspects it, He and | are
both somewhat older than we were
0years ago.
The new senator from idaho is
named Hayburn. A few more storms
and we will have no hay for that pu.-
pose here.
Ever notice how names are really
misnomers? Mr.. Baker is a butcher.
Mr.. Butcher is farmer. Mr.. Farm
er was a doctor and at one time they
all lived right here in Wa-Keeney.
Or. Farmer is gone but DIR. Jones is
his equal as physician beside man
aging good stock farm.
-
Our brother-in-law, f. F. Burgess,
of North Yakima, Washington. has
just sent us supply of prunes. right
from the place where they make 'em.
Don't laugh. You may be the very
fellow who ought to be eating the
fruit of the prunus domestica. The
much despised prune is a great nerve
medicine and also a wonderful brain
food. To be sure our nerve is all
right. The other feature of the case
is the one most considered and that
brothel-in-law knew what he was
about. He sent over hundred
weight. OF course it will take time
but we have already begun treatment
and here's hoping that the items in
this column will brighten up a little
bye and bye.
1t was Eli Perkins who said he new
er gave lecture in public until after
he had first tried it on his dog. If the
dog survived and showed no signs of
rabies he thought it safe to venture
before an audience with his produc-
tion. Well we have no dog so l always
read my copy" to my wife before
sending it to the printer-just few
paragraphs at a time, of courSe-and
[ must say that she is very patient
about it. However, she complains
RI ha.r h Dr.
ner justice never give her proper
credit. Now dearly love to s.render
unto Caesar the things that are Gaze
sar's" and freely admit that she gives
me some very useful hints. For in
stance. she SAYS that my ''prune" item
may be mistaken by the reader as an
ad in the interest of our local dealers
and she also says further that 1 have
no prunes to spare!
And now we are to have big bat
ly expect to see it coming up Big
Creek.
That Georgia man probably irrigat-
ed himself into the notion of whip
ping our Bill Reeder.
-
The way the cats have been yOwling
around our part of town is enough to
drive man to commit felinicide-
if the Ratchet would only go straight.
The fendish brutes would wake the
Seven Sleepers in spite of the dog, Al
Rakim. (See Webster's Names of
Fiction.)
THEODORE.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-14

"Now," says Anna Carlson of the
Lindsborg News, s'that scientists have
invented a machine that. measures
mental fatigue, let some one come
forward with an apparatus that will
give a man hunch in the ribs when
he has talked enough"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-14

1t is so firm. you bet!
It's hard to change the ways of folks
They re set. and set and set!
Some more school talk this week.
*x*
You will find the high school law,
which now applies to Trego county, on
page 81, school laws of 1901 Every
district clerk has. or ought to have,
copy. Get the book and post up on
the subject. You may need to know
all about it some day.
*x*
1t may sound like contradiction
but probably one of the best ways to
keep Lent is to return what you bor-
row.
A. B. Jones is the name of the min
lister down at Liberty, Missouri. He
has written book which, perhaps.
is next thing TO going to the legisla-
ture, but how strange it would sound
to Wa-Keeney people to hear anyone
speak of the Reverend A. b. Jones,
However, if "Doc" were a preacher
he would be good one no doubt.
80
The new law on teachers certifi-
Gates must have been fathered by the
assistant superintendent of ventila-
ton, and passed by the pages. II
Judge Cliff had anything to do with
it he'd better stay in Topeka.
80
Every common school teacher should
be familiar with Kansas history but
there is no sense in making it an ex-
ira branch to take up time on examin-
atfon day.
The above mentioned law is House
Bill No. 34S and was published in the
official state paper, Daily Capital,
March 4. The law makes many
changes of interest to teachers and
others.
Now let the Sc rs of Rest Hold a
good road convention.
So
Everybody should read the new law
governing the issuance of teachers
certificates. It's a dali no, smart
weed or jimson.
80
Your scribe is still alive but the
damp weather keeps him in the house
pretty closely. His readers may con-
slider. the latter fact mitigating fea-
ture of the case as, otherwise, there
might be "a chiel amang them takin'
notes"
The story of the ssLong Hollow
school ma'am reminds us that the
Happy Hollow folks do not appear, to
be very jubilant when they feel that
way.
Snow-balling at school is worse than
nuisance. Stamp it out.
-
According to the law just passed
and now in full force and effect, there
will be no April examination of teach
ers. That will be a disappointment
to some, perhaps. but it will have a
tendency to increase the attendance
at the normal institute There never
was much need of an April Elk.
50
Some people gather more eggs in
number per day than they have of
hens and ROSTERS combined. which.
of course, is better than their inn
mediate neighbors can do.
-
Carry grades two years. Why even
sborn short. could get almost any
kind of certificate that way after
awhile The new law proposes to- give
professional 90 sheepskins in that
way.
The teachers permit" or tempo
rary" certificate will now be a thing
of the past. They were so very tenn
porary that it will be no great loss.
Mr.. Tatman and Theodore have
compromised their differences and
diplomatic relations have been re-
sumed- We have signed a protocol.
the details Of which need not be made
public The signatory powers are to
be congratulated on having so happi-
} ly avoided a crisis.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-14

Apostle Smoot has won at the Utah
end of the game, and if he now proves
to be a good poker player, he may
also be able to swing the Washington
end of the observation-disclosures Post.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-14
MY PASTIME-

I-love to mount my hobby horse
And ride. and ride, and ride;
But seldom anywhere L get
Because you see he's tied
He cannot bulge the hitching post,
1t is so firm. you betl
It's hard to change the ways of folks
They're set. and set. and seti
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19
She deau her bird and golloped after it.

She feaD her bird and galloped after it.
me. When they came up. was greet
ed in chorus. "Where is the princess?'
said she had gone off with her hawk
and had left me to bring them after
her. held them talking while could.
and when we started to follow took up
the wrong scent. A short ride made
this apparent, when I came in for my
full share Of abuse and ridicule, for
had led them against their judgment.
was credited with being blockhead.
when, in fact, they were the dupes.
We rode hurriedly back to the point
of Mary's departure and wound our
horns Justify, but my object had been
accomplished, and l knew that within
twenty minutes from the time l last
saw her she would be with Brandon
on the road to Bristol. gaining on any
pursuit we could make at the rate OF
three miles for two. We secured the
forest far and near, but of course found
no trace. After time rain set in and
one of the gentlemen escorted the la-5
dies home, while three of us remained,
to prowl about the woods and roads all
night in soaking drizzle. The task.
was tiresome enough for me, as it lack
ed motive, and when we rode into
Berkeley castle next day sorrier set
Of bedraggled, rain stained. mud COW
cred knights you never saw. Yousmay
know the castle was wild with excite
ment. There were all sorts OF conjec-
lures, but soon we unanimously con-
cluded 1T had been the work OF high
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19

Fine feathers will not make fine
birds, and Mary's masculine attire
could no more make her look like a
man than harness can disguise the
graces Of gazelle. Nothing could
conceal her intense, exquisite woman.
hood. With our looks of establishment
and admiration Mary's bushes deep.
ened.
"What is the matter? Is anything
wrong?" she asked.
Nothing is wrong" answered Bran.
don. smiling in spite Of himself. Moth.
ing on earth is wrong with you, you
may be sure. You are perfect-that is
for a woman-and one who thinks there
is anything wrong about a perfect
woman is hard to please. But if you
fatter yourself that you in any way
resemble man or that your dress in
the faintest degree conceals your sex
you are mistaken. 1t makes it only
more apparent"
'How can that be?' asked Mary If
comical tribulation. els not this a
mans doublet and hose, and this hat
Is it not mans hat? They are all for
man. Then why do not look like
one, l ask? Tell me what is wrong
Oh, thought l looked just like man.
I thought the disguise waEperfect."
'Well," returned Brandon, IF you
will permit me to say so, you are en-
t1rely too symmetrical and shapely
ever to pass for a man."
The flaming color was in her cheeks
as Brandon went on: Your feet are
too small, even for boys feet.
don't think you could be made to look
like a man if you worked from now
till doomsday."
Brandon spoke in a troubled tone,
for he was beginning to see in Mary's
perfect and irrepressible womanhood
an insurmountable difficulty right
across his path.
larger shoes, or. better still, jack boots
and, as to your hose, you might wear
longer trunks. but what to do about
the doublet I am sure do not know"
Mary looked up helpless and forlorn
and the hot face went into her Bonded
elbow as realization of the situation
seemed to dawn upon her.
'Oh, wish l had not come! But l
wanted to grow accustomed. so that I
could wear them before others. be-
lieve l could bear it more easily with
any one else. did not think of it in
that way" And she snatched her
cloak from where it had fallen on the
floor and threw it around her.
"What way, Mary?" asked Brandon
gently and receiving no answer. But
you will have to bear my looking at
you all the time if you so with me-"
II don't believe can do it,
mo, no." answered he, bravely at
tempting cheerfulness; 1--WE may as
we'll give it up. l have had no hope
from the first. l knew it could not be
done, and it should not. was both
insane and criminal to think of per-
hitting you to try it,"
Brandon's forced cheerfulness died
out with his words. and he sank into
chair, with hts elbows on his knees and
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19
NORWAY.

Prof. Brogger claims that he has
found new kind of mineral at Krag-
ero. He has called it ''hellandit," in
honor of his friend, Prof. Amund He'll
and.
The jubilee fund raised for Born
son on the occasion of his 10th birth
day amounts to about $500. The
money, which has been deposited in
the Hamar Savings bank, will be used
for the aid of public school teachers.
Mikkel Berge of Helleland, near
Stavanger, has just completed his
103rd year. The old gentleman is still
doing considera BILE work on the farm.
The temperance people of Bergen
have resolved neither to cooperate
with the Socialists nor to nominate
candidates of their own.
Mackerel has been so plentiful at
Sandefjord that a big fish could be
had for one cent.
A servant girl was burned to death
in two-story frame house in Lar
vik. The chief of police was mobbed
because the people supposed that he
could have saved her life.
Norway is simply flooded with tour
lists this summer, the Americans and
the Germans being very numerous.
The Knaben Molybdenum Mining
company has been organized for work.
ing mine at Fjotland, sogn, the
capital stock being $4,000.
The returns from the salmon fisher
les in the Drammen ford are exceed
ingly meager. One fisherman was out
eighteen nights in succession without
catching a single fish.
Strange as it may seem, the fish
ermen who were operating at Rost,
Lofoten, had to quit in the midst of
| good season on account of poor
steamboat connections with the mar
kets. Each man made about $3.50 for
the season.
There is serious split in the ranks
of the Leftists in Trondhjem, a num-
Der of leading merchants and manu-
facturcrs having elected committee
to draw up platform for new Left
list club which is organizing.
The statistics of the municipal en-
ployment bureau of Kristiania are
still indicating "hard times" In June,
for instance, 84s persons applied for
work, and only 1854 applications for
help were received.
The imports Of grain, especially rye,
have been enormous for the past six
months, this is due to the partial fail
ure of the crops last year.
Reports from different parts of the
country indicate that there will be
an abundance of game in Norway
next fall. :,<t$- <...- Vi
The state of Norway retains $50
acres of the land which was made
unfit for cultivation by the great land.
slide of 1908. in Verdalen, and the
land will be devoted to the planting
Of trees. It is proposed to, have the
work Of planting the trees done by
sconyicts.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19

10 Jane, OUT would not tell us. She
whispered it to Jane, who, as, serious
as the lord chancellor, gave Judgment
and thought it would do" We hoped
so, but were full of doubt.
This Is all tame enough to write and
read about, but can tell you it was
sufficiently exciting at the time. Three
of us at least were playing with that
comical fellow, Death, and he gave the
game interest and point to our hearts
content.
AS to the elopement, it was deter
mined that Brandon should leave Lon
don the following day for Bristol AID
make all arrangements along the line.
He would carry with him two bundles,
his own and Mary's clothing, and leave
them to be taken up when they should
go a-shipboard. Eight horses would
be procured, four to be left as relay
at an inn between Berkeley castle and
Bristol and four to be kept at the rem
devious some two leagues the other
side Of Berkeley for the use of Bran
don, Mary and the two men from Bris-
tol who were to act as an escort on the
eventful night. There was one dis
agreeable little feature that we could
not provide against nor entirely elm
mate. 1t was the fact that Jane aud
l should be suspected as accomplices
before the fact of Mary's elopement,
and, as you know, to assist in the alb
duction of a princess is treason, for
which there Is but one remedy. I
thought had a plan to keep ourselves
safe if could only stif1e for the once
James troublesome and vigorous tend
ency to preach the truth to all people
upon all subjects and at all times and
places. She promised to tell the story
l should drill into her, but knew the
truth would seep out in a thousand
ways. She could no more hold it than
sieve can hold water. We were play
ing for great stakes, which, if do say
it, none but the bravest hearts, bold
and daring as the truest knights of
chivalry, would think Of trying for
nothing less than the running away
with the first princess of the first blood
royal Of the world. Think of it! It
appalls me even now. Discovery meant
death to one of us surely, Brandon;
possibly to two others, Jane and me,
certainly if James truthfulness should
become unmanageable, as it was apt
to do.
After we had settled everything we
could think Of the girls took their leave,
Mary slyly kissing Brandon at the
door. l tried to induce Jane to follow
her lady's example, but she was as
cool and distant as the new moon.
The next day Brandon paid his re-
spects to the king and queen, made his
adieus to his friends and rode off alone
to Bristol. You may be sure the king
showed no signs of undue grief at his
departure.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19

XS&S SudII party 10 go over 10
Windsor fol- a few weeks during the
warm weather.
There were ten or twelve of us, in
Guiding two chaperons, the old Earl of
Hartford and the dowager Duchess of
Kent. Henry might as we'll have sent
erons-it would have taken an army
to guard Mary alone-and to tell you
the truth our old chaperons needed
watching more than any Of us. 1t was
scandalous. Each Of them had touch
Of govt, and when they made wry
faces it was standing inquiry among
us whether they were leering at each
other or felt twinge- whether it was
their feet or their hearts that troubled
them.
Mary led them d pretty life at all
times, even at home in the palace, and
1 know they would rather have gone
off with pack of imps than with us.
The inducement was that it gave them
better opportunities to be together, an
arrangement connived at by the queen,
I think, and they were satisfied. The
earl had wife, but he fancied the old
dowager and she fancied him, and
probably the wife fancied somebody
else, so they were all happy. 1t great
ly amused the young people, you may
be sure, and Mary said, probably with
out telling the exact truth, that every
night she prayed God to pity and for
give their ugliness. One day the prin-
cess said she was becoming alarmed
ed it might be contagious and spread.
Then, with a most comical seriousness,
she added:
"Mon Dieu, Sir Edwin. what if I
should catch it? Master Charles would
not take me-"
mo danger of that, my lady. He is
too devoted to see anything but beauty
in you, no matter how much you might
change"
"Do you really think so? He says
so little about it that sometimes al
most doubt"
Therein she spoke the secret of Bran
don's success with her, at least in the
beginning, for there is wonderful po-
tency in the stimulus of healthy lit
tie doubt.
We had a delightful canter over to
Windsor, I riding with Mary most of
the way. l was not averse to this ar
rangement, as not only relished Ma
rvs mirth and joyousness, which were
at their height, but hoped might give
my little Lady Jane twinge or two
Of jealousy, perchance to fertlize her
sentiments toward me.
Mary talked and laughed and sang,
for her soul was fountain Of glad,
ness that dubbed up the instant pres
sure was removed. She spoke of little
but our last trip over this same road,
and, as we passed objects on the way,
told me of what Brandon had said at
this place and that. She laughed and
dimpled exquisitely in relating how
she had deliberately made opportuni-
ties for him to flatter her until at last
he smiled in her face and told her she
was the most beautiful creature liv-.
Ing, but that, after all, beauty was as
beauty did. ..55... >ss ). i. !.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19

admiration
his face in his hands. Mary ran to him
at once. There had been little mo-
ment of faltering, but there was no
real surrender in her.
Dropping on her knee beside him, she
said coaxingly: Don't give up. You
are man; you must not surrender
and let me, a girl, prove the stronger.
Shame upon you when look up to
you so much and expect you to help me
be brave! will 60. will arrange
myself in some way. Oh. why am I
not different? wish were as straight
as the queen" And for that first time
in her life she bewailed her beauty be-
cause it stood between her and Bran
don.
She soon coaxed him out Of his de-
spondency, and we began again to plan
the matter in detail.
The girls sat on Brandon's cloak and
he and on the camp stool and box.
Mary's time was we'll occupied in
vain attempts to keep herself covered
with the cloak, which seemed to have
right good will toward Brandon and
me, but she kept track of our plans,
which, in brief, were. as follows: As
to her. costume, we would substitute
long trunks and jack boots for shoes
and hose, and, as to- doublet, Mary
laughed and blushingly said she had q
plan which she would secretly impart
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19

The state railway employees aid
society held it's annual meeting at
Bollnes. The membership is 3,159,
and $4,000 was. paid out on account of
70 deaths during the past year. The
balance in the treasury is $4,000.
Large shoals of herring used for
sardines have been crowding close up
to the shore at Skelsderviken. In
some spots they have been so thick
that bathers have been in the habit of
dipping them out of the water with
their hands.
Eight machinists at Kristianstad,
who were thrown out of work by the
great lockout, are building a factory
of their own, and they have already
received some orders.
Fja'mar Branting, the greatest liv-
ing leader of the Socialists of Sweden,
recently addressed an audience of 49,
600 people in the Peoples Park at
Nalmo.
The riksdag voted money for the
equipment of ambulance trains Fur
niture for such trains has already
been forwarded to four divisions of
the army, and medical appliances to
all six divisions
The government has requested fouf
of the leading iron manufacturing
concerns of Sweden to make bids for
furnishing certain parts of the new
gunboat, Oscar II. This will be the
twelfth gunboat of the first class.
The Svalof Seed Growing company
has added large building to the old
group of buildings, making this es-
tablishment the largest of it's kind
in northern Europe.
The rocks are doing great damage
to the potato fields in Skane. They
dig around the roots of the potato
vines until they reach few small po-
tatoes, which they devour, and the
plants die.
The hazel nut crop will be a COM
plete failure in Albo and Stenshufund,
Skane. No decent hazel nut crop has
been harvested in these localities
since 1900.
Arrangements have been made with
the railways for taking a few thou
sand tons of iron ore from the ex-
IRENE north (Kiiruna) to different
furnaces and iron works in the CEN
trail part of the country as an expert
ment. This kind of freight can be
carried very cheaply because so much
fodder and provisions must be taken
to the north that trains of empty
cars are going south every day. In
deed this hauling of empty cars back
from the north has been a serious
drawback to the railways of northern
Sweden.
A number of German ship-builders
who visited Sweden stated that the
Swedish ship-builders pay their work.
men more lot the work done than the
German shlp-builders do. One Ger
man ven went so far as to use this ex-
pression:. Your manner of paying
your men and your high day and
hour rates would ruin u.s."
August Strindberg has written a
series of articles on ''The Mysticism
of the History of the world" for
stockholm daily, and a German ver-
sion of it has already been prepared
for his complete works in thai Ian
guage.
Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1903-08-19
CHAPTER XVI.

A HAWKING PARTY.
FEW days after Brandon's
departure, Mary. with the
kings consent, organized a
small party to 60 over to
fov a fow xxyool-o 1,,r;r~ %ho