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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-21
Notice for Publication-No 1924.

-'-g 5vd United States Land Office,
Wa-Keeney. KanS.. February 9. 1903.
Notice is hereby given that the following
named. set Her has filed notice of her inten-
ZION t0.maFe final proof in support of her
claim andfhat said proof will be made b.
fore the Register and Receiver OF the ~. 8.
Land Office.at Wa-keeney Kansas. on March
24th, 1908, viz:
Emma B. DrummOnd,
Homestead Entry No. 24224 for the south
west quarter of section IL, tow nShip 10 south,
range % west of the 9th p. NJ.
She names the following witnesses to prove
her continuous residence upon and cultiva-
ton of said land, viz:
Lyman S. Burt. of Brownelf. Kansas. John
McCOol. James W. Lawrence and Walter
Gunckel all of Ransom Kansas.
Fl. BLAIR. Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-21

For SALE or TRADE-I5 head of
registered Hereford bulls. Coming
2-year-olds. Will trade part for stock
cattle. Address, JAMES WRIGHT,
Banner. Kansas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-21
Notice OF Application to Purchase School
Land

The undersigned hereby gives notice that
he will. on the 21st day of March. 1903.
mai an application to the Probate Court of
Trego County. Kansas. to purchase the fol-
lowing described school land. situated in the
organized county of Trego. Kansas viz:
ship Ia. range "a
his ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS residence and
improvements, viz: Grant Bronson. resi-
dence Wa-Keeney. Kansas, and John Wort
man. residence Wa-Keeney, Kansas.
Done at Wa-Keeney. County of Trego.
Kansas. this 10th day of March. 1908
- DANIEL. V. PLANTS.
Petitioner.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-21
THEODORE.

| For SALE OR TRADE FOR CATTLE
New Triumph, 1O-hoe, Press drill.
Fl. Mack, Wa-Keeney, Kansas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-21

You can buy the best beef at Bakers
at 6 and ccents per pound by the
quarter. You do not have to pay ped
oilers and cents for it.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
LES PERLES.

Dams lie Collie Persique ct pres de TaprObane
Aux bOrds d'Acarnanie ct de COrOn andel,
Des milliers de pecheurs deSertant leur cabane
S'immergent sous les fOtS en- un danger Elortel
Une pierre leur col les force de descendre,
lis pongent as les eaux des instan,s infiniS,
Puis remontent, pOrtant lie bijou e plus tendre,
La coquie on Ia Pc lie oriente nids.
Mais leur vie a tot fait de C6der ces joutes;
Un requn les deVore. lis sont aSphyXitS
lie sang fuit par leurs yeuX ct leurs humides
routes,
Sc sillonnent de pourpre- Et c'est extas6s
Quils meurent, Tuil fixe sur invisible proie
Qui dot aller parer dams les pays lointains
De ses feuX irises, Ia Beaute qu les broie
Et par qui leurs printemps sOnt, heure
eteIntS.
. Femme! Helene encore en- - Tte de parureS,
De quel plus pur joyau veuX-tu tt cOurOnner
Que du derne1 sopir de tant de creatures.
Ces triStes peCheurs morris pour vouoir
nOrner?
Et je Songe parfois en- nos morneS SOireeS,
Que la-bas e recheur mysterieuX descend
Appreter les collierS des epaules mOirGes
Don't le lait de leur perle cotlte tant de sang!
Count Robert de Montesquiou in The Smart
Set
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
THE POTATO METROPOLIS.

The chief source of wealth in Greeley up to
the present time has been the pOtato-or, as they
frequently say in Colorado, the Spud- In Greeley
potato is king Potato is king does not
sound so Doetical as cotton is king" or even
corn is king but who has never seen the
broad fields of Greeley in potatoes cannot imag-
inc their beauty. l have never seen the cotton
fields in their full glory, but | have frequently
admired immense areas covered with Indian corn
IL Illinois. Iowa and Nebraska. But no corn
field which have ever seen equals in beauty. IN
my opinion the potato fields of Weld County,
Col. They stretch away for long distances tow
ard the horizon, in long, straight rows, covered
with the richest green and dotted with the
beautiful potato blossoms. Here and there tow
ard the horizon one sees the cottonwood trees,
sometimes looking like stately elmS, sometimes
like sturdy, broad branched oaks; and L may
remark that the cottonwood tree, often desplSed,
has a beauty which is rarely appreciated by
those who live where il hOuriSheS and is the
main reliance for shade. Occasionally one sees
a long avenue of cottonwood trees which can
compare in beauty with the elmS of New
England town.
1t is claimed that nowhere else in the United
States is there large a production per acre
of potatoes of high quality in Weld County
of which Greeley is the county seat and the
principal city An eighty-aCre farm has been
known to produce high 10000 worth of
pOta toes in single year In recent years the
price of land has become high say from $40 to
$50 an acre. but it has again and again hap
pened that man has paid for his farm in one
CROP Orchard T. Ely. in Harper's Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
THE LITERARY AGE OF BOSTON

The traits of the period still hard to grasp
The immense crudty of that age taxes ere
dulity, and at times perpleNes us by arOusing
the sense of humOr instead of exciting the
gans of reverence Thou shalt read Hafiz."
says Emerson, as he lays down the gospels; and
the modern reader of Hafiz stands aShast The
amazing cOntradictions-yOun parsons leaders
of the mob the naive surprises-LOweu as a
temperance lecturer at the picnic where Maria
White queen crowned with a cOronal
iz,l. Bohemia at Fresh Pond the Arcadia of
den now of the milieu of the Vicar of Wake
field" and again of some fete champ6tre in
Sterne-a puzzle the ingenious and unaccIi-
mated mind The prOvinciality of the life is
fresh and startling, and humanity interesting,
in the work of great nOveliStS. The wonder
full rurality of Lowell's youth. scarcely guessed
even by his biographies, is one extreme: the
other is-let say AllStOn returned from
abroad He had known Coleridge- What fig
ure he wore in CambridgepOCti Had Jane Aus
ten lived he" girlhood at Salem, Peacock
passed a summer at Concord. what delightful
mischief might have been ours What n
richment of our literature in eccentric and ever
laughabe realism but the society of which
Allston was an ornament, the study of TicknOr,
the dining room of Judge Prescott. the counting
room of Francis and Thorndike- the courtroom
of Mason and SHAW, would have required vet
more mastery hand, We get SlimPseS of it in
memoirs and anecdotes. but the scene yet waits
its author and is most likely to pass away with
out poet Yet this conservative, commercial
respectable society of the travelled and home
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01

their arrowheads until they We're more deadly
than the swiftest Mauser or the barred Dunn
dunn bullet. followed a formula more
grewsOme.
The Spaniards found them practising poison
ing when they first landed these shores
The red took the leg of an Indian Who had
been killed filled it with barbS, hung 1t in
the air against the and allowed it To tester
for many days The barbs were removed and
without cleaning. hung out in the air 10 dry
When the Spanish came the Indians changed
their formula to the extent of using Spanish
leg If the victim redheadeG the poison
was considered the more deadly, because Of an
alleged greater warmth in flesh that raised red
hair The result was most malignant poison.
which defied cure.
Scientists have been studying the poisoned
arrow subject recently. and great deal OF ne"
information has deveIoT ed. Some Of this was
made public recently at the annual meeting ol
the American Society for the Advancement OF
Science in Washington. which for this meet
ing at least affiliated with the American FoiA
ore Society The basis for this study seems 10
be the reports collected for the King OF SPAN
in 1I25 The methods of the Indians are de-
scrtbed in part as follows.
Their bows were made of black palm tI'T7-
the wood whereof was extraordinary hard a
fathom in length and some more. their arrows
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
PROFESSIONAL AMENITIES.

One night. some years ago. as I entered Dor
Ions oyster house, in East Twenty -third-st. 7
saw Joseph Jefferson and w. J. Florence sitting
at table the door. jefferson was talking
earnestly to Flo enCe, who was l00ki1g very
much ashamed Of himself with eyes cast down
and fddiing with his oyster fork. Glancng up
he me, and. : if glad TO escape from a
scolding. he cried, Come over here and sit down
with u.s.
How do you dO?'' said Jefferson. Pardon ne
a moment. I telling Billy about a point he
spoiled this evening" They were playing The
Rivals at the Garden Theatre
Well I was thinking of something else said
Florence.
"Ah, that's it," said Jefferson. "but you missed
the point. and let tell you that you would
have got round of applause there'-naming
some other portion of the scene-'if YOU had
made the pause IN the right place"
Look here" said Florence. suddenly losing
his remorseful expression, you killed your own
effect by speaking too quickly on that line" and
he instanced one of Bob Acres's best moments
Jefferson's face fell. That's so. Billy. that's
So 1 spoiled that Iine. I was thinking how well
I was playing, too and 1 forgot my look before
/ spoke
Florence became quite cheerful again He's
been giving me fits said he. for the last ten
minutes. He wasn't 50 deviIish good himself to-
night"
To see those two veterans polishing their
work to find them in their hour OF recreation
gliding refined gold was an object lesson or some
value.-CE. H Sothern in Frank Leslie POprlar
Monthly
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
81 EEPING ON A KONG.

China is land without mattresses or counter
paneS. \ bed. kong, is merely a broad wall
of brick built across the side of the room. on
first acquaintance ii seems absolutely impOSSi-
bic for an Anglo -Savon, but a man in the in
terror of China must either sleep on kong or
not sleep at all | determined that if the bricks
would not yield to re ! must yield to them. and,
means Ct yielding gracefully, | studied the
sleeping methods of my Chinese companions.
found that their practice was to climb inside of
quilted sacks. called pOOkas which they tied and
folded around themselves, until a row of men
on kong looked not unlike sealed envelopes
Whenever they relied turned over in their
pile they could not escape the ameliOrating eff
feet of their pOokas. Obviously l, too must have
a pooka. From a dealer in leather, in a town
through which passed, l. bought two goat
skins. l had them sewn together with the hair
side in. | devised system of strings by which
| could tie myself in my appliance and this
way | succeeded in sleeping in China.-(O Outing.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
A GIRLS PIGGERY.

Six years ago daughter of DR.. w Seward
Webb in order to show her business ablilty ana
to obtain a little additional pocket money, TOOK
little flyer in stock breeding on ShelDurne
Farms DR.. Webbs country seat on Lake Chahi-
plain She invested $40 in a brood SOW, ana
with her fathers permission made arrange
ments with the shepherd to care for the SOW
and the pigs. AS there was an abundance OF
skim milk this given her without cost, put
all the grain fed was charged for at market
prices From this single investment she cleared
500 the first year, 5000 the second and SoOO the
third. BY this time the stock had so increased
in number to outgroW its quarters, ana was
proving so profitable that DR.. Webb thought 1t
advisable to buy her out. SO at the end OF the
fourth year he took over the stock at market
prices and gave her a check for 500 when
represented the years profits. From this start
the present piggery has been developed Whlch
is the most profitable department of the place.
Last year two hundred pigs were sold, aVerag-
ing from 80 to 800 pounds in weight, and
bringing one-half cent pei pound more than the
ruling market prices because of the superior
conditions under which they are kept The
piggery is a model of it's kind. The building is
in keeping with the others the place in ex-
terror style, and the interior is finished with
hard pine. cement floors and iron trOughS with
fixtures.-tCountIy Life in America.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01

he is given to rash bravery and childish cow
aTdice. he cannot very we'll be fashioned INTO d
decent soldier Even among protesting Chris
tians there otter remains the underlying tear OF
the Ju-Ju, in whose honor human blood IS stun
poured out freely in the Niger delta Inland
however the tribesmen have considerably I'M
proved mentally and morally by admlXture WIN
the descendants of Moor and Arab and CONVEX
sion from Ju-Ju worship to the faith OF Islam
AS most people know, there were at one time
powerful and semi-Civiiized sultanates on the
southern fringe of the SOudan. and it is from the
semi-sOIdfer races on their borders that the
black troops are recruited. These people nave
their failings. but they are brave with the reck-
lessnes of the fatalist skilled in industries and
capable of organization; they are certainly
neither heathen African savages- Othrnan
of SokotC was a statesman and IaWmaker as
we'll as conqueror. and his descendants have not
wholly degenera led. MOhammedanism is spread
ing rapidly in the English colonies. and. on the
whole its influence is salutary.-LippincOtt
Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
IN THE NIGER DELTA

Speaking generally of the delta-and much of the
Guinea coast-the pure negro has been changed
but little ty contact with the European for four
centuries, Notwithstanding the persistent labors
of missionaries There are. it is true. highly
educated black merchants doctors. and lawyers
perhaps too many of the latter-In such places
as Free Town. Aeera, and Lagos, but TO a great
extent the 5rabonrd African continues to be d
barbarian of Curiously unsta Bile Character-With
the exception of the KrOobOy; he can hardly be
induced t. undertake any regular labor, and as
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
LYING FOR THE UNION.

A. ttaruood q village about four miles from
tJazleton I attended a meeting of Junior L.
cal Promptly at o'clock the boys, about rhniy nlty
in. number gathered in the schoolhouse. Ihelt f
their having only recently left their DAY loi1
in the mines and breakers. After the bllhus hau
been drawn and the door locked, the pItsidettie ~
o,,ntad the teachers platform and called the
meeting to order by pounding on the desk WIN
his fist On the front row of benches sat tne
,,o,.t ti,.alv few of the members who filled the
benches in the room would have been pro
nounced by any observer of ordinary persplca-
CITY outside the world of anthracite as PENS
more than ten wears old-three years below the
ace at which it is legal to work in the breakers;
..EoW- old are you2' | asked the aSsemoleu
meeting and the answer came back IN gram
cbor,,e ..Thirteen" An accord of ideas as Wen
as ages worthy of union-CMcClure's Masa-
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
COURAGE OR FATALISM?

The little lieutenant who lived just the
street from o. K. Davis, The NewYork Suns
correspondent in TenTsin, said to him
day:
Il should be very happy to have you visit me
n my home in Japan after this war is over, but
! expect to be killed -
He perfectly sincere and unaffected. His
belief did not alter his attention to duty in the
slightest He went wherever he ordered
gayly If it to 4 feast, matter if the
field was swept with bullets. When l saw him
in Peking a day so after the legations had
been relieved he SAID simply:
Perhaps | shall not be killed this time, after
all"
Would you call it courage when such man
that leads a little column against stone wall,
and when he can't get over at first, sits down
and waits until he can? He hasn't any concep-
non of courage. He is brave. but with the
bravery Of bulldog. There is more real cOur-
ge in the old hen futtering over her little
chickens protect them from the threatening
hawk If it were not for them she would flee
last enough from the danger
There you have the essential difference be
tween courage and bravery, and between the
American soldier and the Japanese or Russian.
The Orientals counting the Russian
Oriental. are dangerous men to meet because
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
ONE-CLIENT LAWYERS.

The poverty of bref1esS barristers is as pro-
verbal that of the church mouse 1t would
not be an unnatural mistake to consider a par
rister with only one client hardly better off
than with none. But the modern one
client lawyer is usually prosperous lndlVld-
ual. Said we'll known in the business
world some years ago to a friend: Il want a
young lawyer to put down at desk beside mine
III familiarize him with my affairs and then L
want him to keep me out of trouble The
counterpart of this lawyer, whose duty 1t is to
act as his own clients ounce of prevention, may
be found in the office of many large concerns.
He is often connected with trust companies,
banks. banking houses, railroad and other trans
portatiOn companies and large wholesale mer-
camille houses. When a merchant found him
self in a tangle, it was once the custom for him
to go to his lawyer for advice. The results were
Il written opinion" and a fee. The business
to-day obtains a lawyer who shall work
for him alone. Again the field of the general
practitioner is ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Work.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01
POISONED ARROWS.

DEADLY WEAPONS USED BY SOME saw
AGE INDIANS.
The three old hags in Macbeth dronIns
their
Double double. toll and trouble:
Fire burn and caUIdrOn bubble.
as they boiled snake flet. newt eye. lizard
leg, cog tongue. and the like. were horrible
enough. The original Indian pOisoners. the
Indians OF the Southwest, who doctored Up
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01

81 900 900 the Senator wants for new post
office in his own home
But. Mr.. Secretary. that's a clear steal anu @
cory one knows it | couldn't hold up my
head among honest men if did that sha1neiui
thing" III, ib
I'm sorry" says the Secretary Win d on sIsl'
which ic his memorial to a dead conscience,
but I've got to save my bill if L can 'oou
morning" ,,,on+
This is a composite story, but every elei1Tn ~
y II is true-(Ienry LOOMS Nelson, in Inc
Century.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01

keeping provInciaIs Is the background on which
must be relieved the radIcalIsrn Of Fnnerson
and Phillips, the elegance Of LongfeIow. the
self-suffciency Of Hawthorne, the manhood
worth of Whittier. the Brahmin pride os
Holmes. the cleverness Of Lowell II the back
ground be so impossible to sketch. stiu more ia
the sway and jOstIe Of the contemporary crowd
Only a few Impressions are firm enough TO be
put down. professor George E WoOdberry. in
Harper's Magazine.
New-York tribune., 1903-02-01

they have no care for the result How much
more dangerous is the man who sees through 10
the end and discounts it all, yet goes ahead 10
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08

and he went from bad to worse. He lied like a prairie fire, too, and every time he was in close corner he swore he was the parson, and the boys let him go, not wishing to make any mistake. At last there were strong suspicious that he was mixed up in a gang of cattle rustlers and horse thieves and the strain was about to the breaking point when one night the Vigilants met old Astral on the road to Coyote Gulch. astride of one of Bud Dag gets bronchos and they held him up
 Don't hinder me none, boys" he said I'm the parson. all right this time. and I'm on the way to Coyote Gulch to see Three Finger Cal Hicks, that's sick and sent for me-.
 That's where your diamond hitch slip ped, old Astral" yelled Eop-Eared Dan Turner. T seen Cal myself, this morn ing, and he was as we'll as I am right now"
 Yep. and the parsons in bed asleep!' clipped in Powder Faced Simpson We stopped there and saw him through the window of his shack before we started out
 'Looky here, boys,' says Red-Nosed Mike. This here broneos got Bud Dag gets brand on it. Buds been one of the heaviest loosers through the new gang of cattle rustlers, and I sort of reckon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1903-11-08

that you couldn't have asked for a sec ond helping of jerked beef with what few words were left. Then Mustapha played his strong card. He said he would mater ialize the parsons astral double just to make the idea plainer. He sat the parson in a chair and put another chair right beside of him. Then he got in front of the parson and made a lot of funny moves, and quicker than you could rope a calf. the parson was asleep. Then he sat down cross-legged in front of the parson and put his thumbs together and rolled his eyes up.
 In about five minutes there was a mis- ty cloud seemed to fill the empty chair. In fifteen it looked like a man. In twenty 1t looked some like the parson and in five minutes more there were two parsons, as like as two Chinamen, asleep in their chairs, side by side. You could have heard a cayuse whinny clear out at the Bar X ranch while this was taking place. Monte Jack was the only man that moved, and he only unbuckled his holster and fingered the trigger of his gun for 8 minute or so. By and by Mustapha sud- denly sprang up and snapped his fingers, the parsons astral double" disappeared, the parson woke up and it was all over. @'ANSNNpAiu was bONlliS anu SCidpiHS inviting them to come the next night, when Monte Jack got up and edged in a word or SO
 Excuse me, stranger" said Jack, but there ain't going to be no show tomorrow night. This is the first game I ever struck where l couldn't take hand after l was showed how once and 1t makes me a whole lot uneasy and restless like, and the boys is with me"
 We sure is," chimed in Red Nosed Mike and Powder Faced Simpson,
 This being the case, there will be no more astral double doings," resumed Monte Jack. Tomorrow night this wiclSiup will be dark unless the parson desires to hold a session. in which case we all takes a set in as usual Now we ain't making no threats, but we quietly remarks-'v 'vamoosen And if a gent of about your size and complexion is found hereabouts tomorrow night, he Is likely to be the leadin' character in a torch light procession, and the only man in the line of march not tickled to death with the proceedings. A delegation of our lead- in citizens, professor, will now escort you to the depot and flag a train.'
 Mustapha accordingly hit the trail.