Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-01-10

ger" He's doing the best he can
That old adage ian ounce of proven
tion is worth pound of cure" may
have been the origin of Is to L.
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Stop cussing the mail clerks and ex-
pressmen because your letters and
parcels were delayed. Remember that
their work in the week before Christ
mas was suddenly increased % per
cent greater than it was in the same
week last year
Even prosperity brings its pains
and penalties. 1t means more work
that you may do and more that some
one must do.
Just think, thirty thousand dollars
worth of stamps sold by one pOstoffice
ine.one day! If in one-cent stamps
there would be enough to cover a bill
board II feet high and a quarter of a
mile long. What a lot of licking must
have been done just before the holi
days!
Forgive us indulgent reader! We
have a harmless penchant for figures
and fancles. x@s
That was in Chicago but three or
four other cities of this country sold
as many or even greater number of
stamps. All this goes to show that
we have grown to be a-great and a
prosperous nation. What is better,
it proves that our people are willing
to spend part of their money in a
charitable way, even at Christmas
time.
Even ''old Scrooge" might venture
to pay postage on a Christmas dun-if
he was sure OF large return. Hap
PLY, the Scrooge family is not SO
numerous as it was in Dickens time.
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A Massachusetts girl lost the power
of speech at the age of 16. She is now
30 and has just recovered her ability
to talk. Her friends have fears for
her sanity because she insists on talk
ing all the time. What could they
expect? Fourteen years of enforced
silence at the age when woman has
the most to say and feels most like
saying it! Even men-superior be-
tngs-might do no better and but lit
tile differently under such conditions
That woman may be all right wher
she once catches up wiah the CONVEX
sation.
What a lot of talking we all have
done in the last fourteen years Arn'l
we glad it's done And yet the mex,
fourteen may be no less noisy and but
little wiser.
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Some men are painfully methodical
We have heard of an Englishman who
had been a lifelong reader of Ger
tain London daily. In the course o.
time he drifted about overtime worle
but his paper always followed him
Finally he located on the faraway
frontier of northwest Canada wner,
the mail was delivered only twice ;
year. One hundred and eighty-tw,
daily papers all in one batch but thi
systematic man read just one eacl
day in theeexact order of publication
s'The last shall. be, first, was no
meant Tor him.
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How would you like to be Away
just six months behind time? 81.
months of the future WIDE open be
fore you. Fire crackers at Christina
and turkey on the glorious Fourth.
Almost any unruly schoolboy know
or, at least, ought to know, that
ferulesis a. Hat piece of wood used "a
an instrument of punishment. Prob
ably most ofathem do not know tina
the word was originally applied to
weed winch, was used for simila
purpose. The word ferrule is tn
same in sound and only slightly differ
ent in spelling but altogether differ
eut in origin and meaning. 1t was a
first spelled With assvr which wa
later changed to ssfs', probably bt
cause ferrules are often. made of iro
which in Latin is ssferrum." 1t
curious to note that yerrels at frs
meant bracelets but NOBODY care
to wear the kind that;is made of iror
So
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