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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26
WHEAT FIELDS OF CANADA.
Manitoba Can Produce Twice as Much
Wheat as Russia.

Manitoba Can Produce Twice as Much
Wheat as Russia.
Manitoba is pre-eminently the prov
ince of wheat. Westward of Winni-
peg, when the fields are yellow and
almost ripe, you may ride for day
and q half with nothing between your
eye and the sky line but wheat-a
boundless sea of wheat, ripping to
the prairie wind like waves to the
run of invisible feet, says the Chautau-
guam. The tall, red towers of the
elevators rise where settlements have
clustered into village, but across the
fenceless reaches is nothing but the
yellow wheat. The province is only
in its infancy. Only one-tenth of the
wheat lands are occupied; yet that
tenth yields more wheat than Great
Britain, One-fifth as much as the two
Russias, twice as much as Sweden,
Denmark, Holland and Belgium to-
gether, a third more than Austria,
a fifth more than Roumania. When
all Manitoba's wheat lands are occu-
pied this province alone will be pro-
ducing twice much as Germany.
At each little prairie station hosts
OF settlers sc out from the colonist
cars of the train and look with Won
utIlAS eyes Oh Tie VAST lcuCelSSS
fields that seem to begin where the
sun rises and end whefe the sun SETS
1t is a new world-a world of promise
to them, from the stified countries
OF Europe. a world where land hunger
is no crime, and land to be had for
the taking, and success awaiting ripe
to the hand of toll. How the eyes that
have dug themselves out in an eastern
sweat-shop moisten at sight of the
boundless prairie. And the back bent
with toll for pittance that meant
slavery draws up to the straight stat
ure of self-supporting manhood.
There is SO much room! There is so
much free airi There is such plain,
palpable, -boundless opportunity for
every man!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26
AS Chickens Come Home.

You may take the world as it comes and
goes,
And you will be sure to find
That Fate will square the accounts she
Whoever comes out behind;
And all things bad that man has done
By whatsoever induced,
Return at last to him, one by one,
As the chickens come home to roost
Sow as you will. there's time to reap,
For the good and the bad as well,
And conscience. whether We wake or
sleep,
Is either a heaven or hell
And every wrong viii find its place.
And every passion loosed
Drifts back and meets you face to face
Like chickens that come home to roost
Whether you're oyer or under the sod
The result will be the same,
You cannot escape the hand of God,
You must bear your sin and shame,
No matter what's carved ON a marble
slab,
When the items are all produced
You'll find that ST. Peter was keeping
tab
And that chickens came home to roost
-Laporte City Qowa) Press.
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side Mr.. Lloyd's terribly settled mid
dle-age.
Yet Robert had never said anything
to show her that he cared for her. He
worked at the desk near hers and had
many time given her a helping hand
in hard seasons. He spent one even
ing every week with her. Occasionally
he took her to a concert or an opera.
why did this come. just when I
was SO happy! 1t makes me feel queer
and disconnected" she sighed. Il
don't care for Mr.. Lloyd. / don't
care for Robert Denton. And yet it
would be so nice to have a home and
/ am growing just terribly old"
There was a little sob in her throat.
She turned to study her face severely,
critically in the glass.
81 must decide. 1 must" she said to
herself. There is no use in putting
or the evil hour"
She sat down at her desk and wrote
little note to Mr.. Lloyd. Even when
she began it she was not sure just
what its meaning would be. But the
words shaped themselves into an ac-
ceptance of his offer, almost before
she realized it.
Now / must mail it or I shall be
said, feverishly.
She slipped down to the door and
out to the nearest letter box AS she
remounted the steps a mans dark
figure beside the door startled her.
Then came the start of recognition
Mr.. Denton" she exclaimed
JOAN" he said, and the word told
her everything. My book has been
accepted. and they've given me an
order for another. I couldn't wait for
your return but come over to the
square. where we can talk"
Joan went mutely. They sat down
on one of the benches in the deserted
park. She felt very happy, tumult-
ously So Then all at once she drew
back from the shelter of the arm he
had placed around her.
'sOh, that letter. that dreadful let
ter" she cried.
What letter? What do you mean?'
'-Oh, Robert, why must it be so?
Why didn't you speak before?"
Because l hadn't a solitary thing
to. offer you, dear. The moment /
had, came to you"
"Oh, why had / SO little faith ?''
mourned Joan.
And she told him the story of her
miserable indecision and answer to
Mr. Lloyd's note
If 1 had only waited five minutes to
mail that letter! Oh, dear. what have
done. What shall l do?"
Never mind. dear heart" Robert
said, caressingly.
--Oh, you must not" said Joan
Don't you see I'm as good as engag
| ed to another man?"
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that our laws shall in no event afford
advantage in our own market to for
eing industries over American capital,
to foreign labor over our own labor.
This country has and this country
needs better paid, better educated, bet
ter fed and better clothed working
men, of a higher type than are to be
found in any foreign country. 1t has
and it needs a higher. more vigorous
and more prosperous type of tillers OF
the soil than is possessed by any
other country
There it is in a nutshell Not the
Iowa idea," nor yet the Ohio or the
California or the Pennsylvania, or the
Maine idea. 1t is the American idea,
irrespective of the abundant changes
in detail to which the tariff must nee
essarily be subjected in years to come
in order that it may be adapted to
changing conditions. But while it is
the idea of the American people IS Q.
whole, and has grown beyond the con-
fines of single party, yet we must re-
member that it is the Republican
party which has stood in times past
and still stands, as the firm defender
of the system of protection under
which our nation has achieved great
ness and her people have achieved
osperity.-Portland (Maine) Adver-
tiser.
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ADHERENCE TO IT HAS GIVEN Us
GREAT PROSPERITY.
Protection for All Labor and Industry,
for the Farm a. Well a. the Fac
tory, 4 Policy to Which the United
States Should Be IrrevoeabIy Com
mitted.

There is large element of the
would-be reunited Democratic party
that Is strongly urging the tariff ques-
ton for the issue in the next national
campaign. 1t hardly seems possible
that the party will make the tariff re-
form plank again serve as the bulwark
of its hopes, but the Democratic party
has been known to do even stranger
things. The fact is that the American
tariff has become a greater and q
broader thing than a mere party ques-
ton. 1t is part of the faith of the
people. And there is evidence that
even free trade England will not for
many years longer remain as an ex-
ample of the greatness to which a
nation may attain, commercially, with
out protective tariffs. The creed
which President Roosevelt at Mime
apolis published to the world is the
American creed:
THE general tariff policy to which,
without regard to changes in detail.
believe this country is irrevocably
committed, is fundamentally based
upon ample recognition of the differ
ences between the cost of production
that is the cost of labor-here and
abroad, and of the need to see to it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26

If there is anything in history
which resembles the insufferable ego
tism of these Cuban beggars we have
never run across it. Here is lot of
people threatening to destroy their
own government if the United States
does not submit to their Matchmaking
tactics. They have been aided and en-
couraged in every possible way, at
the cost of many millions of dollars,
and now they want more or they will
make trouble for themselves and
everybody else. Their gross ingrati-
tude and monumental cheek is de-
serving of preservation in history. And
it is the patriot" the revolutionary
They are a nice lot of people. They
have got a fertile land offering large
opportunities to the Industrious, but.
they have lived so long by pillage and
extortion that labor is not to be
thought Of So they demand $35, OOO,-
900 from the United States or they
will destroy their own government and
rob their own people. 1t is as use
less to help such people as to aid a
confirmed tramp. They should be
made to understand at onc that the
people of the United States have no
intention of supporting a lot of lazy
tramps in idleness so as to keep them
quiet. II they are too lazy to work
let them starve. They are of no use
to themselves or the world, and would
be far better dead than 1iving.-Michi-
gan Farmer.
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You're not engaged to him. you
are engaged to me. and you shall have
that letter back by tomorrow night .
How can Iz''
well, it's easy enough. IN take
the night train back to New York.
I always sort the mail and-Iu COM
NIT criminal offense, for you. Joan,
DEAR"
He ended with a little laugh, and
rose from the seat As Joan, too,
stood up, no drew her swiftly into his
arms and kissed her as heartily az II
no Mr.. Lloyd were in existence.
The morning train carried q polite
but very decided negative to the i'm
portant question. Nevertheless, Joan
was i'll at ease all day until at dinner
time a special delivery letter lay at
her plate. 1t was addressed in Rob-
ert's scrawl and contained her own
letter of the night before, and a little
note from him. Only few words, but
they brought a happy flush to Joan's
cheek
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FREE EVERYTHING.

Tendency of Selfish Tariff Reformer
Is to Break Down the System of
Protection.
"a break in the ranks of the stand
pat Senator'S is the announcement
from Washington by the correspond
emit of the Gree trade) New York
Journal of Commerce, in connection
with the fact that on the 11th of No
vember Senator Lodge Of Massachu-
sets introduced a bill proposing to
repeal the duty on hides. In the same
paragraph it is stated that Representa-
tive Roberts of Massachusetts, intro
duced similar bill in the house and
also a bill to remove the duty from
coal.
Nexti What Massachusetts, Repub-
lican will follow suit by introducing
a bill to remove the duty from wool?
The rage for free raw matrials and
non-protected agricultural products
should not stop with hides and coal.
II the farmers who produce hides and
the miners who mine coal are to be
turned over to the tender mercies of
free trade, why not also the farmer
who raises wool? Why should he
have any benefit from a protective
tariff? Why not repeal the agricultur
al schedules of the Dingley tariff in
4 lump and at one fell swoop deprive
the farmer of protection on each and
al of his productsz That seems to
DC the trend of affairs just now in
Washington
Then, when the farmers shall have
been left out in the cold, we shall con-
fdently expect Senators and Repre-
sentatives from the agricultural states
to Aget back at" Massachusetts by In
Producing a bill to remove the tariff
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-
from all manufactured producfg- That
is the logic of the situation and the
outlook
Senator Lodge favors the Cuban
reciprocity scheme of taking away
protection from q large body of Indus
trial producers outside of Massachu-
Sets So does Representative Rob
erts. Cuban reciprocity wouldn't hurt
anybody in Massachusetts,; ergo. Gu
ban reciprocity is all right Not so.
however, reciprocity with Newfound-
land That would paralyze the fish,
ing industry of Massachusetts,; ergo.
Newfoundland reciprocity is all
wrong. according to Senator Lodge
Thus, under the stimulating infiu-
ences of Cuban reciprocity, we find
free trade being ladled out in chunks
that grow bigger and protection rent
with gaps that grow wider and wider.
-.Oh. what tangled web we weave. ETC."
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Would Not Be at = Loss.

During recent conversation be-
tween District Attorney Jerome and
several members of the New York bar
reference was had to the sharp prac-
tees of a certain VIGOROUSLY shifty
politician of the city,
Certainly he is never at a loss, "
said Mr.. Jerome. do you know. /
really believe that il that man were
cast on a barren rock in mid-ocean he
would make money-h there were
another man on the rock-"-New YORK.
Tribune
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26

Joan climbed YEARLY up the stairs
to her third story room. She seldom
felt tired, but tonight the whole world
looked criss-cross.
She was a stranger in the city and
among people who gave her no
thought. She had been that many
time in many place, yet never be-
fore in her twenty-six years had the
thought SO oppressed her. She had
hailed with delight the chance OF
work here for a few weeks, as giving
her the opportunity of seeing the
place she had long desired to visit
But the weeks had grown very long.
In spite of her pride and beauty of
health and vigor, she was essentially
a womanly woman, dependent upon
her friends and surroundings for her
happiness. Caring for herself had not
robbed her of a certain femininity.
In general she was somewhat feared
at the New York office, feared because
of her ability to do-admired for her
bright, successful ways. Yet even
there she had her true friends.
She sigher, wishing herself back in
her accustomed room in the great
apartment house where she lived. 1t
was Thursday, her night at home. 1t
would be just time for her evening
callers and she would be dressed in
one of her few, dainty, evening gowns.
Probably Mrs. Massey, dear, old Mrs.
Massey, whose presence was neceS-
safy to the well-being of the simple
refreshments, would be there; and
Gerald Burton, her old-time school
mate, who still kept brotherly eye
on her; and few clever men and
women like herself, trying to earn a
living by that uncertain weapon, the
pen.
Then she lighted the gas and laid
the letter which had been troubling
her all day on her desk. She walked
across to the window and leaned her
head against the sash. The warm
May night was heavy with the scent
of hyacinths and magnolias growing
in the square.
Hateful things! No more south
ern blooms for mel" she muttered
''One dusty New York park is worth
all this 1uXuriance."
AS she stood there, she thought it
all over-her life. When still a mere
child she had taught in the western
country schools. She had worked her
way, finally, into the public schools of
a large city, only to find the drudgery
a shade worse than in the rural dis
tricts. How she had hated it all, but
it had been the only possible thing
Then with the death of those depend
emit on her exertions she had come
to New York to carve a career for her
self. 1t had been hard work and slow.
but now, after three years, she had
gained a certain foothold, and held a
position with a prominent publishing
house. She had been sent down here
to write a series of articles on the
great exhibition in progress Her
material was all collected, and she
was ready to return to New York,
filed with pleasant memories of her
southern visit. Now this to spoil it
ALI
Why must he write now, just when
she was SO happy over the idea of re-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26
BY WORKS, NOT FAITH.
The Saving Graees of Deceased Gen.
tIeman from Kentucky.


tIeman from Kentucky.
Samuel W. Moore, a prominent law
yer of Kansas City, on returning to
his home from Arkansas a few days
ago, told a good story concerning a
distinguished attorney in western Ar
kansas, Judge James E. Read, who
was born and lived in. Kentucky be-
fore moving to this state. 1t runs this
way:
"A man living near Fort Smith
died. This man was comfortably well
off in worldly possessions, but he had
been neglectful of his spiritual well
fare. He had never joined any church
and had little to do with religious ad-
visers. The time for his funeral ar
rived, and although a preacher had
agreed to be on hand, an unavoidable
accident had delayed him. The house
was out of town, and as the friends
of the departed brother were all as
make a few remarks over the body of
his friend, who also. had once lived in
Kentucky. The judge consented.
my friends" he said, 1--WE are gath
cred here to-day to pay final tribute
to our friend who has already solved
the mysteries of the great hereafter.
He did not have the reputation of q
religious man, and yet he lived the
life of a noble Kentucky gentleman.
He had good bosses and he ran 'em.
He had good whisky and he drank it.
He had good game cocks and he fit
'em, for such is the Kingdom of heav-
en."-Arkansas Gazette.
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Harvest Work.

The harvest of wheat alone engages
about 100000 men and $4,000 teams
three months of the summer, while at
least 10000 women are needed to pre-
pare food for the workers. The har-
vest of other crops employ less men.
but the entire number of harvesters
needed in gathering the crops of the
United States has been estimated at
1920, 700-that is, exclusive of the
farmers that reside on their own land
and aid in the harvest
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Well Remembered.

Valley City. N OAK, Dec 1.-Two
years ago Mrs. Matilda NJ Boucher of
this place suffered great deal with a
dizziness in her head. She was cured
of this by remedy called Dodd's Kid
ney Pills, and has not been troubled
since.
Shortly afterwards she had q bad
bilious attack, and for this she used
Diamond Dinner Pills and was conn
pletely cured in short time
In January. 1903. she had an attack
of Sciatica, of which she says
Il was almost helpless with the Sci
aticA, but remembering what Dodd's
Kidney Pills and Diamond Dinner pills
had done for me before, 1 commenced
treatment of these medicines and in
three weeks l was completely restored
to health have great faith in these
medicines, for they have been of 80
much benefit to me-"
Dodd's Kidney Pills are very popular
n Barnes County, having made q
great many splendid cures of Sciatica.
rheumatism and Kidney Troubles.
Many families use no other medicine.
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chamberlain,s Proposals.

The most astonishing thing about
the present situation is that whereas,
five short years ago, a public man who
would make such proposals to the
British people would be regarded as
a lunatic or a knave, the same pro-
posaL is now hailed by hundreds of
thousands of voters as the only saliva
ton of the country. 1t is the most
astounding and complete revolution in
the public opinion of any modern peo-
pie, and it has all taken place within
short half year-Detroit Evening
News.
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Moorish Water Clocks.

Among the curious features of To
ledo which unfortunately remain NO
longer, were water clocks, devised by
Moorish genius named Az-Zarcn1.
who placed them on the banks of the
Tagus so that the people could read
the time. They were run by water
power, and were so famous that Daniel
Merlac. an English astronomer, came
all the way from Oxford In 11s5 to
study them.
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Unreasonable Cheek of Cuban Beg
oars.

Dispatches from Havana announce
that the commission sent by Cuba to
negotiate a loan of $35 900 900 for the
payment of revolutionary army claims
failed to obtain this loan, the Cuban
press predicts a fresh outbreak in
the eastern part of the island. unless
the United States approves reciprocity
with the island. One of the Cuban
cabinet officers is reported to have
spoken as follows:
The army must be paid, else the
Republic cannot survive another Gath
of February, and unless the American
government gives it's moral support
to our attempt to raise the loan sought
for such payment, we cannot hope to
secure dollar"
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pirioibIe Balloons.

Count Zappelin having again ac-
quired the necessary funds, will re-
new the experiments with dirigible
balloons on Lake Constance, which
he discontinued a year ago.
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Modern Horticulture.

''It do beat all how many people air
goin' in fer hortyculter," remarked
Farmer Sorghum. Il don's see nothin'
in the papers no more 'cept somethin'
bout graftin'."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26
What They Want.

The Canadian manufacturers want
American capital, but not American
competition That's natural. Some
day the boundary line will be abol-
fshed and they will be American"
oo-Philade1phia Inquirer.
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Sensible Housekeepers

will have Defiance Starch, not alone
because they get one-third more for
the same money, but also because OF
superior quality.
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sums Rays for patients
Dr. Pelegin In the Mar1tlme Al.
makes his patients live in houses ses
n turn tables. 30 that all sides may
be exposed to the suns rays
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26

Origin of Drug Store Signs.
Colored globes in drug store win.
dows were first displayed by the
Moors of Arabia and Spa;a.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26

The following advertisement recent
h appeared: "I will gladly sing to the
sick or those who are unable to leave
their homes"
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turning to New York that she could
not decide whether her independent
life was happy one or not 1t was
from the editor, the great editor him
SELF, and it was neither check nor a
reprimand. the two things to be ex-
pected from him. 1t was love letter
She thought of the big house, the
servants and the carriages, she adored
luxury, and had never had any of it.
She thought also of the gray-haired,
dignifed man, not old. but very mid
dle-aged and wise Was it possible he
cared for her? No one had ever been
In love with her before
During the strenuous days of her
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Urban Population.

Thirty-seven per cent of the Amers.
can people now live In cities of more
than 1000 inhabitants
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Another club woman, Mrs.
Haule, of Edgerton, Wis, tells
how she was cured of irregulari-
ties and uterine trouble, terrible
pains and backache, by the use
of Lydia e. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound.
"DEAR Mrs. PINKHAM "A while
ago my health began to fail because Of
female troubles The doctor did not
help me. remembered that my mother
had used Lydia e. Pinkham'S
Vegetable Compound on many oc-
casions for irregularities and uterine
troubles, and felt sure that it could
not harm me at any rate to give it q
trial.
81 was certainly glad to find that
within a week felt much better, the
terrible pains in the back and side
were beginning to cease, and at the
time of menstruation / did not have
nearly as serious a time as heretofore,
so continued its use for two months,
and at the end of that time was like
a new woman. / really have never
felt better in my life, have not had a
sick headache since, and weigh 20
pounds more than ever did, SO un-
hesitatingly recommend your medi-
cine. - Mrs. MAY HAULE, Edgerton,
Wis. Pres Household Economics Club.
$4,000 forfeit if original of oboUs letter proving
genuinensss cannot be produced.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-12-26

Brave men scarcely ever faint un-
less their wives ask them to discharge
the cook.
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AT THE ELEVENTH
BY LAETA M. i

BY LAETA M. RAMAGE.
Copyrighted 1905 6y The Authors Publishing Company