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Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1903-10-27

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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

who his owner is, though I'll admit
some of 'em is purity bad off when
they'll have the kind O. owners they
do.
Il never owned but one and he wuz
a give to me by a cross-eyed cuss out in
Wyoming what had shot the owner
an didn't have no ust fer the beast,
. bat | learnt to love that jackass like
1 a brother, though l never had
no brother an l don't know much
about them kind O. affections
First l named the OF brute Broad
sides frum the way he could handle
This hind paws, but mules amt much
Ion fancy names an l babtized him
agin to the name O. Pete, which
amt a bad name fer a mule, and is
one about suited to his temper and
usual all-around cussedness.
81 recollect oncet l rode Pete down
to a camp, an Pete was a trampin'
along as lazy as a coyote on a June
day. All to oncet he spied ole buck,
,and he liked to jerked the daylights
outen me afore l could grab them
reinS. / never seed a mule run like
Pete did A Jackrabbit an a pack of
nouns wouldn't a-been within a mile
inside a minute. l froze onto the
the mule from withers to crupper, an
it wuz darned hard stickin' on at that.
Pete run bOuten a mile an half an
then stopped an looked aroun' to see
if any InjunS was a comm. He was
the feardest jackaSS | ever seed, an
when l tried to turn him back to the
Injun layout he let out whistle
from his lungs that shook a ton o
rock loose on a hill a mile away. |
let have his way, fer I've found that
between a jackass on four legs and a
iackass on two that the four legs
has the mos sense. There amt no
greater philosopher than a well-sea-
SOneG mule, an you remember that if
YOU want to keep outen' trouble.
It's powerful strange what you can
leach a mule to do with his voice.
ats allus been supposed that
, rooster wuz bouten the only natural
porn alarm clock a-gOin but Pete
Euz better'n any shanghai that
sver cracked a egg. He brayed every
Jour an never missed the time a
minute He would cock one eye at
,the sum- brace hisself in the sand,
and start 'em noise pumps a-goin'
like mad. If l wanted to rout out
at O'Clock in the mornin' all l had
ito do Naz to say to Pete, Howl a
little louder'n usual an he never
tailed but oncet
That mule wuz mighty wize, but
ihe didn't have much sense O. pro-
prieties, as he showed oncet when
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
IN OLD


Back there IN old Saratoga Madame
Jumel had the tragedy of her career.
Back there il the old days of Sara
.oga, Martin syan Buren,, the courtly.
handsome maa who thought no wom-
an could resist him, received the one
rebuff of his brilliant and dashing ca
|ieer. Back there in old Saratoga, La
fayette, the only man this government
ever entertained, found the highest de-
velopnent of American courtesy and
made the happiest speech of his life
in saying farewell to America forever.
Back there, also, in this old Saratoga,
Mrs. De Witt Clinton, of whose beauty
there is still Renaissance, and of
whose gowns there is still strong
memory in the minds of the white
haired old ladies who now sit by their
iresides and talk of the social glory
that is gone.
The old Saratoga teens with tales.
Away back yonder in the campaign of
"Tippicanoe and Tyler. too,' there
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

"CfvfIizin' influences kIlIei Pete II
ii hadn't been fer churches Pete
might "a been alvin yet I never
seed a jackass die a natural death,
an, aside frum his trainin'. Pete wuz
jes' ordinary rabbit But Injuns an
mules can't stan much civilizin', an
poor Pete had to go.
pete met his Waterloo at one O.
the frs churches in the West A
star guide frum Ohio come ont there
and held meetin' in a log hut an
bein' a curiosity, we all went to hear
him. l rode ole Pete to the services,
an jest turned him loose, fer he
wouldn't go away 'thout me. The
cabin wuz filled to suffocatin', an in
them days there want no shootin' at
preachers. an there want no
standin' outside an bein' disre-
spectful. But that preacher were a
long-winded cuss an as he'd been a.
preachin' ever day fer two weeks.
the people wuz kinder o. tired O. the
prayer spieler- But he were uncommon
at maxim men see the error O. their
ways, and he had 'em all a-thinkin'
that night that hell wuz about due to
break loose n swallow 'em all.
Thar want much light in the cabin,
an that Ohioan wuz not more'n able
to see half his layout O. sinners. But
he war a-wavin' his arms and an a.
shoutin' fer good, an he wuz AIDE
scribin' the devil an a-tellin' about his
long horns an his pitchfork an the
fiery furnace an all that, an he had
EN- stirred up
Then somethin' happened. The
most onearthliest noise l ever heard
broke out right to one side O. the
church, an everybody looked that
way. Poked through the winder wuz
somethin', nobody could tell edzactly
what, in the dim light, an it was
| maxim a terrific heller. 1 knowed
| what it wuz, but nobody elset knew.
1t wuz Pete, an his ears wuz a.
| thrashin' the air, an his bray wuz a.
raisin' the rooft- Well, sir, that SER
mont stopped right thar. The star
guide went over that pulpit like an
felipe, and the crowd broke fer the
door. Everybody wuz a-screechin'
an yellin, an the preacher shouted
It's him. an l knew he meant the
devil had come sure 'nough.
well, sir, everybody piled together
thar at the door, tryin' to get out, an
nearly every sinner of 'em wuz afeard
q his life. fer he expected to be pulled
| in any minute. Pete KEEP a-brayin
them high notes, an the crowd KEEP
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

Lemuel open.
Il d. know"
81 hear you are a veteran of the
late war
''Yec. an b'gosh, 1 lost my health
dCin' it. dern it, I also lost my fig
ger. too, b. dunn, Fightin' an putin
down thet- scrimmage cost me my
health an figger. An all fur $13 a
month, b gosh too, I got malary in
all O. my cherry pecteral muscles, an
thurs dull pain in my sarry belgium
all the while, an dod gasted wobly
feelin' through my lumber system
also, well as chaos in my head
when have to do any hefty work, not
ariferous when 1 get left over on
head?"
Bald as a billiard ball"
That's war, rel war. 1 wuz hit. by
| the DUNN thing frum all sides, as
well as top an bottom, b. gosh. Fore
| got hitched up in that deal | had
figger like Polar. l did. l went way
a Polar, an cum back a Twin skill
lenton. 1 did,
You seem to be gettin' your form
back
Yes, I'm roundin' up to my ole
shape, an hope in time I'll be the
same ole Polar. 1 will git thar if l
can only keep way frum work, an
an if 1 git my penshin fur this dern
malary an the other Sickness
Il hope you will get it; you certain
ly deserve pension. You have been
pretty badly used. When do you ex-
pect to get your claim allowed?'
81 d Know"
Then Lemue1 re1apsed into silence
| and l could not drag another word
from him l left him leaning upon
the fence while l went back to the
shade on the hillside to think in solid
chunks.-Horace Seymour Keller in
New York Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

the first to declare for the policy Oh.
city is likely to be the scene of the
first great government dam-the out
come of the policy and resolutions,
rigidly adhered to by every succeed
ing irrigation congress, in spite of Bit
ter fights for cession of the arid lands
to the several states.
The sixth congress was held at Lin
Wyo; the eighth at Missoula, Mont;
the ninth, the first big congress, at
Chicago, ILL.,, and the tenth at Colorado
Springs, Colo.
The Chicago congress had the effect
of bringing the irrigation discussion
into the East and showing its national
aspect-that any great Improvement
in any western section would have a
reflex benefit in the eastern part of
the country and that the agricultural
development in the West would mean
an increased market for the products
of eastern manufacturers.
Then came a surprisingly strong
fight by the irrigation forces in the
short session of the 56th Congress,
followed by President Roosevelt',s ac-
tive championship of the cause and
the passage of the irrigation law in
the following long session, June II,
1902. The early part of August. 1903,
saw the contract let for the first gov
eminent irrigation works under this
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
GETTING HIS
FORM BACK

For several days after my arrival
at the shack on the hillside, where 1
was supposed to repose, sit in the
cleaning and listen to farm talk be-
cause it was not wearing on the brain
also listen to Clara Fostering High
water on the organ for her steady,
lad noticed an elephantine figure that
came numbering down the left side of
the road every morning when the men
started work in the field opposite.
had also noticed with what delibera-
ton that same figure came to the rail
fence, crossed it's arms upon the top
rail, lifted it's left foot to the lower
rail. and posed there in all the glori-
fication of f1esh-laden soul, enjoying
things without further effort
I, Finally 1 began to ask questions.
who is that individual over there
who seems to be happy though doing
nothing?''
You mean Lehm Pembroke Yes.
that's him; allus does it this time of
year. when the men work. He's just
watching them work, that's ALL while
he's getting his health back. Lem was
spry once, before he went to Sandago
to put the war down. Since then he
hain't been we'll"
tween Spain and the United States ?''
$50 he says; says he had a hefty
hand in putting the thing down. But
he says he lost his health and it hain't
never come back since. He can't
work no more, poor Lem!'
The next morning Lemuel got on
the job earlier than usual, and l start
ed over to investigate the affair Tsk-
ing position on the fence close by,
approached the subject by saying:
Mice crop of OATS
Lemuel peeled his China blue eyes
at me; l had disturbed him, and his
lace showed it. He fastened his gaze
upon the workers, changed footrests
and said nothing
Oats will not be very dear this sea-
son ii all the crops turn out as good
as this, friend 1 continued.
y d. know.
~The boys over there are buckling
down to work getting in oats while
the sun shines. Did you ever notice
how Kind nature was to weak, frail
hun anity?'' 1 asked, trying to pry
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
Provisions from Trees.

There is a tree which grows IN
Sumatrl, Algeria and China which is
known as the vegetable tallow tree
From it's fruit large quantities of oil
and tallow are extracted, and the fruit
is gathered in November or December
when all the leaves have fallen. Elk
cellent candles are made from the
berries of tree which grows in some
parts of South Africa and the Azores
At Sierra Leone is found the cream
fruit tree, the fruit of which is very
agreeable in taste In Ceylon there is
the bread fruit tree, from which a
food is made in the same way that we
make bread. 1t is said to be equally
good and nutritious. In South Amerj
ca we find the milk tree.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

s-jammin'- This KEEP up fer bouten
three minutes, when nobody wuz a.
aettin out, an everybody wuz a-fght'
in everybody elset.
Pete wuz a-havin' a picnic, but it
didn't last long. Finally Teller pull
ed a ugly-look1n' siXshooter, an then
a dozen other fellers did the same,
an before Pete could duck away
from thai winder he weighed abouten
eight pounds more'n when he begun
brayin', fer l don't think a single bull
let missed him.. 1t wuz awful blow
to me, an it wuz a awful blow to the
Ohioan, fer the people got to thinkin'
thar want no devil after all. / never
said nuthin,' fer l knew that Pete
WIZ in the wrong, an had no right
to be a-slngin' at a meetin'. But he
wuz a awful good-hearted mule. Yes.
sir, he wuz. fer a fac, an I'll miss
that Jackass as long as l live."-Chj
cegO Inter-Ocean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

Jumel, recognized at once this hideous
caricature-
When Madame Jumel discovered
1he indignity, she called to her aid
Ecr re1ainers and ordered them to
have the affair removed from the
streets The negro and his attend
ants refused to be removed, and
Madame Jume1 proceeded in high dud-
geon on her road to the lake.
Madame Jumel never took another
drive in Saratoga. And the story,
travelling from mouth to mouth, was
told in all those old colonial cities and
at all the watering places wnere she
was accustomed to lend her beauty
and domineering presence. Her day
was done and she was never able to
recover from the national ridicule
which was showered upon her after
This Saratoga incident. 1t was the
eclipse of the most beautiful and mo: {
daring woman of her day.
Saratoga witnessed another socia
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Plaza of Congress Hal in 1888.

tragedy when Martin Van Buren,, ths
handsomest of all the presidents, and
the oourtliest of gentlemen, who in
all his life had never known the dis
favor of woman, met one great lady
who was mistress of herself and held
convictions of her own, and who
turned her back upon Martin Van
Buren, in the great drawing room OF
the United States, and showed to a
great gathering of the aristocracy OF
the country that resistance to the fas
cinations of this brilliant lawyer was
quite possible, had woman brains.
Mrs. De Witt Clinton and Martin
Van Buren, had never met. The presi
cent came to Saratoga, and a great
fete was arranged in honor of his
coming. Mrs. Clinton by virtue OF
her wit and beauty, naturally held su
Dremacy at the fete. Van Burens van
ity would not permit him to arrive
at an early hour. Initiating the Eng
ltss. noblemen, who were then more
familiar III America than they are
now, he waited until all the guests
had been assembled and then made
his entrance while every one stood VI
tc receive him. Mrs Clinton was an
personal superiority
With the smile upon his face which
story tells us, no woman had eve,
been able to resist, he walked across
the floor of the broad dining room
with extended hand to greet Mrs
Clinton, assuring himself that an in
PRODUCTION to Mrs. Clinton's presiden,
would not be considered necessary BIZ
Mrs. Clinton. She stood perfectly
still until he was within few feet O.
her and then, at the moment when ht
was about to speak. she deliberately
turned and began looking at the light,
in the chandelier.
- Martin Van Buren, had committed
for the first time in his life, fau1
pas, and he knew it. But his nimbls
mind never deserted him in this tragic
moment. He passed directly by Mrs
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
Make the Desert Bloom.

TIE first National Irrigation Con-
gress was held at Salt Lake City il
1891, the home of the first example of
American irrigation by the Anglo
Saxon race-Mormon irrigation forty
four years before. In 1891 about three
and one-half million acres were under
irrigation in the arid regions all
through private enterprise and coop
erative effort. To-day there are nearly
eight million acres irrigated, and the
West stands at the threshold of a
mighty development through govern
ment irrigation. There are now fif-
teen million dollars in the United
States treasury awaiting expenditure
for the construction of great dams and
canals in the Western states and ter
ritories.
The coming irrigation congress will
be the eleventh convention of that
body and will meet in Ogden, Utah,
September Is next.
TIE intermediate congresses have
been held at various points through
out the arid region. The second con-
gress was held at Los Angeles and
was attended by representatives from
Great Britain, Canada, Australia, In
dia, Russia, France, Mexico and Peru.
The third irrigation congress met at
Denver, the fourth at Albuquerque, N.
NJ, and the fifth at Phoenix, Arizona.
1t is something of a coincidence that
the Phoenix congress should have been
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

was political parade in Saratoga. At
the head of this parade was a float
upon which was hoisted huge ball,
in front of the float banner, which
read: Keep the ball rolling" Benton
had said in the senate of the anti
slavery movement: Il have set this
thing in motion and 1 will keep the
ball rolling" That political cry of the
Tippicanoe and Tyler days has been
the tombstone of the life of Saratoga
until this modern time.
There are Madame Jumels in Sara
toga to-day. But there has not been
one reigning beauty of this town who
could have compared with this wom-
an, beloved of Aaron Burr, who made
all of the Saratoga of her time sit
lack and out of the way, while the
streets were left open to her equip
ages and permission was given to no
one else to drive when she chose to
go abroad. Queen was Madame Jumel
and jealous of all other queens.
And old Saratoga will tell you the
story of her reinforcement 1t was not
the envy, nor the tongue of jealous
woman which did it, but a larking
crowd of young blades of that day,
who had themselves been outside the
glitter of Madame Jumel's smile and
revenged themselves upon their SOW
ereign by casting at her the shafts of
such cruel ridicule that neither beauty
nor wit were able to withstand them,
and she went one day out of Sara
toga leaving her crown behind her
In Madame Jumel's day there was
a Southern negro who was a local
character in Saratoga. He was keen
of retort and able in verbiage. Mad
anne Jumel when taking her afternoon
drive from the United States to the
lake, sat in an old-fashioned chariot
drawn by four mules, and was accom-
panied by outriders in livery of her
own designing. The young blades
prepared an equipage which was an
exact facsimile of Nine. JumeIs out
dt, except that instead Of the chariot
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they substituted a cart. In the cart
they put a huge hamper filed with
soiled linen. Then this negro was
dressed in an afternoon gown of the
kind worn by Madame Jumel, and he
vas seated in the midst of the linen.
Then, when Madame Jumel was leav-
ing the hotel, around the corner came
this facsimile procession of outriders
and attendants And so well had 1iv-
cries, animals and all the details beex
copied that the whole city of fashion
able Saratoga. sitting on the veran-
las to watch the passage of Madame
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
Ideals in WOman'S Life.

his good taste, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch.
- Five years later she thinks her hus-
band is something of a brute because
he cannot figure out how to send two
athletic-loving boys through college
and give daughter a few finishing
touches in French and music-all on
$4,000 a year. Then, when the storm
has blown over and the boys have set
tied into business without the college
education, and daughter is head stem
ographer for BIN, Burrell Co., at
twenty per, she one day discovers that
the gray hairs are coming in thick
above fathers temples, and that there
are lines in his face which she had
never noticed before.
Then comes to her a moment of re-
flection- Backward rolls the pano-
rama of their married life. and she
sees it through a gentle mist. Then.
oddly enough, the man finds himself
just where they started out together
on the pedestal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

Clinton as il he had never seen hes
and went beyond her to where ar
aged lady of his intimate acquaintance
was sitting. and. bowling low over her
Kissed her hand.
1t was a meeting of two clever PEG
pie But the sorrow of IL was even
afterward Van Buren's. and his social
error was never forgotten during al
his public career. He suffered almost
as much from the ridicule of the ma
ton as did Madame Jume1 before him
Charles E Trevathan, in New York
Morning Telegraph
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
HIS TRAINED MULE
MEsTERNER's PET THAT CAME
TO SAD END.
Brainy and Accomplished, He Might
Still Have Been Joy to His Owner,
But He "Butted In" at a Prayer
Meeting.

"'Tain't right to expec' every man
to think like you do, an that's the
reason / never say nothin' when 1
hear a Teller cussin' a mule said
the old Westerner the other evening
as re stood watching a driver trying
to make one of the obstinate ST. Louis
pets pull up little stronger. 4 got a
good deal o. respec' fer q jackass,
/ don't care where you find him, ner
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

Frank Stannard of Westbrook, Conn,
called to talk over matters with his
divorced wife a few days ago. and
through some mishap fell down cellar,
which caused bad fracture of his leg.
Now he is forced upon his divorced
wife to be nursed until he can walk
away, which may not be for several
months.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19

many of them think IL purse stolen
at wedding contains gold it por-
tends the best of luck for the thief
during the ensuing months.
Some pickpockets have a favorite
pair OF boots that they wear as long
as they can keep them on their feet.
and il they are not arrested while
they are wearing them they cut the
toots up into little square pieces and
give them away as lucky tokens" to.
their friends.-London Answers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
Immense Pun aall.

w. G. and Herbert Gee of Vergen-
mes. VT, recently found a pun ball
growing IN the woods which measur-
ed feet 8 inches in circumference Is
inches across, and weighed 16k
pounds.
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he didn't wake me with his singin'.
l guess he must o got tired reachin'
Ter them high notes. and when he
didn't see me comm ont as usual he
moseyed up to the cabin an brayed
ag1n. I heered him. but wuzn't in
q hurry to roll out 1 yelled fer him
to so away. but he raver heard me,
an he went aroun' To the side o. the
shack where my bunk wuz He back
ed up to that cabin and went to
kickin-' 1 thought he wuz a-goin. to
knock the joint down. fer | never
heard such a tattoo :. my life. an he
KEEP it up tin I struck my head outen
the wfnder- That come purity near be-
In the finish o. me. fer 1es' as poked
my head out them heels o. Pete's
whizzed a-past my head an jarred
that cabin like avalanche had struck
it. 1 spoke to the mule an he turned
aroen' and walked awsy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-19
Citizens Lives Guarded.

No married man in Vienna, it il
said. is allowed to go up in balloon
without the formal consent of his
wife and children