Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-03-07


interesting in the line of spelling
The words leaves and over had
the same origin The former word is
almost always spelled with an - be-
cause ut first. the singular form WI
.sevese" and tile plural WIS '-eyeseS."
We have inserted an "a after the
first ''e'' and dropped the last two
letters from the plural OF course
that does not prove that we are
eavesdroppers-
Except for some h, inous crime a
man cannot be arrested ON Sunday.
great Tin the criminal line. of coursel
and SO we thought it safe to take
look at, Sheriff Hinshaw's new house
one Sunday recently. We think Tom
will have very nice residence over
there on west slope and that is Il
very good part of town. Henry Hodg
es' buildings will break tire force. of
the northwest billiards. and the To-
cality has perfect Drainage. Tom is
strictly temperate SO it is likely that
he can navigate the sidel | street
without any very serious accidents.
Tom wasn't there the day we called
and so we didn't learn the plans and
specification or the names of the diff
ferent parts of his domicile, but there
is one room which Interested us very
much. 1t is PROBABLY his dungeon.
1t might be a cellar only there seems
to be no way to get out of it,. 1t was
half full of snow and ice and if the
Goble boys get the roof on before a
warm rain comes it will be a nice
place to keep thin goods from evapo-
rating That wi be no easy trick
either, seeing that Will Holmes. lives
so near by. {Holmes is the man WHO
first put this idea into our head, so
let him make the best of it,
cold Stormy" who writes some pre- :
Record, says that lie was born and
raised a democrat. Then lie voted
the republican ticket once or twice,
but lie hopes the good Lord will for
give him for that. Next he mixed uD
With the Greenbacks and then fiirJed
more or less with the Union Labor
olks. Still later he voted the alli-
ance and the populist tickets For
the last two lie does not ask to be for
given. Now, for man who has been
through all of these things, lie still
shows remarkable remnant of sense.
1t seems that he has never fooled
away any time with the prohibition
lists and lie knows better than to ask
for leniency in the case of unforgiv-
able sins. In truth, it would appear
that he is about to have return of
reason only for the fact that he says
he is now back in the democratic aSy
lum. Here's hoping that the old
man may yet be found on praying
ground again before it is eyerlastingly
too late.
It's an i'll wind that blows nobody's
mill so Theodore can get his cistern
filed There seems to be no hope of
rain soon.
Probably no writer's "copy" is alb
solutely perfect when it goes to the
the printer. There may be mispel-
led words or misplaced punctuation
marks. Then the writing may be
poor. Errors will creep in and some
of them may escape the proof reader.
Of course the compositor gets the
blame for most of it but not. all the
grief is his. A change of one word,
or even of a single letter, may spoil d
whole paragraphs; or a sentence may
get broken in two, right in the mid
die, and leave the whole thing a point
.ess, witless absurdity. Then the
writer gets his share of the blessing.
fhe reader, after glancing at such an
J TEN. is likely to throw the paper
aside and remark, Il wonder what
the blank fool is driving at anyway?"
THEODORE
An exchange says: Ibid you know
chat when you go to a party it is no
longer proper to say you had a good