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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
ship that was cruising on the Mediter-

ship that was cruising on the Mediter-
ranean.
Miss Gwynne was very lovely, and
she had the breezy charm and fresh
ness, the lively independence and
nerve which make American women
SO attractive to Britishers. Young
Roper-Curzon fell head over heels in
love with her.
He gained reluctant consent from
Miss Gwynne, but her parents did not
look with favor upon the proposed
match. The mother especially oppos-
ed it. The Gwynnes insisted that
Roper-Curzon must gain the consent
of his family before he married their
daughter.
Curzon hurried to England and
straigthway sought his father, max
ing a clean breast of the whole affair.
You must not marry beneath your
position" cried the elder Roper-Cur-
zon, adding a threat of disinheritance.
So the young man fingered in Lon
don. The pleased father increased his
allowance and Arthur Eric Roper
Curzon tried to enjoy life in social dis
sipation.
After more than two years of sepa-
ration he decided to sacrifice every
thing and seek her in America, to
marry her if he could persuade her to
consent. He gathered small amount
of money and started for Canada. He
had told his father of his determine
ton, and the old gentleman promptly
stopped his allowance
When the young man reached To-
ronto it was to find that his sweet
heart was married. She had not
made a brilliant match from a mate
rial or social standpoint, but she was
supremely happy.
Capt. Roper-Curzon realized that he
must forget in good earnest. He de-
cided to settle in Canada, to become a
farmer in the far Northwest.
He enrolled as a student in the On
tario Agricultural College at Guelph.
He learned how to rake and hoe and
pillow. He MIXED cows, fed hogs and
performed the other work required on
q farm.
He wrote to his father, saying that
he would not marry Miss Gwynne. He
did not think it necessary to explain
the reason. Also he told what he was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
Queer Kind of Wall.

Those who regard the Dingley tarii
as Chinese wall will probably revise
their opinion when they learn that the
imports into the United States during
the twelve months ending Jan. 81
1908, aggregated 1915, 2S3, 637. The
Dingley tariff, like all well-drawn pro
tective measures, tends to increase i'm
ports rather than diminish them, as
by making the nation prosperous, il
enables the people to buy more from
foreigners. But while under the stimu
lus of q tariff like the Dingley act on,
imports are increased, their nature ia
greatly changed. Instead of importing
manufactured articles ready for con
sumption in increasing quantities, we
increase our imports of raw materials
from abroad for the use of our indus
tries. Thus, in the calendar year 1907
the Manufacturers materials imported
amounted to $453 900 900, against $24s,
O00, 900 in the calendar year 1895. We
also enlarge our takings of manufac.
tured articles ready for consumption
but our increasing imports in this clas
sification are made up of things which
we do not ourselves as yet produce rs
well as the foreigner, but which we
are rapidly learning to turn out as
well as he does.-San Francisco
Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Matchmaking as Diversion.
first time they would have a house,
furniture and ALL The young couple
agreed.
He brought them together, had a
minister waiting and they were
promptly married. He also furnished
the bridal dinner.
Then it occurred to him that the
pair ought to have a wedding trip, SO
he took them to Toronto and after
ward to Boston They had everything
that money could buy-the finest
suites in the best hotels, the most
elaborate dinners and carriages at
their disposal. They were permitted
to buy everything they wanted in the
way of clothes.
THAT was really a delightful ex-
perience," said Capt. Roper-Curzon
reminiscently. Those people had the
jolliest kind of time. I don't know
what it cost me-something more than
$4,000, believe"
He didn't stay long in the West, but
went back to Toronto He had not
succeeded in forgetting his old sweet
heart Melancholy possessed him. He
resolved to give dinner that was in
harmony with his state of mind. His
famous dead mans feast" was the
result
The dinner took place on Friday, the
18th of the month, and thirteen covers
were laid. There were thirteen
courses, thirteen walters and an or
chestra shrouded in black composed
of thirteen players
In the center of the table was a per-
feet articulated skeleton, which at GER
tain intervals stood up and ratified its
bones while the orchestra played a
gruesome dirge.
At the stroke of every hour figures
dressed as shades passed before the
diners, and when midnight tolled a
curtain rolled up disclosing a Broken
scene, while bats fiuttered about the
room.
This pleasant conceit cost Cant
Roper-Curzon something more than
81 200
On Feb 4 last Capt Roper-Curzon
announced that he was broke. Since
then he has been taking a real and
cheerful interest In life. At thfrtv-ona
he is about to start forth to make hfe
fortune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

into two of its sentences as indicating
the tenor of the whole. These two
sentences follow:
But our present tariff laws, the
vicious, inequitable and illogical
source of unnecessary taxation, ought
to be at once revised and amended.
These laws, as their primary and plain
effect, raise the price to consumers of
all articles imported and subject to
duty by precisely the sum paid for
such duties. So it happens
that while comparatively a few use
the imported articles, millions of our
people, who never use and never saw
any of the foreign products, purchase
and use things of the same kind made
in this country, and pay, therefore,
nearly or quite the enhanced price
which the duty adds to the imported
articles
These are false statements, and Mr..
Cleveland knew them to be false, for
he could have gone into the open mar
ket and bought hundreds of articles
at less price than the duty on SINH
lar imported articles of no better quail
ity. His message defeated him for re-
election, and a Republican Congress
and President thought best to revise
the tariff, and the Mckinley law was
the result The effects of that law
were marvellous. In May, 1892, Ed
ward Atkinson, the noted statistician
and free trader, who was in full pos
session of his mental faculties at that
time, said In the Forum:
There never has been a period in
the history of this or any other coun-
try when the general rate of wages
was as high as 1T is now, or the prices
OF goods relatively to the wages as
low as they are to-day, nor a period
when the workman, in the strict sense
of the word, has SO fully secured to his
own use and enjoyment such a stead
lily and progressively Increasing pro-
portion of a constantly increasing prod
uct."
Such testimony was repeated by the
commercial agencies, by the President
in his message to Congress and by the
whole honest press of the country
And yet Grover Cleveland was again
nominated, and, adopting the double
dealing tactics of Polk and Dallas in
1914, was elected by a very positive
popular and electoral vote. We have
not to do now with the methods of
that campaign, but with the result
For the first time since the election
of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 the three
branches of the government were to
be in the hands of the Democratic, free
trade party The very moment that
the people, and particularly the conn
mercial world, realized this there was
CONSERVATION in every Industrial and
financial circle. Wise capitalists.
shrewd manufacturers and cautious
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
House of Lords Membership.

since ceased to be a strictly heredi-
tary body. Over 200 of it's $50 mem
bers owe their presence to other
causes than descent. Quite number
of the hereditary lords are debarred
from voting by the fact that they are
either minors, undischarged bank
rupts or inmates of 1unatic asylums.
The non-hereditary lords comprise the
archbishops and bishops of the Church
of England and those who have been
created peers by Queen Victoria and
King Edward for special services rem
dered to the crown.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
TROUBLES OF A RAcoNTEUR.
Always Some Eyewitness to Spoil
Good Story.


Good Story.
The late John T. Crisp was a par
ticipant in the battle OF Westport He
liked to describe the engagement from
his point of view, and he never failed
to interest his auditors. A few years
ago, while seated at round table"
in downtown cafe, he gave, accord,
Ing to friend, free vent to his won
derful imagination, in the presence o.
Richard Gentry and others who were
at the scene OF battle at the time 1t
ragged the fiercest.
The colonel told of the way his com.
pany had charged the enemy, of how
the Federalists were put to flight, and
of how he himself had been in the
forefront of the bloody battle
Gentry, who was a member OF
Crisp's company, finally interrupted a
beautiful piece of word painting about
the horrors of war by saying: Nov,
colonel, you know you ran like - on
that day. was running with you and
you kept ahead of me until we were
out of range of the Union guns. Yes
sir, you ran, sir; by CAD, sir, you re-
treated, sir, and 1 retreated with you"
Col. Crisp, so the story goes, calm
ly looked at Gentry for moment and
exclaimed:
Il never told a good story in my life
that some BANKED eyewitness did not
jump up and spoil it."-Kansas Citv
Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

merchants knew what was bessSra
them That grim specter, sure to ma,
tertalize in to the evil Ea1nster, free
trade, which had more than once dev.
astated our land and impoverished
our people, was bound to come. 1t
mattered not just how soon, or in just
what form; we must prepare for it az
best we could and take the conse
queensland we did
1t was not as bad as Mr.. Cleveland
would have had it. Mad clean through
he would not sign his party's law. But
that Gorman-Wilson tariff did its work
most effectively, and completed the
panic and ruinous work begun in its
anticipation Is there need to recall
those awful years? Is there need to
repeat the billions of dollars lost, the
suffering, the sickness, the sadness
that entered almost every home in the
land?
We are loyal and patriotic enough to
add our plaudits to those of the multi
tude when cheering an ex-president OF
the United States. We are willing to
blur our memory, to wipe of the slate
and say, well, in the light of later
events perhaps it was all for the best
We need adversely once in a while;
we must learn by experience" Ano
so we find no fault in the hearty greet
ing and acclaim given to our rapidly
ageing ex-president; but when the
mugwump and free-trader and politi
clan step in and turn patriotism into
politics we say No; never again must
Grover Cleveland be in power and
gain the opportunity to conspire and
ruin our country. Once is enough.
and though we may condone we must
not forget. Far more than the civil
war did Grover Cleveland cost our
country in financial loss. More lives
were sacrificed through sickness and
sorrow, through despair and poverty.
through hunger and cold, than by the
bullets of the rebellion.
If free traders, If mugwumps, II
Democrats do not forget, then the PEG
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
kipIine to His comrade-Poets.

Let the lover sing of his lady
That is part of God His plan.
Let the gentle sing he feeleth-
That also is God to
But for you, my comrades, 1 order
We shall question from sod to star;
I'VE shall paint the thing as we see IL
For the God of things as they are"
When strike shall strike with fire.
When we bless we shall bless with joy
With the fire that God He lent us.
With the gladness unknowing alloy.
Yet even as each knoweth his weakness,
We shall firestrike only to bless:
And even as each knoweth his sorrow,
We shall gladden. that sorrow be less
This have we sworn. my comrades.
Wherever scatter or shift
Ny wild, gentle true-hearted comrades,
Dear comrades, forever adrift.
And when our Lord God He shall call VA
To answer the orders He made,
We shall fall into rank and salute Him
Like gentlemen unafraid''
IT. F. Watson in Pittsburg Gazette.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
HAS SPENT FORTUNE TRYING
TO FORGET AMERICAN GIRL
Capt. Roper>Curzon Dissipates His Patri-
nony in Vain Effort to Undo the Chains
Forged by Cupid - Now Ready to Begin
Life Anew

Capt Arthur Eric Paget Roper-Cur-
ION has spent $500 900 in America in
three years trying to forget an Ameri-
can girl.
He is poor man, having dissipated
the last penny of his Inheritance, and
he is now going to begin life anew.
He belongs to family that traces
its lineage back to the time of Henry
Ill The heads of it have been peers
of England for 800 years.
Arthur Eric Paget Roper-Curzon
was a youth of experience when he
first met Miss Marguerite Gwynne,
although he was only twenty-three.
His birth and the allowance given him
by rich and generous father, gave
him abundant opportunities. He met
his American sweetheart on board a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

While waiting for the estate, to be
settled up Capt. Roper-Curzon con-
ceived the idea CT taking a party OF
six friends to the Klondilze. His expe-
dition was organized on the most
elaborate scale. He engaged an escort
of irregular soldiers under command
of Sergt. Mortimer, one of Canada's
best-known scouts, and now of the
Toronto Mounted Rifles.
The Edmonton route of dreadful
memory was chosen. The Roper-Cur-
zon party made sensation along the
trail. Everywhere they went he made
prodigal gifts of blankets and trinkets
to the Indians. Their fame preceded
them. The news spread from camp to
camp that the little white god has
come" and Roper-Curzon came to be
widely known as The Little White
God"
He quickly tired of the rigors and
hardships of arctic travel. Their out
fit was not suited for fast progress in
that country. One Gay Capt. Roper
Curzon said to the others:
Boys, I'm tired of Indian bucks and
squabbling squaws; let's go back
where there is something decent to
eat and something going on
OF course they were willing to re-
turn. He was paying for the whole
show. The head of the party gave
their guides pretty much all of the
outfit, including four horses, and led
his friends to Winnipeg. The Klon-
dixie trip cost him something more
than $4,000.
At Winnipeg an idea struck him,
and as a result there appeared an adj
vertisement that read like this:
ANY young woman wishing to learn
something to her advantage and to
secure a pleasant home will commune
cate with
A fictitious name was given, and the
answers were to be addressed in care
of the newspaper.
In another newspaper an advertise
ment requested any young man wish
ing to secure home on easy terms to
write to him.
There was no lack of applicants. The
Captain made selection from among
the young women and from the young
men. He went to them separately and
told them what was in his mind. II
they would agree to marry each other,
ten minutes after they met for the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
SAVED BY BRIGHT REPLY.


now Smart MidshIpman Get HimseI
Out Of Scrape.
On board man-of-war bound t.
San Francisco from China was .
Young midshipman named Walters
He was a favorite with the officers
and had in him the talent for makins
a fine officer. The midshipmen or
board stood their watch forward, and
every hour it was their duty to come
aft and write up the weather columns
of the ships log, showing the readings
of the barometer and thermomete,
and to heave the ships log to ascer
tain her speed.
The captain, in company with the
officer of the deck, was walking the
weather side of the deck conversins
when Midshipman Walters came aft
to write up the log. The barometer, .
mercuria1 one, was hung in the cap
tain's cabin, and Walters, after havins
read it, helped himself literally to the
captains sherry on the cabin side
board. In walking the deck the cap
tain happened to glance down the
cabin skylight and saw the midship
mans proceedings. When Walters
came up on deck to heave the log the
captain addressed him as follows:
How is the barometer, sir?"
Walters saluted and said: STEAD
lily rising, sir; steadily rising"
The captain then asked: And how
is the decanter, sir?''
Walters was taken aback, but will
steady voice replied: Steadily
falling, sir; steadily falling"
This reply was too much for the
captain, and. bursting out laughing, he
said: Young man, your bright reply
has saved you from punishment; but
it is long way to Frisco, so hereaf
ter beg of you not to consult the de
canter as often as you do the baron
eter"
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zone More paxIr

have quaffed the wine of life;
Why should I drain the glass?
I have seen the buds unfold
In their setting of dewy grass
Why watch the flowers droop?
Why wait till the grass is dead?
What more has life to OFFER
When youth and joy have fed?
Yet the coward soul. in fear.
VIII shrink from the reckoning hand
Or the boatman's whispered word
As ever he waits on the strand,
1t will drain the bitter dregs,
1t will watch the flower decay:
For a ruined life Is still a life
God grant US one more dayi
Fannie BNber Knapp in Chicago Int
Ocean
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
In Jail for sne.zino.

AS one of the good, kind ladies was
walking along the tier after the
church was over, saying kind words
to the unfortunate sons Of Adam, she
stopped in front of cell 602 on the
sixth floor. She said: my good. kind
man, what in the world ever put you
In here?" He said, -Sneezing." She
laid, MY goodness! How in the
world could they put you in here for
sneezing?" He said. Il woke the
gentleman mp.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Douglass Gordan, a rich young-man-
about town in New York. whose sister
married Senator Hanna's son, gave .
81 400 check for Tip" to a barber
who shaved him q few days ago.
Young Douglass and his money are
soon parted.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Kentucky is priding itself on the
death of q centenarian in his bed. We
hazard nothing in saying that he did
not live in either Clay or Breathitt
county, where forty is considered =
green old age.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Two Austrian princesses and a baro-
ness will attempt to swim across the
English channel. Whether they sue
coed or fail they will have taken a
step materially nearer the variety
stage.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

It is pretty hard to work up much
sympathy for the American girl who
thinks she has married titled foreign
er and then finds that he is a first
class waiter or has an honorable
record as a coachman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Next to the man who volunteers ad.
vice on how to cure rheumatism. the
man with a panacea for political ills is
entitled to a place in the race for the
position of leading nuisance.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Some of the Russian newspapers
want their government to furnish the
American press with facts concerning
the real condition of affairs in the
cars country. The censor will be
getting after them il they don't watch
out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

pie must remember for them. Grover
Cleveland must never be President
again. He should never even be g
candidate, and he ought not to be sc
much as thought of in that respect
American Economist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

1t is claimed that Carnegie has more
than $100,OOO,OO0 left. This, however,
may be a mere rumor started by his
enemies who want the tax man to get
after him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27
Its Renefciariex

The tariff is always revised in the
interest of its beneficiaries, says Ed
itor Bryan The principal beneficiar-
les 9. the American protective tariff
policy are the people of the United
States.-Oswego Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

New York is to have building 40
feet long, 26 feet wide and II stories
high. They might save valuable
space by using the building as its own
chimney.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

1t needed no Minnesota supreme
court to establish the fact that a mash
er is a parasite. But it may make the
job of scraping him off easier.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Eighteen languages, including Eng
lish, were spoken in New Amsterdam.
The principal difference between that
time and this seems to be that, while
more than eighteen other languages
are now spoken. English isn't
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

That Burlington, VT, blacksmith
who became mayor few days ago is
already greatly surprised at the large
number of people who seem to be able
to use the hammer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

1t seems a pity that about the only
way for a man to learn wi kind OF
a woman he ought not to marry is to
marry her.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Miss Littleboy is to be married, &C
cording to a Los Angeles paper. Many
happy returns of the day.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

John l.. Sullivan casts an XAray on
Emerson's essay on the Over Soul by
suggesting that ''he was full when he
wrote it, Set Bostonian to catch
q Bostonian.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Wouldn't it be sight to see the two
Shamrocks and the three American
9O-footers all together in a big race
over herei
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

The message will get there while
you are saying Marconigraph- Think
up a shorter one.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

The astronomers have formed a
trust. Within another year the people
will have to pay dearly to look heaven
ward.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

No one who has observed the ten
acity with which a woman clings to
an opinion once fixed will ever again
refer to her as a member of the weak
er sex.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

The racing automobile is the dead
Hest toy that millionairism has ever
amused itself with.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

doing The father was immensely
pleased He forwarded handsome re
mittances and advised his son to keep
at work on a farm And Capt. Roper
Curzon followed his parents advice
for q time.
Before he had finished his first six
months in the farm-schooI his father
died Then, in the language of one
OF his friends, ~Roper-Curzon dropped
the rake and reached for the roll; the
fireworks commenced Immediately
His share Of the estate was little
leas than $300. 600.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Few things make a man nader
than going to the theater and seeing
about everybody that owes him money
absorbed in the performance from
seat in the box.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Japan does not seek war with Rus
STA, but it cherishes the hope that war
may be forced upon it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

The Reliance is said to have "a full.
blunt nose" So long as it is not out
of joint and she wins the race we c1n
probably forgive the rest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

Daniel J. Sully has made SO much
money handling" cotton that he has
got to go to Europe to spend it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-06-27

It's curious how many sizes larger
a woman's feet grow on her way from
the shoe shop to her home.