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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
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He clutched the arms of the chair.
You're teasing me. Let me read
that book or I'll get up
She laughed and passed it to him.
He began to read: Don't sit in a
rocking chair and rock while resting %
Don't injure the furniture in any
way and be careful of all fancy deco
rations." He looked about him.
The wreckage has been appalling in
this palatial apartment" He read
again. well, great Eli" he cried,
and looked up at her. why, it was
you'll
What wasp
Come here, please"
She went to him. He pointed with
a thin finger at an accusing Don't
kiss your patient"
She f1usned under her dainty Swiss
cap.
Not even delirious patients?" he
inquired.
She turned her back on him from
the window.
mot even those who have an illu-
mination of reason?'' he persisted.
She could find nothing to say.
do you know he said, 1--WE
been puzzled over it ever since. II
was just before l fell asleep and
woke up in my senses again At first
thought it was my aunt who
brought me up, and then suddenly
thought it was an old chum of mine
at college. You look very like him
Why, -our names are the same. Was
Jim Blakely a relative of yours? He
was drowned
She turned on him with cry OF
brother"
Good Lord" he gasped, and tried
to rise. He sank back weakly in his
chair and sat there staring at her
What a chump I am" he said al
last. $50 you're little Marjorie" He
remembered Jim's picture of her il
his den. How proud he was of you
The thought of her position there
came to MIN in a shameful contrast
What a brute I've been," he said
"and what an angel you've been here
To let you wait on me hand and foo
like that. What a brute. Jim's sis
ter"
Her back was to him. She stood
looking out of the window. Hel
hand was within his reach, and he
took it. do you think" he said
"being Jim's chum, you could He
touched his lips to the palm of hel
forgive me? Could you?" Il
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
How About Your Well?

TOW fAOooI rO0F well.
The following, taken from a docu-
ment issued by the Michigan State
Board of Health, should receive the
thoughtful attention of every one:
The most scrupulous care should
be taken to keep the present sources
of drinking water pure, and to pro-
cure future supplies only from clean
sources. The general water supply of
cities and villages is a matter OF
great concern; it should be procured
from places where there can be no
probability of immediate or remote
contamination. The well-known out
break of typhoid fever at Plymouth,
Pa, where over thousand cases and
one hundred and fourteen (114)
deaths occurred, is apparently an il
luStration of how great a calamity
Inay follow the fouling of a general
water supply by the discharges of
person sick with typhoid fever. When
there is no general water supply, nor
good sewers, much may be done to
protect wells by the abolition of cess
pits and privy vaults, by the use of
dry earth in privies, and by the fre-
quent removal therefrom of all their
drain into wells unsuspected by those
who use the water. Should typhoid
privy an outbreak of typhoid fever
among those using the water from a
ne1ghboring well would be likely to
occur. II such we'll were the
source of the general water supply of
city, typhoid fever might soon be
epidemic there. There is
good reason to suspect the water of
well whenever a vault is situated
within hundred feet of it, particu-
larly If the soil be porous. In nu-
merous instances fluids from excre-
ia have leached into wells from much
greater distances; and it has been
proved that well thirty rods from
cemetery received water which had
filtered through the soil of the ceme-
terry. Dangerously contaminated
| water may be and often is found to be
clear and co1orless and to have no
bad taste" The noted instance at
Lausanne, Switzerland, where the
discharges from typhoid fever pa
tients were thrown into small
stream, which disappeared by sink
ing into the earth and gravel and
rearYeared about half a mile distant
as mountain spring, the clear water
of which caused typhoid fever in one
hundred and forty-four CAD per
sons, is instructive, and is worthy of
note as illustrating how the disease
| may be spread.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
A Handy Wagon Box.

From the Farmers Review: We are
using on our farm a form of wagon
box that is handy and substantial as
well. 1t takes the following material
to make it, all dressed and painted.
Two sills 2x6x12 feet. Four pieces
2x4x3 feet for cross sleepers. Thirty
six feet unmatched inch boards for
floor. Eight clips made from 7-16
iron rod with threads cut and nuts
fitted. These clips 9 inches long and
used to fasten cross sleepers to under
side of sills. Eight socket clips pur-
chased from hardware store or may
be made from wagon tire iron. These
clips are 1xx3 inches on inside, and
are bolted to outside of sills to re-
ceive the 2x3 standards on side
boards. Eight standards 2x3x1S
inches. Two sideboards 1x12x12
feet Above standards are bolted to
these boards, and boards are cIeated
at each end to receive endgates,
which completes the bottom bed 1S
inches high and IL feet long and will
hold twenty-five bushels of ear corn.
By adding a ten-inch sideboard 35
bushels of corn can be hauled. 1t
will take box of fifty carriage bolts
Sx31a inches and three pounds of
s penny nails to complete the box
Material for same costs 500 dressed
ready to make up including hard
ware and extra sideboard, and s1O5O
made up and painted. We call this
box the "fknockdown box because it
can be taken apart to remove from
the wagon and be stored away in the
dry handily when not in use.-Geo.
w. Brown, Hancock County, Ohio.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
Development of Young Pigs.

Much of our success in hog raising,
both as to economy of production and
quality of product, depends un how we
care for the young pigs after weaving,
says Prof w. ]. Fraser. The old say
ing that feed is half the breed" is
true, if we include the methods of
feeding. Feeding largely on food that
tends to produce fat, without sufficient
exercise being given, will often change
little Yorkshire into thick, fat type,
or may cause such a arrangement of
the digestive organs as to founder the
W ung pigs. This is a most serious
condition, and will render them profit
less. Indigestion may show itself by
the pigs failing in flesh, loss of appe-
tite, roughness of hair, scaliness of
SKIN, teeth becoming black, etc. The
last condition is often thought to be
the cause, rather than the effect 1t
is, together with the others. but an
evidence of injudicious feeding. In
case some young pigs become so fat
that they die from what is known as
.'thumps," in all cases proper food and
exercise will prevent. and, in a meas
ure, remedy them. Prevention is bet
ter than cure"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
JIM'S SISTER

The doctor had made his last visit
for the night and the nurse was left
alone with her patient-a typhoid
fever patient, muscular and raving
He had been as self-willed in his
illness as a spoiled child He had
been almost convalescent when,
against all warning-while the day
nurse was chatting with the doctor
he had staggered from his bed to
basket of fruit on the table and eaten
two peaches before he was seen. The
result was a relapse into far more
critical condition than he had been
at first. Here he lay now, struggling
against death itself She wondered
whether he had a sister who was fond
of him-or a sweetheart ?-who had
been sending him these baskets of
fruit.
He was breathing regularly in
ftful doze. She returned to her chair
aId leaned forward to look at him
with her chin in her hand.
Although she was not aware Of it
he had changed for her; from being
a cease" he had become a human
being with a claim of interest on her,
and she frowned at his muttering of
pain. Poor fellowi Life must have
been so full for him of interests, ac-
tivities, promises, achievements. To
have it all end this way, futilely He
had given the college cry once in a
delirium and struggled painting
through a football game. And once
he had been standing on the platform
of debate. And another time he had
been writing an examination in law.
And still another time she thought
that she heard him speak Jim's name
in the tumble of delirious mutter-
ings.
Jim was to have been a lawyer.
Poor Jimt Her eyes filed at that
old, tear-stained memory of Jim
and her father drowned together in
that horrible accident on the Della
ware. Well, she at least had not
been a burden on her mothers small
income, and soCn-as soon as she
was graduated from the hospital
she would be not only self-supporting
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
Wanted Her Share of Love.

George Francis Train sat one spring
morning in Union square, as was his
custom, surrounded by children to
whom, contrary to his attitude toward
adults, he was always affable and
agreeable. On the outside of the group
surrounding Mr.. Train stood a small
colored girl looking wistfully at the
white children who were receiving all
his attention and hearing his wonder
full t>les. After they had dispersed
and Mr. Train was alone, the black
child advanced timidly and said to
him:
do you love children?"
Looking at his questioner in some
surprise, he admitted that he did
Then in low voice she said:
81 am a child.''-New York Times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
Spraying a scienee.

Spraying is science of itself, says
Prof F. NJ. Webster. 1t is a profes-
sion as yet undeveloped, and until we
give it more attention and improve
upon and develop It's practical value
we shall never get the full and effect
uaI benent from it that is possible
with our material and machinery. be
lieve the time will come when spray
ing will constitute a distinct and sep
arate department OF horticulture, and
students viii in our agricultural col
leges be trained IN not only the
science of spraying, but the sciences
that are most necessary In connection
with it, viz, entomology, botany and
chemistry.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23

She took her cue from him. Eyes,
you are" she cooed. GO seepey-bye.
Auntie1l tuck you in She arranged
his blankets about his shoulders, pat
ting and smoothing them down.
"Night-night," he said, contentedly
kiss me night-night.'
She touched his forehead with her
finger tips.
kiss me-" he demanded kiss
me a night-night," and struggled to
free his arms from the covering.
SSH she said, and bent down to
him. The linen screen at the foot
might pass in the hall. She touched
her lips to his forehead. Might
night" she whispered.
He looked at her with childish
smile pouting his lips. 1t hardened
slowly into a pursed mouth of per
plexity. Hello, old man. he said,
''Where-.'' He closed his eyes on
frown.
She was still blushing hotly when
his regular breathing showed her
that he had fallen into a quiet slum-
Der.
He was sitting in his armchair taking
a sun bath at the window that looked
out on the dazzling white of melting
SHOWS. His visitors had just left him,
at his doctors orders. He was wait
ing for the return of Nurse Blakely,'' -
with an impatience which he might
have recognized as longing If his
physical weakness had not disguised
affection in him as an irritable lack
of what he wished to have. She
came in light-footed.
He crowed a feeble "Ah-ha! Did
you hear what the doctor said?'
What did he say?" she arranged
the pillows to ease the strain on a
weak back. He was grateful for that
and his gratitude shone in his smile.
I'm to be humored. the doctor
said; I'm to have my own way in
everything
Are your" she said, avoiding his
eyes. You certainly had your own
way about the fruit
He laughed now at the folly that
had kept him a happy prisoner in the
hospital for the past nine weeks.
That fruit," he said, that was the
most delicious-the most. Do you
know. Nurse Blakely, l thought those
peaches would kill me, but l was
dying for something to eat-and 1
just took them She did not reply.
"A mans a fool when he has a fever,
isn't hep he added with apologetic
seriousness.
only them" she retorted with
obstinate flippancy.
She was busying herself about the
room. He was watching her every
movement with an eye of an invalid
tenderness. .Oh, l say he protest
ed, you don't make any allowance
for a fellow being I'LL"
She did not answer. She smiled,
having warded of the danger which
his milder manner had warned her Of
She seated herself in chair and took
up book which she had put down on
the table when his visitors had en-
tered.
What's that?" he demanded peev-
ishly. What are you reading?
"One Hundred Don'ts for Nurses" /"
| she read from the cover. Things
we are not to do"
'Wen, don't worry. Your sins have
| been all of omission. It's the things
you haven't done" She smiled
serenely at the page
you might read it out at least, "
! he said.
Let me see" She turned the
pages Il think that is probably in
cluded in the prohibitions Don't let
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
His Faulty Imasination.

The discussion of the fate of the
Peter Marie miniatures recalls a
story. A miniature painter of more
social than artistic persuasion called
upon Mr.. Marie and turned the con
versation upon his talent, knowing
that hss SOst heartily disliked per
sonalities.
Il can't imagine why I don't sue
ceed, Mr.. Marie,' said he. Il have
plenty of imagination Don't you
think so?"
Yes. Plenty. For instance, you
imagine you can paint miniatures--
New York Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23
Feeding Grain to Milk Cows on Pas
ture.

From Farmers Review: This is
not a dairy section, in fact, there is
not a cheese factory or creamery in
the county, yet have been, for many
years. though on a limited scale, a
dairyman, and have made it an un-
varying practice to feed grain at all
times when cows were giving milk,
and my opinion is that reasonable
grain ration never pays better than
when the cows are on pasture, even
the best of pasture, and In the late
summer when grass usually becomes
short the milk flow can be, in great
measure. kept up and the cows will re-
main in good condition, always ready
for business.-Hugh Greig, Knox
county, HlinoiS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23

was his old teasing tone with q new
note of seriousness in it.
She tried to free her fingers. Take
care now," he warned, "the doctor
said I was to be humored-"
She laughed and that weakened her
defenses. He caught her other hand.
You're a brick, Marjorie" he said.
Let me co. she said sobbing. Il
Il want to wipe my eyes, you silly
Her tone was itself a surrender. He
lay back and smiled with content into
her wet eyes.-Utica Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23

but an aid to others. There
were two long years of hard work
before her yet. She bit her lip.
The untiring run and babble of his
delirium had been growing louder.
She went to him again to calm him
with the sound of her voice, and he
looked up at her with smile that
seemed almost rational. 1t was only
momentary; he called her "Auntie,'' %
and began childish prattle.
I'm not seepy," he said. 81 don't
want to go to bed, Auntie," and tried
70 raise his head from the pillow.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23

Buds are lateral when on the side
of q shoot; and terminal when on the
and.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-05-23

Orthodoxy on one side of the fence
is heresy on the other.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

brought with them all the necessaries for the work of destruction, even to the kero- sene which they poured upon the wood work to accelerate the work of the torch. Then schools and churches, the work of patient toll on the part of the American missionaries and native Christians. were consumed in a day and darkness fell upon a city desolate and in ashes.
 Today these same thugs and murderers have been transported to Macedonia, as the probable scene of the next great mas sacre. When from time to time their atro- cities become so fragrant that the Euro pean ambassadors feel called upon to pro- test the sultan vlrtuously disclaims all responsibility for the lawlessness of 'mob'' over which, alas, he "has no com trol' Like each of the various clans Of the Kurds, the bashi-bazouk can easily be distinguished by his costume. His shoes, or 'yemenys'' (meaning leather)' are red or black. His golf-like stockings which leave the knee exposed, are elaoo- rately embroidered in black, his snort Turkish trousers are of homespun' while about his waist is a short sash of wool op silk. surmounted by a leather belt in rich colors and embossed in red. This Is di- yided into three or four sections in which ha keens his revolver his chibouk. or pipe and his yataghan, always kept sharp. The bashi-bazouks never carry daggers as the Circassians do. A cartridge box hangs from the side. as also small silver snuff box. They wear two jackets, the under one with short sleeves and the outside one with long. At the elbow in an open ing in which they carry in leather bag written quotations from the koran as
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
A Tribute to His State by Governor William D. Jelks in. a Recent Speech.

soil may be preserved and not lost, how the land should be dug and sown and reaped, a very few acres, bursting with the harvest, will furnish the family def- ance to croaking care and to want, unfelt. c
 But minerals, in whatever profusion they may lie, form no State; in dustries, though the skies be black from the smoke or many furnaces, constitute no State; lands. though they were as rich as those on which Joseph farmed in the olden time and the climate as sweet as the air which floats over "Araby, the blest," con- stitute no State. Men and women consti- tute a State; it is their virtue, their intels hgence, their strength and their high- mindedness which make 1t great. What ever material riches any given section may boast, 1t Is accursed if it be peopled by intellectual, moral and physical weak lings!
 The States richest promise lies in the school boys and in the school girls, with their shining morning faces. They are ''the rose and the expectancy of the fair State" If they have high ideals. if they promise themselves to be something and to do something. they may write any his tory they choose for the magnificent old Commonwealth of Alabama.
 The unusual effort now being made by the State to furnish competent schools in every locality is with view of preparing the young for useful citizenship in this most blessed of governments The fath- CTS were not so favored: they rescued the wilderness from the wild beasts and the wilder savage and organized a society for their children to enjoy, fighting back. all the while. night of ignorance by the aid of the humble light of pine fires in cab- lns more humble still. Their virtues pa- tience and patriotism were we'll nigh use- lessly employed, if they have failed to teach their descendants to follow and im- prove upon the example. No such day has come to this State before; knowledge for the asking, opportunities at every door and the world crying out for men and women who are not intellectual phys ical and moral paupers. There is a wide open door of Hope for every brave and struggling youth.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13
TAKE PLEASURE IN MURDER.
Mercenaries Without Pay Who Take Delight in Massacring Christians.

Mercenaries Without Pay Who Take
 Delight in Massacring Christians. Brooklyn Eagle.
 When with periodical regularity the Ot- toman government is shaken up, and the same old Eastern question: confronts the nations with its possibilities for the most widespreading disaster, the ques- tion invariably asked by the readers of the reports is: What is the underlying cause?' In broad terms 1t may be said to be the weakness of the central govern ment, but the elements of thls weakness are to be found in the various turbulent factors which go to make up the body politic
 The personnel of these mIschievous ele- ments includes the Circassians and Kurds of Asia Minor. the Bedouins of Syria, the Albanians of European Turkey, all wild eyed. lawless and terrorizing. yet not to be compared in corruption and virulent malignity with the most disturbing ele- ment of all, the sleek. smooth, rotund Turkish officials who have finger in every political pie and a grasping hand in every pocket that is to be rified
 The ashi-bazouks, or irregular soldiery, get no pay from the government except rations and transportation. but are ex- pected to make their own living by guer- rilla warfare They are almost always in connivance with the higher officials, who remain discreetly blind to their misdeeds as long as their own hands are fl ed with backcheesh Their presence is invariably the sign of bloodshed They scent the scene of carnage from afar and no place Is too distant, no atrocity too great for them to attempt.
 In all the great massacres their ser vices have been utilized, like that of the Greeks at Scio in 1922, in Syria in 1881 Bulgaria in 1876 and in the more recent Armenian massacres. When the doom of the fair city of Harput was pronounced by secret trade from the palace, from every direction swarmed the bashi-ba- zoulks- eazar to he tn at the death. They
The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-13

messages from two deceased children of Mrs. Russell. One son, Victor, died in Pennsylvania fifteen years ago and the other Carlton Russell, died in this city ten years ago. To Mrs. Mary Pressable she named and described a mother dead twenty-five years, told of daughter and husband dead ten and twenty years re- spectively, and named and described sev- eral other deceased members of the Press able family.
 Messages From the Dead.
 Mrs. A. Ramp of S14 First Street, a to- tai stranger, was told of her husbands mother, who died thirty-two years ago. Her name and description were given. The girl also named and described two deceased children of Mrs. Ramp and con- veyed messages from them.
 Mary has been suffering from spinal and nervous trouble tor some time. Last July curvature of the spine developed. Dr. Frederick Shillito attended the girl and incased the body in a plaster cast. Last Monday the cast was removed and an hour later the girls body became rigid, her eyes dilated and the most strenuous efforts failed to arouse her.
 '"rhe girl is in very peculiar mental condition" said pr. Shillito, the attending physician. "She has what is called cata- lepsy, and when in that condition people often have such pecul@r ideas and dreams. I have seen her in this condi- tion and know of her telling people who come to the house of their relatives dead for years. Whether all that she says is true or not of course I cannot say.
 ''The case is a very peculiar and unu- sual one, in which I am personally very much interested In a catalept1c state the most developed moral emotions gen. erally dominate. The girl is known to have always been of a very religious turn of mind. and her visions of heaven and the angels may be accounted for in this way. When the girl awakes she general ly has the appearance of waking from a sleep. While she suffers with catalepsy her hands remain stretched rigid and straight toward heaven"