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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
The shortness of Life.

rimei What an empty vapor 'tist
And days. how swift they are.
Swift as an Indian arrow flies,
Or like shooting star
The present moments just appear,
Then slide away in haste,
That we can never say, theyr mere,
But only say they're past
Our life is ever on the wing,
md death is ever nigh;
The moment when our lives begin,
We all begin to die)
Yet, mighty God! our fieeting days
Thy lasting favors share.
Yet, with the bounties OF Thy grace
Thou 1oadst the rolling year.
'Tis sovereign mercy finds us food.
And we are clothed with love:
While grace stands pointing out the roeo
That leads our souls above
His goodness runs an endless round;
All glory to the Lordi
His mercy never knows a bound;
And be His name adored!
(Thus we begin the lasting song:
And when we close our eyes,
Let the next age Thy praise prolong,
Till time and nature dies.)
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
ModestY of Soldiers.

Few men, said the colonel, were
entirely satisfied with their own con-
duct in battle. This was not because
they failed in courage or in their duty,
but because the greatness of the occa-
sion made even the most heroic effort
seem inadequate. There was so much
to do under stress of circumstances,
and so much left undone through mis-
chance or misunderstanding, that the
man who was in the thick of the light
generally came out of it with very
poor opinion of himself
.T was reading the other day letters
written by soldiers on the battlefields
Of Shiloh, Stone River and Missionary
Ridge and 1 was astonished at their
simplicity and humbleness of tone.
Writing of the second day at Shiloh
one man said: 1--WE started forward at
sun up, our line as straight as rule,
and during the day 1 think we must
have covered several miles. We didn't
do much, however, except drive the
rebels back, and when night came six
Of our company were among the
wounded The mans regiment was in
the movement described by Gen.
Grant as one of the most impressive
and effective of the second days bat
tie.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
sano the sonos Of 'es.

No detail of the recent celebration
of the fortieth anniversary of the bat
tie of Gettysburg aroused more enthu-
siasm than did the participation in the
exercises of the brave Girls of 49,
living in that town.
During the winter of 1929 the
Tenth New York cavalry, unmounted,
popularity known as the Porter Guards,
were encamped there, and the young
women had ample opportunity to be-
&C ne familiar with many of the war
sclgs of the day When the troopers
Of Buford's cavalry came into town on
June 80, 1863, to scout or the enemy
they were greeted by the girls with
the same patriotic airs which they had
learned earlier in the year.
: Such rousing songs as Tramp,
Tramp, Tramp. the Boys Are March
ing" .tJust Before the Battle, Mother"
ana "The Battle Cry of Freedom"
were sung by the enthusiastic young
women for the soldiers
At the anniversary it was decided to
ask the survivors Of these patriotic
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
Last of Heroic Band Dead.

'I happened to see in a New YORK
paper the other day." said the ser
geant, notice of the death of Zach
aria c. Neahr, and l wondered In how
many mems veins the blood leaped
as it leaped in mine when / saw that
name. Neahr was a short-term man.
He enlisted in the One Hundred and
Forty-Second New York volunteers in
1864, but in his short terms of service
it was his fate to be engaged in one
of the most daring and perilous under
takingS of the war.
ION the 18th of January, 1865, when
the Union troops were formed for as
sault on Fort Fisher, Gen. Terry called
for volunteers to go forward in ad-
vance of the assaulting column and
cut down the palisades or stOckade
timbers of the fort. A plan to blow
these timbers up with gunpowder had
been considered, but the fire of the
navy had damaged them to such an
extent that Gen. Terry believed his
axmen could do the work better than
gunpowder. Therefore he called for
volunteers.
james Cadman, William Cabe,
George Hoyt, S. R. Porteous, D. 81.
Morgan, Edward Petrie, E. H. Cooper,
Silas Baker, George Merrell, William
]. McDuff, q. c. Neahr and Bruce An
derson, all of the One Hundred and
Forty-second New York, volunteered
for the dangerous work. They ran
forward with axes under a furious fire
from the enemy. All except three
were shot down. These three ham
mered away at the palisades until
they cut an opening through which
one of the charging columns rushed,
and the result was the capture of Fort
Fisher.
''Neahr was the last survivor of that
party of twelve who charged with
axes. Up to 1896 not even his nearest
neighbors or the members of his fam
lily knew that he had been engaged in
such a perilous exploit. Then Con-
gress voted him a medal of honor and
the story came out. Many of the boys
will remember that when the axmen
moved apart that day Neahr dropped
on his knees and led the little squad
In prayer. Gen. Terry, noticing this,
said: L believe they will succeed and
they did, and the last one of the Fort
Fisher ak squad died last week -
Chicago Inter Ocean
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

trary, these figures of trade ana com
merce are actual reports of accom-
plishment, and for that reason cannot
be considered in any way as promot
ing any fiscal policy. When our bal
ance of trade is six hundred millions
we are told SO, and when it falls below
four hundred millions we are told
that We are simply told the truth in
each and every case, no matter what
it is or what brought it about or what
will be its effect, and every impartial
honest editor in the country, as well
as every loyal reader, has nothing
but thanks to express to the depart
ment and to the statistician who fur
nishes us with these interesting fig
ures and facts concerning our ID
dustrial progress.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
FREE TRADE PLANT
FAULT FOUND WITH BUREAU OF
STATISTICS.
Yet the Figures Sent Out by the De-
partment of Commerce and Labor
Simply Show Real Conditions of the
Country's Industrial Progress.

The Springfield Republican is great
ly exercised over the bulletins sent
cut by the Bureau of Statistics, which
has now been transferred from the
Treasury department to the Depart
ment of Commerce and Labor. The
Republican does not attempt to i'm
pugn the accuracy or truth of the in
formation sent out, it's only objection
being, apparently, that the bulletins
help the cause of protection by chron-
icing the prosperous condition of the
country, as shown in both our foreign
and home commerce. 1t says: These
government specials to the news
and as high tariff preachments they
are not excelled by anything the
American Protective Tariff League is
doing" That is both high praise for
the department and in itself the full
est possible vindication of the wisdom
of the trainers of the Dingley law.
The articles sent out once or twice
a week by Mr.. Austin are summaries
for the most part OF our foreign COM
merce and our internal trade. They
are generally actual figures, with once
in a while the figures for a single
month estimated, but always very
conservatively. Almost since the very
beginning of the government it has
been thought a matter of wisdom to
give to the country the fullest pos
sible statistics concerning our trade,
particularly our foreign trade For
the past half century have these fig
ures been given out quite in detail,
and there is no one but the most hope
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
but in reality the Sugar Refining
Trust? Respectfully,
]. W. FORDNEY.


The newspaper clipping to which
Congressman Fordney alludes is from
the Courier-Herald of Saginaw, Mich,
an important center of the sugar beet
and beet sugar factories. The article
is headed Don't Monkey With the
Sugar Beet and is intended to show
the vital Importance of sugar beet Gull
ture in that part of Michigan as af-
fecting the prosperity alike of the
farmers and the wage earners who
find employment in the beet fields.
For example, two girls, both under
thirteen years of age, last week re-
ceived $3.50 apiece for wedding sugar
beets. This one item is pointed out
as an inkling of the reason why the
agricultural interest of this section
of the state stands so solidly against
anything proposed at Washington that
bears any menace to the beet sugar
industry; and also why Congressman
Fordney last fall had the good will
of the people of the country districts
of the Eight Congressional district
without regard to their party connec-
tons. The Courier-Herald closes by
saying:
1.-The sugar beet has been a potent
and large factor in the prosperity OF
this section of Michigan. And any
one who approaches it around here
with intent to minimize it's influence
will run up against trouble"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
WOULD DESTROY CONFIDENCE
Cuban Reciprocity Treaty Would A.
feet Michigan Prosperity.

Cuban Reciprocity Treaty Would A.
feet Michigan Prosperity.
Congressman Fordney writes to the
American Economist as follows:
Saginaw, West Side, Mich, July %,
1908. Editor American Economist,
New York. Dear Sir: Apropos to
your strenuous fight for protection,
and incidentally against the proposed
Cuban reciprocity measure, l fnclose
a clipping from a local paper which
goes to show what the American
sugar beet and beet sugar industries
may develop into if given the same
chance in the future which they have
had in the past What is true OF
Michigan, will in time be true Of
other states, if confidence in the
business is not destroyed by harmful
legislation. 1t may be urged that
a 20 per cent cut will not destroy the
industry. That might be true, but it
certainly will destroy confidence in
the industry and retard its develop
ment, to say the least. And is an
American congress going to strike
this all important enterprise, as well
as others, body blow, simply to as
sist the Cuban farmer, on the surface,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

less pessimist who will not acknowl-
edge that such information is not only
instructive but almost invaluable. If,
then, such figures are worth while to
collect and print once a year, as is
done in the Statistical Abstract" or
once a month, as is done in the Sum
mary of Commerce and Finance,
then surely a weekly or even daily
gathering of similar figures must be
both interesting and of value to all
those concerned.
AS regards the promotion of the
high tariff propaganda" the honest
figures of the country's Industrial ad-
vance during the last five years must
tend to that very end. Mr.. Austin
does not manufacture his figures or
his facts; he simply complies and re-
ports them, as he finds them on the of
fetal or authoritative records. AS the
Republican says: These figures are
spread out in specially prepared arti-
cles and mailed to the press for pub
location on a specified day" This is
true, and a large portion of the press
of the country feel deeply indebted
to Mr.. Austin and his associates for
this work. The busy editor has neither
the means nor the time to collect
these figures and present them to
his readers as he would like to- The
Bureau of Statistics is intended for
the very purpose, and the result of its
work is the property of the public.
The disloyal papers which do not
want to publish anything rejecting
credit upon their country will leave
them alone; the papers who are
proud of their eountry's record in in
dustry as well as war publish them,
or part of them, as they see fit
Evidently the Republican man is
mad clear through because the coun-
try did not go to the demnition bow
vows during the late decline in
stocks. He no doubt had his famous
editorial, L told you so,s' all ready,
and being left high and dry by a furry
instead of panic, he, of course, must
get even somewhere, and so he goes
for Mr.. Austin and the high tariff
propaganda" A newspaper that finds
fault with the publications of honest
facts and figures calling attention to
the progress of the country. either in
its foreign or domestic trade, no mat
ter from what sources or for what pur-
pose the figures emanate and are pro-
anything short of absolute free trade
and the most panicky of panics that
could possibly follow The figures
sent out from Washington to the
newspapers are not like the weather
reports. which are purely guess work,
or the crop reports, which are not abb
solute. but simply estimates founded
uDon certain conditions. On the con-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
In the Army Of the Potomac.

Col. Elijah Walker of the Fourth
Maine infantry, now residing in Bos-
ton suburb, is said to be the oldest
surviving field officer of the army of
the Potomac and he was a marked
feature in the Hooker monument cere
monies at Boston recently. He is IS
years old and on his birthday Kinsley
Post, G. A. R., of which he is a mem
Der, presented him with a handsome
easy chair. Col. Walker missed only
one battle of the army of the Potomac
and at the battle of the Wilderness he
had two horses shot from under him
and was wounded five times
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
Cheap Food DriveI.

A letter to the Boston Transcript,
from London says 1.-The tide seems
running swiftly in Chamberlain
favor" The free traders are no longer
able to draw about them the man
tie of Golden, but are compelled to
meet arguments. Things have reach
ed such a stage in England that a
man may now express the opinion
that there is something else to be
said on the subject of tariff than the
drivel about the cheap loaf. 1t is be-
ginning to be seen that no matter
how cheap the loaf may be, it is too
dear for the British people when 80
per cent of them are. admitted to be
lowering within the border line of
actual starvation The question now
raised is, How can work be. had for
these starving millions, and not how
dear will bread be?@San Francisco
Chronicle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
AMLEZZZ
Z4ZEy

Girls of '63" to sing again to the
brave veterans the songs they loved &c
we'll A hearty response was given to
the suggestion and at least sixteen
responded to the call Some of these
Girls of '63" are grandmothers and
grandaunts, and some still possess
their maiden names. While the voices
were somewhat broken, yet the Choir
--'ses went yelling out in good, round
fashion.
Inc old soldiers present were Wis
IDLY affected and one, T. p. Kennedy
of Parkersburg, Chester county, one
of Buford's cavalrymen, asked to be
presented to the singers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
Preference to Be Given Veterans.

Acting Commissioner Williams Of
the Internal Revenue Bureau, by di-
rection of Secretary Shaw, has issued
a circular letter to collectors of inter
nal revenue calling attention to Presi
dent Roosevelt's order of Jan. II, 1902
directing that preference shall be
given alike in appointments and re
tention in the public service to hon
orably discharged soldiers of the civil
war. Collectors are instructed to care
fully observe this order in making
assignments to the work of gaugins
and recommending assignments to the
work of storekeeper and storekeeper-
gauger.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Some immense waterspouts have
been seen in Nome, and it has been
mailing blocks of ice in Colorado, but
not a solitary sea-serpent has shown
up at any of the seaside resorts this
summer. The sea-serpent liar must-be
taking a vacation this year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

That man in Mount Vernon who let
his wife compel him to sleep for a
month in the chicken coop has shown
unconsciously that it takes wife to
measure accurately the dimensions of
Ter husband.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
Gen. o. o. Howard only one Living

Gen. o. o. Howard Only One Living
On the occasion of the unwilling of
the statue to Gen. Hooker, in Boston,
recently. the following letter appeared
in the Globe of that city:
The hundreds of thousands who
will view the procession tomorrow
should not fail to remember that the
last living great commander of any
one OF the armies that subdued the re-
bellion, the commander of the 14S 900
of the army of Tennessee Mai Gen
Oliver Otis Howard, is to be in the
procession at rs years of age. He
thus stands alone. He received also,
the thanks of the nation for selecting
and holding the field of Gettysburg on
the first day, when with 10000 men
he successfully repealed more than co.
900 of Lees veterans and saved his
country. Absolutely refusing to re-
treat, and sending messengers to
Meade, Slocum and Sickles, under
God,'' he saved his country and re-
ceived its merited thanks. He had the
high honor of serving in forty-one bat
ties, opening At Bull Run in command
of brigade, and in the evening of
that disastrous day forming the battle
line at Centerdale that turned back the
Black Horse cavalry and saved the
capital. He closed with the last great
battle at Bentonville under Sherman
He is past all age of rivalry and envy,
and an entire nation he has served
with such fidelity and honor will for
ever hold his memory immortal, and
in no place is he more loved than
among the Christian people and the
soldiers of New England in this, her
capital, Boston. Admirer'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05
chamberIain's Position.

The free traders, made up of the
Liberals and Unionists of the old
school, are rallying a new English
party. Chamberlain will be in at
tendance with the protectionist colo
MES and the manufacturers, among
others. at his back.-Boston Journal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

"The sheep which were imprisoned
in the turret of the French cruiser
Suffern'-that's just what they were
doing, even if they were not seriously
injured.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

The San Francisco earthquake and
the eruption of Mt. Colima, following
the outburst from Vesuvius, afford am
pie evidence that the disturbance in
side the great round ball on which we
live has not been settled yet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

1t is generally known that potatoes
contain a large percentage of alcohol
but are we to infer that this is most
generously liberated in the process of
MASKING?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Undoubtedly Russia and Japan are
merely bluffing. Neither has begun
to invest in Missouri mules
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

The Toledo Blade says: Miss Fairy
Titmarsh has pair of calves that can
not be beat in this section of our
glorious republic" Perhaps somebody
will write a poem about them, as
somebody did about Mary's little
lamb.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

IF you are bitten by a rattlesnake, Is
says an authority, land can't get
whisky, eat tobacco pound if nee
essary. 1t will cure you" Life is
sweet, and there are men, doubtless,
who would pay even this price for it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

A ST. Paul girl tried the old reli-
able test to discover if they were
mushrooms or toadstools. 1t worked.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Representative Baker of Brooklyn,
who will neither accept railroad
passes nor appoint cadets to Annapo-
lis. must have got into politics by mis-
take.-Buffalo Express
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Unfortunately the people the
world would like most to be rid of are
never the ones who get mixed up in
those tunnel accidents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

How would it do for the nations, be-
fore further increasing their navies,
to have a few of the rocks dug out
of the oceans, so the boats will have
room?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Lawrence, Kas., had wind storm
the other day that made some of the
old settlers think for the moment that
Quantrell had come again.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

If a man will only keep on making
love to a woman after he has married
her they can keep on fooling them
selves indefinitely.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

There is man at Laurel, l. l., who
claims that in the sixty years of his
life he has eaten $1,000 pancakes.
Some people don't seem to have any
sense of shame.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

California regrets to report that she
has not prunes enough this year to
create trouble in even the Hungarian
diet.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Literary people should live as near
as possible to nature without getting
too far away from the publishers
Puck
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

1t would be well worth going many
miles to see Mr.. Jeffries and good
swift red devil collide head-on-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Prof. Langley should not be discour-
aged. If his machine will not fly per-
haps it will be a success as a sub
marine boat.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Live shells were fired at a French
warship without any apparent effect
upon it, However, Dewey's men were
not behind the guns.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Perhaps if they had allowed Mr..
Corbett to take an ak into the ring
with him the result might have been
different.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

81 sleep like a babe" says Coroett-
What poetic language these HARDEST
ed fighters use!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

A Chicago professor has undertaken
the task of writing six large books
about money. That's his scheme for
getting money.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Thomas Cooksey Ward, THE Sage
of Maryland" is dead at the age of
Ill 1T takes a sage to reach that age.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Apparently Mount Vesuvius' grudge
against the existing order of things
is deep and lasting
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

The new college of journalism is
primarily intended, however, to pro-
duce newspaper men-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Jamaica should be a good market
for cyclone cellars during the next few
months.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Sultan Dosoon should lave his name
changed to TOOsoon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-09-05

Geronimo probably has confessed
that he was an old chief of sinners