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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
Duty on Coal.

The coal duty is the very oldest of
the protective measures on the stat
ute books of this country. The origi-
nal tariff act of 1889 imposed a duty
upon coal of every kind and quality,
and there has never been time until
now when bituminous coal entered the
country free of duty. The need for
protection in the East and Middle
West has long gone by, SO there was
not a coal operator in any of the sec
lions now suffering from the coal
shortage who interposed the slightest
objection to the repeal of a duty which
was meaningless to him. The tariff
did protect an industry in the state
of Washington. Its removal is a
heavy blow to this state, and the worst
of 1.-THE really irritating points
that the action of Congress will be
absolutely without any benefit to the
coal consumers in whose interests it
was ostensib1y taken--Seattle Post
Intelligencer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
The WhaIers of New Bedford,
Simple HeroEsna of the Men Who Down the Sea IL
Shios-Flazardous Exploits That Seem Common
place to Those Who Undertake Them

made boat journey in Hudson bay as
remarkable as the journey of DR..
Kane, and he had nothing to say ex-
cept that it was four weeks and five
days from the time he left his ship in
a whaleboat with two comrades until
he reached a fur station. In answer to
persistent questioning reporter
dragged from him that it was hard
work." and a, shipmate spoke up for
the adventurer and explained to a re-
porter that there was not a minute of
those five weeks, night or day, when
the little boat was not -lenaced by the
floating ice which piled up about them
on occasions as high as the church
steeples. And against Nansen's per-
Torrance we can produce a whaleman
who put half a dozen pieces of hard
bread in his pocket and, in midwinter,
left his ship in the Arctic, in latitude
IS or Whereabouts, and walked 1900
miles back to civilization. And to
save him he couldn't understand why
the reporters wanted to talk with
him. He didn't see why he was an
object of interest.
Hence it is our habit to say, often
in the spirit of criticism or at least
regret, that our whaleman is not I'M
aginative.''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
First Fruits.

The alleged course of the beet
sugar manufacturers makes the con-
test a straight issue between the con-
solidated sugar trust on the one hand
and the cane sugar producers of the
South and the sugar beet producers
of the North on the other hand. 1t
may be quite as well that it should
come in that way. What the deal
means is, as we showed recently, a
straight reduction to begin with of
so cents a ton on sugar beets. This
reduction the sugar makers are pro-
posing in all the states in their con-
tracts for next year. 1t is the first
fruits of fake reciprocity. AS in all
similar cases the farmer is the vic
does not maintain a lobby at Wash
ington. His is the one interest which
politicians extol and glorify when
running for Office, and which they
sacrifice without mercy or delay when
elected. The question is now square
ly up to the President and Senate.
Will they or will they not repudiate
and violate the pledges of the Repub-
lican party to the American farmer?
If they do, the American farmer is a
fool if he ever trusts them again. But
the Senators from the sugar produc-
ing states will be expected to stand
together and insist that this Cuban
conspiracy shall not succeed.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
The Cause of brain Fag,"
Some Good Advice for Chronic Sufferers from Disease
That Seems TO Have recollection for Those Who
Have No Particular Brains to Faes

The San Francisco News Letter
doesn't believe in brain flag. 1t ex-
ploits the so-called disease in a man
ner altogether its own; a manner
made popular by the distinguished edi-
tor of that coast publication, Freder-
lex Marriott. This publication in ques-
ton has never yet been afraid to say
what it meant, and it's conclusions on
any subject are worth attention, If
only to catch fresh point of view.
Brain flag is a frequent subject of
discussion. Here at the East we fire.
quently hear of citizens falling by the
wayside because they are beset By
this iEsidious difficulty, and this is
the more apparent, the careful OBJ
server believes, among those who have
no particular brains to fag- The source
of the prevalent complaints about the
spread of this disease-we find them
chiefly in religious papers and in nam
by-pamby society journals-plainly
suggests the question whether the re-
cent discovery of the hookwOrm, as
the bacillus of laziness is called, has
not some connection with this sudden
epidemic of brain fag The brain is a
most reasonable as well as a reason
ing organ. Its habit is to give exceed
ingly little trouble. The eye, the
stomach, even the useful hand, is a
poor and troublesome instrument COM
pared with the brain. Nobody knows
just how the brain does it's work, but
ordinarily it goes on doing it without
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25

of rural carriers the regular carrier
after his appointment has the right to
name a substitute, who is to do his
work when the carrier is sick or inca
pacitated for work Generally the
carrier appoints some member of his
family, as he has to supply his horse
and wagon for the service, and of late
the carriers have been naming their
wives, sisters or daughters and some
times their mothers as their substi-
tutes. The department has found that
these substitutes have performed good
work, and that their sex has not inter-
fered with the rural delivery, so when
a woman is named now as substitute
she is accepted.
The department officials say that
women make very good rural carriers.
and they do not lose time gossiping
when delivering the mail as one would
suppose, and that the innate love of
gadding about and visiting their
friends to see what is going on makes
the female like the work and forget
the drudgery and hardships incident
to a daily drive of twenty. thirty or
even more miles in all sorts of
weather.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25

any fuss whatever. Now and then, to
great disturbance. Its plant of agony
on such. occasions is heard through
the whole system. But the chances
are that it is merely fighting some
other organs battle-the stomach's,
probably, or very likely the liver, or it
may be that cold feet have sent an IN
due flow of blood to the head. AS to
becoming brain tagged" it is ex
timely rare that the hardest work
tires the Drain out The seat of the
trouble is not there. The brain grows
brighter by work. 1t was made for
toll. 1t works while we sleep, and
does not seem to mind that. Nine
times out of ten those who think they
have tired brains simply have tired
consciences, or much more cuStomar-
lily, weary and sadly overworked stom-
achs. Or else they have those same
redoubtable and pestiferous germs,
the hookworms of laziness. The very
excellent Mail and Express of New
York recently found that the hook
worm had seized upon all too many
of it's staff, and it set about apply ing
a cure 1t gives the following recipe:
Take a large dose of determination
every morning, fortified with a cold
bath on rising, and followed up by an
hourly dose of persistence" 1t guar
antees that this will dissipate brain
flag as the rays of the summer sun
scatter the dew. Try it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
Women Who Garry the Mail
Many of Them Are Doing Good Work Rural Free De-
Every-Lose Little Time Gossipine and Are
Valued by the PostoHice Department.

Within the last few months the
women of the country districts of the
United States have found a new occu-
patton in the government service.
Some hundreds of them all over the
country have been appointed rural let
ter carriers, and the reports to the de-
partment show that the women have
done wonderfully well in their new
occupation.
Indeed, only a few days ago Supt.
Machen of the Free Delivery Division
of the Postoffice department received
reports that a number of his female
rural carriers brayed the severe biz
yards in the West, and while acting as
substitutes for the men carriers made
the daily deliveries in the deep snow
and sleet of the blizzard in a most
remarkable and satisfactory manner.
There are at present no less than
thirty-seven female rural letter car
riers, that is, thirty women who
have stood the civil service examina-
lions and passed so well that they ex-
celled the male candidates and have
been appointed regular rural carriers.
not substitutes.
Under the rules for the appointment
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
More and Less.

From the Montreal Correspondents
of the New York Journal of Commerce
it appears that a movement for tariff
revision is on foot in Canada In
this case, however, it is proposed
that as a means of enhancing pros
perity the tariff shall be revised up
ward South of the border it is pro-
posed to revise the tariff downward,
because we are too prosperous. Can
ada suffers from too much potential
competition, while, according to Gov
Cummins and others of his way of
thinking, the United States suffers
from too little of the same So there
you are. Canada wants to grow rich
er by doing more of her own work.
while some people seem to want the
United States to grow poorer by do
ing less Of It,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
What Causes Prosperity.

Republican policy has not caused
the rain or sunshine, but it has sup
piled and protected the market open
to the things the rain and the sun
shine have brought forth. Nature has
given the land, and with all it's latent
possibilities, but the land would be
going to waste if there were no marts
for that it yields. Industry has been
stimulated from the certainty that its
efforts would not be for naught. A
glance back at the awful times of the
early nineties will recall to mind that
then the acres were as fruitful, and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25

already the state department has
been advised by our foreign represen-
tatives of the displeasure with which
the reciprocity program as laid out up
to date has been received in European
cabinets. Would it not be well for the
Senators to ask for information and
call for correspondence along this
line? 1t would seem that the Senate
ought to be in possession of such vital
information before taking final action
on any reciprocity treaty whatever
American Economist
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25

Willie had been particularly i'm
pressed with that part of the cate
chism which recounted the things
which his sponsors in baptism had
promised and vowed in his name"
So when the grandmother said sweet
":
willie, dear, won't you have some
aevfled ham," he looked at her stern
" and replied:
mo, grandma You know I have
renowned the devil and all his
works"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25

the hand of toll as calloused by hon
est endeavOr. There was the rain
and the sunshine. Harvest followed
seed time. Yet the looms were silent
because none had the means to pur-
chase. To gather the crops was flu
tile, for none would buy The coun-
try was poor because of the artificial
and unwholesome financial atmos-
phere, and this atmosphere was the
expression of Democratic faith put
into works.-Tacoma Ledger.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
Cause for Thankfulness.

Lieut.-Col- R. H. Pratt, who recent
1y resigned from the dictatorship of
the Carlisle Indian school, once slept
in a tent with eight young men, all
of whom snored. Col. Pratt listened
in disgust to the medley of gurgles,
grunts and means In this horrible
chorus each participants snore could
be distinctly heard, for each had in
it something characteristic and UNIQUE.
Col. Pratt writhed and fretted. A man
on his left snored nervously, with a
kind of huttering, wavering accent.
His was perhaps the most unbearable
snore of all. Suddenly the snore
ceased-its producer snorted and then
lay very quiet.
Thank heaven" murmured Col
Pratt, lone is dead
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25

John Mccartney, a 16-year-old,
work-weary lad, employed by a dairy
man, living in Baltimore, shot and
killed himself IN his employers home
Monday This note was found on a
bureau: Il am to die like a dog
would, but l am better on dead.
DO nothing but work"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
TOO Much for the Jockey.


James r. Keene, anticipating the
opening of a new racing season, went
outside his own wide experience as
an employer of jockeys when he re-
lated a story concerning an over
anxious horsepower and a particular
ly conscientious rider. The horse
owner had issued full orders as tc
the way horse was to be ridden in
a coming race to a small negro boy.
the only. rider he could secure. The
original orders then were added to,
with provisions for all sorts of emer-
gencies. until the jockey became be-
wildered.
Look yere. boss" the boy broke
in at last Dis yere race is only one
mile I KANT do all you done told
me in just one mile-'-New York
Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
First Indication.

Young Wife-Pm afraid Jack does
not love me as he formerly did
Her Mother-What reason have
you for thinking so, dear?.
Young Wife-He is beginning to
read the paper every morning while
at breakfast
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
Not the Only Attraction,

Wife during the quarreD-Yes, and
people say you only married me for
my money
Husband-People are wrong, my
dear. They overlook the fact that you
also had considerable real estate
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11
CHAPTER II.

The ma ior's daughter was coming
down the steep white road that wound
along the cliffs from Ballinahow to
Cookstown, and as she came she paused
every now and then to snatch a tall
spike of purple heather from the road
side, or to stand quite still to gaze out
over the sea. and say to her companion.
a tail, elderly man with the face of a
foreigner, Nov you must allow, sgnor.
that there is no country in the world like
Ireland"
The majors daughter was very grand
lady, who lived in a fiat in London and
wrote songs and little operettas-music
mad, her father called her-but every
summer found her for a month or two
at the big white house among the trees
Just outside CookstOwn, where she had
passed her girlhood.
And she generally brought back with
her one or two of her musical friends
fiddlers and pianists and singers-men
and women VINO drove the major half
wild with their queer ways, and who
practiced assiduously in the drawing
room after dinner when he wanted 10 20
TO sleep. Still, he had to submit, for as
soon as Miss Maude entered the major g
household she took the reins of govern
ment into her own fair hands, and the
major and his son. Beverly, sank imme-
diately into insignificance
This year her only visitor was the
signor, a man who was said to be the
greatest singing master in Europe; he
was certainly the greatest in London,
bue like most of Maude's friends, be was
an eTatic genius, and you never could
depend on him for more than two min
utes at a>time. However. the major felt
that he was, at any rate, better than
the vioinist they had had the year be-
fore, who had insisted on moonlight pic
MICS, and whom he had ultimately dis
covered flirting desperately with the
dairymaid in the cowshed.
Next time" he had iniunctioned his
daughter, bring one who is less impress
sionable and romantic. The last was too
young for this house"
So she had selected the signor, who
was not at all young, and who did not
know even the rudiments Of Irritation.
He was ready TO agree with her that
Ireland was a beautiful country, but
not like Italy, signorina. All, no! you
should see Flortnce!"
Aiaude, however, was obstinate in hel
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11
Cleo de Merode Invents a Dance.

Nile. Cleo de Merode, professional
beauty and ballerina, formerly of The
Paris Opera troupe, has invented new
dance. We are not yet TO know what il
will be. All Nile. de Merode will saw
is that it will not be like the cakewaIk.
1t is refreshing to find somebody in Paris
who is not in love with the cakewalk
Mile. Cleo hates it, and rightly thinks il
grotesque, coarse and silly. In fact. her
idea in inventing a new dance has. 10 n
great extent. been 10 kill, if possible the
cakewalk craze, which has lasted for n
year and still RACES Mile. de Merode il
also tired of the old-time ballet rtep and
attitudes which she practiced for many
seasons on the opera stage In her new
dance, accordingly. she will reject the
tiptOe pirOuettes Of Italian ballerjne. az
we'll as the wild knee-to-chin lurchiue and
the back filings of niger walkers. She
will aim, in her own words. al grace
and vOluptuousness." No more will che
reveal Of her dance. II is TO be seen on
one of the many small stages Of Paris.
Report says that half dozen well known
composers have already requested the
privilege Of writing music for Mile DO
Merode.-Paris Corr. Of London Tele.
graph.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11

did not go out to see the surrender
Of General Lee. remember wei the
event Of Genera Grants return after
the surrender ! think there were not
more than three persons present when
the general came In and took q seat
at a table 10 write. He looked up with
some expression Of animation, and re.
marked;
More of Grants luck"
This was nh aIlusion TO the l., VS.
paper critics who had been In the
habit Of calling his success luck.
This little comment on the surrender
Of Lee was the only word Of rxulta.
ton ! ever heard from the victorious
soldier.
1t was very slight expression Of
triumph to follow such a stupendoui
aclicvemeut--but wholly characters
tic.-Thc National Magazine.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11
Long Miles of Ginaham.

Some conception Of the rate Of produc.
ton of the ginghams, sheetings and 9th.
er textiles for which Manchester, n. H..
is famous, may perhaps be gained by an
illustration. says Albert S. Clough In the
National Magazine If the OUTPUT Of its
factories were sewed together. as pro.
duced, into a single continuous piere
and IFS end were attached 10 the stern
OF a departing ten-day transatlantic
liner Manchester's busy looms ana
spndles and its $4,000 skilled operatives
could pay out the cloth as fast as
called for.
Manchester could make a cotton cir.
die 10 encircle the earth at the equator
which Jules Verne imagined as requisite
for his traveller to circumnavigate il.
Its daily output is $50 miles.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11

Ernie hear that Emily went 10
college and made her mark
Ethel-Ycs. and Helen went abruad
and found her mark
ErnIe-Found her mark?
Ethel-Yes; an easy mark.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11

During its stay the scientific expe-
dition TO the Bahama islands uzder the
patronage Of the Geographical society Of
Baltimore, will give considerable atten-
ton 10 the verihcation Of the claim that
Waiting island Is the San Salvador
where Columbus first landed.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11

The best grades Of Cuban tobacco
have less than 2 per cent of nicotin.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11

belief that Florence vas only secord n
c"der TO Ballinahow, and a quarrel was
lmWinent-for they were both hot-tenl-
pered-wheH the silence of the summer
afternoon was suddenly broken by the
sound 81 voice rising up from the
boreen on their right
It was girls voice, true and clear as
a lark's. and infinitely sweet and tender.
She was singing one of the old ballads,
ana although some OF the words We're as
Greek to the sisnor, the expression of her
voice told him Of what she sang.
He listened like one entranced, and
Maude paused also in the midst of her
argument, lightly humming the refrain
TO herself.
Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-07-11

Husband (angrily)-I never saw a
woman as hard to please as you are.
Wife tealmly)-My dear. you forget
hat l married Chicago Daily
News
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-16

"'Comin' down the valley with some
kyars behind it. Yo've bin BLOWN
and braggin all the spring, and yer
jest feelin' that yo've got to whop sun
thin or die Git down on the track
and turn yerself loose
"I'll do it, pop, and if | don't take
seven different twists in this ole rail
road then I'll never look another wood
chuck in the face
What figgered on said Zeb as he
heaved a long sigh, was that Joe
would hev sense huff in his head to
git off the track when he seen what
the bullgine was. He hadn't, though.
He stood thar and jumped up ana
down and cracked his heels together
and whooped and when I hollered at
him he turns to me and SEE:
"'Pop, yo' jest watch my smoke and
don't loose any of the fun. Yer boy
Joe are gwine to pull this railroad up
by the roots or perish in the attempt. :
"And he did wait for the engine to
strike him?'' l asked.
eyes, Jest waited right thar, prancin'
around and whoopin'," replied Zeb. Il
started fur him, but befo' [ got thar
the bullgine struck him, and he went
sailin' over the bushes. Feared to me
he never would git done sailin', but
bimeby he cum down with crash.
When I looked him over, / found he
was all broke to pieces. | was liftin'
him up when he open his eyes and
smiles and SEE:
"'Pop. did tackle the railroadY
ago did, my son. seq l.
"And thar was a fout?'
"'Thar was.
"'And which got whopped?
GAS he was a-dyin' and | didn't want
to hurt bis feelin's I told him that he
had licked the hull outfit and kivered
the family with glory. He lifted up
one hand and tried to whoOp, but that
whoop was only whisper and he died
in my arms
"Then he never knew how it wasp
"Never knowed it, sab. Jest went to
his death thinkin' he had twisted that
railroad clean over two mountings and
back ag'in and that he weighed a ton
or more'n any other critter in Tennes-
see.
"Poor Joe. If I'd a-gone at it and
driv' him. about two feet into the airth
when the cussedness fust got holt of
him, he bin Twin and humble man
today, but l let him tackle a railroad,
and he got busted all 60 squash"
NJ. QUAD.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-05-16
BRAIN-FOOD NONSENSE.

Another ridiculous food fad has been
branded by the mosr competent authorities.
They have dispelled the silly notion that
one kind of food is needed for brain, an
other for muscles, and still another for
bones. correct diet will hot only nourish
particular part of the body, but it will
sustain every other part. Yet, however
good your food may be, it's nutr1ment is des-
troyed by indigestion or dyspepsia You
must prepare for their appearance or pre-
vent their coming by taking regular doses
of Green's August Flower, the favorite
medicine of the healthy millions. A few
doses aids digestion, stimulates the liver to
healthy action, purifes the blood, and
makes you feel buoyant and vigorous. You
can get this reliable remedy at all drug
giStS. Price Csc and 75C.