Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-04-25
MY PAsTIME.
MY SHADOW

MY Shadow talks with me;
Sometimes to praise. more oft to chide.
More often yet restrains
My Shadow ne'er refrains-
And 1 can hear unspoken words.
A still small voice is ever heard
My Shadow speaks AWAY
My Shadow is nv very self,
My SORROWS. veal or woe,
The vanished faces, fading forms,
OF loved ones here below
They speak in visions of the night.
In tones of long ago.
They beckon the realms of light
Why should linger sol
When to My Soul the message sings
That Time no more shall be
And fly away with me-
So
/ saw COPY of our sheriff the other
day-nOt an exact copy, only parody.
being little younger, taller and less
bulky than our Tom. The mans
Cove county.
Down at Topeka, Porter Lair has
Just been divorced from Texas Lair.
Knowing her name he should have
been more cautious in the first place.
They have James Shocks down at
the state capital but 1 believe lie is
not a doctor.
There is nothing made in vain. In
some western cities the Salvation
Army has taken to street cleaning,
physically as well as morally, and they
make a success of it. Now let the
army tackle the good roads question.
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Dovou know what kind of wood is
used in making SpOolS? 1t is white
birch. Millions of them are made in
the Maine woods every year. Other
millions of picks, skewers, checkers,
games, boxes and wooden toys are
made there.
Solomon SAID that the bowerer is
servant to the lender but he probably
had in mind the lender of money only
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Nine young men who took part in a
prolonged charivari, lasting five
nights, near Winchester, Kans., re-
Gently, were arrested and fined 81. &C
each for disturbing the peace Too
cheap.
Now and then we meet a man who
looks as if he never had a bath in all
his life and yet he still lives and seems
to enjoy it. Perhaps it is just as well
to let him go on that. way. The sud-
den shock of a raShly enforced ablu-
tion might prove fatal and / never
did relish the idea of taking human
life upon any pretext whatever.
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We went out to the farm again just
before Easter. 1t was fairly raining
eggs out there that day and while no
one was watching me L swiped few
for home consumption.
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Do you know that drift of thistles
in high wind will tear down fence
like rise in the creek? 1t might be
well to take the bounty from John
Rabbit Esq. and give it to Mr.. Il. Rus
sian tor a while.
We folks who live up on HEM ave-
nue. are not making much garden this
spring but the little we have planted
is coming up rapidly all right, all
right. It's great pleasure to watch
seeds come up right to the scratch
dering off on the wind like thistle
down.
Almost any fool knows that April
first is his day but one of our enter
priSing merchants has selected an I'M
known date in that month on which
it will pay you to do a little fooling
with him. Any thing you buy of him
on that dav costs you nothing. All
goods in any quantity are free as
water.
If you are looking for them you NAV
find some bright spots in the most
forbidding of prospects. 1 once pass
ed country home, surrounded bv
discarded machinery, broken-down We
hicleS and delapidated fences, all
wearing the air OF desolation. The
house was tumble-down ..soddy" but
the south window was blaze OF
glory-fuil of blooming plants The
bright coiOrS, mingled with dark
foliage, formed the one redeeminp
feature of the whole dismal, wintry
view
The most ''work brickle. man ]
have ever heard of has lived more
than century and he complains that
lac was forced to give up active labor
at the early age of 50. He is great
smoker and attributes his longevity.
In part, to the fact that lie ALWAYS
kept his pipe clean If there is any