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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
In the Little Old Toqun.

o, this was long and long ago-a boy
would trudge the street,
And swing a bell in unison with what
he would repeat.
Somebody had auction sale of stock
or household wares;
The boy would warn the town of it, de-
lighted with the stares
And curiosity he reused when he went
changing by,
The bell faithful second to his echo
raising cry
''Auctioni Auction,''
Barefooted, Tapping trousered. not care
upon his heart;
Contented with the world he knew; con-
tented with his part;
He loitered by the orchard where the
bees sought out the bruise
That told them of the apple with the
honey juice to lose;
He shouted to the meadows where the
birds went sailing by,
And heard the dreaming forests wake
and send him back his cry:
Auctioni Auction"
o, that was long and long ago-but still
to-day
The glory of the sunset on the boy that
used to be;
And down the distance of the years the
echoes family swell
And bring mellow murnur of his shout
ings and his bell.
Why did We auction off the wares We
long to-day to hold?
why d1dswe sell the happiness we did not
know was gold?
What is it comes rose scented from the
days that have gone by
Upon the bosom of the breath that bears
the boyish cry?
"Auctioni Auctioni"
W. ID. N, in Chicago Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
WITH THE
vErEDAlM

such an abundance of army fare as
we had never seen before.
Hams, in the army, were reserved
for officers, and it seemed incredible
that Gen. Smith could be inviting us
to help ourselves from that pile But
as the thousands of men marched up
in order and filled their haversacks
with the toothsome hard tack, the
more tOothsome because of the MEM
DRY OF sinkers, or fiapjacks, our regi-
ment passed the pile of hams, and one
daring private thrust his bayonet into
one of the largest and carried it OF
at right shoulder shift Another did
the same and another, and there sat
Gen. Smith on his horse smiling in
diligently, if not approvingly. So it
came about that many of us ate more
than was good for us. I was sick as
horse, and my stomach has never
been right since. 1 have always in
sisted that 1 was hurt worse at West
Point than 1 was at Stone River, where
bullet went through my right arm"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Set Webster Down.

The story is told of. DR.. Bacon, a
New England divine of an earlier cen
fury, who was reproached with a pro
nunciatiOn that was not ACCORDING
to Webster" Webster lived in his
parish, therefore DR.. Bacon thus de
livered himself: What right has
Webster to mistake my pronuncia-
ton? He is one of my parfshioners
and he ought to get his pronunciation
from me, not from him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Old soldiers severest Wound.

81 got my worst hurt" said cor
poral, "at West Point, KY. We had
been marching on half rations and
sinkers for nearly a month in Septem-
Der. 1862, and were worn out, ragged,
and starved, when one afternoon a
glorious vision burst upon u.s. Com
ing out of q stretch of woodland we
looked across a grassy plain where
were piled as high as houses all the
articles in the soldiers menu. Here
were great stacks of hams, there other
stacks of shoulders and baco1- Just
beyond were boxes of crackers corded
into solid masses twenty feet high,
and spreading out into lines like great
Notifications. and still beyond the Ohio
river, wherein Gen. Bragg had said he
would water his horse
This was the scene that met the
eyes of Buell's hungry men as they
came, without warning, upon it. There
had been great depression among us
that day, because we felt that we must
fight Bragg on empty stomachs. But
somebody had planned better than we
thought possible, and here was plenty.
Officers and men were hilarious at
once. Even the dignIfied Gen. William
Sooy Smith, then commanding
our division, rode down to US at gal
lop to assure us there was plenty for
al and invite us to help ourselves We
could scarcely believe our eyes or
ears. but there right before us was
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Horses Made Deaf by Lightning.

few weeks ago the barn of
Walled Lake (Mich.) farmer was
struck by lightning. A team of horses
were in the building at the time and
ever since then they have been stone
deaf. Their owner is obliged to drive
them with open brides, flourish the
whip when he wants them to go and
pull on the lines when he wants them
to stop. They are utterly irresponsible
to the old words of command, even
when shouted at the top of their own
er's voice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Bows FOUGHT in the War.

Pension Commissioner Ware said re-
Gently, in speaking of the civil war,
that the army of that great struggle
was composed chiefly of young men,
This was known in a general way, of
course, but we doubt If many have a
definite knowledge of just how young
the boys were who fought in that war.
p. H Cooney of Topeka sends the fol-
lowing as taken from the Official rec
ords of the adjutant generals depart
ment at Washington, the figures being
of the enlisted men in the army OF the
north:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
THE BEEcHER OF RUSSIA.

Greek Priest Is Colossal Power in
the Great Empire.
The most powerful moral force in
Russia, greater far than Tolstoi, is a
priest named Petroff, who has been
called the Henry Ward Beecher of
the Muscovite empire. He represents
an entirely new element in the reli-
gious force of Russia, for the tremend-
ously powerful organization of the
Orthodox Greek church has never
gone out of it's buildings to come to
the people, but behind the all-powerful
barrier of conservatism and churchly
power has had little in common except
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Little Mac" at Antietar.


The New York Times of a recent
date contained the following commu-
nication:
Was Gen. George B. Mcclellan in
command at Antietom? A bet de-
ponds on the answer. A certain para
doxologist maintains that he was not
and that Gen. Hooker was Possibly
IN some quibbling sort of way there
may be sort of plausible foundation
for this extraordinary contradiction
of what most people consider a thor
oughly established historical fact
believe that Gen. Mcclellan himself
complained of his underlined status
and that had he failed his very life
might have been in danger on q
charge of treason.
AS 1 understand it, when most of
the Army of the Potomac was de-
tailed to report to Pope, the Fifth
corps alone being in time to reach
him before the disaster of the second
Bull Run. and Mcclellan was left in
the air, as it were, the frightful rout
under the man who dated his letters
from headquarters in the saddle
compelled McClellan's enemies in
Washington to turn to him for rescue,
and ne was officially placed in charge
of the defenses of Washington. When
Lee invaded Maryland Mcclellan de-
tended Washington by getting after
him hotfoot-hotfoo+, literally, for the
infantry were barefoot, or next to it,
at Antietam-and reorganized the
Army of the Potomac (Which he had
originally organized) on the march,
and put the spirit in them which drove
Lee from South Mountain and back
into Virginia. When he rode past
our marching columns in the early
morning of Sept. IA, 1862, the cheer
ing rolled for miles along his route.
The picture in the aldermanic COM
mittee room in the city hall is really
a good representation of him as he
then rode past us, hating here and
there for few CHEEKY words. Wheth-
er he was de jure commander or not,
he assuredly was de facto, and was
subsequently officially accepted as
He fought South Mountain and Antie-
tam. His reports as commander were
received and are part of the national
archives, and have been so published
under congressional authority.
Hooker was a corps commanded
and fought like La Tour d'Auvergne
as he always did, but in commando
How could he be, with seniors unre-
lieved on the field? A further state
ment that Hooker did all the fighting
IS almost too ridiculous to notice. As
a matter of fact, the heaviest sufferers
and the most successful fighters, who
drove the enemy two miles, were the
men of Summers Second corps.
w. L. D. O'GRADY,
Captain late Eighty-eighth New York
(Meagher's Irish Brigade).
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Saturday, Wedding Day.

Saturday is to be the fashionable
day for weddings this season. Here
tofore the last day of the week has
been eschewed by Brides but Dame
Fashion has dictated a new order of
things. and every autumn and winter
bride to be derigueur must be married
on Saturday
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Tree Within a Tree.

At Moulton, South Lincolnshire. Enc
there is willow tree which. in
consequence of having been beheadef
and having reached an old age, has be-
come hollow and rotten From q seed
which has dropped into the hollow 4
healthy sycamore tree has grown 20
. height Of ten feet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Robert Louis stexenson,s Books,

Lieut. w. E. Stafford, recently of
the navy, now of the agricultural de-
partment, has about 200 books that
used to belong to Robert Louis Steven
son, among them the Bible of Steven
sons good old Scotch father. He
bought them in Samoa and took them
with him to Guam and Manila.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

The goods of the Northwestern uni
versity of Chicago have been for
hidden to whistles perhaps because
when they got their lips pursed up in
the preparatory quicker they looked
just too tempting for their fellow stu
dents to resist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Pax Americana.

We love to sing of the old Kearsarge,
And the famous fighting crew.
How they won the day on the BLOODY
deck
While high above the splintered wreck
The brave old ensign flew.
But what of the race of the new Kea--
sarge?
No lesser laurels these
With never check. through billow anc
foam,
Her griny fremen drive her home.
Peace-keeper of the seas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
His Preference for America.

William StoIl, young German of
Milwaukee, who three years ago left
that city for the purpose of serving
his three years term in the Germany
army, has just returned to the cream
city. Within twenty-four hours after
the close of his allotted term of serv-
ice Ston was on board a steamer
booked for his adopted country.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
NS. 6LACHSZCHY

has just become known in England.
The first and only woman drummer in
the British isles is Mrs. Blackston,
who travels for a wicker and cane fur
niture house of London. She has been
on the road since January last, and is
said to be flooding ner house with or
derS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

master stroke of sagacity and fore
sight that led the Alaskan boundary
commissioners to hold the speech
making dinners and the display of
Anglo-American alliance enthusiasm
before the award instead or after it
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Football cannot be as bloody a pas
time as some persons think it is. Ere
quently you hear of the players STOP
ping a game in order to indulge in a
real fight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Immense Potatoes

H W. Brooks of South Wheelock.
Vt, bears the palm for large potatoes
so far in that vicinity, having two
potatoes which weighed nine pounds.
one that weighed four pounds and
three that weighed Is pounds.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Record for Potato Pickino.

At Sprague Mills, in Aroostook conn
ty, le-, the best record for picking
potatoes is reported by young
woman and her two daughters. who
picked in one day SEQ barrels. besides
doing the houseworF
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

President Castro of Venezuela finds
that wars may be threatened in the
Balkans and the far East and be put
OF from day to day for months and
perhaps for years, but where he is the
revolutions go on forever.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

AS football coaches have reached
the conclusion that too close applica-
ton to the game makes the players
stale, some of the men are said to be
finding an hour or two a day to de-
vote to their studies.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

! The Standard Oil Company has be-
gun to operate in Japan. This settles
it. The japanese needn't be afraid
tnat Russia will get them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Another insanltary feature of sleep
ing car life which the doctors over
looked is the dangerous practice of
descending from the upper berth by
the stepladder when the stepladder
is not there.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Greater New York has a population
of nearly 100000. In that number of
people Col. Watterson believes that
there ought to be more than "400''
worth speaking to.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Sir Thomas Upton failed to carry
any. substantial reward back with
him but that other great promoter of
Anglo-Saxon amity, Sir Henry Irving.
may be relied on to even up the
score.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Sometimes the man who proudly
wears a campaign button in his coat
lapel has to fasten his suspender with
a nail.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

A woman never marries her first
love unless she is quite sure that he Is
also her last.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

With the battleship Missouri and
the Missouri mule, what nation car
beat us at the game of war?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
EAT NO FLESH OF ANIMALS.

Members Of Philadelphia Church Are
All vegetarians-
vegetarianism is painted on the
banner under which hundreds of PEG
pie in Philadelphia, Pa. now stand. A
great wave of this cult is now sweep
ing the city.
Mans food becomes his mind
might be considered the creed of this
popular Philadelphia cult, whose fol-
lowers are so impressed with the bene-
fits derived from a 6iet without meat
that they have banded themselves to-
gether, founded church, the only one
of it's kind in the United States, and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

One game of football makes more
work for the hospital than all of the
army maneuvers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

A man can find fault and lose his
temper simultaneously, thus demon
strating his ability to do two things
at once.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

The man who started the Mary Arir
question is named Warbeck, and he
lives in Jersey City. Now go for him
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

To a man up in a balloon it mus
look as though the air were clogge'
with flying machines.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Moving as fast as he does Dan
Patch finds it easy to do an important
days work in considerably less than
two minutes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Lord Butte has just married prett.
actress, who is now presumably yer
liable Butte.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Jealousy is a s1eight-of-hand arts
which easily turns the most 1nnocen
actions into suspicious ones.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

A Kansas farmer is authority for
the statement that a full-grown and
able-bodied cyclone will lift every
thing on the place except the mort
gage.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

A Philadelphia pup the other day
mistook a stick of dynamite for a
bone. He succeeded in making Phila-
delphia wide awake for second or
two.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

]. H. Brown of Gambia, N H, re-
Gently gathered on this premises ripe
raspberries, strawberry and apple
blossoms and pond lily buds
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

In the growth of a son mother
loses ever SO many children. Every
step in his progress represents some
thing she has lost.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Lieut.. Peary might convince Sir
Thomas Upton that it is easier to
lift the pole than it is to lift the cup,
and seek no further for means of
financing his expedition.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Three Thousand Years Old
A highly finished sun chariot late
IL found in a moor of Seeland in Dem
mark is thought to be at least 5000
years old
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

2 The powers of Europe are evident
ly preparing for a grand concert, at
which the menu served after the per-
Torrance will be Turkey.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

A woman who throws herself at {
mans head usually fails to ain
straight.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
H. s. GTvLER. Pub.

There isn't any fun in kissing when
the wires are burned out.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Patti is here on farewell trip
that means farewell to our dollars, at
least
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

The barber who committed suicide
with bay rum certainly stuck to his
last
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

Little Willie declares that the tan
that won't come off, is the rattan
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21
Total men enlisted. .

At the present time. upon the same
basis, there are in the United States
subject to service 10.343, 152 soldiers
Kansas City Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1903-11-21

English Woman "Drummer."
The woman commercial traveller, al
most common in the United States,
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-16
CASEY MAY SOON HAVE TO
RESIGN OFFICE IN UNION
New Law Is Passed Requiring That
Every Officer Be a Working Mem
ber of His Organization.
IEH~
&d dzSi issso
%iKe1S

A new law has been recently passed
by the International Brotherhood of
Teamsters requiring that every man
that holds an Office in any branch of
the Teamsters' Union must be a work
ing member. This means that if the
new law is put into effect in this city
Michael Casey, president of the local
teamsters' organization, will have to
resign, as he is no longer a working
teamster. but political office holder.
The local teamsters are opposed TO
this new law and all of them are loyal
TO Casey and want him TO remain as
head of the organization. They will de-
fer action till next July, when the in
ternational brotherhood holds another
session. Five delegates will be sent
from the union in this city and they
will endeavor to have the new law re-
pealed.
The Iron Trades Council of this city
has received advices from Stockton to
the effect that thirty-five union black
smiths of that city have been locked
out by prominent firms. The council
will confer with the firms with the OBJ
ject of reinstating the men and if they
cannot accomplish the result in this
way a strike may result.
The San Francisco call., 1903-12-16
ADVERTISEMENT.
DO NOT WEAR A LONG FACE.
1t Is a Great Handicap i'm All Busi-
ness and Social Relations.

ness and Social Relations.
The man who looks as if he had lost
his last friend is in no danger Of being
crushed by the jam OF new ones un-
less he cheers up" People are not
going ont OF their way nowadays to
associate with the man OF mOurnful and
melancholy appearance. They are
afraid he viii tell them his troubles
and they steer clear Of him, as they all
have plenty Of their own.
The most universal cause OF the for
lorn and hopeless appearance to-day is
dyspepsia. II units a man for every
duty OF life and causes him to become
respondent and gloomy and necessarily
his looks do not belle his feelings. He
appears cast down and detected and
becomes a burden to himself and hu-
manity in general
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are the
dyspeptic's certain relief. They do the
work that his stomach is unable to
do and by relieving that organ Of its
burdens permit it to regain its health
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tain all the essential ingredients that
enter into the digestive fluids and Sc
cretions Of the stomach and they act
ually take I'D the work and do it just
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BY this means a man can go right
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70 keep him in proper working cOndi-
tiOn. His system Is not deprived Of
its necessary nOurishment as IL Is in
the case OF the starvation cure" or
the employment OF some OF the first
class chicken foods now on the market.
Starvation. even IL it We're a good thing.
could not be continued long enough to
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worn out stomach is not going TO be-
come strong and healthy in two or
three 6avs.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets act nat
urally because they contain natural di-
gestives. The principal component
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condition of the stomach There Is no
unnatural or violent disturbance Of the
digestive organs as the result OF their
action. In fact. the existence OF the
stomach is entirely forgotten as soon
as they have had time to begin their
operations. They also possess very
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sist the stomach in getting well. while
relieving it Of its work. They perform
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Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are for
sale by all druggists at so cents a box
and there is very little danger OF any
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They are so we'll established and have
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their name has become a household
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case of Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets