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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Where Is He?

The Democratic leaders are no near
er agreement as to a candidate than
they were three months ago. The
Parker movement, launched in New
York, has not developed as promised.
Hill stock is going down and German
stock is not coming up. There is talk
of compromise, but neither the Parker
nor the Bryan contingent is yielding
an inch.
Parker, it is reported from New
York and Washington, is losing
ground. Hearst has lost prestige and
Hills enemies are coming to the front.
The reorganizers who have followed
the lead of Cleveland and Olney are
divided into envious groups. The
Kansas City platform faction is not
standing together.
The tendency is downward every
where. Even those who talk of com
promise candidate dispiritedly men,
ton Mr.. Towne as a man who would
accept defeat in good spirit. Others
talk dejectedly of President Francis
of the ST. Louis Exposition as a har-
monizer.
With the strong men of the party in
the background or on the retired list,
clamoring for leadership, there is no
activity except in intrigue, and no en-
thusiasm not bounded by state lines.
Basing all their hopes for success in
November on carrying New York, the
eastern Democrats are haggling over
conditions on which they will accept
the New York candidate. In the east
there is distrust instead of loyalty,
and an absence of anything resem-
bling constructive leadership. In the
west conditions are no better; in some
particulars they are worse because OF
resentment against any candidate
likely to be named by the reorgan-
izers or Cleveland Democrats.
The spectacle of a great party mark
ing time aimlessly on the even of a
great contest is a pitiable one. If
there is to be the momentum of battle
in the loose organization some compe.
tent organizer must come to the front
in the next two weeks. Has the Dem
ocratic party such a man? If So
where is he?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Had to Paw His Fare,

When George Roberts was president
of the Pennsylvania railway he chided
a conductor who went by him without
looking at his pass. No matter if
you do know who l am said Mr.. Rob
erts in reply to the conductors ex-
cuse, II am entitled to free ride only
when 1 am travelling with that pass
You don't know whether 1 have it or
not" The conductor, little nettled,
then demanded to see the pass.
That's right" exclaimed the presi-
dent. "Here-why-where de-
clare! 1 must have left it at my
office" Then you'll have to pay your
fare said the conductor firmly. And
Mr.. Roberts did. His lecture cost him
IS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

thanks for such honored trust.
"Rut once and for all, most honored
officers and friends, 1 tender my resig-
nation as president of the American
National Red Cross, which resigna-
ton, being absolute, calls for &C
ceptance.
by the laws governing our organi-
zation, this resignation is made to
your honored board of trustees and ex-
ecutive committee, and it is an IN
speakable joy to me that the toil-worn,
weary mantle that drops from mine
falls upon the shoulders of my vice
president, the woman SO cherished in
our own country and honored and
trusted in others.
Il would not have one days delay
for this little change by which all are
benefited, and the organization, l
trust, will find that peace and quiet
in its long-disturbed elements, SO well
come to it, to US, and to the country"
Replying to Miss Bartons letter, the
executive committee of the society
said in part:
I'VE deeply regret the circum-
stances and conditions which render
it expedient that you should take this
step and retire from a position which
torily filed"
Mrs. Logan, in accepting the presi-
dency, said in part:
II shall be governed by the wisdom
and counsel of the executive commit
tee and endeavor to the utmost of my
ability to give most respectful consid-
Grafton to each member of the society.
Every interest of the American
National Red Cross shall be protected
as far as it is possible to do so. The
executive committee shall be advised
of every step taken for the promotion
of the welfare of the society and the
preservation or it's assets and good
name, and a full report will be made
to the next meeting of the American
National Red Cross Society, to whom
the executive committee and myself
are responsible"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
MisstatinQ History.

Congressman Warner said to the
members of the Hamilton club last
Saturday: THE first purpose of Lin
coin and those who elected him was
to abolish African slave pauper labor"
That was a misstatement calculated
to mislead members of the club who
are not familiar with the political his
tory Of 1860. Col. Warner, who was
not old enough to vote in that year,
but who was old enough and patriotic
enough to volunteer in 1861 and to
fight through the war, may have en-
listed to root out slavery as well as to
save the union, but the abolition of
slave labor was not the avowed pur-
pose of the Republican party in 1860.
If it had been Mr.. Lincoln would not
have been elected. Nor did any con
siderable number of those who voted
for him have in mind the freeing of
the slaves as the result of his election.
The great purpose of the Republican
party was to prevent the extension of
slavery to the territories. 1t said in
it's platform that their normal condi-
ton was that of freedom, and it de-
MED the authority of congress or of a
territorial legislature to give legal ex-
istence to slavery in any territory.
The fourth plank of the platform de-
clared-
That the maintenance inviolate of
the rights of the states, and especially
the right of each state to order and
control its own domestic institutions
according to its own judgment exclu
sively, is essential to that balance OF
powers on which the perfection and
endurance of our political fabric de-
pends-"
The domestic institutions" includ-
ed African slavery.
The shareholders would not accept
the pledges of non-interference with
slavery in the states made by Repub-
licans in and out of congress. They
seeded, and the Republican party
finally did what in 1860 it did not
dream of doing.-Chicago Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Good News from Texas.


New Braunfels, Texas, May 2Srd--
remedy has been found which cures
every form of Kidney Trouble from
Bright's Disease down. including
Rheumatism or Heart Trouble. Mr..
C. C. Schumann, r. F. D., No 4. from
Rraunfels has used it in his family
and says of the result:
My wife had heap of trouble with
Kidney and Heart Disease. She was
very bad and nothing seemed to help
her, till we tried Dodd's Kidney Pills
and the first box of this medicine did
her more good than all the other pills
and medicine she had used We are
very thankful to Dodd's Kidney Pills
for what they have done for her."
Many other cases are being report
ed, in which this remedy has done
wonderful work in the relief and cure
of Rheumatism, Diabetes and Kidney
troubles of all kinds.
This will be good news to many
who are suffering as Mrs. Schumanp
was before Dodd's Kidney Pills cured
her.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Miss Clara Barton resigned from
the presidency of the American Red
Cross May IA, and was Immediately
succeeded by Mrs. John A. Logan,
widow of the famous general of the
civil war. Prior to the retirement of
Miss Barton, Mrs. Logan was vice
president of the society.
The resignation of Miss Barton
marks the close of a long period of
pickering over the post she held. In
fact, it was finally conceded that the
only hope for the restoration of peace
IN the organization lay in the retire
ment of Miss Barton, against whom
charges have been pending for some
time. The controversy over her man.
agement began soon after the close of
the war with Spain, and had grown to
such dimensions as to cause a serious
split.
In her letter of resignation, ad-
dressed to the board of trustees, Miss
Barton says:
1T is now twenty-three years since
by the express desire of President
Garfield on the eve of martyrdom, I
accepted the presidency of the organi-
cation over which you have the honor
to preside, and the duties of which
you have the kindness to administer.
Until that moment the American Red
Cross had no existence. 1t stood be-
fore the country an anomaly. Its very
name was unknown. There are those
in your present body whose young
manhood then received it's first les
sons, little dreaming of the vicissi-
tudes that faith and faithfulness
would lead them through.
1T is a waste of time to remind
you of the years and the occasions in
which your weary president has
sought to lay her burdens down. Year
after year she has framed and offered
her resignation. This has been reso-
lutely met by appointments for life.
L can find no fitting words by
| which to express my appreciation OF
| and gratitude for the courtesy thus
extended to me. 1 am poor even in
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

NIT our goods to enter free. OF cours.
this is preposterous assumption, but
it is not difficult to account for when
we recall that It was fastened upon
the Democratic party by the South at
a time when the South imagined it
could do anything but grow cotton
which it supposed it would have to
send out of that region to be manu-
featured. This section of course was
considering not the interests of the
whole country, but merely it's own in
terests. Then, too. it was jealous of
the Northern industries, and preferred
to patronize the foreigner. Once this
was fastened upon the party, this
party was true to the tradition, as Mr..
Cleveland says it ought to be, and
consequently fell a good many years
behind the times in this as in other
things. Hence the party became COM
mitted to this dogma, or a tariff for
revenue, which is the nearest ap-
proach to free trade that any civilized
country has ever had. OF course, the
schoolboy knows that others nations
will not make such law because we
do it. but assume that they would. Al
ready we have at home the greatest
market in the world, and this would
mean to throw all of it away for the
silly delusion of thus capturing in
ferior markets. In the first place we
don't get the markets in this way
kets, we should be giving away a
gold dollar for dime in the transac
tion.-Marion (Ind.) Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Ancient and Modern Workmanship

Rider Haggard, who Is writing let
tiers from Egypt for the London Mail,
notes that ION the face of one of the
temples of Abon Simbel, just above
the solitary grave of a British officer,
is white marble tablet recording
Gen. Grenfells victory over the forces
of the mahdi at Toski in 1889. So
poor and shallow is the cutting of this
marble that already it is difficult to
read. Within a few yards of it, set
ting out the victories of Egyptian
kings, are many hieroglyphics almost
as fresh, after 5000 years, as the day
the sculptor left them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Verestehaain Eated to Die.

A St. Petersburg journal relates
that Gen. Kuropatkin had urged the
late Verestchagin not to go to the
seat of war at the beginning, but to
wait till it was well under way. But
the painter was eager to witness the
expected assault on Port Arthur, and
thus met his death. He was hard up
for money, too, the sum which he had
received for his Napoleon pictures
having Just sufhced to pay his debts.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
PLEASED SIR HENRY IRVING.
Two Compliments the Distinguished
English. Actor Valued.

EHgIISh. NCtor Vdfueu.
Sir Henry Irving cherishes the mem
DRY of two compliments that were
paid him, saying they gave him more
pleasure than all the other pleasant
things said to him. One evening he
was hurrying out of the theater at the
close of a performance when he heard
a nice looking old lady say: What a
shame that he is an actor and sold to
the devil. He would have made fine
preacher" Another tribute paid to his
genius was that of London newsboy
who insisted on sending him the
Times free for week because he
thought Sir Henry's Shylock was a
perfect imitation of a business rival
whom he hated.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Good Remedy for sprains.

For sprains take olive oil two
ounces, of camphor, rubbed well with
a little oil and then added to the
whole, one dram. Very little of this
should be used at a time, and it
should be gently rubbed on tle
sprained part before the fire.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
President Eliot Talks to Students.

President Charles w. Eliot of Har-
ward university, for the first time in
thirty-five years, delivered lecture In
a regular college course the other day.
The course was one in philosophy,
President Eliot, acting in the absence
of Prof. Francis G. Peabody, the regu-
lar lecturer. The president was loudly
applauded by the students when he
entered the classroom.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
TIRED, SUFFERING WOMEN.
Women run do

Women run down
and endure daily tor
lures through neg
lecting the kidneys.
K i d n e y backache
makes homework a
burden; rest is i'm
possible; sleep fit
full; appetite gives
out and you are
tired all the time.
Can't be well until
the kidneys are well.
HSo nnansS Kidnev
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

A Louisville man tried to make the
Pullman company pay for a big roll
of bills that was taken from him in
the sleeping-car. The jury failed to
agree. How did it know that the
1886 was not given to the porter for
a tip?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Boston was so hard pressed for
bakers, because of the strike, that the
employers found it necessary to call
in their delivery wagon drivers to
bake bread 1t Is scarcely necessary
to add that it wasn't much like the
bread mother used to bake.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
civinq a Dollar for a Dim,

The pith of the whole free-trade
business is the assumption that if we
throw down the bars in this country
and let all sorts of foreign goods in
free to compete with American indus
try and American labor, other coun-
tries will make similar laws and per
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
II May BE a Mistake.

Very likely scientists are mistaken
in supposing there is vegetation on
the moons surface. All that is known
is that Democratic majorities are
found there, and that is the only place
where they are found these days.
Philadelphia Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Partisan Journals.

1t is sometimes said that the Unit
ed States is the best field for news
papers, but some of the papers OF
Paris have enormous calculations.
The largest are LIE Petit Journal, $780,
900, and LIE Petit Parisien, 81, 500, 900.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

One hundred girls employed in a
Connecticut wooden mill have struck
for the right to fiirt. 1t will probably
be pretty hard to get new girls to take
their places.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

II you don't get the biggest and
best it's your own fault. Defiance
Starch is for sale everywhere and
there Is positively nothing to equal
1t in quality or quantity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Russell Sage remarks that no man
ought to pay more than fifty cents for
a straw hat. Apparently it has never
occurred to him that it would be
cheaper still to go bareheaded.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

After searching thirty eight years
for her relatives a woman has found a
cousin who is a prisoner in Sing Sing.
There are a good many things that
are better not discovered.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

make money your slave" says MIR.
doesn't give the recipe
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Three thousand people of Buczacz,
Austria, have been rendered homeless
by a fire which recently destroyed 200
houses. The figures indicate that
there is no race suicide in Buczacz.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

No doubt in due time the Bayonne
Married Mems society and the Wives
Anti-Lodge club will be getting out
injunctions restraining members of
the rival organization from picketing
their fats.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

When DR.. Rainsford says that five
men can do more working together
than ten men apart, he doesn't mean
five writer's in a newspaper office.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

One hundred people have been kill
ed by a hurricane in Cochin China
Their case was very sad. They
might have been killed in glorious bat
tie cheering for their heaven-sent
ruler,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

London is going to try to decide
now whether boiling Holsters alive
is cruelty to animals or not But Lon
don long ago accepted oysters, and
swallows them alive.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

How many zones are there?" asked
q teacher, and the bright boy an
swored: "Six-one torrid, two tenn
perate, two frigid, and the Panama
canal zone"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Philadelphia proposes to purify its
water with chemicals. The Kentucky
plan is surest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

The average citizen has great diff
dculty in pronouncing the geographic
cal names in the war news, but his
perplexity is nothing to what it would
be If war should break out in Maine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

The crew of an American schooner
is in trouble for fishing for sponges in
Cuban waters Never sponge sponges.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

There be three sorts of people
those with pulls, those that are pulled,
and pullets. And the last are in the
end always plucked for the other two.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Farming operations generally may
be two weeks behind this spring, but
the weeds seem to be about as lar ad-
vanced as usual.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Mrs. Bessie Nunzinsky of New York
Is convinced that eating is a faIlacy.
We are sorry for Mr.. Nunzinsky.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

''This being up in arms isn't what
it is cracked up to be-" the young
father remarked, as he paced the floor
at midnight with his roaring first
born.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

One war and six revolutions are
now going on in South America and
the West Indies. This being the hot
season, things are naturally rather
dull down there.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

There is nothing remarkable about
the Cleveland lad who is finishing his
high school course by telephone. AL
most any healthy boy would prefer
that to going to school.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Now that Gen. Kashtalinsky has re-
ported a "grievous yet glorious bat
tle," will somebody rise up and accuse
him of plagiarism?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Novel Writing in Japan.
Until a decade ago novel writing
was not considered a respectable pro-
fession in Japan.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

An Illinois man put a lighted pipe in
his pocket, set fire to his clothes, and
is now in a hospital. Tobacco is in
furious.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Friends and relatives of the Ameri
can war correspondents needn't worry
much about their personal safety until
they can get considerably nearer to
the front.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

An English railway expert is as
'tonished to find that the lone idea of
your railways is to get there B"
That's why we build them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Walled City Missionaries.

Missionaries are at work in PAT
of the walled cities of China. There
are still 1900 walled cities without
missionaries.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

The man who, observing your strug-
gle for independence, warns you that
money doesn't bring happiness, gener-
ally has lot.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Use American Coupiers.
American self-acting couplers are to
be used on Bavarian railways.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Adopt American Methods.
The wholesale textile firms of Leip-
sic, Germany, have determined to
have bargain sales on stated days OF
the year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Poor Pay fer Jap Girls.
For making 1000 C. garettes in a
japanese factory a girl gets sen,
equal to cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Japan,s Water Power.

Japan is everywhere rich in water
power; consequently, even In small
country towns there are electric lights
and local telephone lines.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Pilgrims Progress" on the stage?
Shade of John Bunyan! What is COM
ing next
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

A sharp tongue is often addicted to
blunt speech.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Murder Common in Madrid.
Five or six murders in one day are
not an infrequent occurrence in Mad
rid.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-26
COURT NEWS
BROWN PLEADS TO
TRIO OF CHARGES
HE WILL FURNISH CASH BAIL OF
$4,000.
One Indictment Is Also for w. I'll.
johnson, but He Will Hardly Be
Tried as 1t Is Virtually Same Case
on Which He Was Acquitted.

Charles HI. Brown, ex-clerk of the
Ames' poor department and the states
star witness in the w. H. Johnson
case, was arraigned this morning on
three indictments charging official
malfeasance. He pleaded not guilty In
each case. Bail of $4,000 will be fur
nished to-day.
The defendant was arrested late
yesterday afternoon Immediately after
the closing Of the testimony in the
Johnson case. In default OF bail
Brown spent last night in the county
Jail.
The first indictment charges the de-
PENDANT with presenting a fraudulent
grocery bill purporting to be by Jo-
seph Steffel, to public officers for pay
ment and charges simply the offense
admitted by the defendant when on
the witness stand in the Johnson case.
The second true bilf', charges
grand larceny in the second degree,
the crime being based upon the same
facts as those set out in the first in
dictment.
In the third bill, Brown is accused
Jointly with Johnson of fraudulently
presenting the Scofield & Allen gro
Gerry bill to the board Of charities and
corrections for payment. johnson
has never been arraigned on this In
dictment, and may never be, as the
evidence will be the same as in the
charge upon which he was acquitted
yesterday.