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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-11-12
May l come in?"

May l come imp
A smile lit up the face of the inva-
lid man.
"Of course you may, Babs! oh. it's
you, Harriet! How marvelously your
voice resembles Barbara's
The smile had faded when he saw
his mistake, and his pale, subdued sis
ter-inlaw busted herself with the med
icines.
Eyes, we're all alike in that" she
said, ''if in nothing else. But I've
noticed that brothers and sisters more
often resemble each other in voice
than in anything else-haven't you?"
-'At any rate it is so in your case,
said Philip Chesney. YEARLY Why
doesn't Barbara come up"
The solemn Harriet turned away.
How could she tell the stricken man
that Barbara-beautiful, winsome. self
nsh Barbara, who had looked upon
life as a summer garden. and herself
the fairest flower therein-how could
ishe tell him that his wife had taken
his illness in the light of a personal
affront? Her plans were ruined for
the season; the parties and balls and
festive gatherings, where she would
have been envied and worshipped as
queen indisputable, had to be ex-
changed for depressing bedroom. 1t
was uncomfortable!
But how could Harriet tell the dot
ling, helpless man, knowing she did
that he had worshiped her with all
Ithe strength of his nature, that she
had left Barbara in her room, cry
hing out in the bitterness of selfish
mess against her hard and cruel fate?
Barbara is tired. She has a head
ache and is lying down." said Har-
:riet, glibly; and he was satisfied
He swallowed the medicine she
poured out for him with wry face.
RAISE yourself for a moment" she
said. while smooth your pillow
Very WE'LL he said. irritably. But
be quick; l cannot sit up long"
He was scowling when he laid back
again OF the smoothed pillow, for it
is hard indeed to be i'll when a beau
tiful wife and a prosperous business
dangle tantalizingly, and call mock
fngly to him who was so mighty yes
terday to come to-day and reap the
harvest for which he had worked so
hard.
Harriet turned away, cut to the
quick by the note of irritation. She
knew it was foolish, and that Philip
CkeSney had enough to try him if
any man had; but she felt it. never
theIess..
He caught her look as she turned,
and a touch of remorse swept over
him
Little sister," he said. clasping her
hand. take no notice of me. / am
I'll and peevish; but, believe me, I
am grateful
And Harriet left the room with a
wild tumult beating in. her usually
quiet breast.
That was in the early days of Phil
fp Chesney's illness; but the hope
which ugly. gentle little Harriet Fra
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tasteful, take some such step as this,
that the discovery scarcely came as a
surprise. She had done her best to
drive the male butterfly from the
house; but he had found entrance
again and again.
Her thin, pale face grew more
drawn as she contemplated the posi-
ton; but, like the drab, unselfish crea-
ture she was, she soon fell to blam-
ing herself
Babs had been their mothers dar-
ling, and on her deathbed she had be-
slowed her upon Harriet as precious
trust. How, she reflected, had she
kept that trust? 1t is ever thus with
the drab and unselfish.
That night the doctors came from
the invalid's room looking gravers
than ever. Philip, they said. was
sinking, and ugly. gentle Harriet grew
to think that surely Fate must hate
him bitterly indeed.
To lose life is bitter. in spite of
the pessimists; but to have the knowl-
edge that while life was slowly ebb-
ing honor itself had taken wings and
flown, is to taste the uttermost dregs
of human degradation
She had not told him of the fight
of the butterflies. She had tried, for
she conceived it to be her duty to do
so; but the words had stuck in her
throat. And now, as she was about
to enter his room, she determined
that he should never know if she
could help it.
Who is it?" moaned Philip, as she
entered. I'm blind. can't See
1T is I, Philip" said ugly Harriet's
beautiful voice.
A glory of satisfied longing leaped
into the sick mans face
"At last" he said, my wife. my
darling, forgive mel thought
you had tired of your helpless. use
less husband. But-oh, you have come
to me-you have comet"
The voice had deceived him again,
and austere, truthloving Harriet, who
had never lied before, did not enlight-
en- him.
He clasped her hand and they talk
| ed as lovers do. lightly ignoring death.
who watched them sardonically-
But Harriet saw that the shock of
| the joy had been too much for the
! sick and blind man. A gray shadow
slowly spread over the sunken cheek.
kiss me, and say that you love
mel" he gasped-
Il love you'll" she said, as she kissed
him tenderly.
The kiss was a lie, and a lie is a
+! foul thing; but the Recording Angel
J has surely written the sin in the
faintest of characters in his book. for
the words that gentle, ugly Harriet
obediently spoke were, and had al
ways been. true
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Hail New Sweet Cider!

Pour the libation on the altar of
October. What more eloquent of the
fruiting time of the year than the leg
end displayed on every side-"New
Sweet Cider?
In the draught comes a tingling
thrill as if the life blood of the apple
sent an inspiration through the veins
No bitterness mars the flavor, there
is no hint of coming decay; this is
not the fall of the year, it is the
climax of the glad experiences of
lifetime.
If water is the ale of Father Adam,
sweet cider is the liquor of Father
Time. An exhiIaration steals through
the brain Memory unfolds visions
of awakening to life in rosy dawn fam
red by the mildest March Winds OF
the promise of the Eastertide crowned
with blossoms diffusing an incense on
the altar of nature, of moonlit June
nights when young apples blushed I'M
der sheltering leaves and the sweet
sap throbbed in the heart of the rir-
ening pulp.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-11-12
A COY RETREAT FOR MY LADY

When a woman cannot have the lux
ury of an entire room for herself, it is
at least fair for her to have a corner
of the family sitting room for her
own special use. A coy nook, with
her favorite books Within reach,
comfortable lounging chair and per-
hapS a little table-at any rate, a
place for her fancy work or writing
materialS-an this is very delightful
and not altogether impossible for
small outlay of money and brains.
Where there is a bow window or q
corner turret the rest is easily ar
ranged.
Perhaps the most satisfactory cor
ner may be evolved where the win
dows meet at right angles, as in the
sketch Here the curtains hang from
valence that follows the angels of
the corner, the low shelves are filed
with books, while the top of the book
case is a stand for plants in quaint
Dutch or Trentham ware pots. If
the shelves are to contain anything
but books they might have small cur
tains to correspond with the other
draperies.
The draperies of such corner
must, of course, be chosen TO accord
well with the rest of the apartment.
IT for bedroom, from a dainty muslin
to lowered cretonne, indeed, any
bright and attractive design may be
chosen. If the walls have figured pa
per it would be well to choose plain
corresponding color for the curtains,
with white muslin sash curtains at
the window.
If the corner is taken from sitting
room or library it should have conven-
tional design on its draperies. Turk
iSh, perhaps, or Empire wreaths on a
plain background, give a coy effect.
Or perhaps if the flower pots are
Dutch and the woodwork white, a
white cretonne valance and curtains
with a Delft-blue design, will be at
tractive.
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CLOSING Him Up Completely.

William A. Pinkerton tells of an old
time confidence man who used to do
business in Chicago He was anxious
to work unmolested around depot
where special officer was engaged to
protect the unwary- The crook one
day walked up behind the officer,
whom he knew pretty well, and sud
denly reached around and put his
hands over the officers eyes
Can you see anything now?" asked
the ICON" man.
mot thing" said the other, as he
raised his hands. The crook removed
his hands. and a twenty dollar gold
piece fell into each of the officers
hands.
The crook walked away laughing,
but the officer followed. Say" he re-
marked, eff you'd put one of these into
my mouth 1 could not even speak
New York Times.
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The Better Land.

IT hear thee speak of the better land.
Thou calleSt its children happy bands
Motheri Oh, where is that radiant shore?
Is it where the flowers of the orange
blows.
And the firehies glance through the
myrtle boughS?'
Not there. not there. my child!
''Is it where the eathery palm trees rise.
And the date grows ripe under sunny
skies?
Or midst the green islands of glittering
Where fragrant forests perfume the
And strange. bright birds. their starry
wings.
Bear the rich hues of all glorious things ?"
Not there. not there. my child.
us it far away. in some region old.
Where the rivers wander Ger sands OF
gold?
Where the burning rays of the ruby shine.
And the diamond lights up the secret
mine,
And the pearl CLEANS forth from the coral
strand?
Is it there. sweet mother. that better
1and?'
mot there. not there. my child.''
Eye hath not seen it, my gentle boyi
Ear hath not heard its deep songs of joy;
Dreams cannot picture world so fair
Sorrow and death may not enter there;
Time doth not breathe on its fadeless
bloom.
1t is there, it is there. my childi''
Felicia Hemans.
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CLIMATE AND THE NERVES.
Direct Connection Between the Two
Has Been Proved.

Grant Dexter in his book on
Weather Influences" says that Gin
habitantS of hot climates are usually
Hstless, uninventive, apathetic and
improvident- An equabIe high tenn
perature, especially if moist, weak
ems body and mind. No long
established lowland tropical peo-
pie is conquering race in the broad
est sense of the word. For the in
habitants of the higher attitudes, even
under the tropical sun, this may be
true; for as we ascend the tempera-
ture lessons about 1 degree ever 270
feet on an average, and even at the
equator we may have a temperate
climate. The most favorable tenn
perature for health, which carries
with it an aggressive energy which
leads and which has led the world
march of civilization, is about 45 de-
grees, on an average, and this is
found in the temperate zones. From
there have come the Drawn and brain
of martial conquest and intellectual
attainment. The dominant peoples
are shown between the ATTITUDES or %
degrees and So degrees.
During the London fogs and on
days when the weather is particular
land certain sets of books an error
in which would be cumulative and
produce disastrous results further on
are locked up and the clerks set to
tasks less intricate and important in
character. Experience has taught
those in charge that the percentage of
error increases many fold during such
climatic conditions, and that it is
money in pocket to yield to them. The
same necessity for cessation of GER
tain lines of work during bad spells
of weather" is recognized by the larg-
er banking institutions in New York
and the other eastern cities.
cit has been the universal expert
ence of the superintendents of prisons
and asylums for the insane that the
persons in their charge varied so
markedly with the meteorological
conditions that no man could doubt
that the relation between the weather
and emotional states was any other
than that of cause and effect. When
asked. however, what definite condi-
lions of the weather tended to be the
most productive of emotional abnor-
malities. no satisfactory answer could
be made"
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Then came long harvest days that
smiled serene until the fruit, golden
or red, hung like jewels upon the
branches.
Still other recollections haunt the
orchard ways Gladly hail the homeIy
memories. There we carried milk for
the calves, there the young turkeys
peeped, and the autocrat of the flock
gobbled defiance at our intrusion. and
the honey bees hummed above the
rose-crowned apple trees
In the early autumn the scene shifts
to the cider mill at the foot of the
HILL Our nostrils drew in the fra
GRANGE of crushed apples-no nectar of
the gods could be sweeter than the
cider that was sucked through a
straw slyly inserted in a chink in the
logs till it met the overbrimming vat.
All hail to Ceres and the fruits of
autumn Let Bacchus dance with the
grape; orr Hbation shall flow from the
veins of the apple tree in new sweet
cider.-Chicago Post
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verse side of this beautiful charm
there turks the sinister demon-Self-
ishnesS.
All the time Philip grew worse.
He would either die, or become a life
long invalid-that was the verdict of
the doctors; and the beautiful girl
wife shuddered, and bit her rosebud
lips till the blood came as she con-
templated the prospect.
And one day a male butterfly, also
without a heart, f1uttered into that
gloomy bower, and Haunted his gorge
Gus. tempting coloring before the daz-
zled eyes of the brilliant feminine in
sect of his species; and, 10! they flew
away from that gloomy house-which
was assuredly no place for butter
flies-together.
Harriet was the first to learn of the
flight. She had feared for so long
that her lovely sister would, in revolt
against the fate which was SO dis
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-11-12
THE POWER OF GRIT.
Make Up Your Mind to a Task, and
You Will Do 1t.

To carry on the back a pack weigh
ing hundred pounds or more means
not only strong muscles but a mastery
of balance. In the Forest, Mr..
Stewart Edward White says that the
first time he did any packing he had a
hard time stumbling a few hundred
feet with just fifty pounds on his
back. At the end of that same trip he
could carry a hundred pounds and a
lot of canoe poles and guns over a
long portage without serious incon-
venience. Mr.. White says:
At first packing is as near Internal
punishment as merely mundane con-
ditions can compass. Sixteen brand
new muscles ache, at first DULY, then
sharply, then intolerably, until it
seems you cannot bear it another Sec
ond. At first you rest every time you
feel tired. Then you begin to feel very
tired every fifty feet. Then you have
to do the best you can, and prove the
pluck that is in you.
Mr.. Tom Friaht, an old woodsman
of wide experience, has often told me
with relish of his first try at carrying.
He had about sixty pounds, and his
companion double that amount Mr..
Friant stood it for what seemed like
d lew ana lHGA SdI OOW
He could not have moved another
step if a gun had been at his ear.
whats the matter?" asked his
companion.
DEL" said Friant, I'm all in. 1
can't navigate. Here's where I quit
Cant you carry her any farther"
mot an inch
''Well, pile her on. I'll carry her for
you"
Friant looked at him a moment in
silent amazement.
do you mean to say that you are
going to carry your pack and mine,
too?"
That's what mean to say. I'll do
it if have to-"
Friant drew a long breath. WELL
said he, at last, eff little, sawed-off
chap like you can wiggle under hun
dred and eighty, I guess can make it
under sixty"
That's right said Del, imperturb-
ably. IF you think you can, you
can
And 1 did," ends Friant. with
chuckle.
Therein lies the whole secret. The
work is irksome, painful, but if you
think you can do it, you can; for al
though great is the protest of the hui
man frame against what it considers
abuse, greater still is the power of
mans grit.
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TIRED OF FORTUNES FILINGS.
ChoIeric Colonel Finally Went the
Limit in His REESE ntment.

The late Col. Prentiss Ingraham,
whose brilliant life ended sadly in a
soldiers home in the south, served for
a time in the Austrian army, and the
other day a New Orleans man said
Oh him:
while Col. Ingraham was living
here 1 often heard him tell stories of
his foreign service, and of choleric
Austrian colonel with whom he had
much to do.
According to one of these stories,
the Austrian colonel was spending
certain evening in a Buda Pesth club,
watching a match game of backgam-
mon between a friend of his and an
English stranger.
Luck, as a rule, enters into back
Cannon but little. In this match
game, however, what luck there was
went entirely against the colonels
friend. The poor fellow played
thoughtfully and well, but throughout
the evening the EngliShman got the
better of him.
.tThe colonel stood behind his
friends chair, looking on. He fused
and fumed as luck went against the
Austrian player time after time, and
he continually expressed surprise that
his friend could take his bad fortune
with such resignation.
Finally he became quite himself.
His friend made move that was par
ticularly unfortunate.
'.Can you stand that?' he asked
"sYes. Why not?' the other an
swered composedly.
well, if you can, can't cried the
colonel, and, reaching over, he seized
the backgammon board from the laps
of the astounded players and threw it
in the fire.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-11-12
Tonq Haks of Korea.

The Tong Haks present the only
virile patriotic faction in Korea. But
it is a faction now threatening, now
dispersed, now on the war path, now
dissolved among the body of the peo-
pie. now rebbing and looting, now
fighting, and now busted with theologi-
cal arguments in a manner so impos-
sible to western thought, motives and
methods that it is almost impossible
to characterize it.
1t is the more difficult because the
Tong Hak belief partakes of the ma
ture of a religion and of piracy, of
metaphysical discussion and of massa-
ere, and also of patriotic resistance
to official extortion.
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She Paid wen for Permission.

Nine. Seveillez, 50-year-old widow
of Paris, France, found a chance to
marry again last week, but, fearing
that the ghost of her husband might
disturb her sleep, she consulted a
spiritualist, and obtained permission
for second marriage.
After several seances, in which
Nine. Seveillez paid large sums to the
medium, the latter persuaded her tic
keep locked up for three days and
nights in a dark room, placing all her
valuables on a plate covered by a
cloth, on the table near by.
At the appointed time Nine Sew
eillez, tired of waiting for her hus-
bands spirit. removed the covering
of the plate, and found all her valu-
ables gone and in their place a note
granting her permission to marry.
She has denounced the medium to the
police
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LIVES ON SPIDER WEBS.
Man Trains Them to Spin Webs on
Wine Bottles.

WINE 6Ott3eS.
In this age of shamS, however even
spiders webs may be fraudulently at
tached to wine bottles, for there is an
elderly Frenchman named Pierre Gran
taire who makes a comfortable COM
retence by supplying INSCRIPTIONS
wine dealers with specially bred spid-
ers, at a fixed rate of $3.50 per 100,
which may be relied upon, if turned
loose amongst wine bottles, to at once
proceed to spin abundant webs upon
them.
The reason of this is that Pierre
Grantaire keeps a large establishment
at Philadelphia which he devoteS to
breeding spiders. They are kept in
dark, cool rooms, which are rendered
fyproof by means of double folding
doors, between which mosquito cur
tain is stretched, and the spiders are
allowed to roam at their will about
shelves, on which are placed numerous
port bottles.
If spider spins on the wall or in a
corner of a shelf, its web is promptly
destroyed by the owner; but if one OF
these creatures spins bottle, it is
promptly rewarded with a fly.
Spiders that refuse to spin on bot
ties are kept without food, and from
time to time, to encourage them to
makes their webs on bottles, Grantaire
sticks live flies on the glass with spirit
gum, and in the course of time the
spiders become trained to only spin on
bottles.
When their education is thus COM
pleted, they are placed in separate
compartments in light wooden boxes
and dispatched to the fraudulent wine
merchants, who make use of them to
give their bottles the appearance OF
twenty years storage in cellars cool.
Should the destination of these in
dustrious spinners be Europe, they are
previously frozen, and are placed in
the refrigerating chamber during the
voyage In this event the extra cost is
naturally borne by their purchasers
Stray Stories.
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PestiIenee in the East.

The English Church Missionary So
ciety calls attention to the fearful raw
ages of pestilence in several countries
in which its agents are at work. In
Uganda the sleeping sickness has des-
olated Busoga and the northern shores
of the Victoria lake, and is fast de-
populating the Sese islands. The
plague in the Punjab has been claim
ing as many as 10000 victims in a
month, while cholera, which has laid
thousands low in Palestine, is now
raging in Persia.
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Why No Birth certifiea.e.

Last week a woman brought her
little daughter to one of the South
Brooklyn schools to gain admission
The regular questions were put to the
mother, but imagine the feelings OF
the head of the department in charge
when, after asking to see the child 8
birth certificate, she was informed by
the woman:
Sure, she amt got no birth certi-
fcate. She was brought up in an in
subator,''-New York Times
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'sty go tS.t0 @oiifG dP
Ber had cherished-that time would
win Barbara to n sense of her duty
was not realized. The gay little but
terfy soul pinned and wearied for its
rose garden. and grew more and more
II loathe the nauseous, unhealthy
weeds within which it had to fiutter
Who shall say she was to blame?
Have you, reader. ever attempted to
aEalyze the charm OF the most fasci-
mating woman OF your acquaintance
Ito find out the secret by the magic
of which she makes men her slaves?
40 so, and, if the gift of seeing be
yours Tou shall find that on the re-
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Bury War Material,

The people of the Caucasus are said
to be concealing imported arms by
burying them in collins, with the US
ual funeral ceremonies, the police not
noticing that the death rate is rather
higher than usual.
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Something WRONG.

whats the matter?" demanded
the slightly fuddled man as he got
aboard the car, -ain't this the car /
want?"
What" snapped the conductor.
How do I known
"Oh. you must "a knowed it or YOU
wouldn't IA stopped an let me ketch
yer-"+Philadelphia Press
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Redeems HaIf-cent pieces.

The Treasurer of the United States
on May 6. 1903, redeemed two half
cent pieces This is the first time in
the history of the country that any
such coins have been presented for
redemption.
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Japs Break Strike.

Union bartenders, walters and brew
cry hands recently went on strike in
Bakersfield, Cal. The public hunger
and thirst were only partly assuaged
by the employment of Japanese strike
breakers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-11-12

And, with the kiss of deceit on his
brow, a happy man passed into the
great unknown, where, if there is
mercy, he never learned the truth
New York Telegraph