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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
JUST ONE DAY
Free From the sIusger Brought Out
Fact.


Fact.
During the time 1 was a coffee
drinker," says an Iowa woman, 81 was
nervous, had spells with my heart.
smothering spells, headache, stom-
ach trouble. liver and kidney trouble.
L did not know for years what made
me have those spells. l would fire.
quently sink away as though my last
hour had come. -. -.-.as.. =. ..-.
For 81 years I suffered thus and
used bottles of medicine enough to set
up drug store-capsules and pills
and everything / heard of. Spent
lots of money but 1 was sick nearly
all the time. Sometimes I was so
nervous l could not hold plate in
my hands! and other times / thought
l would surely die sitting at the table.
This went on until about two years
ago when one day 1 did not use any
coffee and / noticed l was not SO nery-
Gus and told my husband about IT.
He had been telling me that 1t might
be the coffee but 1 said No, I have
been drinking coffee all my life and
it cannot be- But after this thought
/ would try and do without and drink
hot water l did this for several days.
but got tired of the hot water and
went to drinking coffee and as soon
as l began coffee again was nervous
again This proved that it was the
coffee that caused my troubles.
y I'VE had tried Postum but had not
made it right and did not like it, but
now 1 decided to give it another trial
so read the directions on the pack
age carefully and made it after. these
directions and it was simply delicious,
so we quit coffee for good and the re-
suits are wonderful Before, could
not sleep but now I go to bed and
sleep sound. am not bit nervous
now, but work hard and can walk
miles. Nervous headaches are gone.
my heart does not bother me any
more like it did and don't have any
of the smothering spells and would
you believe it? l am getting fat. We
drink Postum now and nothing else
and even my husbands headaches
have disappeared; we both sleep
sound and healthy now and that's a
blessing" Name given by Postum
Co. Battle Creek. Mich.
Look for the book, THE Road to
MELVILLE In each pkg.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Wanted to See the World.

John Guild, IL years old. son of a
wealthy ship builder of Hilo, Hawaii
ran away from home several months
ago and has Just arrived in Phila-
delph1a on board merchant vessel
with which he shipped as stow
away. The elder Guild is immensely
rich, but the boy was tired CT STAYING
home amid splendid surroundings
He wanted to see the world, but his
father would not let him leave home.
so he hid on board the merchant YES
sell The CAPTAIN. who knows the
elder Guild intimately, will take him
back on the return voyage.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27


The narrator was growing excited
as he entered upon the description Of
the shipwreck.
1T was a fearful moment, gentle
men. We saw that we were lost. The
life-boats had been STAYED in, and
there was no way to escape from the
doomed vessel. Forward upon the
bridge stood our noble Captain, true
to. his trust to the last, while aft were
crowded those of us who still remain
ed alive after that fearful night.
Never shall forget the last, awful
moment as the vessel sank. My eyes
were fixed on the mizzenmast, where
some one had bound beautiful young
girl, the belle of the ship, with whom,
not twenty-four hours previously, I
had been conversing gaily. And as
the ship went down she was borne
with it into that seething gulf, help
less, doomed, mashed to the last -
Chicago Record-Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Find Relies OF Civil War.

W. d. Short, who lives near Rut-
ledge, has recently dug up on his
farm sixty-four old muskets which
have lain buried since the spring of
1863. The farm where Mr. Short lives
was once owned by his father at the
time of the civil war and the story
of the guns is an interesting one
Colonel Glover, with a force of
union soldiers, had camped near the
Short homestead and were preparing
supper when a troop of confederate
cavalry dashed upon them and cap
tured the company; Colonel Glover's
soldiers were equipped with fuse"
guns, an army musket superseded
throughout the army by more mod
ern weapons long before the war
closed. The confederate troopers took
the guns, but finding they had no am
munition for the old style weapons
left them on the farm of Mr.. Short.
The possession of so formidable
display of arms at that period, when
even squirrel rife was on the pro-
hiblted list, very much alarmed Mr.
Short and his family, and that night
trench was dug, the guns piled in
and covered over. There the weap-
ons have rested until one day last
week when w. D. Short by accident
found the resting place of the old
firelocks and brought them to light
The stocks are all rotted OFF and
the iron barrels, rods and bayonets
eaten with rust, but they show plainly
the style of the gun, and locks and
bands are all intact. Since his find
has become known Mr. Short has
been besieged by relic-hunters for the
old gums and he has given them out
to all applicants as souvenirs until all
but two or three of the guns are gone.
Salisbury. Mo-. Press-Spectator.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

The turf grows as green in Illinois
as in Ireland-in places. There are
pine and spruce trees in the forests
Of Wisconsin and Michigan as tall and
lair as any in Norway. Milwaukee,
it is averred, brews as good beer as
Munich. And, incontestably, the sun
shines as bright and water runs as
clear in the new world as in the old.
Yet sooner or later the American
citizen of foreign birth begins to doubt
these and similar facts, or if he ad-
mits them he is still conscious of
feeling that sunshine, green fields,
mountains, trees and ruins are at
least placed in happier combination
in his native land than elsewhere.
Then, in spite of his pride in his
Ameficanism-a pride which is often
intense-he has an inward and grow
ing conviction that the customs of
that native land are in some respects
UNNECESSARILY superior to those of the
land of his adoption.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Gen. Gordon,s "reminiscences.

Gen. GOrdOnS experiences are
graphically set forth in his "Reminis-
cences of the Civil War" He was
mining coal in the mountains of three
states-Georgia, Tennessee and Ala
bama-when the war came, and he
raised company of volunteers. They
wore coonskin caps and were called
the Raccoon Roughs, and became
famous.
Once in camp we kept the wires
hot with kilograms to governors of
other states, imploring them to give
us a chance. Gov. Moore of Alabama
finally responded, graciously consent
ing to incorporate the captain of the
'Raccoon Roughs' and his coon capped
company into one of the regiments
soon to be organized.
THE reading of this telegram
evoked from my men the first wild
rebel yell it was my fortune to hear.
Even then it was weird and thrilling.
Through all the stages of my subse-
Quent promotions and in all the bat
ties in which l was engaged this same
exhilarating shout from these same
trumpet-like threats rang in my ears,
growing fainter and fainter as these
heroic men became fewer and fewer
at the end of each bloody days work;
and when the last hour of war came,
in the last desperate charge at Apo
mattox, the few and broken remnants
of the Raccoon Roughs were still near
their first captains side, cheering him
with the dying echoes of that first
yell in the Atlanta camp"
In his account of the beginning of
the Bull Run engagement Gen. Cor
don says of Gen. Ewell, the Indian
fighter, who at the last moment went
over to the confederacy: He became
a pious man in his later years, but at
this time he was not choice in his
manner of expressing himself. He
asked me to take hearty breakfast
with him just before he expected the
order from Beauregard to ford Bull
Run and rush upon McDowell's left.
His verbal invitation was in these
words: Come and eat a cracker with
me. We will. breakfast together here
and dine together in hell To young
officer like myself, who had never
been under fire except at long range,
on scouting excursions, or on the Skin
mish line, such an invitation was not
inspiring or appetizing, but Ewell's
spirits seemed to be in a hutter of
eXultation.
IAN hour later, after 1 had been re-
called from my perilous movement
to feel of the enemy l found Gen.
Ewell, as l have said. almost frenzied
with anxiety over the non-arrival of
the anticipated order to move to the
attack He directed me to send to
him at once a mounted man with
sense enough to go and find out what
was the matter l ordered member
of the governors horse guard to re
port Immediately to Gen. Ewell. This
troop represented some of the best
blood of Virginia Its privates were
refined and accomplished gentleman,
many of them university graduates,
who. at the first tocsin of war, mad
sprung into their saddles as volun-
teers."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

Enthusiastically in the aliens ear. He
hears it as he sits at his desk, and he
drops his pen and closes his ledger;
as he tills his field, and the plowshare
is left to rust; it comes to- him in
the darkness of a Pennsylvania mine
and in the blaze of an Arizona sun,
amid the whir and c1atter of shops
and mill or in silent desert solitudes
an imperative, insistent call.
Forthwith the vague hope our for
eign-born, citizen has cherished bios
SONS into an actual and definite pur-
pose; the difficulties that oppose them
selves to its achievements are exam
ined-and truly they do not appear to
be great now that the purpose is
formed. A few days of land jour
ney; week, or little more, of sea
voyage, the expenditure of few pa1try
dollars and the thing is practically
done. Certainly not a great deal of
expense for the ocean voyage if one
does not insist upon the pomp and
luxury of a saloon passage. That
would be very well if one were con-
tent to wait for the attainment of
wealth, but when one is obeying the
call of home it is different and a few
days, more OF less, of trivial discom-
fort in the steerage seems insignifi-
that one of the big steamship lines
has cut it's eastward steerage passen-
ger rate SO. That would bring it to
less than $50. Ones hearts desire
for 500 --, -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
BABY BORN TO FORTUNE.
John Nicholas Brown, Years Old,
Worth S1o.ooo ooo-

Worth $4,000, 900.
John Nicholas Brown of Rhode
Island is only 4 years old. but he is
rated worth 100000. His fortune
came from his father and an uncle,
in equal amounts. before he was 8
months old. Young Brown has three
palatial residences, yacht, is always
attended by a physician and has
retinue of ten servants. He lives on
sterilized milk chiefly and has more
care bestowed upon him than a royal
prince. He is weighed morning and
night on special scales and is
groomed in the most luxurious man
ner- The youngsters fortune con-
sists in stock in great cotton mills in
New England. His mother was
Miss Dresser. sister of Mrs. George
Vanderbilt. ...-l-... t-.-. 81
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Production of Rubber.

The general impression prevails that
rubber is product like wheat or corn
to be obtained from given tree The
idea is quite erroneous. 1t has been
estimated that 1000 different species
contain rubber. though commercial
quantities have been obtained from
only forty or fifty.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Ambitious Social Leader.

Mrs. George Westinghouse gives the
society people of Ienox much to
talk about. owing to the splendors, not
to say eccentricities. of her entertain
ments- She has had designs upon the
social leadership of that exclusive spot
and has had at her dinners the Brit
ish ambassador and wife
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Beware of Ointments for Catarrf1
that Contain Mercury,

mercury will surely destroy the sense of s.neT-
and completely derange the whole system when
entering 1t through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never be used except prescrfp-
lions from reputable physicians the damages they
VIII do is ten fold to the good you possibly de-
rive from them Hairs Catarrh Cure, manufactured
by F. j. Cheney & CO., Toledo, O., contains
curry and is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine 1t is taken Internally made in Toledo,
Ohio, by f j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price 75c. per bottle.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Modern Foot Is Smaller.

1t is asserted by a sculptor that the
human foot is becoming smaller. The
masculine foot of twenty centuries
ago was about twelve inches long.
The average mans foot of to-day is
easily fitted with No. 81a shoe,
which is not above ten inches and
seven-sixteenths In length.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
origin Of Golden Bee EmhIena.

1t is said that when the tomb of
Childeric, king of the first Frankish
dynasty in the fifth century, was
opened in the seventeenth century
hundreds of golden bees were found
in it. So when the French empire
was established the golden bee was
adopted as one of its emblems.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

According to the most authorita-
tive estimates. there are now about
TOO 900 Jews in New York, the total
POPULATION of which in 1903, as esti-
mated by the census bureau, was
8,716.13e. Perhaps the Jews may be
about one-fifth of the present popula-
tfOn
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

Largest Serpent on Record.
The largest serpent ever measured
was a Mexican anaconda, which was
found to be 81 feet in length.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
The only high grade Baking Powder
made at a moderate price,
Calumet
Baking
Powder
AS to Eyebrows.

AS TO Eyebrows
81 always look at a mans eye
brows before employing him." says q
successful tradesman. "If they meet
1 know I am getting an active.
shrewd. calculating. determined. am
bilious and generally successful en-
ploye-one who will rise
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

If 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 it in quail
ity or quantity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

am sure Piso's Cure for CONSUMPTION saved
my life three years ago.-MRs. THos. RoBBINs,
Maple Street, Norwich, N. Y, Feb. II, 1900.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Books Are Utilized.

BOOKS Are OrliZeo.
The inhabitants of Mainz, Ger
many, are great readers. OF the 2OO.-
900 volumes in their library, 10000
were used last year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

All things come to an end at last,
however, and eventually the ropes are
removed and the crowd goes over the
gangway with rush-"single women
and families aft, single men for'ard"
Forward and aft they troop, down the
hatchways to the lower decks, there
to become involved in hopeless confu-
sion. 1t is evident that there is no
immediate chance of an assignment of
quarters, and friends are waiting on
the dock to wave a last farewell; so
they Chamber back, bag and baggage,
to the upper deck and there lean over
the bulwarks and wait for the start.
Presently the steamer begins to toot
hoarsely and the crowd on the deck
begins to wave hats and handkerchiefs
and shout farewells, which demon
STATIONS are returned from the docks
of the steamer. Flowers are thrown
invariably fall short of their
mark into the water or on the wrong
side of the fence. Then nothing hap
pens and the handkerchief waving sub
sides and painfully constrained smiles
appear on the faces of the passengers
and their waiting friends. It is one
of the greatest SORROWS of parting to
be Obliged to stand and grin for ten
or fifteen minutes at stretch at the
friend you are "seeing off,"
The third-class gang plank is haul
ed away and after pause the first
class gang plank goes also. A few
more minutes of agony and the whis-
tie sounds again. a bell jingles some
where, the big hawsers are cast OF
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

over the GangWay.
and the black leviathan slowly, almost
imperceptib1y, begins to back out from
the dock The home journey has be-
gun--Kennett Harris in Chicago
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

men and women, that the blooming
maidens of lang syne are by this time
comfortable elderly matrons and that
those he left in their prime must be
bowed down by age and its 1nfirmities.
Then, too, the fact that he has been
wholly and utterly forgotten by most
of those very folk of whom he thinks
with such fond warmth of affection is
yet to be forced upon him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

The home-goer finds himself at
length standing in the magnified shed
of the steamer dock in New York,
among five hundred-odd other second
and third class passengers. (The
"steerage," be it understood, has been
abolished-it is ''third-class" now, and
there is difference apart from the
name, as shall hereafter be shown.)
There are two gang planks leading to
the steamer, which elsewhere is con-
cealed from view by a high board
fence; one of these gang planks is
amidships and is guarded with snowy
canvas along it's length. That is for
the first-class passengers. The other
is placed aft, is plain and somewhat
dingy; it is closed, moreover, with
ropes. A clause of the instructions to
passengers in the third-clasS tickets
warns them to be on board at least
two hours before the advertised time
of departure, which is 10 O'Clock in
the morning. 1t is past s now, but
apparently the second and third class
quarters are not yet in readiness and
the punctuality of the passengers is
rewarded by dreary wait.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-26
Eliza Seayey McrreIi.

At about 9 o'clock Sunday morning,
" the SSth Year Of her age, at the home
of hel. daughter. Mrs. f.. f. Davis,
Pleasant street. this city, Eliza Seavey,
widow of the late Rev. Alex H. Nor
Te1l passed quietly and peacefully from
this to the endless life.
For the last y years Mrs. Morrell
had made her home with her daughter
in this city. Her native place was
Georgetown, Me. Her father was
Thos r. Seavey. She had resided in
Hallowell, Phillips. Oakland and Bath,
where her husband held pastorates; al
SO spending about Is years in the
South at the close of the Civil War in
connection with the Freedmen work
at Storer College, Harper's Ferry, West
Virginia.
Her life has been busy one. with
many opportunities for usefulness, but
within she possessed a calm assurance
and deep repose of soul born of un-
Wavering confidence in God, both for
this and the future world. She lived
wali-a cheerful life-she rests in
peace.
Funeral services will be conducted
by her pa stor. Rev. Chas. G. Mosher. at
her late home. 16 Pleasant street, at
II A. NJ. Tuesday. Burial private.
Besides her daughter. she leaves one
son. Frank H., of Irvington, New Jer-
Sey.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-26
Woodmen Chops.

Augusta Camp, No. 100. once NOR,
comes to the front as the largest Modern
Noodmen camp in the State and has alst
made a record that will be hard for any
other local body IN the State to duplicate
This camp was organized. Dec. oS. 1899
with 81 charter members. 1t has been
making steady growth. each year, 1901
being high line. No work was done in
January or August, but for all of that
l-6 members have been added to the ros-
ter. and instructed IN the methods of fol-
lowing the hidden trail, the spotted tree.
the position of the leaves, and why they
are SO, and now Woodcratt in Augusta
has ?tt fully equipped Wo0dmen. able to
show the wayfarer to the campfire and
refresh him for his journey.
The M.sS"r-Perley Co. offered as a prize
TO the Inomher securing the most mem
bcrs up TO the day before Christmas the
bcsi oNercoat or suit of clothes in their
store. ard the firm Of Stevens < Ballard.
as z second prize. the best pair OF shoes
in their store. Charles E Hclt wins first.
and Hina +. Diplock second. They have
Lren credit to the mselves and to the
0rtLr.
y special meeting was held. Friday
night. when three were worked in the
FIRST and seven in the Second.
The reading room is being painted and
Pat III fine condition, that all members
may find a chance to pass the long winter
evenings in a manner profitable to them
selves.
Woodnlen from all over the jurisdiction
are invited to drop III.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-12-26
Christmas at the fostoffice.

A little mere OF going and considerably
more incoming mail, this year, than dur
iri, lrcN ions holiday periods, about sums
Up The Christmas situation at the Iost
Office The clerks and carriers hay" been
Very busy nlcn the past few days and
nights Friday. both day and evening
was exceptionally lively. 1t seemed. thi :
year. that those sending gifts by mail
were little earlier in posting the III than
usual Another feature was the number
ut very large packages dispatched BY
| mail: also the way in which the pu0ic
| took advantage of the great facilities al
forced ~ the rural free delivery Peo-
| pl, are Just beginning to realize what a
| convenient and remarkably efficient ser
vice this is.
OF all those in the postal service of
! Uncle Sam, the mail carriers get the
heaviest end of the load during the
| Christmas season. Staggering under
greater burdens than ever adorned the
shoulders Of Santa Claus, they make their
trips under great difficulty during Christ
mas week. They can use teams to little
advantage except on the morning of the
| holiday itself. for the reason that they
are forbidden to work more than eight
| fOulS III one tstS' "'i'tiiNA NV ''o'-> -
done or not. On Christmas day they are
supposed to have a partial holiday AS Il
ma tier Of fact. they work even harder on
| that than on ordinary days. Some We're
able to make team deliveries, Saturday,
| hut the bulk OF the team work IS to
come. this Monday morning. when the
carriers will al go out with teams ana
complete their deliveries. On Sunday, the
carriers window was kept open both fore
noon ard afternoon, so that all calls
misf1t receive a quick response
! Friday. a lady was seen to stow be-
| meath a sleigh seat on Water street. a
huge bundle Of Christmas purchases. and
walk away wearing the look of one who
has zone her best, and is fairly content as
well as tiled A few minutes later the
same lady was seen to step from store
and peer under sleigh seat. Imagine
| the good womans expression on nnolhs
nothing there. Nine dollars and some ocd
cents had she just spent in response 10
| the gift-making inspiration which per-
yades the very atmosphere these days.
| Had she been OF the other sex, doubtless
| some thing different would have perVaoen
| the atmosphere of that immediate iocai-
| ity on finding her purchases vanished
The miscreant that would steal a poor
voman's Christmas purchases, gathered
together with untiring and deVoied el-
| fort of a bitter cold afternoon, ousht u
i live II miles from a cook stove ana nave
4 his meals brought by messenger boy
Tears may well have filled the tired eyes
i and Iuavers crept into the voice tnat toiu
! the tale. Unfortunately no one has re-
ported the expression that chased the