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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
BEAUTY ON THE DOWN GRADE.

A warning note is struck by lady,
who has both medical and literary
skill, against the reckless disregard
of those laws which make for beauty.
We English are growing palmer, she
AYERS, simply because we allow even
our children to be affected by the
stress and strain of modern life The
smartness, the ability to look after
themselves and the athleticism of the
women and children of the present
time spell physical ruin. Beauty is
rarely seen nowadays in its unadorned
style. Lovely women are artificial
products, and really lovely children
are as scarce as auks' eggs. The rea-
son is that our expressions have
grown anxious, eager, cold, our limbs
and members are strained out of
shape by overexercise, our complex
ions and hair are starved for lack of
nerve force. The exquisite complex
ions, luxuriant locks, delicate features
and clear, innocent-1ooking eyes that
one associates with beauty are so sell
dom seen as to be quite remarkable
when they are, and we are threatened
with a still further decrease of these
elements of good looks unless we
bring back our girls to the prunes
and prisms style of upbringing, which
perhaps after all is the best for them.
The larger life certainly has its
drawbacks.-London World.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22

TS Whis S, sIsiSsa xish ssEh
Superb as a star in the sky.
From the waves that We're crouching
As Dian. you have dauntless arisen.
day.
For your beauty was bred of the sea.
And the wave was your playmate, your
brother.
4 And fawned at your feet to be free
You drooped from the weight of your
Yet you tripped with the grace of a
Unsuliied and fun of alarms.
The world for your coming grew brighter
And the fail of your footsteps was lighter
Than the dew or the ripping of rain
That fiatters the dreamer of dreams.
Old Time. with his sneer of derision.
Soon basked in your radiant beams
Your our fairness ,hs caused foemen to falter;
In Cyprus they bniit You IAN an alta altar, PRAISE
Blind Homer sang you in his lays.
stark chieftains who thronged from far
CAS- AS your a Eassals bent low in the mire.
BeSieged you, relentless fire.
You were queen es ever loye, over laughter.
You proved yourself Aphrodite's daugh-
ter,
A f1rebrand and tickle to all
Your face fired the world into fighting
And heartened the craven to slay,
AS the petrol in thunder delighting,
All athirst for the joy of the fray.
Agamemnon first claimed you as master
And brought you the spoil of the strife.
But you left him fomenting disaster
And ned with young Paris as wife.
Breeding snn, hayoc; red ruin, and d. wail dg.
With sorrow the Trojans essailing.
Who captives, were beaten with rods.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
THE WEST LENDING MONEY.

1t has not been very many years
since the great and growing West was
largely dependent on the money cen
tiers of the far East for the greater
part of the money needed in all lines
of business. Funds required for about
everything from crop moving to coun-
ty courthouses had to be secured from
Wall street or some of its adjacent
branches and the charges for this
money in the aggregate made quite
a drain on our traffic profits. This
dependence on the East had a tenden-
cy to belittle the Importance of the
West in the eyes of the Manhattan
money kings and the possibility OF
a release from this commercial bond
age to them received but scant con-
sideration. 1t is now being forced
upon them with unmistakable clear
ness. Not only has the West devel-
oped a financial power that renders
her almost wholly independent of the
East but western capital is actually
invading the domain of Wall street
and picking up financial bargains
which, by virtue of years of monop-
oily, that great money power had come
to regard as exclusively its own
Portland Oregonian.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
THE POWER OF ~DlxlE."

No other song has ever touched the
hearts of all the people of this land
as Dixie" touches them. During the
war John Browns Body" swept the
heart strings of the north and their
brave boys in blue" The war has
passed and the song is passing, is al
ready much of memory. But Dixie"
is more vibrant with life to-day than
it was when it cheered the lean and
hungry legions that were battling for
the lost cause" 1t has not only sur
vfved the war, but since then it has
conquered the conquerors and echoes
in the hearts of those that loved the
blue as in the hearts of those that
loved the gray. 1t has the magic OF
the 'Marseillaise" in it. But it is
without it's clarion call that excites
the red blood of strife. 1t is gay,
sweet, serene, indefatigab1e. 1t may
not be great music, but it has the
quality of all that counts in[this
world-survivaI it is one of
those ballads of nation that the very
wise man reckoned as more powerful
than laws.-Indianapolis News.
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Edinburgh a Century Ago

over a mug of ale or tass of brandy
in the little rooms of a dark tavern
half underground. Here the city mag
istrates were accustomed to meet, and
here the ministers of the general as
sembly were entertained. Even trades
people attended to their business as
much within the tavern as within the
shop. AS a result, the greater part OF
the male population of Edinburgh
drank steadily from morn till eve, and
far on into the night. At 10 o'clock
at night the drum of the city guard
warned all God-fearing men to leave
the tavern and seek their homes, in
accordance with the provisions of an
ancient law which closed all places
of entertainment at that hour. But the
law at this time was laughed at by
the very magistrates sworn to enforce
it. Scott's picture of Councillor Pley-
complished topper of the olden time.
Even to-day the capacity of a we'll
seasoned Scotchman for his native
drink is something to appal the I'M
tried foreigner; but if we may believe
1.-THE of the stories collected by such
a creditable authority as Dean Ram
say, the Scotch of to-day are in this
respect but poor and degenerate sci
ons of heroic race.-T. M. PARROT,
in the Booklover's Magazine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
Got His Bride Cheap

A certain missionary in one of the
rescue homes in local Chinatown is
disguised, and declares that she in
tends to retire and give up the work
of saving souls. All on account of lit
tie Dan Cupid" who has been using
the mission as means to further his
ends.
One day not long ago a neatly
dressed Chinaman entered the mission
and informed the lady in charge that
in a certain alley in Chinatown there
was a slave girl who wished to run
away to the mission and study Chris
tianity, but was unable to do SO on
account of her owner, who was nego-
tiating her sale for $4,000 to an old
gambler
The next day the missionary made
her appearance In the alley and, with
the help of an interpreter and a po-
lice sergeant, rescued the girl, who
took up her abode in the mission. She
became an interested pupil and soon
embraced Christianity
About the same time the Chinaman
who had caused the rescue appeared
This time he wished to join the church
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
Look After the Banks

Not the least interesting of the lit
erature of the American Bankers AS
sociation, which recently held its con-
vention in this city, is the report to
the Protective Committee of Pinker-
tons National Detective Agency. 1t
reads like Sherlock Holmes" adapt
ed to the prose of real life. The bank
ers realize that bank and its money
are soon parted if crooks are allow
ed to have their way. So they have
engaged Pinkerton men all over the
United States to pounce upon the
bank sneaks, both before and after
their attempts-chiefly before, how
ever, for the bankers also realize that
a pounce of prevention is worth a
pound of cure. And the crooks respect
Pinkerton and the banks that Pink
erton takes under his wing.
Statistics of the report show that
out of the forty-nine burglaries COM
mitted on American banks between
Sept. Is, 1903, and Sept 1, 1904, only
seven were committed on the banks
of the association. During the same
period seventeen unsuccessful at
tempts at burglary were made on
banks which were members of the as
sociation, whereas the nonmember
banks were the victims of forty-five
attempts.
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himself. He had no. Seen a member
long before he came forward with the
request for wife, which was granted
Among the names suggested was that
of the rescued sir;, ard he chose her.
Her consent was Inc only condition
and, needless to cay, that was easily
obtained
The wedding was mt delayed. Tho
time taken to deceive tno Missionaries
had been too .oIg .or the loving
hearts. They were EaiteI by the mis-
sion pastor, after which they left for
a josshouse and were married by the
priest in real Chinese fashion.
The last the missionaries heard OF
them they were living in the heart o:
Chinatown and were worshiping Joss.
even more devoutly than their neigh
bors. Later it was discovered that the
Chinaman, who was really the girls
lover, but had not sufficient funds
with which to purchase her, had used
the missionary people in this shrewd
manner He got the girl he loved
without paying the $4,000. But the
missionary has lost her confidence in
the yellow race.-San Francisco Call.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22

Within the tall lands in Edin-
burgh, built so closely together that
tie inhabitants of adjoining houses
could often shake hands across the
deep but narrow chasm that divided
them, the Inhabitants lived in the
most confined of quarters. Four, five
or at most six rooms constituted the
apartments of the wealthiest families.
Servants slept outside the house or
under the kitchen table; beds were
made up for the nurse and children
in the masters study; turned-up beds
with curtains drawn round them stood
in the drawing room. Naturally the
entertaining that could be done in
such apartments was of the smallest.
My lady could receive a few friends
over cup of tea in her bedroom,
but when her lord wished to dine or
wine his friends, recourse was had of
mere necessity to one or another of
the tavernS.
Taverns, in fact, played almost the
same part in the social life of Edin-
burgh during the third quarter of the
eighteenth century as coffee houses
had done in London in Addison's
time. They were the common meet
ing places of a race of men to whom
home meant little more than place
to sleep. Doctors met their patients,
lawyers consulted with their clients
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UNPROFITABLE BOARDING.

Money boarded means interest lost.
The old stocking is as undesirable for
the keeping of money as the unsound
bank. This is a financial turism.
1t is equally true of goods and chat
tells. The gown of winter before last,
stored in a capacious attic, gathers
moths, but loses its rightful interest
the comfort and ease which it might
bring to some poor woman. The
worn overcoat, kept by it's owner 'in
case of need" fails of its proper SER
vice in the actual cease of need" of
the half-clothed laboring man out of
work through Illness.
So of the cast-off clothes Of the
mind = discarded magazines and
books. The increasing piles of these
waste interest on the top shelves OF
the wel1-filled library, while the active
minds of men, women and children
less well supplied hunger for the food
of the printed page, until ungratifed
desire dies, and they sink to the level
of the threading mass.
Whatever has service in it should
be passed on promptly from hand TO
hand until that power of service is
exhausted. The rubbish heap is more
ton of useful things. Hoarding is
bad economy in every department of
life. Losing interest on savings is
foolish improvidence, whether the in
terest is reckoned in dollars and
cents or in gratitude, relief and COM
fort-Youth's Companion
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THREE OAKS IN ONE TUB.
Descendants of the Famous Charter
Oak Being Carefully Nurtured.

Descendants of the Famous Charter
Oak Being Carefully Nurtured.
Growing in a large tub at the resi-
dence of James Knowlden, 703 Roland
avenue, are three thriving descend
ants of the famous Charter oak,
These sturdy little oaks of such re-
nowned lineage" will be transplant
ed in separate tubs in the autumn and
if they continue to flourish Mr.. Knowl-
den will present two of them to the
city, one to be planted in Druid hill
and the other in Patterson park.
When in Hartford, Conn, two years
ago Mr.. Knowlden secured eight
acorns from the tree grown from a
sprig of the Charter oak, which stands
on the spot where that most famous
tree in American history spread its
branches for hundreds of years He
planted all, but five failed to germi-
nate. He watched with tender care
the three oaks that came up. bestow-
ing as much attention upon them as
if they were delicate flowers. They
are now about a foot high and give
promise of becoming strong trees.
When the Charter oak blew down
the citizens of Hartford Immediately
planted a sprig from it on the spot
where it had stood The new tree
thrived from the first and now its
branches shade a considerable area
On every Fourth of July the Hartford
people. augmented by many patriotic
citizens of nearby towns, gather at
the tree and decorate it with flags and
bunting, after which the declaration
of independence is read beneath it's
corresponding boughs.
The Charter oak itself was sawed
up into lumber. From this a frame
for the colonial charter was made.
The frame. with its historic document,
now hangs in the supreme court
chamber in the capitol at Hartford
chair was also made from the 1um-
Der and this is occupied by the lieu
tenant governor of Connecticut in the
senate CHARACTERIZATION Sun
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
NO PLACE FOR sHIRkER.

Then it bluntly follows that there
is no religion at all in shirk and no
salvation for the shirker. There must
be a new vision of honest labor, as
the hopefulest sign of manhood. To
cut down our work to a minimum is
the new sin of the twentieth century.
To hinder man or a woman from
earning daily bread violates not so
much civil law. as the Golden Rule.
We have got huge lie imbedded in
our modern view of labor. It is some
thing to be avoided, something to be
legislated out as far as possible. The
new religion will demand more work
rather than less, but fair division
of its obligations-and afterward JUS
tice in distribution. The sooner we
turn our faces away from the>dogmas
of medieval pietism and the crotchets
of Journalism the better for u.s.
Church Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22

The report gives the impression
that there exists in the United States
a large class of persons who engage
in the occupation of swindling in as
matter-of-fact spirit as a grocer sells
bad butter or lawyer defends a bad
case.
The system by which the Pinker
tons keep track of the crooks is won
derfully complete. They possess a
full rogues' gallery of their own; keep
a record of the handwriting of PRO-
fessiona1 forgers, and have a personal
acquaintance with their victims that
helps them penetrate the confusion Of
DISCUSSES and aliases. Nevertheless,
the professional forger has not been
suppressed. THE professional forger,"
says the report, has during the past
year been unusually active. hut
through our efforts for your associa-
tfen we have caused the arrest of
thirty-five forgers whose operations
were reported to us, convicted twenty,
who were sentenced to fifty-three
years and seven months, in addition
to which six were sentenced to in
determinate terms in prison, one es-
capped, one sentence suspended, while
ten are awaiting trial, and five were
released. New York Evening Post.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
WHY NOT ENDow MENf

We venture to assert that If our
men of great wealth and philanthropic
motives who have lately been giving
so generously and largely Of their ac-
foundations to the endowment of col
leges, hospitals, libraries and other
worthy objects and institutions should
turn some part of this volume of be-
nehcence into the endowment of men.
they might be contributing even more
largely in some instances to the prog
ress of the world and the happiness
and well-being of their fellows. We
mean by this the selection of men Of
character, experience and proved abfI
ity and their assignment to some line
of needed educational, charitable or
reform work, with fair and just sal
airy allowance guaranteed for a rea,
sonable number Of years. IL not foI
life.-Leslie's Weekly.
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MYTH THE WORI DIS
~ BEST WRITERS\
G q
THE VALUE OF SAYING "No."

mo" is characterized as ga mono
syllable the easiest learned by a child,
but the most difficult to practice by
the man.
DR.. Johnson displays a world of.wis-
dom in these few simple lines, and
the saying is no less true in regard
to women than it is to men.
1t seems cold and heartless to a
man to refuse to lend a friend little
money to tide over some anxious time,
and yet it is a great question as to
whether he is justified in doing so
If he himself is forced to make some
Of his own creditors wait while his
money is fulfilling a friends need.
In domestic life a woman has also
much call for the little monosyllable
mo" She may dislike to disappoint
her children in some matters, but
knows in her heart of hearts that the
granted favor would be bad for their
health or future happiness.
Yet how few mothers do say No
under such circumstances! And they
excuse themselves by saying it is bad
for. children to be thwartedi So 1T is,
but If the said children were brought
up to know that their mother had
always a good reason for her decis-
ion and was not to be cajoled out OF
that decision, the mother would save
great deal of annoyance both to
herself and to others thrown in con-
tact with her offspring.-Philadel
Ledger
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
HOW TO STAY YOUNG.

How old are you? The adage says
that women are as old as they look
and men as old as they feel. That's
wrong. A man and woman are as old
as they take themselves to be.
Growing old is largely habit OF
the mind LAS a man thinketh in his
heart so is he" If he begins shortly
after middle age to imagine himself
growing old he will be old.
To keep ones self from decrepitude
is somewhat a matter of will power.
The fates are kind to the man who
hangs on to life with both hands. He
who lets go will CO. Death is slow
only to tackle the tenacious
Ponce de Leon searched in the
wrong place for the fountain Of youth.
1t is in ones self. One must keep ones
self young inside. So that while s'the
outer man perisheth the inner man is
renewed day by day."
When the human mind ceases to ex-
ert itself, when there is no longer an
active interest in the affairs of this
life. when the human stops reading
and thinking and doing, the man, like
a blasted tree, begins to die at the top.
You are as old as you think you-are
Keep the harness on Your job is
not done.-Milwaukee Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
Ruins of Amber (JacqueIin) Mansion,
the Site of the House of RurQesses.

tfuinS OF Amber (JacQuelIn) Mansion,
the Site of the House of Burgesses.
the first representative Legislature in
America assembled in jamestown
church This was over year before
the landing at Plymouth Rock.
The same year, 1919, witnessed the
arrival of the first cargo of maidens,
who were disposed of to the colonists
for one hundred and twenty pounds of
tobacco to pay their expenses coming
over. 1t also witnessed the purchase
of twenty negro slaves from a Dutch
man-of-war. Thus this year saw the
first legislative assembly and the in
PRODUCTION of slavery into Virginia.
The first resistance to taxation with
out representation was made at James
town in 1924, when the Legislature
forbade the Governor to levy any
taxes that had not been duly author
lied.
September 10, 1876, Nathaniel Ba-
con, the leader of the rebellion against
Gov. Berkeley, burned Jamestown
In 1898 the seat of government was
moved to Williamsburg, seven miles
inland; but jamestown had a repre-
sentative in the House of Burgesses
until 1776. In 1881 CORVALLIS made
his last fight (before his fatal retreat
to Yorktown) at jamestown Ford.
Here he laid an ambush for Lafayette
and Wayne, who had chased him down
the peninsula, and at jamestown Ford
he defeated the Americans. Fifteen
weeks later CORVALLIS surrendered,
and American independence was won
within thirteen miles of the first set
Element
In the civil war jamestown was
heavily fortified, and was a place of
great strategic Importance; and to-day
the earJhen Notifications are in as
perfect state of preservation as
when they were built.
The common idea that jamestown
is a town is entirely erroneous, as
there is no town. and has been none
in over two hundred years. The entire
island is owned by one individual, and
the place is inhabited only by the
employees of the owner and is used as
a truck farm.
In 1895 that part of the island which
contains the historical church ruins.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22

A Hover Of f,, the foam a,n Of sea spray.
Stark Iiegemen who bowed to your
Superb as some goddess immortal.
And Welcome the guests through the por-
Serene as some sumptuous fawn-
Big April eyes with oueenly spiendor.
The hes soft low VOICE SO sweet and tender;
yd mnaf 81 haunfs me muslcs dying strain
,7 Twin baby peaks Ike lilies Grow.
Unstained by passions lustful glow.
AS tender as the dream of dawn.
The Eae mouth with laughter SWELL
The Step as supple as the fawn.
And your lustrous eyes cleaning.
Grieving Ger some wounded bird;
When her tender PHYS stirred
AS fair as foam your silken tresses.
The which the clustering breeze cafesses
A glance that shames the starry splen-
When Orion swings his brilliant blade.
And beams Arcturus pure and tender
Through purple gloom or violet shade
Proud .priestess of pleasure and passion.
To bew yuS and begui1e was Your fashion.
Your laughter was bubbling as wine
You lulled Priam to languorous ease,
To your beauty their homage they render.
AS blown spray from the foam of the
seas.
Through the mirage of turbulent ages
Shines your face just as fair as
flower,
Beloved of the chiefs and the sages.
The plaything. the toy of hour.
We tire of the love capricious,
That yields less sorrow than Joy.
But we cherish your fame, o delicious
And beautiful Helen of Troy
JAMES E. KINSELLA-
Registry Division. Chicago Postoffice-
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was given to the Association for the
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities by
the present owner, Mrs. Louise ]. Bar
ney, to be held by them in trust until
such time as the United States gov
eminent might obtain control of the
property
that of the old brick church. Nothing
remains of it except a brick tower,
twenty feet square and thirty or forty
feet high. This church was built about
1920, ON the site of the little wooden
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-10-22
Famous Italian Rrieand.

Italy begins to ring with the ex
ploits of another notorious brigand,
not this time in the remote wilds of
Sicily, but close to the very heart of
the monarchy, in the Romagna itself.
The name of the bandit is Melandri.
and his operations are conducted in
the region around Ravenna- A whole
army of carabineers is in the district,
but so far Melandri has eluded all pur.
suit, though his crimes continue.
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Old Governors Palace, Built in 1910,
and Burned Eleven Times.

and Burned Eleven Times.
the large graveyard and one of the
Confederate forts, and the remains of
John Smiths powder magazine, and
twenty acres of ground surrounding
these relics of the first settlement.