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The daily sentinel., 1904-01-13
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Our January Sale of Muslin Underwear
Begins on Monday the 1lth

wee" u agreeable
SuprSe WI" found
ago. before the advance cotton mak
advantage extraordinary
o one readily that such LITTLE PRICES
facilitate selling and
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-13
CO S r.

We will have no auctioneer to pay
and can sell you goods nearer to
actual cost on that account.
Remember this holds good until
February Ist. We can meet any
ones prices no matter where you
get them and as usual guarantee
both the price and the quality and
refund your money when not per-
fectly satisfactory.
The daily sentinel., 1904-01-13
lime TABLE.

d. & H. G. GOING WEST
No. arrives 2:20 am Leaves 3:05 a. IN.
No 3 arrives II 80 a. m Leaves IL %, m.
No 2 arrives IL :25 D. m. Leaves II "a H. m
ID. & r. g. GOING EAST.
No arrives l. :i5 a. m. Leaves 12:55 a. m.
No arrives 6;l0 a. m. Leaves 6;25 a. m.
No arrives :25 p. m. Leaves G.45 d. m.
NARROW GAUGE.
No a15 arrives :Oj p. m Leaves 1000 a. m.
COLORADO MIDLAND,
No lu3 arr. II :i5 p. No 1OI leaves 6 30 "A. m.
No 10j arr IL rs p. m. No log leaves s :35 p. m.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
TONNAGE" AT INLAND PORT.
Deputy Collector Evidently Had New.
err Been Seafarinq Man.

Appraiser Whitehead in discussing
the other day some of the peculiari-
ties of the tariff law, told the follow
ing story of a newly appointed deputy
collector at a SUPPORT on the Cana
dian border. The port was in the
woods, and hundreds of miles from
the coast.
The customs officials are furnished
with blanks on which to make their
reports, and in cases like the one in
point there are many items on the
blanks which it is never necessary to
fill. The new deputy collectors re-
port contained the information that
he had collected 81 for tonnage"
dues on vessels.
The treasury department had Wis
IONS of a tidal wave which had chang
ed the face of the map on the north
ern frontier and made the little port
IN the woods a veritable seaport. An
agent was dispatched to the scene to
investigate. He found no change in
the physical characteristics of the re-
gion, and the first question which he
asked the new official was how he had
managed to collect 81 for tonnage.
q collected duty on two tons of hay
at 81 a ton," he replied, '-and if that
isn't what you mean by tonnage on
your old blank I'll be ID if l know
what it is."-New York Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
GAVE HIS FLOCK WARNING.
Jealous Old Minister Certainly Made
Lesson Impressive.

The little town of Bethlehem, Pa,
once contained half-crazy minister
known as "Ranting" Ranker, who had
been educated beyond his intelligence,
and was at times Historically fanatic
His strange doings were as numerous
as they were well known, but probably
the widest freak was during the last
year of his eventful life.
The quiet little village was deep in
slumber one night when it was arous-
ed by peal after peal from the bell in
the Moravian church. Men and wom-
en- rushed from every side to put out
the supposed fire and the local fire
brigade sailed forth with all its para
pnernalia. The crowd assembled
about the church, but the bell never
ceased its frantic summons. At last a
delegation was sent up to see who the
ringer was. "Ranting' Ranker stood
there, half naked, pulling the bell rope
with all his strength
What is it? Where's the fire?"
was their excited query.
Fire in hell! Fire in hell" shout
ed the jealous old preacher, "and if
you don't look out you'll all be burned
up in it,
How many souls were converted
that night has never been known.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Taught by Phonoorapb.

A book agent recently obtained adj
mission to the office of Thomas Edf-
son, and assailed him with such an ag-
gregation of arguments in favor of the
publication she represented that the
famous inventor hurriedly subscrib-
ed After a gradual restoration of his
energies Mr. Edison asked:
How did you ever succeed in mas
tering such a long and convincing
speech as that?''
oh, our speeches are taught us at
the home ONCE" responded the lady.
sweetly, by means of the phone
graph. ",-Harper,s Weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
HE SOLD HIS COAL
ScOTcHMAN "HELD UP" UNITED
STATES GOVERNMENT.
War Vessel in Pursuit of the confed-
crate Cruiser Alabama Filled Its
BunIeers with Fuel at Cost to IN
Gle Sam of $4,000.

zone of the peculiar businesses that
grew up as a result of the civil war
was the establishment of private coal
ing stations in all sorts of out of the
way places" remarked E. Mckee,
late of the United States navy. You
see, the government could not tell on
what part of the earth's surface its
war vessels might have to cruise in
their chase for privateers and other
craft menacing its operations, and, or
course, could not make arrangements
for coal As a consequence the cap
tains were authorized to secure the
best bargains they could at such ports
as they might touch when supply
was needed. Thrifty ones in the most
unfrequented waters prepared for
possible visit from a United States
war steamer with low coal bunkers,
and when the fish entered their net
they charged up for the time they
had to wait. They were net patriots,
but were on earth strictly for the root
of all evil.
Il was a marine on the Vanderbilt
during her 25.000-mile chase after the
confederate cruiser Alabama We left
the port of New York in 1862. We
took Capt. John A. Winslow to Fayal,
in the West Indies, where he took COM
mand of the Kearsarge, the vessel
that eventually rounded up the prey.
At that time the ocean was dotted
with the ships of Uncle Sam in quest
of the greatest and most formidable
of the enemy's cruisers.
''At nearly every port we stopped we
would get more or less misleading in
formation, and would hopefully follow
every c1ew. While in the South At
lantic we heard from what appeared
to be a most authentic source that
the Alabama was at the Cape of Good
Hope. AS we approached ST. Helena
Napoleon's island, the coal bunkers
got low, and we stopped there, and
opened negotiations with Scotchman
for a new supply. He serenely de-
manded $50 a ton in gold, without
going to the trouble of removing his
pipe while stating his outrageous
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Moo. Great lands. Row I suffer,~

Moo. Great lands. how I suffer!"
The case is just like this, dad:
The wilder is at least ten years older
than me, but we love each other. and
want to git married. You married to
please yourself, and I shall do the
same thing. You and ma have had a
heap to say about it, and you've said
some purity hard things, but / guess
you're willin' to take them all back
now and keep shet. Do / understand
it that way, dad?"
Never, Dick-neveri"
Then you stand quiet and I'll go
in to dinner. If I hear you yell
shan't come, as it will be too late.
Do you want big funeral, dad?"
"Dick, have l got to chaw my
words?" pleadingly queried the father.
"Or else let the bees chaw you"
Then, Dick-then git that hive up
here in less'n a. mint and begin
to gently scrape them Internal in
seeks off. fur I'm right on the pint
of faintin' away"
"And the wilder. dad-the wild
der?'
Marry the wilder, and be burned
to ,''-Charles Crawford in Bos-
ton Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

terms. The exchange was S2S5, max
ing the total price Uncle Sam was
asked to pay $50 a ton, and we were
using 400 tons a day running at mod
crate speed.
After run of ten hours the ships
officers held a consultation. The al
most impossibility of reaching the
cape without coal was only too clear.
and if a storm should come up the
ship would be absolutely helpless. 1t
was hard thing to do, but there
didn't seem to be any alternative. The
ship was reversed and put back to ST.
Helena 'Scotchy' was occupying the
identical position we had left him in
on his black gold mine. This time he
was trife more interested, because
he knew we were going to trade with
him. He gave us his philosophy in
this way: He had been sitting on that
coal pile for eighteen months, waiting
for ship to come that had to have
it. He observed from the height of
the Vanderbilt above the water that
she came in light, and that her officers
would not dare risk a storm while
she STOOD up so high. Our return did
not surprise him a bit, and he soon
got his men to work and loaded 900
tons in the hold, for which the federal
government paid $4,000. He said
somebody had to pay for his tobacco
and his patience, and we happened to
be the victims. He admired the
United States and sometimes felt
sympathetic-but sympathy wouldn't
buy whisky and things like money
would Kansas City Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
6|Lz4RLES L24NIZ2RD

JENNY, no wonder that me and
your mother have bin havin' cold feet
fur the last three days and huntin'
up verses for our tombstonesi I'll
have one more talk with you when
we go up to dinner, and if you can't
be made to listen to reason then I'll
be through with you
Dick had nothing to say in reply.
He was as much astonished as his
father at his sudden outbreak, but it
had given him confidence.
The pair worked along for the next
two hours without a word, and when
the dinner horn blew they started for
the house. The father led by a good
fifteen rods.
His head was down, and he was
thinking up new arguments to ad-
vance. when strange, buzzing noise
suddenly reached his ears and made
him halt.
He was passing close to one of the
beehives, and the bees were swarm
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

At this time when the eyes and at
tention of the entire civilized world
are focused on Russia, the car and
his great army in the far east, the
horoscope of Nichilas II. should prove
of interest, even to those who do not
believe that the position of certain
planets about the time of persons
birth has anything whatever to do
with the ups and downs of life.
The car was born at ST. Peters
burg, May Is, 1868. The time of day
was noon, or to get the time down to
astrological nicely at IL h, Sc m, IA S,
a. m, st. Petersburg time. Accord
ing to a horoscope published in an
astrological magazine called "Des-
tiny" there were untoward aspects in
the heavens about that time which
determine that the car at this time
is in most terrible position.
An evil influence has been at play
about him all his life. Simple and I'M
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

assuming in manner, with both the
ability and the desire to do his duty,
he stands surrounded by friends and
counselors who are false and decep-
tive, and by enemies who are power
full and unyielding.
He is not a robust man, and his
constitution is by no means strong.
His nervous system is weak and de-
ranged, and he lacks stamina and
force of will. Heavenly signs at the
time of his birth foreordained that
Fate would be too powerful for his
weak frame and feeble will to stand
against
All of these doomful, dubious signs
the astrologer who ciphered out the
horoscope interprets as disastrous.
The portents point to the defeat of
Russian arms in the present struggle
with Japan, internal eruptions in the
great empire of the bear, humiliation,
dismemberment, and death of the
car.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
The bees were swarmina.

ing. They put out by the thousand,
flying around and around, like a cork
screw, and as farmer Scott heSitat-
ed which way to run, the whole cloud
began settling down on him
His straw hat was covered in an in
slant, and then the little workers
roasted on his shoulders, chung to his
shirtsleeves and covered him down
to the knees. He reached out his
right hand and grasped young
peach tree to support himself, but
that was all he could do.
Dick came swinging along about
the time the last bee had settled
down, and he stopped short with a
look of amazement- Then the look
changed to grin, and he sat down on
the frame of the grindstone, crossed
his legs and said:
Dad, L wouldn't be In your place
for three of the best cows in Hills
dale county,"
Dick, I'm a dead mani" replied
the father in a hoarse whisper.
You surely are. You amt goin' to
die of a broken heart because marry
the wilder Lapham, but because
about 100000 bees are goin' to jab
their stingers into you at the same
did-fur wuss.'
"Dick," continued the father, you
must git one O. them new hives and
put some fresh honey around it and
try to coax them bees off. They may
begin to sting me any mint
Yes, dad. they may, and they'll
hear your yells clear down to Schem-
erhorn's as the first fifty stingers go
in. I'll see about the hive bimeby.
1 want to talk with you first How
old do you think the wilder Lapham
is?"
For heavens sake; but what has
the wilder Lapham got to do with
them bees? Get that hivei"
After we've had our talk. How
old did you say she WASP"
"A leetle over 80. guess, but I'm
nigh dead of fright"
You keep still and you'll be all
right How big are the widder's
| feet?''
"Durn you. Dick, will you see -ouI
| own father perish this way?''
| You're not perishin'. How big ars
her feet?'
Same as your fathers, or small
er- Now git the hive
Purity soon. dad. How about the
wilder settin' nlantraps?"
Dick Scott!" exclaimed the father
| in as loud tones as he dared use
them COMPOUNDED bees are crawlin
down my back and into my ears.'
Eyes, they are naturally GURUS I,
know who you are. Do you reckon
the wilder set mantrap for me. dad? ?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
M,zzEY ~
NEEY ASZE4k2ZZW
ATCzz2D C24kIZ23O

A good many things had happened
before the bees swarmed back of the
house on that June day.
Dick Scott, son of the hard-headed
and .hard-hearted old Farmer Scott,
had fallen in love with the widow
Lapham months before He was
barely 21 years of age, and working
for his father as a hired hand, while
she was 80 and owned the next farm
on the east.
1t was easy to get up an argument
on their respective ages, showing
that the disparity was too great and
on the wrong side, and the father
used it for all it was worth.
Farmer Scott had called upon the
widow and charged her with seeking
to trap his guileless son, and had
been promptly turned out doors The
neighbors had mixed in after that,
and the affair was the leading subject
of conversation for five miles around.
Dick Scott was no talker, but he
was a good hand to think. He was
very much in love, and he was as de-
termined to marry that widow as he
was to live, but he couldn't stand up
against the arguments of his father
nor witness the tears of his mother.
earthquake, cyclone or some other
dispensation of Providence to help
him out.
Whenever they were working in
the fields together the father would
look at the sky with a squint, take
farewell glance around the farm, and
then solemnly remark:
Dick, it seems awful that I've got
to die in my prime and leave all this,
especially before them young pear
trees begin to bear, but I'll have to
do it'll have to do it.
Whats the use 90 dyin'?" Dick
would ask, knowing that he must say
something.
81 don't want to, but I've got to.
Can't live a week after you've went
and married to the wilder Lapham.
The idea that my only son has gone
and married his grandmother, and a
women with feet like an elephant at
that. would break my heart and send
me to my grave"
Didn't you marry who you want
ed to when you married MAJ"
THAT was different. In them days
women didn't set traps for young
men, and widders wasn't schemin'
day and night. Dick, gol durn We,
what dye want to make a hyena of
yourself fur and send my gray hairs
down to the grave in sorrer?"
Dick would change the subject or
refuse to talk back any further, and,
after muttering to himself for half
an hour longer, the father would get
tired out.
On this June day, however, when
the two were repairing the rail fence
between the corn and the potato
field, and all nature was reveling in
the ba1my sunshine, the usual discus
sion opened with a different prelim-
mary and became red hot at once.
A peddler came down into the field
to see if he couldn't make a sale of
a pocket knife or a pair of suspend
ers, and he had a little joke to get
off about the widow Lapham wearing
the trousers after marriage
He was still grinning when Dick
knocked him into the thistle patch
and seemed sorry that there was not
more of him.
by thunder Dick Scott!" ex-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
SMALL BOY WAS WANTED.
Demand for Sustenance Evidently |
Fruitful of Results.

Demand for SuStenance EVioehtiy
Fruitful of Results.
He was not more than six. He stood
stood on the curb in front of a large
hotel at Thirty-sixth and Chestnut
streets. His sturdy little legs were
bare and brown, and he looked
healthy youngster, with his arms
akimbo and a shock of surly brown
hair blowing to the breeze.
NAV. Oh, Maw." he yelled with
all the strength of his young lungs
at the upper stories of the hotel. The
policeman on the post stopped, two
maids who were rolling perambula-
tors halted in their parade, the pas
sengers on a passing trolley craned
their necks, and two curious team
sters pulled up to see what was the
matter.
"Mawt Oh, Maw," yelled his cub
ship, louder and more petulantly, all
oblivious of the attention he was at
tracing. The voice reached it's mark
A window in the fifth story shot up; ;
a woman put her head out. At sight
of her the youngster, with all his
strength. cried out:
ooh, Nav, throw down my hat an
a piece of bread and butter with SUI
gar on it inside,"
The head at the window disappear
ed, the maids turned away, the pas
sengers on the car laughed, the cop
grinned, and the tradesmen were just
saying Cit up to their steeds when
a bellboy appeared. AS he towed the
small boy into the hotel he said sig
nificantly, your mother wants to see
ou."-Philadelphia Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
A Social TraCedy,

She first put on dark blue dress.
Then changed it for a purple one:
Then changed again. in her distress.
To one 'twixt chestnut-bay and dun;
And yet once more she made a change
And put a pale pink rigging on;
Her husband growled things strong and
strange
His patience was completely gone.
They went to call upon some friends
That she was anxious to impress
IT'S ever thus when woman spends
a lot of time upon her dress
This time her plan succeeded not
In stunning folks for o. alasi
Her hostess said: It's quite too hot
To think of turning up the gas
s.. w. Gillian in Baltimore American.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

From Paris the latest automobile
fad has come, and the dog that goes
motoring with his master or mistress
will hereafter wear goggles, coat and
cap in New York just as his European
brother has been doing for several
years.
Women will be very prompt to take
up this new fad, the automobile supply
dealers believe. It has long been
custom in France to protect pet dogs
with the peculiar outfit of the automo-
bilists. and it is contended by those
who have set the fashion that dog
needs such protection quite as much
as a human beng 1t is argued that
the dogs eyes are even more suscep-
tiblo to the Injurious effect or wind
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27

and dust than are those of the auto
mobilist, and for this reason he is en-
titled to the protection afforded by
goggles
Lap dogs, accustomed to the atmo-
sphere of a house, cannot stand the
chilling effect of the draught created
by the swift motion of the automobile
on country roads, it is asserted, and
for this reason they must have an au-
tomobile coat
So the New York dog that goes rid
ing in touring car henceforth, If he
be a real stylish dog. must put on all
the '-toggery" of his master or mis-
tress, be he pug, bull terrier, grey
bound or Great Dane.-New York
Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Made Name as Astronomer.

One of the most noted of Russian
astronomers died in the person of
Theodore Bredikhine. He had been di-
rector of the observatories in Mos
COW and st. Petersburg 1t was his
unpleasant duty in the latter place to
GUST the Germans and Swedes who
had made it famous. His own spe-
cialty was comets tails, regarding the
formation of which he had an electric
theory, which occupied his attention
to the time of his death.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Memorial to Great Scientist.

An appropriate memorial to the
great geologist and scientist, Joseph
LIE Conte, has been erected in Yose-
mite valley by the Sierra club of
California 1t is lodge, built strong
Iy and simply, containing one large
room, 25x36 feet, with large stone
fireplace at one end, and a small
room on either side the entrance on
the opposite end. 1t is at the upper
end of the valley
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Princess Has Many eodfathers.

Probably no person in the world had
as many godfathers as did Princess
Irene of Prussia, wife of Prince Hen
nv When she was born her fall-r re-
uuested the members of the Hessian
regiments forming a portion OF his
cavalry brigade to be sponsors for the
baby When she was christened
about 1000 soldiers STOOD for her az
SPONSORS
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
Germans in Samoa.

The German occupation of Samoa
does not appear to be a success. The
landed proprietors, unable to make
money out of their estates, are emf
grating to America, and the heavy
freight rates and import duties are a
serious matter to the smaller bust
ness people.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-08-27
'what's the use o. dyin'7"

claimed the father as the peddler
picked himself up and started on,
'sbut you appear to bring eternal dis
grace on this family. 1t wasn't 'nuff
that you must go and git all tangled
up with a wilder as old as the hills,
but you haul on and hit peddler
who'll have you in the county jail be-
fore Saturday night
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-02-11
Notice to Creditors

In the Fifth Judicial District Court
of the State of Nevada. in and for the
County of Humboldt.
In the matter of the estate of Lizzie
Mcdonald. deceased.
Notice Is hereby given that the un'
der signed. Z. III. Lemaire. was on the
18th day of January. duly appointed.
and qualified. administrator of the es-
tate OF Lizzie Mcdonald. deceased.
All persons having claims against
said estate are required to file the same
with proper and statutory
afidavits attached with the clerk OF
the above entitled court within forty
days from the date of the first pub
lication of his notice.
Dated January 18th. 1904.
E. H. LEMAIRE,
Administrator of the estate OF Lizzie
Mcdonald. deceased. 1-19-4w
The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-02-11
Notice to Creditors

In the Fifth Judicial District Court OF
the State of Nevada. in and for the
County of Humboldt.
In the matter of the estate of Philo M.
Palmer, deceaseos
NOTICE TO CREDITORS.
Notice is hereby given. that the I'M
dersigned. Carl e. Haviland. was on
the 18th day of January, 1904. duly APP
pointed administrator of the estate OF
Philo Nj. Palmer, deceased; all persons
having claims against said estate. are
hereby notified. directed and required
TO file the same with proper vouchers
and statutory afidavits attached, with
the clerk of the above entitled court
within forty days from and after the
first publication OF this notice.
Witness my official signature this
18th day of January. 1904.
CARL r. HAVILAND.
Administrator of the estate OF Philo
NJ. Palmer, deceased.
III. WARREN,
Attorney for Administrators. l-lo-sw