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For Sale.

Eight room house, good barn and water,
located on 2 fine lots near hospital.
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II Regsstefed Hereford Bulls. All
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Ranch for Sale.

For sale; fine eastern hay. Inquire Of
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the M. E. church at 3 o'clock Wednes-
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Chas. F. Ellis Of Mandan, N. Oak.
offers for sale or trade some fine regis.
tered bulls, North Dakota bred. There
are four Herefords and three Galloways,
all excellent individuals. I-I6.ti
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
sURAToMIc ENERGY.

The disintegration of a gram Of
uranium, or thorium, or radium, sets
free at least a million times as much
energy as that which is represented in
any known chemical change taking
place within a gram weight of any
known compound substance. The ex-
periments of the last eight years have
then marked remarkable advance in
science, in that they have proved the
existence of an immense store of SUBJ
atomic energy. 1t seems highly i'm
probable, however, that this energy
can ever be utilized on the earth to
serve mans economic needs, for thus
far we know of but three substances
which are disengaging it, and these
are changing so slowly that the rate
of evolution of energy is almost infin-
itesimal. Radium may possibly prove
to be of some practical value in the
cure of disease, although it is too
early yet to assert even this with GER
tainty. But even if no practical appli-
cation of these discoveries should be
found, radio-activity will nevertheless
have served one or the most useful of
all ends, namely, that of charging
mans knowledge of the ways Of ma
ture and of deepening his insight into
the constitution of matter.-Prof. R.
A. Millikan, in Popular Science
Monthly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
THE RUSSIAN PERIL.

Whenever Russia does wake up,
then, indeed, beware Of the Russian
peril Peasant France, freed, overran
Europe, ignoring the boundaries OF
Kingdoms as If they were chalk marks.
and upsetting thrones as if they were
toys on a nursery floor. In three years
the revolutionists made more great
generals "out of mud" than the mon
archy had made out of porcelain in
three centuries, and from their loins
sprang Napolean and his marshals.
To-day only a few thousand persons
constitute Russia. No one else has
anything to say or anything to do,
except to pay the bills and carry the
guns. But when the more than hun
dred million Russians each becomes
an active unit in the nation, when
their energies, pent up and denied for
centuries, are loosed in the service of
their country, Russia then will realize
the great picture which Milton drew
in these memorable lines:
"a noble and puissant nation, rous-
ing herself like a strong man after
sleep and shaking her inyincible
locks."-Boston Globe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
A STRIKING SUGGESTION.

In a very interesting table showing
the aceumulations of monthly savings
OF one dollar to twenty dollars, when
interest Is compounded semi-annually
at the rate of per cent per annum,
it Is shown that a monthly saving of
only five dollars a month for ten years
amounts to $699.58. In ten years ten
dollars saved monthly amounts to
$1,399.38, and twenty dollars TO 3d.
1888.
Thrift is not one of the American
virtues. Most American families
throw away enough food to keep a
French family, for example, in health
and comfort. Nor is it characteristic
of Americans to save money. We
have about us SO many instances Of
great wealth rapidly acquired, the
country is so prosperous and money
80 easy to get, that we do not count
the pennies or the dimes, but scatter
them right and left In the serene
though insensate confidence that we
shall find dollars growing on the
trees at the next turning in 1ife's path
way.
Our habits, too, are luxurious. We
all buy things continually Tor which
no need whatever. Do we not all
know of at least five dollars we have
wasted every month?
1t is not necessary to argue as to
the folly of this national weakness,
for its folly is self-evident. Nor is it
necessary to point out the advantages
OF thrift and economy.
1t is. suggestive enough to call at
tention, to the fact that self-denial to
the extent of a very few dollars a
month will in a short time fortify a
man against the sudden assaults of
adverse fortune.-Chicago Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
PREPARATION FOR TRAVEL.

There is one thing which is of
great Importance if one wishes to
benefit by travel" says Rev. Minot ].
Savage in the Four-Track News. "One
should make sure what he is going to
see before he leaves home. The story
Is told of Humboldt, the great and
wonderful traveller. that on a certain
occasion, he was talking to a friend
who had just returned from Palestine.
AS the great scientist talked about
the points of intereset, mentioning
buildings and streets and ruins in the
most familiar way, his friend asked
him when it was that he had been
there He replied that he had never
been there. but on a certain occasion
he had expected to go and had read
s.p in regard to it by way of prepare
zion. In London. for example, or
Paris, there are many streats, build
ings, monume-is, pictures. historic
spots to be visited. that no man can
expect to be otherwise than lost as in
q wilderness, unless he has read and
studied beforehand and knows what
he wishes to see.'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28

The Late Henry Morton Stanley.
Stanley and the Congo will go to-
gether in the human mind.
But Stanley's work was even great
er than this. He labored at a time
when exploration had come to have .
political as well as geographical
value. Bruce and Park and the rest
have their place in the history of ad-
venture and of science. For Stanley
was reserved the distinction of being
the first of the African explorers
whose travels led directly to general
exploitation and whose personal
career is itself entwined with the par
tition Of African territory among Eu-
ropean powers.
J. Scott Kettle, the great English
authority on the colonization of Afri-
ca, is sustained by the facts when he
says that in the descent of Europe
upon the newest, as well as the oldest.
Of continents, "Stanley's memorable
journey across Africa and especially
his discovery of the great waterway
of the Congo may be regarded as the
initiatory episode"
While Stanley was still in Africa on
the journey which took him through
underground and dwarfs from the
headwaters to the estuary of the Con-
go, King Leopold of Belgium, his i'm
agination fired by the prospect OF
new continent split down the middle
and exposed to the view of civilized
mankind, had convened the Brussels
conference of 1876 Here the Interna-
tional African Association was organ
ICED for the ACKNOWLEDGEMENT of geo
graphical science. So iridescent had
this science become that subsidiary
African associations were organized
even among the mountains of SwitZer.
land and along the plains of Hungary.
| far from the European coast line and
| equally far from maritime ambition.
As soon as Stanley landed at Mar
| settles on his return from Africa he
was saluted by King Leopold's ennis
| saries. Then came the establishment
under Belgian auspices of the COM
| mittee for the exploration of the upper
| Congo. Shortly afterwards came the
reincarnation of this committee as
| the International Congo association,
| still controlled by the head of the Bel
| gian government, and largely sup
| ported by his private purse. Stanley
| was about to assist in the unique en-
| terprise of creating an empire on be-
| half of an ambitious royal millionaire
| and thereby drawing the wolf pack of
| Europe into combined but mutually
| hostile attack upon the regions by
which that empire was surrounded
| In 1879 Stanley. was back in the
| basin of the Congo this time not as
an adventurous newspaper cOrre-
sponcent. reaping thrills and stories
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
THE PRICE OF FAME.

When one considers how much the
people love to be humbugged, it Is
surprising that there are not more
people engaged professionally in the
business. A man with a very brilliant
mind may make a brilliant address
before a brilliant audience, and there
the brilliancy stops; but man with a
mind about the size of a shriveled
walnut, may talk a lot of nonsense to
an audience of moor of average or
Observation-Disclosures and immedi-
ately he becomes famous. An educa-
tor in a recent religious meeting told
fairly intelligent audience that dane
ing was the closest approach to Para
disc, and to-day his name and theory
is known from Maine to California. A
University of Chicago professor tells
wherein Rockefeller is superior to
Shakespeare, and while the oil mag
mail is overwhelmed with requests
for photographs and locks of his hair.
A Harvard professor, who teaches
Slavic literature, and who is a native
of Russia, expresses the hope that
his fatherland will be defeated in the
Eastern war, and he gets half a col
umn of attention, where his sensible
utterances had never won him more
than very moderate attention. And
so. if a man must simply be foolish to
become famous, is it any wonder that
almost everybody to-day is famous p
Baltimore Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
WITH THE WOQLD-S
- BEST WRITERS\
OUR BAD COLLEGE SPELLING

Much is said in the papers about
college English, says Leslie's Weekly.
The people within and without college
walls declare that students write bad
ly. But there is a thing more funda-
mental than their poor English style;
1t is the matter of their spelling. Many
college men, as proved by their es-
says, cannot spell. They frequently
make the mistake of Transforming
writing into writing, and of dining
into dinning-an echo probably of the
noise of college dining-room.
But poor spelling is not confined to
college students. College professors
are not free from the blame. A let
ter lies before the writer in which
! the distinguished head of most inn
portant department in an American
college declares that a certain candi-
date, whom he has recommended, is
competant. A New England college
professor has recently said that in
making application for place in Eng
lish, several candidates wrote of the
salery. OF course, also, man may
lack culture and spell correctly. Spell
ing is more or less a matter of an
arbitrary bit of knowledge. But what
ever may be the psychological rela-
lions of the art, the schools should
teach boys and girls to spell. By in
correct spelling the higher ranges of
learning are rendered less impressive.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS.

The Decalogue is as good a labor
platform as any. Law has always
failed to adjust wages In practical
religion we find the highest form OF
solution yet offered.-Carrou u.
Wright in a public address in New
York.
1t is an old thought that IL employ
srs, instead of thinking how low
wages they could pay, would think
how high wages they could pay, and
f employees, instead of thinking how
nigh wages they could get, would
think how low wages they could take,
there would be no room for dispute
Each side would then be doing It's
best for the other
Human nature, however, is seihsh,
chiefly because all men think that
they are better than other men,
Therefore they demand larger shares
of the earth's fruits and of their great
er ability as men, but because they
think they are better than other
men as men.
Those who wish to live in the
world will, of course, have to keep
on dealing with human nature as 1t Is
made by this universal delusion, at
least until the millennium comes AS
the millennium is universally deemed
desirable, it is evident that the quick
est way to bring it in is to endeavor
to overcome this delusion by every
mans doing his best to treat very
other man as not inferior to himself,
but as just a man like himself.
The practical religion" which DR..
Wright, after years of study, finds "the
highest form of solution yet offered
Is merely the gospel of the Man OF
Nazareth Inter Ocean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Tile Odd
CaDEgTAEIg
The GYPSY Wind.

The Gypsy Wind.
hear him Hit his VANDERBILT:
And to the old divine delight
Am a thra1-
IT'S out. my heart. beneath the stars
Along the hfl1-ways dim and deept
Let those who will, behind dull bars
Commune with sleep!
For me the freedom of the sky,
The violet Businesses that seem
Packed with sense of mysterv
And brooding dream.
For me the low solicitudes
The treetops wn.sper each to each:
The silences wherein intrudes
No mortal speech,
For me far subtler fragrances
Than the magician morn transmuteS:
And minstre1sieS and melodies
From fairy lutesi
My cares-the marrying brood take hight:
Ny woes-they lose their CALLING sting
When /, with the hale wind of night,
Go gypsying.
Clinton Scotland in the Century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
THE BLESSING OF FREE LABOR.

The highest development and the
widest distribution of wealth have
been secured where labor was free,
and the least where slavery prevailed.
The efforts that are being made by
organizations of work people to load
themselves with despotic restraints
are the result of wild dreams that
they can impose their restrictions
upon others and leave themselves free.
Such a state of things can never be
realized. Even ii the sOcialistic mo-
lions could be carried to the extent
of securing for the whole people con-
troll of all the machinery of produc-
tion.- and a distribution of all wealth.
the conditions of equality would not
last fortnight In very brief time
there would arise q class that was
fast monopolizing the wealth and ex-
erc1sing all the public power of con
txol-New Orleans Picayune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Antarctic Was Once Warmer.


Sir Clements Markham, president
OF the Royal Geographical Society, re-
CARDS the results of the Scott Antarc-
tic expedition as the most important
Of any that has ever gone to the
Arctic or Antarctic regions. He says:
1.-THE discovery of rock with the Inn
preston of plants alone justifies the
expedition. attach the utmost i'm
portance to this discovery, though I
hoped that something OF the kind
would be forthcoming.
1T proves that there was a warmer
climate once in that region than now.
I do not know what effect it will have
on the theory of some biologists,
founded ON the presence of certain
plants in South America, that there
has been some connection between
Australia and South America in by
gone ages-"-New York Sum-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
STA NLEY HAD HIGH PLACE
AMONG WORLDS GREAT MEN

but as a polite diplomatic represen-
tative, making treaties and laying the
foundations of sovereignty. Up the
Congo he went, fortified by his un-
rlvaled skill in rough travel and by
his equally unrivaled acquaintance
with native manners and customs
The reports which he sent back of
the resources of the country and of
the stealings and chickering's COM
mitted by the Arab slave traders con-
WINGED an avaricious and humanfta-
rian Europe-both characteristics be-
ing genuine-that Africa could no
longer be allowed to go its own way
to the everlasting bonfire
The result was the Berlin confer
ence of 1884. At this conference the
nations of Europe drew up rules for
the game of scramble which was about
to begin. Stanley had traversed the
unexplored center of Africa which
separated the better known regions of
the south from the still better known
regions Of the north. He had brought
the period of curious, investigatory
exploration to an end He had taken
service under Leopold. He had trans
formed the International Congo asso-
citation into a sovereign landed estate.
Sir Francis de Winton had been sent
out as territorial governor. The Unit
ed States had recognized the blue
ielded and gold starred flag of the
International Congo association as
that of a friendly government" II
the other nations of Europe were not
to be left on the cold edge of con-
quest it was time for Intervention.
The Berlin conference, rendered in
evitable by Stanley. meant interven-
ton. The International Congo assoc
citation became the Congo Free State.
with its territory roughly deaued and
with it's sovereignty lodged in the per
son of the king of the Belgians. The
rest of Africa was manifestly destined
to be gradually rounded up into
spheres of influence, the centers of
gravity of which would be at London,
Paris, Berlin, Lisbon and Rome. The
laws governing this process were con-
structed in skeleton and were left to
be provided with flesh and blood by
subsequent conventions between the
governments particularly concerned.
The year 1884 must, therefore, be
taken as the epoch of the modern par
tition of Africa and Stanley must be
taken as a compelling figure in that
epoch.
This Is the reason why only an in
adequate conception of Stanley's work
is secured when he is studied only as
a member of the glorious fellowship
OF African explorers. He ranks with
Diaz and Vasco da Cana and Living
stone, and his affinity is mainly with
them. But circumstances gave him
right to be counted with also an
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Safety Watch Poeket.

Numerous and ingenious are the
schemes which have been thought out
by individuals to outwit the pick
pockets who rob them of their watches
and pocketbooks, but the light-f1n-
gered gentry seem to find a way to
ply their trade in spite of these him
ORANGES. possibly owing to the failure
Of the public to make use OF the
safety appliances when they have
been introduced by the inventors. Now
an inventor comes forward with an
idea. He is perfectly willing to have
the thief get hold of the watch; in
fact, his device will not be brought
into operation at all until the watch
has actually been removed from the
pocket. But then it Immediately be-
gins to make up for lost time, as the
watch is no sooner withdrawn than
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Bee. :. weapon. Of pefense.

There are at least two recorded in.
stances in which bees have been used
rs weapons of defense in war. When
the Roman general Lucullus was war
ring against Mithridates, he sent a
force against the city of Themiscyra-
AS they besieged the walls, the in
habitants threw down on them myri-
ads of swarms of bees. These at once
began an attack which resulted in the
raising of the siege. These doughty
little insects were also once used with
equal success in England Chester
was besieged by the Danes and Nor
wegians, but it's Saxon defenders
threw down on them the beehives of
the town, and the siege was soon
raised.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Wants Soldiers Taught to Swim

Gen. Leonard Wood is pushing re
form in the army. He wants all sol
diers taught to swim There are some
thing like fifty deaths year in the en-
listed strength OF the army from
drowning. This is in time of peace.
Gen. Wood regards it as ridiculous for
soldiers, who are liable to be ordered
to ford rivers or disembark from
transports through surf during war
time. not to be able to take care of
themselves under these circum-
stances The responses from the
army to his suggestion that swimming
be made . part Of the private sol
dier's education have been all along
the one line Of hearty approval
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Sir Henry NJ. Stanley, the African
explorer, died at London May TO-

Staniey's Place in History.
There are in Africa four great rtv-
ers. In connection with the explora-
tions of the Nile the world will re-
member Bruce, and Burton, and Spoke,
and Baker, and Grant In connection
with the explorations of the Niger it
will remember Mungo Park In con-
nection with the explorations OF the
Zambesi it will remember Livingstone.
In connection with the explorations OF
the Congo it will remember Henry NJ
Stanley. AS long as the discovery OF
the earth by it's inhabitants it studied
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
JUGS Were Hi. Lite Pre.erxers.

Jugs Were His Life Preservers.
Think of the life of Georgia fish,
erman being saved by two jugs! The
item reads: When he rolled into the
river he had two gallon jugs with
him-one in each hand. He did not
let go his grip on EN-; the jugs acted
as life preservers and he foated safe
~ to land, where he Immediately I'M
corked the jugs and celebrated his
providential deliverance- = Atlanta
Constitution.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Leaves Money for Cat.

In 1891 an old woman left to the
British Lifeboat Institution the sum
OF $4,000. to be paid on the death of
a favorite kitten which had survived
her and which was to be provided for
with the interest. In 1902 the cat dis
appeared and the courts have now
decided to assume its death and let
the institution have the money, on
giving it bond to provide for the cat
In case 1t should come back.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Articles Served Good Purpose.

Senator Cullom dropped in to see an
editor friend of his and while they
were chatting the man who knows
how a paper ought to be run made his
appearance. He complained that
some articles from his-.pen had not
been published. though they had been
sent in weeks before. The editor
smiled sadly. I'm holding Them he
replied. "And they serve a very good
purpose, too. Now and then 1 get to
thinking that perhaps we are not Of
fering the public as good a paper as
we ought to. At such times look mp
your articles and see how much worse
the sheet might be. So become real
cheerful again. Please don't take them
from mel"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28

Judge Alton B. Parker, in younger
years, had red hair. my hair wasn't
quite a pronounced red. but it was un-
deniably red," he is credited as saying
to a reporter. THAT hair brought me
many moments of abasement when a
youngster and got me into a fight"
Yes? The boys called you brick top
and all those rude epithets?" Yes.
/ got them all. 1t grew darker later
in life. but it was still decidedly au-
burn before 1t turned gray"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-05-28
Clever sparrows.

One of the prettiest sights as re-
CARDS seamen's pets was Afforded by
six sparrows which were tanned and
trained by an old bluejacket on board
a coal barge He had trained them
to such a degree that they would
march in regular military order.
turning" and wheeling as desired
by merely moving his hand. On each
of their heads he had fastened a small
piece of scarlet cloth. cut SO as to
form q cockscomb, which gave the
birds q very saucy appearance as
they went through their varied evolu-
TONS