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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-24
MYTH THE WOpLD,S 4
H. BEST WRITFRSA
WHAT is LovEa

There are also nervous disorders
that are often termed love. A man or
woman gets run down, sees every
thing dark, hopes for nothing, aims
for nothing; then person of the OPP
pos1te sex approaches, sympathizes.
plays on all the overtaxed nerves
with soothing influence, which is
studied and deliberate, but the man
quahs it blindly, as sufferer drinks
brandy to ease pain without question:
ing whether it be injurious or not.
We do not>examine the character of
the one obtaining this power over us,
because we are i'll, and our illness con-
trolls us; we seek merely to ease the
inward gnawing with as little pain or
effort as possible. Normal love-the
love of a mentally and physically
sound person-is not half so blind
as poets would have us believe. In
deed, at such a time 1 think the mind
is actually critical. characteristics
that the world considers faults in the
one we love may be particularly dear
to US, they are hicks that correspond
to the hicks in our own nature; but
the individual is dissected again and
again by the unerring and ever busy
blade Of our passion. Every quick
ened element in us prizes and probes
to measure itself with the same ele-
ment in the other; it is the natural
mating of things-of the many units
in the one unit. This, is real love;
but the other-the other is the cause
of nine-tenths of the worlds misery;
it is the creator of morbid genera
lions, the destroyer of correct .deduc-
tions, the worst menace. to humanity.
-Maude Roosevelt, in Lippincotts
Magazine.
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ANOTHER RAILROAD HERO.

Hendley Jones of Georgia was sec.
ton foreman in the employ of the Sea-
Doard Air line One night last week
he was riding on handcar near Rem
froes, Stewart county, Ga, in the dis
charge of his dull duties. Three other
men were with him, climbing heavy
grade. Up to that moment all four
graded together. There dashed
around curve ahead of them an ex-
ira freight, heavily laden and rushing
down upon them, grade and steam to-
gether. =
The other three men jumped to
safety. They would no doubt defend
their action by quoting the old axiom
about self-preservation being the first
law of nature. But Jones did not de-,
pend upon axioms to Justify his law of
conduct; he was the sort of man who
reckoned by acts. So he stayed where
he was.
1t was time when the fraction of
a second was life. Jones saw this,
and saw also that to stop the train
was impossible. There was, in his
conception, only one thing for him to
do, and that was to save the crew of
the freight at the probable cost of his
own life. That he did. Calmly but
rapidly he stopped the handcar and
threw it from the tre k-and the train
rushed by unharme over his dead
body.
Jones left widow and two little
children. Some men would have
pleaded that they must remain alive,
at the cost of the lives of others, for
the sake of their families. But Hend-
ley Jones did his duty and left his
wife and children a fathers memory
OF whose end they could be proud.
He only did his Guty?" Is the per-
Torrance of ones duty so common
place thing that we may regard it
lightly. One of the most famous of
Russian authors once wrote a story in
tended to show how Russians die, and
he showed that they met death with
brute apathetic courage
Hendley Jones died like an Ameri-
an.-Philadelphia Press
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A MOTHERS HEART-STRINGS

''I can't be second," The mother in
Pittsburg who wrote this pathetic
farewell to her married son to explain
her suicide asked him to forget her,
as she was only a crank
"Only crank?" No; only a wom-
an, Only a mother. t-r
sfYou have been very good to mel"
What mother who has had such a son
and sees him marry and replace her
as the dearest object of his affections
with another woman but whose heart
aches at the breaking CT old ties?
Nevermore is she to know in the old,
endearing way the hopes and aspira-
lions of her boy, to share SO intimate
1y his joys and sorrows- Her place
has been taken by another, and to
that other she is only mother-in,
law, an incumbrance. She is no long
er first There is another to be con-
suited before her advice is asked.
There is another whose claims are
stronger, whose wishes, whose feel
ings have precedence.
ct can't be second" 1t Is an OLD
story-as old as the pathos of wom-
ans heart, as old as the tragedy of
Hfe.-New York World.
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TRAILING OLD FASHIONS,

How often in reading we run across
some such phrase as this: "Old-fash-
Toned ideas of morality" Or we hear
person about to deliver an i'm
promptu homily, say: 81 may have
old-fashioned ideas about the sacred
ness of the marriage vow, but Or
a mother say My children could
have more money than 1 had when 1
was girl, but l am going to bring
them up in the old-fashioned way My
girls shall know how to cook and do
housework If necessary, and they will
make good housewives and Mothers
Father has such old-fashioned no
TONS, said a high school boy. He
has made us all promise not to drink
wine Or play cards until we are TWEEN
ty-one. And he says it's the boys who
have old-fashioned parents who be-
come the successful men,"
There are worse things IMAM being
old-fashioned. Progress is all very
well, providing it progresses But
why should we feel it necessary to call
our ideas of right living old-fashioned
and to speak Of them in a semi-apolo-
getic manner? If old-fashfoned, so
much the better on that very account.
They have the backing of experience.
They have been tried and tested by
our parents and our grandparents.
We hear of "o1d-fashioned polite>
ness and the gentleman of the old
school, who is so rarely seen among
u.s. Why should these virtues be
called oId-fashioned? Is it not a dis
creditable reflection upon us twentieth
century people?s,
A few more o1d-fashioned people are
needed in this sknow-it-a1 age and gen.
eration.=Chicago Journal.
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Democratic IrnbeciIities,

We do not wonder that the wise
men of the Democratic party are be-
coming Disguised with the quarrels,
feuds and acrimonious disputes that
have been threatening the harmony
and. therefore, the efficiency of the
organization. 1t is hardly necessary
to say that the Democracy cannot win
without New York and it is equally OBJ
vious that, if the local bosses-Mur-
ply and McCarren-persist in exploit
ing their respective animosities at this
particular time. the Republican esec-
tions will be nothing more or .ess
than a Republican procession What
the American people see and, without
much difficulty, understand, is that
the Democracy can hardly be in a DO
sition to govern the country until it
is able to govern itself. And if that
contamination has been achieved up
to latest accounts the fact is still a
secret for the outside world.-Wash-
ington Post
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1t may be, however, that we should
not have to wait so long as that for
the free trade crop. Events of the
past year or two distinctly suggest the
possibility that with a Democratic
House and a Democratic President.
having patronage to distribute, a tar
IN reduction bill and a genuine reci-
procity" bill could be passed by the
aid OF votes in the Senate that are
now classed as Republican. Things
no stranger than this have happened.
and may happen again.
Summed up in the light of all the
facts and all the evidence, the accept
ance speech of Judge Parker contains
not one solitary reason why any Re-
publican should take the risk of voting
the Democratic ticket this year. On
the contrary, all the facts, all the evil
dence, all the common sense of the
situation, should impel every Repub-
lican to vote the Republican ticket,
and many Democrats besides. There
never was a time when the country
was in greater danger of a lapse back
ward to free trade than in the cam
paign of 1904. That is the actual
truth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-24
coAxING TAXES OUT OF JOHN
BULL.

In ten years, said an English naval
expert a day or two ago, the control
of the sea will pass from Great Brit
ain to the United States. Uncle Sam,
1t appears, is building more battle
ships this year than John Bull.
Hence the alarm of the English expert
quoted above. 1t is impossible to be-
Heve, however, that his fears are gen
uine. Our British cousins have too
long a start to be overhauled by Uncle
Sam unless we should increase the
number of our shipyards and spend
hundreds of millions of dollars in the
next decade turning out battle-ships
and cruisers. The truth is that the
alarm expressed by our British cous-
ms is part of their scheme to recon
Gle King Edwards subjects to heavy
taxation to maintain England's naval
supremacy. That is the way the Brit
on is .'bunkoed" into paying heavier
tribute to his government. The game
is an old one, but the British tax
payer has not yet seen through it
Baltimore Sun.
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Grant and His Boy Admirer.

An Intimate friend of President
Grant said to him one day, General.
my little boy has heard that all great
men write poor hands; but he says
ne believes you are a great man in
spite of the fact that you write your
signature so plainly that anybody can
read it" The president took a card
from his pocket, wrote his name on il.
and handed it to him. Give that to
your boy, he said, and tell him it
is the signature of a man who is not
at all great, but that the fact must he
kept a secret between him and me-
Boston Christian REGISTER.
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DID THE ANCIENTS SMOKE?

Did the ancients smoke? 1t is
strange that SO simple a question has
never been satisfactorily answered.
Heroditus mentions certain tribes that
became drunk from inhaling the vapor
OF piles of burning fruit, but the only
evidences that we have of smoking is
found in the prehistoric pipes of wood
and clay that are occasionally I'M
earthed.
But if the ancients smoked what did
they smoke? 1t was certainly not to-
bacco, which we know is a modern so
lace. Certain herbs were smoked for
the cure of disease we are informed
by Pliny and other writer's, but there
are doubts that smoking for pleasure
and conviviality were ever INDUCED in
extensively. If they had been we
should have heard of it.-Boston Her
aid.
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from time to time be necessary, but
it is SO phrased that it is expected to
be satisfactory to those in favor of
an increase of duty, to those who
favor reduction thereof and to those
opposed to any change whatever.
Judged by the record of perform
ance, rather than that of promise, on
the part of that party in the past, it
would seem as if the outcome, in the
event of its success, would pc to graf
ify the latter class. With absolute
control of both the legislative and ex-
ecutive departments of the govern
ment since March 4, 1897, there has
been neither reduction nor an attempt
at reduction in tariff duties. 1t is not
unreasonable to assume, in the light
of that record, that future Congress
of that party will not undertake a re-
vision of the tariff downward in the
event that it shall receive an indorse-
ment of its past course on that sub
5ect by the people 1t is a fact and
should be frankly conceded that
though our party be successful in the
coming contest we cannot hope to Sc
cure a majority in the Senate during
the next four years, and hence we
shall be unable to secure any modifi-
cation in the tariff save that to which
the Republican majority in the Senate
may consent. While, therefore, we
are unable to give assurances of re-
lief to the people from such excessive
duties as burden them, it is due to
them that we state our position to
be in favor of a reasonable reduction
Of the tariff; we believe that it is de-
manded by the best interests of both
manufacturer and consumer, and that
a wise and beneficent revision of the
tariff can be accomplished as soon as
both branches of Congress and an ex-
ecutive in favor of it are elected with
out creating that sense of uncertainty
and instability that has on other occa-
sions manifested itself. This can be
achieved by providing that such a rea-
sonable period shall intervene be-
tween the date of the enactment of
the statute making a revision and the
date of its enforcement as shall be
deemed sufficient for the industry or
business affected by such revision to
adjust itself to the changes and new
conditions imposed So confident am
I in the belief that the demand of the
people for a reform of the tariff Is
just that I indulge the hope that
should a Democratic House of Repre-
sentatives and Democratic executive
be chosen by the people. even a Re
publican Senate may heed the warn
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-24
NECESSITY OF VACATION.

The vacation season is here. Ev-
erybody who labors should take a va
cation, but many who seriously need
well afford to pay handsomely for the
diversion deny themselves of it year
after. year. The man who takes a
vacation is much more valuable to his
employer than the one who does not,
and the average employer knows it to
be true. $He who spends his vacation
wisely returns to work greatly i'm
proved mentally and physically and
both he and his employer are ben
eficiaries. Rest and change of
scene work wonders. All this is
especially true of brain workers. If
the brain is not given a rest it be-
comes tagged and it soon requires
stimulant, and very often the use of
a stimulant becomes a habit and
wrecks the user. Experienced alien
takes to drink after years of sobriety,
or when he turns suddenly dishonest,
he is well along toward positive in
sanity, the result of fatigue. Con-
slant grind has serious effect on the
brain, and consequently on the moral
sense.
Man, like the ground, must lie fall
low at intervals in order to be produc-
tive. The vacation is a necessity to
persons in all vocations. 1t reinvig-
crates the tired body and brain, wards
off insanity and makes for the greater
health and strength of the race. By
all means take vacation
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-09-24
Youngest G. A. r. Man.

William H. Davis, member of Gen
G. L. Willard P st "a of Troy, N. Y,
mcdestly asserts that he is the young.
est member of the Grand Army of the
Republic
Mr.. Davis was born in Rye, West
chester county, thirty miles from New
York city. Sept. 1, 1S4S- Aug. 1, 1862,
he enlisted at Brooklyn as drummer
boy in Co. A, 15Sth n. Y. volunteers,
which was attached to the 18th army
corps, and later to the oath army
corps
He lacked just one month of being
Ia at the time of enlistment He en-
listed for three years and he served
three years.
Mr.. Davis is certainly one of the
most youthful appearing men in the
Grand Army. He is above the aver
age height, his walk is steady and
strong. and he has all the enthusiasm
of youth.
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THE WESTWARD COURSE OF EN-
PRE-.

Can science explain why the course
of empire lies westward? OF the fact.
as general proposition, there can be
no question. There is nothing more
evident in human history than the
westward tendency of the great migra-
tons of mankind, as well as of the.
spirit of conquest and the genius of
civilization, which seem to fit from
race to race and from nation to ma
ton, kfndling new fires as the old die
out, almost invariably toward the
west, as if the sparks were borne by
constant wind against the direction
or the earth's rotation on its axis The
earth turns from west to east. but
man within the historic period has
gone round the earth from east to
west--Garret p Serviss. in Success.
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ing and consent to give at least some
measure of relief to the people"
Out of this mass of the vapid. the
evasive, the trimming and the hedgine
qualities Of expression it is possible to
extract some differences and deduc
lions that are reasonably clear and
positive:
The present tariff is excessive. >un
just and injurious. 1t should be re-
pealed without delay, and in its place
should come either a tariff of the Will
son-Gorman type, of the Mills type, OIL
the Morrison type.
The Republican party shows no in
clination to NEEDLE with the tariff al
present, and still less to strip the tar
iff of its protective features. There
fore, the task of tariff making should
be taken out of the hands of the Re
publican party and intrusted to the
Democratic party.
If intrusted with the responsibility
of tariff making the Democratic party
promises to be reasonable. 1t will not
rip up everything all at once 1t will
go about it gradually, so that the pro-
ducing interests may have ample time
to discharge their workpeople and re
duce the volume of production to cor.
respond with the increased inflow of
competitive products from abroad. In
this way it is hoped to avoid the i'm
mediate advent of panic, paralysis,
stagnation and ruin. These, it is cal
culated, will come less swiftly than
they did in 1893
But, in any event, says the Esopus
trimmer, not much mischief could be
done by Democratic President and
House of Representative until the
present Republican majority in the
Senate shall have disappeared. This
would take two years at the least; it
might take three or four years to
bring about. In the meantime, saws
the candidate, the country would be
safe. E
Astonishing admission! Certainty
and safety lie only in the Republican
control of the Senate eve would like
to do whole lot of mischief, and we
will do it as soon as we can, but we
can't do it for two or three years.
Therefore, elect a Democratic r'resi-
dent this year. That, in substance. is
the attitude of Parker on the tariff
question. We are invited to SOW the
seed Of free trade in November of
1904, on the assurance that a full free
trade crop cannot be harvested much
before 1906 or 1907.
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Indiana Veteran indicated.

The members of the I'd Mass. in
fantry association and guests from
the 9th Indiana and Sd Wisconsin
which regiments comprised a brigade
of the 18th army corps, dined in Yves.
leyan hall, Boston, during the recent
G. A. R. encampment in that city, the
comrades rallying around the mess
table nearly $50 strong.
The after dinner speaking was OF
unusual interest, as two letters were
read that will make history and shift
heavy load from the shoulders of a
Boston man after maLy years.
The responsibility for giving the
order for the famous charge at the
battle of Gettysburg on the morning
of July 3, 1868, in which the I'd Mass
regiment suffered terrible loss, has
been in dispute since the close of the
war.
Capt. Snow Of the I'd Mass. was ad.
jutant during the battle and when he
gave the order to Col Nudge to ad.
vance the latter said: 'Are you sure
that's the order?" When answered in
the affirmative, he exclaimed: That's
murder" and then gave the order to
advance, which resulted so disas.
trously.
The letters read are the result OF
an investigation in the other regt
ments- They show that Col. Colgrove
acting brigade commander, was re-
sponsible for the order, Gen. Buyer
the division commander, had nothing
to do with it and Capt. Snow merely
delivered the order.
1t has been claimed for forty-one
years that Capt Snow made a mistake
Capt. Balsley of the 9th Indiana
furnished the information which ex
onerates Capt. Snow and the veterans
hailed it with delight
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PARKER'S ATTITUDE
THE DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATES
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH.
He Would Strike Flown Protection,
Cripple tie Navy, Decimate the
Army and Undo All That Has Been
Accomplished by the Republican
Party.

In his speech Of acceptance Judge
Parker accepts the Democratic plat
form as admirable" He approves of
1t in detail and as a whole. If elected
ne Will carry it out. OF course, he
VIII; he must He will be the servant,
not the master, of his party. And
rightly so. Presidents are elected to
carry out party doctrine, not to antag-
onize it, Grover Cleveland tried to
boss things in 1894, and he came to
grief. He refused to attach his sigma
ture to the Democratic tariff law of
1894, but he lacked the nerve to veto
it. He simply held his nose during
the interval necessary to enable the
Dill to become a law without his con-
currence. Judge Parker is not an
other Cleveland. He will not attempt
to hess or to fight his party, as Cleve-
land did. He is not built that way
He Will be with his party in all things.
The st. Louis platform, which would
strike down protection, would cripple
the navy, would decimate the army,
would cut adrift seven millions of
Filipinos totally incapable of self
government, and would in general
way undertake to turn back the
wheels of progress and undo all that
@uO AeCpuDiACdH party LIDS QOae toward
making our country the greatest on
earth-aH this the Democratic candi-
date accepts as Admirable" Regard
ing the chief issue of the campaign
he says:
THE present tariff law is unjust in
Its operation. excessive in many of
its rates and SO framed in particular
instances as to exact inordinate profits
from the people. So well understood
has this view become that many prom
inent members of the Republican
party, and at least two of its State
conventions, have dared to voice the
general sentiment on that subject.
That party seems, however, to be col
lectively able to harmonic only upon
a plank that admits that revision may
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MzA WITH THE
BEZa VFTFDANN

small in comparison to other battles
OF the civil war, but the importance of
the result cannot well be overestimat-
ed. Confederate success would have
meant the fight of the President. and
the capital of the country in the hands
OF the enemy. The effect of the re-
sultant Generalization to the loyal
men of the Union and foreign compli-
cations that would have inevitably
followed cannot be told
The little plot of ground a bit to
the north, called the National Battle
Ground cemetery, is where forty of
those who fought for the Union on
that hot July day rest until the last
call. Each year, on Memorial day,
the people gather there to do them
homage, while the children of the pub
lie schools strew flowers on their well
kept graves.
To the north of this beautiful spot,
with its sheltering trees and quaint
little stone lodge, there is another
grave, that of an unknown wearer Of
the gray. Every effort has been made
to learn the name of this brave man.
who fought until he could fight no
more, but without success. There are
several stories told about him, the
told by Charles Hobbs, native OF
Montgomery county, Md, who was an
eye witness of the battle.
lie says that while Earlys men
were falling back in front of the ad.
vancing 9th corps a number of Con-
federate sharpshooters were left in
the rear to sting the oncoming lines OF
blue. These rif1emen lodged from
tree to tree, firing as thew retreated
The unknown who fills the lone grave
was one of these hornets" evidently
more daring than his comrades, who,
in his anxiety to bring down some OF
the enemy, Jagged too far in the rear,
and met death by a mimic bail through
his heart. His body was found the
next day in a clump of bushes, where
he had crawled after receiving the
mortal wound. He was buried near
the spot where he fell, and now a neat
marble monument marks the last rest.
ing place of the unknown soldier in
gray
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Would erino Calamity.

A victory for Parker in 1904 would
bring calamity quicker than it came in
the Cleveland case, for Parker lacks
Cleveland's ability, independence and
sanity on the money issue, and he
shares Cleve1and's errors on the tariff
st Louis GIobe-Democrat-
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Four hundred Union men were
killed and 600 Confederates, a loss