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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
LIKE A COMIC OPERA.
Incident of Recent Revolution Down
in Parauuay

Incident of Recent Revolution Down
in Paraguay.
During a recent revolution in Para
quay, according to a correspondent, a
minister of war and the admiral of
fleet We're captured when swimming
for liberty and dragged from the river
by a single shirt collar The whole
Paraguayan navy was captured at the
same time. The plot was Matched in
Buenos Ayres, says the correspondent
One dark night a steamer sailed from
the port of La Plata bearing several
hundred patriots, with Krupp field
pieces, rifles and ammunition When
the boat got near that historic spot,
Humaita, which played such an i'm
portant part in the war that ended in
the downfall and death of the dictator
Lopez, she encountered the entire
Paraguayan navy.
This navy consisted of steam
barge seized from a private river
company and manned by 100 men. 1t
was commanded by the minister of
war, who turned himself into an ad-
miral for the occasion. A character
1stic South American fight took place.
At the first shot the war minister
and the admiral jumped overheard
and tried to swim ashore. But the
pair was caught by the victors and
dragged out of the water by the sin
gle collar mentioned above.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Victoria will probably be the first
British community to levy a tax on
amusements for the support of local
charitable institutions, says the LOT
don Chronicle Mr. Bent, the premier
proposes tax of a penny on every
shilling spent in the purchase of thea
ter tickets The Melbourne theatrical
managers are alarmed at this propose
which they say means levy of pc.
cent or their gross takings- They
have had a long conference with the
premier, but did not succeed Ia con-
verting him to their way of thinking.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
By M.

A little pause, then spoke Mrs. Lam
yon, seriously. Il think you're rather
foolish, don't you know, foolish or
worse? If it hadn't been for that
key"
''Bless its heartl" was the fatuous
interruption.
for that key, I shouldn't have
dreamt of coming in here, and you
wouldn't have been silly. And you are
not to hold both my hands. What on
earth would your wife say if she
should see you?"
"She wouldn't mind"
"She'd be Mortified"
"She'd be awfully in the way. Look
here, I'm going to pour you out some
tea"
Mrs. Lanyon rose 81 don't think
I'll stop, thanks all the same. You
haven't grown a bit more sensible
than you used to be-and you're get
ting gray, Billy. you're getting gray
It's time you reformed"
"Poohl Some people are color-blind,
and I'm only twenty" He began to
laugh, as he put down the teapoe.
Sugar."
81 don't know what you're thinking
of, Billy, I really don't, but my poor
husband used to Say-poor dear, he
was very fractions at times-he used
to say that the married man who made
love to the woman who was not his
wife was extravagant in his affections
and reckless in his syntax. His affec-
lions and his syntax were equally I'M
reliable
"Ah, But what about the woman
who was so jolly, and so-so-mus-
lin-y that he couldn't help it?'' He
moved to Mrs. canyons side with the
cup. Tell me if this isn't right
Il believe it's all wrong. You've no
business to be so glad to see me-
mo? But 1 can't help it. I'm so
glad that 1 feel 1 can't do anything but
hold your hand-and hold your hand
and hold your hand, and then walk
round to see if you're still there-and
hold your hand again to make sure"
Billy"
Its true
Extravagant in his affections and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
Prof. Koch Fiqhtine Disease.

Prof. Robert Koch has recently been
investigating an outbreak of typhoid
fever for the German government. and
has since been at Paris, where he was
entertained by the Pasteur institute
In the course of the winter he will
proceed to German East Africa in
order to continue those studies OF
tropical and other diseases which he
had not com-leted during his recent
visit to Rhodesia- In particular he
will continue to investigate the part
played by ticks In conveying the In
lection of various cattle diseases
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

tell Our history, language and insti-
tutions being mainly Anglo Saxon, We
shall probably always be mere English
than German or Italian But in the
main we shall be neither English, nor
German, nor Scandinavian, nor Italian,
but a composite of all We shall be
Americana name which it should be
our chief business to make stand for
as many as possible of the good quail
tiles of the races from which we are
derived and for as few as possible of
their faults-Chicago Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
I zzEU ME1ZZ ~
[11,sz NZZ4ZzNH
LZIzN4 By K8

You see. the same key f1tted,"
Mrs. Lanyon paused. stammered,
flushed, then came to a sudden stop
The man advanced step and held
out his hands. Its a world of COM
pensation,' he said, and smiled.
"Of=?"
e'The pleasure of this-this-extra-
ordinary meeting compensates in some
degree for the pain of that last very
ordinary one," he said.
Mrs. Lanyon stared for a moment
81 hope you're not going to be silly
she observed. Il shouldn't have come
in here if l had known
But now you are here the
pushing of an easy chair toward her
pointed the unfinished remark.
Certainly not. 1 OILY wanted to ex-
plain. I'm not going to sit down and
talk to you. If you hadn't looked up
at that particular minute 1 should
have slipped away, and you never
would have known. It's all the fault
of that lift-boy."
He shall be MISUNDERSTANDING
ly. 1 say, I'm awfully glad to see you"
"And it wasn't till I got right into
the room here that 1 saw my mistake.
The hall are SO exactly alike, and
with all those draperies you never
know where you are"
Il dO-just now.
"And 1 was SO frightfully confused
it's been a meeting at our cuban
Extraordinary Meeting the secretary
called it when she sent me my invita-
ton card-I mean, notice, and we had
to pass resolutions and things. The
chairwoman-she's my very dearest
friend. you know-wanted to explain
that by some accident the accounts are
all wrong. Of course, 1 don't under
stand these things myself, but when
it came to doubling our subscriptions
L said Certainly not-whatever next
And when the lift-boy put me out on
to take proper notice. 1 wouldn't have
done such thing for the world"
81 wouldn't have had you miss do
ing it for a score of worlds. I haven't
seen you for-for-how long does it
take to make an eternity? 1 say. don't
hurry-couldn't we-mightn't we-let's
have some tea" he suggested.
my one weakness!"
"Methinks the lady doth protest too
much. l seem to remember another.
Is he's he-well?"
HE? which,"
t'Why, he-the-weakness. He was
grinding for his majority last year, and
1 was cast into outer darkness by the
reflection of his genius. I'm going to
ring for tea
For goodness sake, don't tell any
body I had tea here alone with you
while your wife was out" said Mrs
Lanyon presently; ''our chairwoman-
she's quite my dearest friend. but
she's so tactless, she'd ruin her grand
-mothet for want of thought"
Il suppose the Majors awfully con-
servative?"
MY dear boy, how on earth can l
tell? He hasn't a constituency, and 1
know nothing whatever OF MS princi-
pies"
You don't mean you're-you're sep
arated, are your"
Separated? Why, he's in India"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
Kino SoIomon's Gold.

The evidences that Rhodesia was
the country from which King Solo
mons gold was obtained are said to
be accommodating The builders of the
more ancient portion of the massive
and extensive ruins recently explored
at Great Zimbabwe are believed to
have lived about 100 B. c.. and to
have belonged to a race who were
the gold purveyors of the world.
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GUARANTEED MINING INVEST
MENTS.

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RUSSIA FACING A CRISIS.
Significance of Demand Made by Rep
resentatves of Zemstvos.

rcsentatVeS OF ZemStVOS.
When the car of Russia permits a
meeting of the representatives of the
zemstvos in ST. Petersburg for the
obvious if not avowed purpose of agi-
tauing for a constitution, and when
that body by a vote of sc to 10 boldly
informs him that the country urgently
needs "a specially elected body to par
ticipate in legislation it is plain that
a crisis has arrived in the history OF
the Russian bureaucracy.
1t is true the meeting had to be
held without official auspices and the
representatives are said not to De
hopeful of immediate success, but, on
the other hand, this is only the be-
ginning of the agitation.
The zemstvos themselves will meet
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
The Beginning of "contraband.

TIC OF O0IIHr
During the war between Spain and
Holland those powers acted with so
much rigor toward ships of every ma
tiopality conveying goods to the bel
igerents that England felt bound to
protest. The resistance provoked by
England led to the first use of the
term contraband of war when the
treaty of Southampton was drawn up
between this country and Spain in
1625.-London Answers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
occupied Queer Pulpit.

A curious pulpit was that used by
Bishop Bickersteth, who once occu-
pied the lantern-space of a lighthouse
in which to deliver a short address to
a small gathering of visitors and the
lighthouse men themselves. On an
other occasion the sanity old man
preached in the operating theater of
a hospital to a congregation of pa
tients.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
Music Halls the Fad.

Paris, like London, is deserving the
theaters for the music halls The the
aters are too expensive, the runs of
plays too long; the star" system
tends to make the program one-per-
SON affair. and, in brief, the theaters
bore the people-the music halls
amuse them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

In these days of chemical manures,
we often consume a lot of explosive
when we eat cabbage. Ground, the
nature Of which requires it to be fer
tilted with nitrate of potash, yields
some of this up to the plant in the
course of growth. and SO it reaches
the interior of the body.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Nan Patterson, now on trial at New
York for murder, had achieved some
notOriety before her arrest as
chorus girl in ~Florodora." She is charg-
ed with killing Caesar" Young,
bookmaxer, in a hanson cab last June,
using a pistol in the deadly work, but
there are witnesses who allege that
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
Clothes Washed without so,,

Clothes washing by electricity, with.
out soap, is the idea of Hungarian.
Toe stream of electrified water is
claimed to remove all spots and dirt.
and the three hundred garments held
by the machine are washed in less
than fifteen minutes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
Not All UnqratefuI.

People who ride on these cars"
remarked the confidential conductor,
as his car trundled along Walnut
street the other evening, ARE fire.
Quently a queer and ungrateful lot,
but sometimes they are the reverse.
The other day, for instance, an old
German chap was trying to get on
this car of mine at Eleventh street.
He was crossing the street and did
not see the approach of a car up Elev-
enth. 1 ran out and grabbed him from
in front of the fender He gasped
out, as soon as he got his breath:
Sir, eff I was as rich as l am poor,
I would give you a t'ousand dollars for
disi Press
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Some people have all the luck!"
The tone was envious and gloomy.
>"Aren't you happy where you are,
then, Billy?"
Happy" He leaned over the back
of her chair and took possession of her
hand. I'm awfully-awfully happy,
only I can't keep it up You're just
the same as ever. and not day older.
and you've got the prettiest fingers in
all the world
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10
They Need q 2e-Hour p.x.

Ii you have ever lived in the coun-
try, you know why it is that there
has never yet been a labor union OF
farmers, loudly demanding an eight
hour day.-Somerville Journal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

the man shot himself. The face of the
accused is said to be that of a weak,
1houghtless girl. The illustration
shows the accused woman in court
with her father. 1t is copied from a
drawing made by a staff artist of the
New York Herald. The fathers grief
is pitiable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

The moth always looks on the
bright side of the flame.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Cure for Contagious Diseases.
A new tribe was recently discovered
IN India in which contagious diseases
are combeted by killing those who are
attacked
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Dr. David Kennedy's Fayorite Remedy, the
Great Kidney aud Liver Cure. World Famous Write
kennedy's Sous tondout, N " free sample bottle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

The weather to-day is as cold and
raw as an old maids second love.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Love and whisky make men do queer
things.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Mrs. Wtnsfow's Soothing Syrup.
For children teething softens the reduces IN
hammation allays pain cures wind colo. Csc bottle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

During courtship they argue; after
marriage they quarrel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

TO CURE COLD IN OcSE DAY
Take Laxative Bromo ,euih:ne Tablets AL drug
yf,ts refund the money If 1t fails to cure. E. W.
Groves signature is each box.
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Have Fragrance Always.

The English housewives, they of the
fine compilations and strong muscles,
make it a practice to stand big pots
of potpourri in the halls, and each day
they stir them from the bottom A
Japanese jar which stood shoulder
high, so high that it a long walking
stick to stir it to the bottom, stands
in the hall of handsome house on
the Thames. and each day the owner
stirs it to its depths and sends its fra
GRANGE through the mouse.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

Every house~eoi er should know
that if they will buy Defiance Cold
Water Starch for laundry use they
will save not only time. because it
never sticks to the iron. but because
each package contai Is 16 Ozone full
pound-while all other Cold Water
Starches are put up IN A-pound pack
ages, and the price IS the same, 10
cents. Then again because Defiance
Starch is free from l injurious chem
icals- If your grocer les to sell you a
12Oz- package it is because he has
a stock on hand which he wishes to
dispose of before he pits in Defiance.
He knows that Defiance Starch has
printed on every packa ge in large let
tiers and figures "16 u.s." Demand
Defiance and save much time and
money and the annoyance of the iron
sticking. Defiance never sticks.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-12-10

State Hats Come High.
Tie state hats for Liverpool cor
poration coachmen cost fS IS each.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-04-14
Milk Crust, Scaled Head,
letter, Ringworn,
and PImpIes
COMPLETE TREATMENT. sl.Oo
For 1orturing, Dis6guring Humours,
From Pimples to ScrofuIa,
From Infancy to Age.

The agonizing itching and burning
Of the skin, as in eczema; the frightful
scaling, as In psoriasis; the loss Of hair
and crusting Of the scalp, as In SCALED
head; the facial Disagreement, as In
pimples and ringworm; the awful suf-
fering of infants, and anxiety Of worn
out parents, as In milk crust, tetter and
salt rheum all demand q remedy of
almost superhuman virtues to success
fully cope with them. That Cuticura
Soap, Ointment and Pills are such
stands proven beyond all doubt. No
statement is made regarding them that
10 not justified by the strongest evi.
dence. The purity and sweetness, the
power to afford immediate relief, the
certainty Of speedy and permanent
cure, the absolute safety and great
economy have made them the standard
skin cures and humour remedies Of tho
civilized world.
Complete treatment for every humour,
consisting Of Cuticura Soap to cleanse
the skin, Cuticura Ointment to heal the
skin, and Cuticura Resolvent Pills to
cool and cleanse the blood may now be
had for one dollar. A single set Is often
sufficient to cure the most torturing,
disAgaring, itching, burning and scaly
humours, eczemas, rashes and irrita-
lions, from infancy to age, when all
else fails.
eod throughout the world CutIcuFs Raselvent soe In
form Of Chocolate Coated Pills, ac per vial Of o0, Olaf
Ban fsyis' Rue do Ia PaHi Boston. ~ Columbus Ave.
TS{tsy Drug Chem Corp, Sole PFoptistoRa.
eW- Send for How 70 Cure Every Humour"
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Acts Like oxyaen.

Lquozone Is the result Of q process.
which, for more than 20 years, has
been the constant subject OF scientific
and chemical research. Its virtues are
derived solely from gas, made in large
part from the best oxygen producers.
By q process requiring immense ap-
paratus and u days time, these gases
are made part Of the liquid product.
The result is q product that does
what oxygen does. Oxygen gas, as
you know, Is the very source Of vital
ity, the most essential element Of life.
LiquoEone Is q vitalizing tonic with
which no other known product can
compare. But germs are vegetables;
and EquoEone, whieh-like Oxygen
e life to an animal. Is deadly to veee-
tai matter,
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soc. Bottle Free.

If you need Liquozone, and have
never tried II, please send Us this
coupon. We will then mail you an or
der on your local druggist for q full
sire bottle, and we will pay your drug
gist ourselves for II. This Is our free
gift, made to convince you; to show
you what Liquozone is, and what Il
can do. In justice to yourself, please
accept it to-day, for It places you IN
der no obligation whatever.
Liquozone costs SOC. and 81.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-04-14

cry. We did this after testing the
product for two years, through physii
clans and hospitals, in this country
and others.
That price was paid because Liquo-
zone does what all the skill in the
world cannot do without it. 1t does
in germ diseases that which Is impos-
sible with drugs Il carries into the
blood a harmless yet powerful GERM
eide, to destroy at once and forever
the cause Of any germ disease. And
no man knows another way to do II.
Liquozone is new in America, and
millions who need It don't know Of It.
For that reason we are spending $780,
900 to give the first bottle free to each
Of a million sick ones.
Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-04-14
We. Offer $1,000
For a Disease Germ That Liquozone Can't Hill

On every bottle Of Liquozone We
publish an offer of $1,000 for a disease
germ that It cannot kill. We do that
to convince you that Liquozone does
Is we claim.
Please note what that means. Any
drug that kills germs Is a poison, and
Il cannot be taken internally. Medi-
cine is. therefore, almost helpless in
any germ disease. Liquozone alone
can kill germs in the body without
killing the tissues, too.
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neutrality-suspicious.
DICKINSON COUNTY, KAs.
OFFICE OF THE COUNTY TREASURER,
DICKINSON COUNTY, KANSAS.

ABILENE, KANSAS, April 4, 1904.
Notice hereby given that the following is list Of lands
and town lots situated in the County of Dickinson and State
Kansas sold the grid day Of September for the unpaid
and unredeemed the above mentioned date
tanning the whom the assessed when
such appears the and tax rolls and the
Of due each parcel of land with interest thereon
calculated to and including the 9th day September 1904 and
that lands and lots redeemed before the said
9th day September 1904 that being the last day of redemption
allowed by law, they will be subject to deeds
J. j. SCHNEIDER
County Treasurer
F. W. MORSE.
Deputy
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Santa Fe Excursions.

Hutchinson, May IS to 81, Grand
Lodge Knights Of P, thias, $50 for
round trip, Abilene to Hutchinson
and return. Tickets on sale May is
to Is, return limit May 81.
Topeka, May 10 to IS, State Con.
ventiou Order Eastern Star. &S 40 for
round trip from Abilene. Tickets on
sale May 3 to 10, return limit May IA.
Wichita, May 10, Annual Conelave
Grand Commandry Kansas knights
Templars IS. As for rouRd uip Tick.
cts on sale May 9 to 10 return limit
May 10. For further particulars
call on or address T s. SAILS.
Agent A. T. 4S.F.,
Abilene Ksnsas.
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lst. That We affirm and confirm
tho action OF this committee at thu
,aid meeting 10 Marion on April End
1894. in the election OF j. X. Owen
as chairman OF this committee; tnal
we approve, affirm and confirm thu
, said action Of said committee In I'D
hitting the said Adam Mo,er, Jr., al
and to be full memb Der OF this COM
mittee; that we approve. affirm and
confirm the said action Of this COM
mittee In adopting the Aforesaid and
set out resolutions and affirm and
confirm the said resolutions; that we
approve, affirm and confirm the said
action OF the said J. K. Owens, chair
man and the said P. H. Halleck, sec
rotary Of thia committee in issuing
and causing to be published in &C.
cordance with said resolutions the call
for delegate convention Of the Re
publicans Of the 9Th judicial district
OF the state Of Kansas, TO be held at
White City, Kansas, in said district
on Monday, the 18th day Of April,
1904, at the hour OF 1880 o'clock p. m.
Of said day; and that we approve,
affirm and confirm the call for said
convention SO issued and published
by said chairman and secretary.
End. That we denounce, condemn,
and repudiate the pretended action Of
said minority Of this committee In
pretending to call primary election
for this judicial district, as illegal In
violation Of law and subversive Of all
party discipline, and we call upon all
Republicans Of tbia judicial district
who believe in honesty in politics to
wholly ignore the said pretended call
for primary election and to de-
nounce and condemn the said action
Of said minority Of this committee as
a fragrant attempt to override the will
Of majority Of this committee, as
we'll as fragrant attempt to thwart
the espresso dwishes Of q large ma
jorityof the Republicans Of the Eighth
judicial district who have already ex.
pressed their desire by electing dele
gates to delegate convention.
Mr.. Scott moved the adoption Of the
and resolutions and upon
he roll being called upon said motion
The following named members Of the
voted Is the affirmative to-
wit: j. F. Haskell, A. Bohannon, P.
1. Halleck, W. s. Scott, N. D. SweL-
ION, j. K. Owens and Adam Moser, |
IT,, and none voting in the negative
he motion was declared carried and
he preamble and resolutions as read
Idopted. On motion the secretary |
vas instructed to furnish q copy Of
hese resolutions to the Republican
,apers of the district.
The committee then adjourned.
j. X. OWENS,
P. H. HALLECK, Chairman.
Secretary.