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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
WITH THE
VETEDANS

martyrs we awaited our fate. Yankee
generals rode along in front of our
lines, fourished their flags and re-
tired; Yankee reconnoiters rode up on
hills, reconnoitered and rode down
again; Yankee sk;rmishers expended
much strategy in securing safe posi-
lions and desperately held them.
Those valiant defenders were drawn
up in formidable lines determined to
do or n.y. We finally saw our chance,
moved on and reached camp on Jan.
6. 1864, with twelve thousand cattle
and all the other supplies that we had
captured in our raids-"-New York
Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
He interrupted Gen. eibbon.

The late Gen. John Gibbon, one of
the heroes of Gettysburg, and the
famous Indian fighter, was generally a
courteous and amiable soldier.
However. there was a certain
brusqueness about him at times, and
occasionally he would show of what
sort of material he was composed.
When Gen. Gibbon was in command
of the Department of the Columbia,
with headquarters at Vancouver,
WASH. he was invited to attend the
formal opening of large cyclorama,
in Portland, Ore. This cyclorama rep
resented the great battle of Gettys-
burg.
Gen. Gibbon accepted the invitation,
attended by his staff and many Off
GERS. There was a large attendance
at the cyclorama. The old general
was soon engaged in pointing out to
a number of men and women various
features of the battle. and referring
to many thrilling experiences.
Just while Gen. Gibbon was very
deeply absorbed in describing the
famous and brilliant charge of Gen.
Pickett, the Confederate officer, a
and interrupted:
reporter in an excited tone, will you
please tell me what time of the day
that was?'
Gibbon was nett1ed, he was Gar
red," he was irritated at the foolish in
terruption. He grew very red, even
to the roots of his gray hair.
'Time!'' said he turning half fierce
ly on the young fellow; time, did
you ask, sir? Don't you know better;
haven't you any more sense than to
ask a soldier when he is fighting, the
time, sir? Don't you know, sir, that a
minute may seem an hour, and an
hour a minute? We were fighting,
sir; fighting like devils. We were not
looking at our watches, I'd have you
know. sir. Time! What a question:"
The young pencil shower silently
skunk away, abashed, amid a general
laugh at his expense. In a moment
the old general had smoothed out his
''ruffled feathers" and was calmly pro-
ceeding with Pickett's historical
charge.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

There is Catarrh in this section OF the country
than all other diseases together until
few years supposed to be ncurable- For a great
many years doctors pronounced IL a disease and
prescribed local remedies and by constantly failing
to cure with local treatment pronounced fncurable
Science has proven Catarrh to be constitutional dis
ease 1d therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure manufactured by +. j Cheney
Co. Toledo, Ohio. is the only constitutional
the market 1t s taken internally in doses from 10
drops To teaspoonful 1t acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system. They offer
hundred dollars for IL fails cure. Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address; F. j. CHENEY g. CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
BUY EUROPE'S GOODS
THE UNITED STATES HER BEST
MARKET.
Figures Prove That Tariffs Have Not
Prevented Increase of Trade-Re-
markabIe Showing of Official Sta
tistics.

The United States is the greatest
market that Europe finds for her
wares.
The monthly summary of commerce
and finance of the United States bu-
reau of statistics shows that the total
imports of the fiscal year 1903 exceed
ed those of the previous year by more
than $100,0OO,0OO The imports of
manufactured articles for the fiscal
year 1903 were more than $412 900, 900.
The high place which the United
States occupies in the industry of
Europe shows that no increase of tar
lift can prevent Europe from sending
US her goods in ever-increasing quanti-
ties. A German-American newspaper
called Colombia, published in Berlin,
calls attention to statistics bearing on
this point, and shows the remarkable
manner in which fc-eign countries
have increased their trade with US in
spite of tariffs.
United States statistics for the year
1902, compared with statistics of
1870, show the increase as follows:
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
A Confederate Raider.

Gen. Rosser, next to Stuart and For
rest, won the greatest name among
the Confederates as a cavalry officer.
He was in the graduating class at
West Point when Virginia seeded
from the Union, and he then resigned
and entered the Confederate army as
a first lieutenant In October, 1863,
then only twenty-five years old, he
was promoted to be a brigadier gen.
eral, and to him was given command
of the Virginia cavalry in the Shenan-
doah valley. In the winter of 1S63-'64
the two opposing armies of Virginia
were modified on the upper branches
of the Rappahannock, not Sar from
Culpeper and Brandy Station, sixty
miles from the Potomac AS Gen.
Meade had to bring all his supplies in
wagons from Alexandria, the possible
plumber that might reward an enter
prising raid in the country between
the Union army and the Potomac was
a strong bait for the almost impover-
ishea Confederate soldiers. There
were, consequently, two or three of
such expeditions during the winter, OF
which the most successful in the way
of plumber was that of Gen. Rossee.
In his description of the raid, Gen.
Rosser does not avoid telling of the
severe attacks and repulses made by
the Union soldiers. but he says: Il
succeeded in capturing the Yankee
train of ninety-four wagons, $50
mules, -four, bacon, salt, molasses,
sugar, coffee, beans, rice. overcoats
and blankets. and four suffers wagons
loaded with all manner of eatables,
drinkables and wearables of the
choicest sort The homely fare for
my men for the next few days was
oysters, sardines, canned fruit,
branded peaches. crackers" ETC.
But only short time afterward
Gen. w. W. Averi1l, the Union cavalry
leader, appeared one morning early
before the Confederate camps and
threatened to annihilate the rebels
Rosser says of this: with the Chris
Hap fortitude that characterizes true
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
orioin of Soldiers Nickname.

This is the way that Brigadier-
General Hughes tells how he was
given the undignitied nickname of
Colonel Brooches"
"At the time / was 1ieutenant-co1o-
mel, and had been camped on the
banks of the Yellowstone, waiting for
orders to move after Clusters charge.
We had spent the whole summer in
the field, and had taken nothing ex-
cept packs for our supplies.
my wife had given me that ques-
tionable article called a comfort bag
just before 1 entered the campaign.
1t was filled with buttons, thread, scis-
sors, thimble, etcetera, and this was
my first use of it.
ct was in most awful need of clothes
and began skirmishing for material
out of which to make some trousers.
The only thing 1 could find was a
shelter tent, and 1 used the remnants
of pair of trousers 1 was still wearing
for pattern by which to make them.
81 shall never forget that day. By
noon / had worked up a perspiration
that can only be excelled by a Turk
ish bath, and my canvas trousers
were streaked and polka-dotted with
gore from my bleeding fingers.
My first piece of tailoring was fin
ished by night, but I was a fit sub
ject for the hospital.
1.-The worst was yet to come. put
them on, and no low comedian, If he
had studied a regalia to make his au-
dfence howl with laughter, could have
found such lines and curves if he had
spent a year on his model.
Just where they should have been
big they were too small, and vice
versa They could have beaten a
grocery awning for scallops, or a
horned toad for corners.
81 could not sit down in them at
all. unless I turned them rear side
BEFORE and I looked SO utterly mis-
cradle, whether walking or standing,
that Gen. Otis straightway dubbed me
Colonel Breeches.' And I've been un-
able to get from under it ever since"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
The Navy Bill.

After a prolonged fight the House
has passed the navy bill substantially
as it was reported by the committee.
Many attempts were made to make
a party issue of it, and these will
doubtless be renewed in the Senate.
The answer to all such attempts is
found in the history of the country.
If the Democrats will read the Grafton
of Senator Voorhees, at the unwilling
of the Farragut monument. they will
get different viewpoint from that
beld by those among them who oppose
the navy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
PROTECTION IN ENGLAND.
A Cause of Infinite Worry to the Free
Traders of the United States.

The growth of the protective tariff
sentiment in Great Britain, under the
vigorous campaign of Joseph Chamber
lain, is cause of infinite worry to a
large number of the free trade news
papers in this country. If Cobdenism
loses hold in England, what refuge will
its opponents in this country find? In
endeavoring to break the moral effect
of this abandonment of free trade in
the home of it's votaries, some of these
free trade newspapers profess to be
lieve that the hand of England is
forced in the matter; that she is COM
PEELED to turn to protection not be-
cause it is sound in principle, but as
matter of retaliation against the
United States. Thus a conspicuous
free trade newspaper says that the
Chamberlain campaign has apparently
reused in many quarters of this coun-
try "a vague feeling of distrust of the
wisdom of our own policy, which has
provoked this attempt at retaliation"
This is an exact converse of the
Chamberlain position. Mr.. Chamber
lain has never for single instant used
the argument that protection should
be adopted for the purpose of compel
ing the United States to open its mar
kets to English goods On the direct
contrary he has commended the tariff
policy of the United States and held
it up as a model worthy of British
adoption For the free trade between
the states of the American union, with
a tariff against the outside world, he
proposes a substantial equivalent of
free trade between all of the COM
ponent parts of the British Empire,
with tariffs against outsiders, which
is as near an equivalent of the Ameri-
can system of protection as the differ
emit circumstances of the British EN-
pire will admit adopting
1t is not to break into the American
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
DOCTOR DID 1T.
Put on So Pounds by Food.

Feed physician back to health and
he gains an experience that he can
use to benefit others. For this reason
Grape-Nuts food is daily recommend
ed to patients by hundreds of physi-
clans who have cured themselves of
stomach trouble. One doctor says:
Although a physician and trying to
aid and assist my fellow beings to en-
joy good health it must be admitted
l formerly did not enjoy the best of
health myself In January, 1899, I
only weighed 119 pounds. At this
time 1 was living in the Ohio Valley
and began to think 1 had about seen
my best days. One day about years
ago l had an opportunity to try Grape
Nuts food for my breakfast. l liked
it so well that / ate three teaspoon
fuls three times a day and have reg.
ularly used it up to the present time.
and / now weigh 155, a gain of SO
pounds and enjoy the best of health.
Not only has Grape-Nuts made
this wonderful change in me, but
through it I have helped my friends.
relatives and patients. The sustain
ing power of this food is simply WON
derful.
Il have one patient who is a sec
eats nothing in the morning but four
tablespoonfuls of Grape-Nuts and yet
does his very hard work up to lunch
time and enjoys the best of health
and strength.
ct could name a great many cases
like this and 1 still prescribe Grape
Nuts in my practice every day" Name
given by Postum Co., Battle Creek.
Mich.
Ask any physician about the scien-
tific principles on which Grape-Nuts
food is made. He'll tell you the nrin-
ciples are perfect
Then 10 days trial proves that
the principles are carried out in the
food Call the good of the grains SO
treated that anyone can digest it ail")
Shown in renewed physical strength
and brain energy.
There's q reason"
Look I'm each pkg for the famous
little book. The Road to Wellville.s
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
The Next G. A. r. Eneampment.

At meeting of the Executive Com
mittee of the National Council of Ad-
ministration, held in Boston, the date
for the assembling of the thirty-eighth
national encampment OF the q. A. r.
was fixed for the week beginning Mon
day, August Is. 1904. The annual pa
rade in connection with the National
Encampment will occur Tuesday, Aug
ust 16. The business sessions of the
encampment will begin on Wednes-
day, August IT. National headquar-
tiers during the week Of the National
Encampment will be at the Hotel Ven,
dome. Boston
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
e.oHr YEARS OF TORTURE.

No suffering more
keen than kidney sui.
fering- Sick kid
neys make bad bloods
cause weak, stiff and
aching backs; cause
blind, sick and diz-
zy headaches, lack OF
appetite and loss OF
sleep; keep you all
tired out and spoil
digestion.
To have perfect
health, you must
cure the kidneys.
Read how one man
was cured by Doan'S
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

A New York man has invented an
instrument with which the music of
the stars can be heard. 1t is perhaps
well to refrain from hailing such an
instrument with joy until it is found
out whether the stars are producing
ragtime.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

If ths fastener who has not slept
for fifteen years can hold out five
years longer he will find the stage
waiting for him. The world is about
ready for a variation in the Rip Van
Wrinkle drama.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
Cookery School Food.

Four persons died and several were
made critically i'll as a consequence
of eating food supplied by a cookery
school attached to the Grand Duchess
Alice Institute for Women at Darn
Stadt.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
Diet of Japanese Troops.

Japanese soldiers are fed on rice,
sailed fis-, dried seaweed and picked
plums-a diet that is almost universal
in Japan. except in the navy, where
rations of meat are served. Soldiers
are allowed meat when on campaigns,
but rarely eat it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
London CITY Is pecreasino.

While London is steadily growing,
the population of the city is con-
stantly decreasing. In 1871 it was
$4,000; to-day it is 10000. Nearly
5000 of it's buildings are not inhabited
at night.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The Strollers. over in little old New
York, didn't stroll when a f1ashlight
photographer set their clubhouse in
blaze. They made tracks down the
stairway seven steps apart
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The idea that sleeping out by hay
stacks in the dewy night can be re-
garded as equivalent to a bath will
come with the force of a painful
shock to the members of the Wander
ing Willie fraternity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Thanks to the invention of the limo
type, newspaper publishers have not
been compelled to order an extra sup
ply of k, Y and sorts, as a result of
the outbreak of the war.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The inventor of the telephone, Al
exander Graham Bell, was born ST
years ago. And the chances are good
that if he tries to call somebody up
to-day he will find that the line is
busy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

A great deal depends upon the
point of view. That the discovery of
radium was the most important event
of 1903 doesn't perhaps seem so to
the man who in that time was intro
duced to his first baby.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

OF course, the trouble was that
Nine. Patti had already said good-by
and the American people took her at
her word.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

A man who was arrested in New
York the other day admitted that he
had been married about forty-seven
times Yet we keep hearing every
little while of some fellow who shot
himself because the girl wouldn't
have him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
IiQhter Than Aluminium.

Medium is the name of a metal re-
Gently discovered by French engi-
neer. 1t is lighter than aluminium, but
otherwise resembles steel. 1t is made
by an electric process at a cost Of
about Is cents a pound.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Small Failures Do the Mischief.
Vaulting ambition makes us forget
the fact that we also have few small
things to jump over before we can
arrive. 1t is the stumbling over these
that makes for failure
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

A general increase of rents faces
tenants in New York. And still, with
the cost of living increasing all along
the line, nobody seems to show any
great eagerness to die.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

A mob down in Maine has been
crazed by religion. But, then, a mob
can get crazed over anything, or moth
ing at all. The chief thing is to get
craZed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

in thirty years. But it must be re-
membered that for many years Great
Britain had the bulk of the business.
She has failed to hold her own.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The name of Miss Spreckels, with
whom M. Santos-Dumont is said to
be in love, rhymes with ''freckles,' %
but a girl as rich as she is never
has any.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Are the American people asked to
believe that Mr. Schwab has been at
Monte Carlo all this time and has
broken the bank only once?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Almost any city can be made beau
tiful, but the first step seems to be
to start something like they had re-
Gently at Baltimore.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The senate has lifted Chaplain
Hale's pay 500 year, but how many
senators has he converted?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02
Per cent


French Observation-Disclosures. "a
BeIgldn 100
SpaniSi .
When the present American tariff
was nder discussion, thirteen of the
leading industrial countries protested
against the measure. Yet, in spite of
the law, the outgoing business of at
least ten of these countries with the
United States has grown surprisingly.
In 1898 the imports of the United
States from Germany were about $7O,-
100000, while in 1902 they were
s1O2 ,OOO, 900.
From France in 1898 the United
States imported $4,000, 900 worth of
goods; in 1902 the imports were $685.
100000.
The imports from Italy in 1898
were $20.0OO,O00; in 1902, $780,
OOO, 900.
Every one of these ten countries
shows a proportionate increase, and
the same is true of smaller nations in
their dealings with the United States.
The imports from Great Britain, how
ever, show only per cent increase
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

A very remarkable petition in bank
ruptcy was filed the other day. The
petitioner acknowledged having a few
dollars on which he does not claim
exemption.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The part of life that isn't filled with
regret is often filed with worry. Hap
py is the man who has nothing worse
than the weather to worry him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

A man judges himself by the things
he thinks he is capable of doing. 9th
ers judge him by what he has done.
And both judgments are usually a bit
off color.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

What if all American women are
pigeon-toed? It doesn't seem to inter-
fere with their getting married.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

Korea may change it's name from
"the land of the morning calm" to
"the land of all-day trouble"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The correspondent who telegraphs
from the far East that Gen. Ma is the
father of the Chinese army must be
an Irishman.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The New York dressmakers have
declared war on the tailor-made girl.
They'll have to fight hard, for she
has many defenders.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

If Nine. Sarah Bernhard tells what
she knows her Memoirs" ought to be
even more interesting than those of
Herbert Spencer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

It's curious how a girl with shapely
legs will always insist that she would
make a successful actress without ex-
planning why.-New York Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

1t is a wise Russian who can tell
whether a bit of paper captured from
the Japanese is a war map or a re-
ceipt for horse liniment.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

The pessimist only puts his best foot
forward when he is looking for trou-
BILE.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-04-02

There being no other handy method
of attracting attention, Peru has had
an earthquake.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-28
OUR EARLIEST SCHOOLS.
Hozc the Young Idea Vas Once
Taught to Shoot.

OLD TIME SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLBOOKS. BY
Clifton Johnson with Many Illustrations,
Executed by the Author. Octave, PIP xvi, 3Sl-
The Macmillan Company.
Mr.. Johnson has hit upon an interesting and
even fascinating theme; that waiting
moreover, for just the sympathetic treatment il
receives IN this volume. His experience as an
illustrator. well his previous studies of the
rural school. the New England country and the
farmer boy, qualified him TO write on a subject
which developed naturally from his possession
OF collection of early American schoolboOks.
Like the old log schoolhouse with its rough
prncheon floor, its windows OF paper creased
with lard to make them transparent. and like
the ol6tine schoolmaster himself and his pupils.
these books, for the most part. have passed away.
They have shared the fate of the most famous
OF them ALL the New-England Primer. which
the author thus describes
The general plan of the primer sent forth by
Harris old, but the compilation had feat
ures. and its name lent il aspect OF originality
In New-England and the neighborng colonies IL
promptly became institution. Every home pos
sessed copies, and they We're for sale at all the
and village bookshops Occasionally print
changed the title. and called il The New-York
Primer" or The American Primer or The
Columbia Primer; but the public preferred the