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Stanton, and long before he was dry
enough to go out of doors she had
learned why she had never seen him
before.
He had only the night before come
to Cedar Rapids and, in wandering
about to get his bearings in the town
before taking up his duties with his
firm, had come upon the Little Slough.
He had secured some skates at near
by shop and-Diana knew the rest.
In due time he came to call. Only
one subject was tabooed when they
were together. and that was the skat-
ing accident and the promise.
DIANA" said Tom one night-he
had called her Diana for some time.
81 did not promise to refrain from
telling you 1 love you, and 1 do. l
love you better than anything in life,
and if you can't figure out some way
out of my difficulty, 1 shall be sorry
your were in your window that morn
ing. I shall, Dianai" He tried to
take her hands and to force her to
look at him.
Tom Stanton, don't you dare," she
said, laughing at his seriousness. You
are dangerously near breaking your
promise, and 1 won't pull you out if
you go over the brink as 1 did ON the
ice."
Almost a year after Diana had ex-
tracted her promise from Stanton she
came into the room where he was
waiting for her and sat down beside
him on the couch
Have you a pencil and paper,
Tom?" she asked. Il want you to
figure something for me-" She moved
close to him.
But first, Tom, are you quite, quite
sure that you love me-that you would
have loved me anyway? No she
said, repelling his attempt to take her
hands. Tell me-
Yes, positively sure, DIANA he
said, earnestly. Are you going to
release me?"
''Nonsense," she cried 81 just
wanted to be sure; 1 will never re-
lease you from that promise"
Silence fell between them for mo-
ment- He was thinking of how many
times within the year she had raised
his hopes, only to dash them to the
ground again And yet he loved her.
Now put down the figures l tell
you" she said. AMER minute, land
| don't ask questions. One
| He put figure one on the paper
Beside it a nine" said Diana He
did it
sNaught, Four." said Diana, exeit,
edly-
every WELL" said Tom.
sNow divide it by four" she said
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The World Beautiful.

Oh, jewellers on the lovely earth,
Why will We break your rest and mirth
To weary US with fruitless prayer?
Why will we toll and take such care
For children's children yet unborn
And garner store of strife and corn,
To gain scarce remembered name,
Cunbered with lies and soiled with
shame?
And if the gods care not for3you,
What is this folly We must dosssf.a
To win some mortaPs feeble heart?
Oh. fools when each man plays his part,
And needs his fellow little more
Than these blue waves that kiss the
shore. s4&s
Take heed of how the daisies grow
Oh. foolsi and if We could but know
How fair a world to you is given,
Q brooder on the hills of heaven.
When for my sins thou drawst me forth,
Hadst thou forgot what this was worth
Thine own hand made? The tears of men,
The death of three score years and ten,
The trembling of the timorous race
Had these things so bedimmed the place
Thine own hand made, thou couldst not
know
To what heaven the earth might grow
If fear, beneath the eartn were laid,
If hope failed not, nor love decayed.
William Morris.
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81 can never thank you, Miss Ca
rev." began Tom Stanton for the
sixth time within half an hour.
He stood in front of the big, open
fireplace in the Carew sitting room.
very wet and disheveled. His over
coat and hat, soaked likewise, hung
on the back of chair before the fire.
A pair OF skates lay on the floor.
I'm only one way, you may" gu
swered Diana, at last.
She spoke as if she had suddenly de-
termined to say something upon which
she had been bordering. Each time
Stanton had tried to thank her she
had artfully turned the conversation
into foreign channels and ignored his
expressions of gratitude.
"Give me your solemn OATH" she
continued, that you will never ask me
to marry you, and l am fully thanked
for what l have done. Yes, l know
that sounds presumptuous, Mr.. Stan
ton, but nowadays persons labor I'M
der the delusion that if a girl does
some-O some little thing like did
for a man, that he is in honor bound
to ask her to marry him. l won't
have it, so promise"
She looked as well as he did in
heavy wet clothing and with his hair
curling recklessly about his broad,
white forehead.
But you save" he began, but was
interrupted.
"Don't-don't dare to say it! I did
not!" And Miss Carew stamped her
foot emphatically.
But you did; you saw me founder
ing about among the chunks of ice and
you ran all the way, at a great risk
to yourself, and pulled me out. l was
foolish to skate on such dangerous
ice. could never have crawled out
before ! was frozen-so there! l
must refute your denial. What do you
call it, Miss Carew?'
Never mind, only give me your
promise. 1t was mere luck that hap
pened to be il the window of my room
and saw you go in. l know the air
holes in the slough, living so near.
Your promise?" she said interroga-
lively.
rs that quite fair?" he asked. Sup
pose"
mo, 1 won't! I would never, never
marry a man who thought had saved
his life even il it were years and years
afterwards. 1 should always feel that
he asked me out of gratitude"
"But 1 won't feel that way" said
Stanton, honestly feeling it might be
true, but smiling down at the look of
despair she gave him.
There you are, this very minute,
she argued, before you have known
me an hour, already contemplating it.
o please promise!"
Diana was so earnest that Stanton
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-Four hundred and seventy-six," he
read, when he finished. well, what
of it?" He was mystified beyond ex-
preston.
rs it all figured out?" she asked.
yes"
And can't you see that 1904 is de-
visible by four and that it's leap year,
and-O, Tom, 1 love you So Won't
you marry me? Please do, she cried
And if taking her in his arms and
holding her as ii he would never let
her go again was giving positive an
swer, Diana's leap year proposal was
accepted.-Ruby Douglas, in Boston
Globe.
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Wooinq Done by Music.

Among the Yao Midos, one of the
many Burmese-Tartar people, the
young men WOO their wives absolutely
without words, but to the, sound of
music. On the first day Of winter they
have a great feast, at which all the
marriagea5le girls gather and listen
to the music made by the bachelors,
W no sit under the desire tree" each
playing his favorite instrument AS
the maiden he loves passes him the
youth plays louder and more feelingly.
If the girl ignores him and passes on
he knows that she viii have none of
him; if she steps up to him and lays a
flower upon the instrument he Jumps
up, grasps her by the hand, taking
care not to drop the flower, and they
go away together.
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COULD NOT FOOL DARWIN.
Great Scientist at Once Settled Status
of the Bug.a sf-7-'

of the Bug.a ara,
Miss Daisy Leitef has. brought back
from London a story about Charles
Darwin.
1.-TWO English boys" said Miss Lei
ter, being friends of Darwin, thought
one day that they would play joke on
him. They caught a butterfly, a grass
hopper, beetle and a centipede, and
out of these creatures they made a
strange, composite insect. They took
the centipede's body, the butterfly s
wings, the grasshopper's legs and the
beetles head and they glued them to-
gether carefully. Then, with their new
bug in box, they knocked at Oar
wins door.
1--WE caught this bug in a field,
they said. Can you tell US what kind
of bug it is, sir?'
Darwin looked at the bug and then
he looked at the boys. He smiled
slightly.
Did it hum when you caught it?'
he asked.
Yes they answered. nudging one
another
Then said Darwin, it is a hum
bug"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25
First University in Japan.

As early as the eighth century
university had already been establish
ed in Japan that included sucn moo-
ern divisions as schools of medicine,
ethics. mathematics, history, and
some of the text books employed at
that remote period dealt with such
subjects as the diseases OF women,
materia medica, and veterinary sur
gery-types of text books which ap-
near to have been unknown in Euro
pean countries until about LOCO years
later.
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GARDEN OUT OF PLACE.
Mistake Was in Locating 1t on Base
ball Diamond.

ball Diamond.
Henry Turner Bailey, until recently
State Supervisor of Art of Massachu-
sets, says there is a wrong and a
right way to induce the children to
love the beautiful, and he tells the fol
lowing story as an Illustration. A
superintendent of schools. during the
vacation period, made. a beautiful gar
den in a school yard, thinking that if
he made it beautiful enough the boys
would not destroy it. With September
a lot of energetic boys CAME back t.
school, and in few weeks the gardeS
was trampled down and ruined. The
townspeople were indignant at the ruff
fian1y behavior of the schoolboys, and
spoke of them in rather harsh terms
Early in the spring there was a
change of superintendent, and the
new man heard almost Immediately OF
the spoiled garden He went up to
the school and made friends with the
boys, and then he said, you boys
don't like flowers, do your"
They declared emphatically that
they did. -
''Then why did you ruin that flower
garden?" he asked.
Well" said the spokesman of the
crowd, ''they ought to have known bet
ter than TO make it on our baseball
diamond
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Old Soldiers Story.

Sonoma, Mich, June 13-That even
In actual warfare disease is more ter
rible than bullets is the experience of
Delos Hutchins of this place. Mr..
Hutchins as a Union soldier saw three
years of service under Butler Barke
In the Louisiana swamps, and as a
result got crippled with rheumatism
30 that his hands and feet got all
twisted out of shape, and how he suf-
fered only rheumatic will ever know
For twenty-five years he was in
misery, then one lucky day his drug
gist advised him to use Dodd's Kid
ney Pills. OF the result Mr.. Hutchins
says:
The first two boxes did not help
me much, but 1 got two more, and
before I got them used up 1 was a
great deal better. 1 kept on taking
them and now my pains are all gone
and feel better than lave in years.
I know Dodd's Kidney Pills will cure
rheumatism
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

Judge A. ]. Felter of 31S So. E. ST.,
San Bernardino, Calf, says:-"For Is
years my kidneys were not perform
Ing their functions properly. There
was some backache, and the kidney
secretions were profuse, containing
also considerable sediment. Finally
the doctors said had diabetes Doan's
Kidney Pills wrought a great change
in my condition and now l sleep and
feel well again"
A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney
medicine which cured Judge Felter
will be mailed to any part of the
United States. Address Foster-Milburn
Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Sold by all deal
ers; price so cents per box.
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RASzN 00UWA5

very well, now promise" she said,
extending her hand.
He took it in mis-. 81 promise, Miss
Carew, never to ask you to marry me
out of gratitude" he said.
mo. no, mol" she cried, hopc1essly,
and taking her hand abruptly from
him. Promise never, under any cir
cumstances, to ask me TO marry you
He hesitated while he locked earn
estly into her eyes, And because he
saw a troubled. eager expectancy in
her expression he took her hand again
and said, 81 promise But he was
sorry the moment the words had left
his lips.
Now that she had extracted her
promise Diana chatted on merrily with
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

There Is more Catarrh in this section Of the country
than all other diseases together and until the last
few years was supposed to be incurabe. For great
many doctors pronounced II local disease and
prescribed local remedies and by constantly failing
with local treatment pronounced It ncurable
Science has proven Catarrh be constitutional dis
and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. j Cheney
q Co. Toledo, Ohio is the only constitutional on
the market 1t is taken internally in doses from 10
drops teaspoonful 1t acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system They offer one
hundred dollars for any 1t fails Send
for circulars and testimonials.
Address; F. j. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, Ohio.
Sold by Druggists. 15c.
Take Halls Family Pills constipation.
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When Subjects Rebel.

For three weeks he had borne all
the horrors of spring cleaning without
a murmur. Then his patience gave
way.
"And you," sobbed his wife-"you
used to tell ne 1 was your queen"
YES he said, with wild glare in
his eye; but when a man finds his
queen has used his tobacco jar TO
pale oak varnish and his best NEE
schaum pipe for a tack hammer b.
he begins to grasp the advantages o
a republic."-Stray Stories.
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How Did He Do 1T

Charles M. Schwab is stirf telling
his friends his amusing experiences
while abroad. One of these relates
to an inscription he saw--on the pla-
card fastened to the breast of beg
gar in Paris. Here is the literal trans
lation:
Gentlemen and Ladies-Kindly as
sist poor man who has lost both his
arms and is compelled to hold out his
hands for alms.''-New York Times.
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Force of Habit.

The master plumber had become
rich, and was going abroad for hi.
health. On the voyage a school o.
whales was sighted and the plumber
was seen to rub his hands in costa
cieS.
"Why is he so happy?" asked a curl
Gus passenger.
He can't help it, whispered the
captain. He imagines each spout is
a burst of water pipe, to be repaired
by him at his old rates.
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FREE TO TWENTY-FIv: LADIES.

FREE TO TWENTY-FIv: LADIES.
The Defiance Starch Co. will give
Is ladies a round trip ticket to the
ST. Louis Exposition, to five ladies in
each of the following states: Illinois,
Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas and Mis-
souri, who will send in the largest
number of trade marks cut from
ten-cent, 16-ounce package of Def
ance cold water laundry starch. This
means from your own home, any
where in the above named states
These trade marks must be mailed
to and received by the Defiance
Starch Co., Omaha, Nebr, before Sep
TENDER 1st, 1904. October and Novem-
Der will be the best months to visit
the Exposition. Remember that Deli
ance is the. only starch put up 16 o.
Ga full pound) to the package You
get one-third more starch for the
same money than of any other kind,
and Defiance never sticks to the iron.
The tickets to the Exposition will be
sent by registered mail September
5th Starch for sale by all dealers.
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Stoddard's Modesty.

AS is not the case with many pres
ent-day celebrities. no one could justly
accuse Richard H Stoddard with be-
ing pulled up with an exaggerated
idea of his own greatness
WELL said a friend to him several
years before his death, 'the papers
viii say a lot about you when you
die
MY friend" was the poets quiet
reply. 81 win scarcely be mentioned.
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III s s
Did She Throw Him Overt

OIo Sne. throw HIM OVerT
THAT Charlie -Pinchback is a mean
man." 80
What has he done?"
you know, he's engaged to Tilda
Rickrack- Well, he found a ring
somewhere It bargain and gave it
to her. 1t was too small for her
finger What do you suppose he
did?"
'What?"
Advised her to diet until she could
get it on-"-Stray Stories.
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TOLD IN CALIFORNIA.

Helping the
k / d n eys is
helping the
whole body,
for it is the
kidneys that
remove the
poisons and
waste from
t h e b o d y.
L e a r n i n g
this simple
lesson h a s
made many
sick men and
women well.
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Those Melancholy DAYS,

81 wonder what inspired Bryant to
write the line, The melancholy day.
have COME" remarked Mrs Smither.
inQuiringly-
why, in Bryant's day the womer
did their housekeeping in the fall
said SmitherS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

At a recent dinner of the ST.
Georges Society at Delmonico's, Capt.
w. H. Stayton said that the popular
idea of a man-o'war's man seemed
to be a blue shirt inhabited by a
thirst.-New York Times.
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Her Ruling Passion.

1.-The next house I build I'll leave
out all the woodwork"
why so?"
Because at home now every time
I get a poor dinner my wife says:
There was no time to bother with the
cooking, Henry. We had to wash all
the woodwork to-day
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BIG pRoP BINDER 1WINE.

We are selling the highest grade standard
nlnder Irvine made, shipping it to any address
IN any quantity and at much lower price than
callers can buy in carload lots. For our
special inside price, our guarantee and money
refund offer, for our insurance proposition
against hail or storm. for the lowest price, the
most liberal binder Irvine offer that will be
made this season, cut this notice out and mail
to us to-day and you will hear from by return
u all. Address,
SEARS. ROEBUCK & CO., Chicago, Ill.
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Rest and Labor.

Extended experiments in Paris
show that in a given period of labor
the total quantity produced is in
creased by intervals of rest. especially
when short resting intervals are null
tiplied Rest acts as a stimulant
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

To the housewife who has not yet
become acquainted with the new things
of everyday use in the market and
who is reasonably satisfied with the
old we would suggest that trial OF
Defiance Cold Water Starch be made
ct once Not alone because it is guar
anteed by the manufacturers to be su-
perior to any other brand, but because
each 1Oc package contains 16 Ozs.,
while all the other kinds contain but
IL ozs 1t is safe to say that the lady
who once uses Defiance Starch will use
no other. Quality and quantity must
win.
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MILLING to OhIioe.

ct may as well tell you, young
man." said Miss Spooner's father
that always close up the house and
turn out the lights by 10 o'clock"
Don't bother tonight, SIR replied
Jack Merry. "I'l attend to that fol
you"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25
Grass Evaporates Water.

The amount of water given or by
an acre of grass is estimated at thirty
hogsheads a day. About 800 parts, by
weight, Of water pass through a plant
to one part fixed and assimilated in
its tissues.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25
Must Look the Same.

Must Look the Same.
Little Sister was complaining tear
fully about something her mother had
told her to do.
Very WELL" said grandma, 1--WE will
trade off this mamma for another
one"
"A1l right" said little sister, but
we'll have her look just like my nam
ma now, won't WEI"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25
Distribution of Houses.

Italy and Spain have fewer houses
In proportion to their population than
any other country in the world; the
Argentine republic and Uruguay have
the most.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

Exterminate Jackais.
For the determination of jackals q
poisoning club for the whole of Cape
Colony is suggested.
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This Will Interest Mothers.

Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Chill
dren, used by Mother Gray, a nurse in
Children's Home, New York Cure Fever
1shness. Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders,
move and regulate the bowels and destroy
Worms. Sold by all Druggists, 25c. Sample
FREE. Address A. S. OImsted, Leroy, NY
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When Your Grocer Saws

he does not have Defiance Starch you
may be sure he is afraid to keep it un-
til his stock of IL OF. packages are
sold. Defiance Starch is not only bet
ter than any other Cold Water Starch
but contains 16 OF. to the packag e and
sells for same money as IL OF. brands.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

When a young man finally gets
married the girls who also ran are
unanimous in condemning his choice
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

HO! FOR ROSEBUD RESERVATION,
South Dakota $4,000 acres land under u s. draw
Ing Registration begins July ends Fifteen
experience in Oklahoma land openings Ny
ern office will be at Bonesteel s. Oak. Send
my Land Manual, containing proclamation
plete Information. Soldiers desiring should
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Radium in Pitchblende.

Specimens of pitchblende. which
have been exposed in the museum at
Vienna for 100 years, show radio ac-
tivity.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

The well earned reputation and increas-
ing popularity of the Lewis Single
Binder straight sc cigar is due to tha
maintained high quality and appreciation
of the smoker. Lewis Factory, .Peoria III.
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No man ever thinks a woman talks
too much-fOr a woman
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,dore or Less.

Biggs-Punkins REGARDS himself as
the one man in a thousand.
Diggs-Is that all? I thought he re-
garded himself as the other 999.
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uneuItivated English Land.

Dartmoor, which occupies one-ffth
of the area of the county of Devon.
is the largest tract of uncultivated
land in England
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stopped smiling and turned his other
side to the fire before answering.
I'll promise on the condition that
you will permit me to continue our ac-
quaintance-if l may come to see you
and learn to be friends. I could not
thank you in a lifetime for what you
have done. so we will Let that pass
It was brave and
He was going to say sweet. but re
fraine1 wiseIy. Neither did he tell her
he had the vet belt and tie which she
had knotted together. He would keep
that alvaya-
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can't accomplish anything without
sunking lot of noise.
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Some people take things as they
come and make the worst of them.
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Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallfble
medicine for coughs and colds--N. W. SAMUEL.
Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. II. 1900
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

Every young man has plenty of op
portunities to make a fool of himself
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

Mexican Cotton.
Mexico produces about $4,000, 900
mounds of cotton annually.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25

Girls may not convert young men,
but they at least draw them to church.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-25
Important to Mothers.

Some men have no visible means OF
support when their wives are absent
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Try me just once and am sure To
come again. Defiance Starch