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ly on their merits have they pushed their
way into almost every part of the civil
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for Dodds Kidney Pills:
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The doctor who attended me has recon-
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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
KOREA, PATHWAY OF NATIONS

Nothing encourages the study of ge-
ography like war. 1t was in 1871 that
Americans began to look up Korea on
the map, for at that time we were at
war with her; but there was only one
battle, and in that battle only one
man was killed-On our side. So the
Biographies were soon put back on
the shelf
In 1894 Korea again came to the
front, but the Chinese fled so precipi-
lately before the Japanese that before
the Biographies were fairly opened
the tide of war swept across the Yalu
and left Korea again the Land of
Morning Calm"
And now again in this year of grace
she is to be made, though much
against her will, the chessboard for
another game. In 1928 she was swept
from north to south by the Mongols
in their effort to get at the japanese.
In 1892 she was swept from south to
north by the Japanese in their effort
to get at the Chinese. She has been
verify the pathway of nations, trodden
Of every foot.-Century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
TOURISTS AT THE BULL FIGHT

Men who at home are members Of
the S. P. G. A, yea, even of the Y. M.
C. A, come to Mexico and demand to
know where tickets to the bull fights
are to be had. If it is on Sunday, SO
much the better; there is a thrill of
deviltry- in smashing several com
mandments at once Women go, and,
fascinated, sit through the successive
acts of a drama of blood and pain.
Does anyone mean to say that he
would not attend a gladiatoria1 COM
bat, would not revel in seeing men
pitted against wild animals, or that,
if Christian Science martyrs were
thrown into a Mexican arena to be de-
voured by wild beasts there would not
be a crowd of most worthy tourists on
the front seats? Human nature re-
mains quite unaltered- The passion
for the bull fight on the part of the
worthy people who come here every
winter and spring is proof enough
that the old Romans were no fuller
of original sin than the rest of US
Mexican Herald.
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So, for his part, he set the dreary
winter months between them and him
self-it was his sacrifice. Yet he
strewed his flowers, although he real
lied even in the act that it would bet
ter have become him to leave the
stones standing bare. Look out for
me-" he said, when the almond is in
blossom
He was not able to decide what the
future held for him, or, if he decided
one thing one hour, he swept it away
in favor of it's opposition the next; but
the moment he saw them again he
knew his fate-read it in the girls
quick gladness of welcome, in the
mothers glance of alarm, just touch
ing him but settling on her.
The girls beauty was not quite so
radiant; waiting and watching had
dimmed it little, although the havoc
was no more than a few days happi-
ness would mend. The mother looked
i'll and worn, but no less beautiful to
him for that.
He had come not only because the
almond tree was in blossom and he
had promised, but also because he had
reached that point when he could
no longer keep away.
81 love you.'' he said. and, since her
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MYTH TfE WOpLD,S
- BEST WQUERS\
gEa
DO MEN EAT TOO MUcH7


Prof. Chittenden~ has been reading
before the National academy of sci
ences the much anticipated descrip-
ton of series of experiments recent
ly conducted by the Sheffield scientific
school of Yale to determine if the
average human being is not eating too
much.
His affirmation is very important in
these days of food trusts, for he
still persists that the average healthy
man eats from two to three times as
much as he needs to keep him in per-
feet physical and mental health and
vigor. Prof. Chittenden's expert
ments covered all classes of men from
the hardest worked toiler to the col
lege professor and lasted nearly a
year. 1t was certainly the most COM
plete test of the question ever under
taken.
There was a gradual reduction of
meat and proteid foods with little in
crease in starch and other foods in
nearly all the tests, and yet at the end
of the experiments the entire lot of
men who had been experimental with
were in the best of health. In some
cases the weight and strength had &C
tually increased, while the daily con-
sumption of food had been only from
a half to a third as much as the aver
age man eats.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Spring Fever.

Spring fever is simply ''that tired feel
Ing" lassitude caused by a sluggis h con-
dition of the blood. The liver and bowels
need cleaning out in the spring and Moth
ing is so effective and at the same time so
pleasant to take as DIR. Caldwell's Syrup
Pepsin.
Too many people make the skin do the
work that the bowels and kidneys should
do. A bilious, constipated condition means
yellow skin, lusterless eyes, foul breath,
and a general worn out feeling. All this
can be remedied by the use of DIR. Caldwell's
Laxative) Syrup Pepsin, which is sold by
all druggists and dealers in medicine
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
WHY ,Aps HAVE PROGRESSED

The ease with which scientists. en-
gineers, naval and military experts
haze been produced in Japan proves
that often the most abstract training
is the best preparation for practical
efficiency The cherry-stone carvers
have been preparing to hold the lever
and, the trigger; the pundits have
found the plotting of campaign upon
Port Arthur already accomplished in
their ancestors charting of the cos
mos and the soul of man. The Japa-
nese have not been taught to despise
anything as too small or too great.
No allusion of racial superiority has
fostered a faith that they can blunoar
luckily through all emergencies No
superstitious respect for machinery
has betrayed them into scorning the
finest of all instruments-the mind
itself-New York Evening Post
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
THE FIRST SWIM OF THE YEAR

The first swim Of the year is with
out a peer as a serious menace to
health, combined with acute personal
suffering, says James L. Ford in Les
lies. There always comes time
early in May when three or four sue
cessive days of warm weather give
a sudden impetus to the buds, leaves
and grass, and fill the schoolboy's
heart with a longing for the cool
depth of the river that flows through
the meadows half mile from school.
And Immediately after the hearty
2 O'Clock dinner-which, as every
physician knows, is most suspicious
moment for bathing-a dozen boys
with towels stuck under their jackets
may be seen leaving the school
grounds in a furtive manner SO as not
to attract the notice of the 'old man"
who is known to harbor certain old
fashioned prejudices against swim
ming in the early spring when the
water is as cold as ice and malaria
turks about the river banks. The lit
tie band of fun-seekers are also at
pains to elude the school DULLES who
might play disagreeable tricks with
their clothing, and to bid to their
saturnalia of discomfort two or three
unsuspecting small boys who are sur
prised, pleased and f1attered by the
Invitation.
Which one of us will ever forget
the CHASTITY misery of that early
spring swim? The icy GOODNESS of the
water; the oozing turf on which we
undressed and left our clothes; the
gusts of chill wind that swept down
the river; the sharp stones over
which we walked and the awful cold
ness of the water that was spattered
on our backs by our merry comrades!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
AGAINST WAR, AND FoR IT.

The real argument against war is
not the sentimental one of suffering,
hardship, loss of life, ETC.; it is the
moral one that war with its vicious
consequences of national debt, bur-
densome taxation, disordered finances,
relaxed social morals, should never
be undertaken If it can possibly be
avoided. That men are killed
in war; that dreadful wounds are OBJ
tanned; that hardship is suffered and
domestic bereavement wrought, is
nothing. Such things are as insepa-
rable from war as prickly heat from
the climate of the tropics, or as deadly
cold from the Arctic circle; but that
is not the true argument for or against
war, for or against peace. 1t is not
question at all of personal hardship
or domestic bereavement; it is ques-
ton of public justice or injustice. A
wanton war, a war of conquest for
mere brutal conquest's sake, war
waged in the spirit that Ahab took
Naboth's vineyard or David obtained
Uriah's wife, is a great crime; but
Just war, a war inevitable for nation
al preservation, for the defense or en-
largement of human liberty, is more
glorious than a thousand years of ig-
noble Chinese peace. There are vices
coincident with war, but they are not
more deplorable nor more ineffacable
than the cankers of a calm world and
a long peace. The march of -civiliza-
ton has proceeded at charging step
following every great war. The bat
ties of Marathon and Salamis were
the turning points in the civilization
of mankind. The greatest forced
marches of mankind since Marathon
on the path to enlarged civil liberty
and law have been wrought by great
wars Gigantic social and civil abuses
have persisted beneath the sword
Portland Oregonian.
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WHAT THE KING EATS.
What's Eft for Him.

A Mass. lady who has been through
the mill with the trials of the usual
housekeeper and mother relates an
interesting incident that occurred not
long. ago. She says:
II can with all truthfulness say that
Grape-Nuts is the most beneficial OF
all cereal foods in my family, young
as well as old. 1t is food and med1-
cine both to US. A few mornings ago
at breakfast my little boy said:
Mamma, does the King eat Grape
Nuts every morning?
Il smiled and told him 1 did not
know, but that thought Grape-Nuts
certainly made a delicious dish, fit for
a King" Otis fact that the King of
England and the German Emperor
both eat Grape-Nuts.)
II find that by the constant use of
Grape-Nuts not only as a morning ce-
real but also in buildings. salads. etc,
made after the delicious recipes found
in the little book in each package it
is proving to be a great nerve food
for me besides having completely
cured a long standing case of indiges-
ton" Name. given by Postum Co.,
Battle Creek, Mich
There is no doubt Grape-Nuts is the
most scientific food in the world
Ten days trial of this proper food
in place of improper food will show in
steady, stronger nerves, sharper brain
and the power to 'tgo'' longer and
further and accomplish more. There's
a reason
little book. The Road to Weuviue. %
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eyes hurt him, added quickly, "I must
tell you, although 1 know what you
will have to say to me-"
Not all, perhaps she said You
cannot know how 1 love you until 1
tell you, but it must be only this
once
She is SO young" he pleaded. pres
emily; 'she will so soon forget"
She is too like me- she said, land
1 never forget. 81 married thought
1essly." she went on, without real
love. This is my punishment and 1
must bear it,
He nerved himself to a supreme eff
fort, trying to catch her spirit of sac
rifice while it brushed round him.
Would it help you if 1 took her."
he said. "as gift from you, and tried
to make her happy, doing the best I
could?"
For moment she stood stunned,
her eyes kindled with the admiration
that was his reward.
NO" she said at last; "she would
find out enough to spoil the happiness.
But how good of you'll"
You would give up all for her?" he
questioned.
q,
land isn't it her turn? The right OF
YOUTH
so 1 must give up hope of you-to
please you?" he asked.
YES" she said, land my love for
you has taught me SO much about you
that 1 know that you can do it."
'Oh, it is hard" he cried But in
answer, she only turned hopeless eyes
to him and robbed him in silence OF
the power to say more.
Yet, before they parted, he Claimed
one thing from her while abandoning
SO much. * . k4Eas 81 4f W.T.
IF she calls on you one day for
your appreciation of a more suitable
lover, will you send for me then?' he
urged.
And her promise to this she yielded
to his importantly. But she shook her
head YEARLY; the girl seemed so en-.
| tirely her second self-to her.
But his last sight of the girl was 9
little figure in pink under the pink
blossomed almond tree And. seeing
| her there, turning to wave a hand. an
other privilege of youth than the one
her mother had mentioned flashed
across him-the right to change his
mind, to love again and love better
to renew its fancy with the wand OF
| time, as the sweet almond blossoms
are renewed each spring; coming eve1
as surprise, yet ever the same.
So she flung hope, like a perfume
after him--all she could give him thai
he cared to have.-Sketch.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
FREEMEN THE BEST FIGHTERS.

An English writer on military mat
tiers takes the ground that repub-
lican or representative form of gov
eminent is not conducive to the best
results when it comes to preparation
for war, and that the business of
fighting, to be thoroughly successful,
should be managed by an autocracy-
But it is to be feared that this gallant
soldier has studied history, and espe-
cially recent history, to little effect.
There is no more autocratic power on
earth than Russia, and that country
has not furnished a particularly strik-
ing example of readiness for war or
effective military organization of late.
Japan, on the other hand, which if
anything was a little too ready for
war, has a representative government
Napoleon III. sought to be as auto
cratic as his more famous and much
ADLER predecessor, the first emperor
of that name. Yet under Napoleon
III. the French army administration
was so weak and rotten that it fell
to pieces, involving the nation in de-
feat, disaster and humiliation as soon
as Germany had a fair chance to
strike at it.
Autocracy never yet, from the times
of Xerxes, Alexander and the Caesars
to the present, has been capable, in
and of itself, of creating that spirit of
devotion and patriotism which makes
the truest national defense. On the
contrary, those nations which have the
most liberal governments and the
largest measure of freedom Of fndi-
vadual action have shown themselves
the bravest and readiest in war. 1t
sometimes takes longer to arouse
them, and it undoubtedly is true that
they are not always as thoroughly
prepared for hostilities as they might
be. That in itself shows their prefer
ence for peace as against war. But
when the spur of necessity or patriot
ism is applied where can better fight
ers be found than those who come for
ward from the ranks of a free people
and offer themselves to their country?
Troy Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
PERlLs OF ~sELF-DocToRINe."

Large numbers of people N pros
porous circumstance die as sexagen-
arians from maladies which are evil
dences of degeneration and of prema-
ture senility, while many who pass
this period go on to enter upon an
eighth or ninth decade of life. The
former class comprise those who have
lived without restraint of their appe-
tites and who have sought to a1lay
some of the consequences by self-med-
ication, while the latter class com
prise those who have lived reasonao.y
ana who, if annoyed by imperfect
digestion, have sought relief by aban-
donfng the errors from which 1t
sprang.-Iancet-
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She wearied for him all the winter,
watched and waited, too. But if he
ever CHANGED to go by, the happy
chance of seeing him was not hers.
During the previous spring and sum-
mer, and even late into the autumn, it
had been different-once or twice in
every blessed week he had come to
gladden. the days, to set them in jew
eled frames in her memory's gallery.
Or if he had not, strictly speaking,
come to her, she had yet seen him;
happened to see him; been permitted
by kind fate to speak with him.
Not that he failed entirely to seek
her out. There was denying the han
diness of the small riverside house,
where she lived with her widowed
mother, as a place to drop into" for
tea or a restful chat"
The first time he had entered that
gate, a humorously dripping object of
compassion out of an overturned sail
ing boat, the almond tree against it
was pink with blossom, and he al
ways afterward associated her with
the fragile pink flowers, weaving
many a dainty compliment for her
out of the sweet resemblance which
a poetic fancy helped him to keep
wildly before him-at least, when she
was bodily before him also.
By the time the almond tree was
thick with leaf, he had grown IN in
timacy at the little riverside house to
the privileged point of inviting her
into his boat whenever, as sometimes
happened. he was bound to no special
destination.
She was so young, such a child. such
Of nd
sunshine and all the intangible, mock
ing gaity of spring, to set against his
almost worldwide experience and his
ripening years.
So her influence on him was as
ephemeral as the flower of the almond
tree, delicately sweet while it lasted,
but to be overpowered by the next
succeeding interest, just as the al
mond blossoms are overpowered and
scattered by every wind that blows. A
delight of a day, too unsubstantial to
weather the night.
But, if all her charm was insufi-
Gent to help her, it served, working
mysteriously against itself, to help
him and also to help one near to her.
Through her very immaturity of
mind, her youthful perfection of body,
in some strange way he seemed, after
time, to reach appreciation OF the
woman who had brought her into the
world-a woman who, in spite of her
undoubted conversational powers,
guarded her personality with a jeal-
GUS armament of silence and reserve;
who seemed to shrink from any
friendship which gave a hint of curl
osity. or even of interest pressed ever
so slightly home.
Yet, for all her care, put her sue
cessfully off her guard, there would
leap at rare moments into her Gull
tured manner manner that he knew,
the light-hearted gaiety her daughter
had inherited, completed, made salts
flying, made real, by all that life had
taught her.
He grew to longing for those depths
eagerly, passionately, that he might
gain rest in them, summed there by
her lighter manner, sustained by her
truth and steadfastness.
One whom he looked on as a
child had led him, with child s sure
ness of touch within sight of the
worlds Greatest Good. He knew now
what his life had always lacked; he
faced his remedy. He was in love at
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Match Making in France.

Eight hundred tons Of sulphur were
used in France last year in making
matches. The daily consumption was
three per head of the population.
Match making is a monopoly of the
French government to which it yields
an annual revenue of 100000.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
Ionq-Iived Trio.

There died in Paris recently Count
Emile de Keratry, who could boast
that his grandfather, born in 1899,
was a page in the household of Louis
XIV. The former page married his
second wife at 20 years of age and
had a son, who was Emile's father.
He was born in 1857 and lived till
1852. Three lives bridged 205 years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
The Worlds Fair,

In making your arrangements for
the Worlds Fair at ST. Louis this
summer, if you consider convenience
and saving of time, you will take the
Wabash Railroad as it runs by and
stops at it's Station at the entrance of
the Fair Grounds; thus saving sew
era1 miles run and return, and the in
evitable jam at he big Union Station.
By all means consider the advantages
of the Wabash.
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Beware of OintmentS for Catarr1
that Contain Mercury,

mercury will surely destroy the of sIne.-
and completely derange the whole system when
entering 1t through the mucous surfaces. Such
articles should never he used except on prescrip-
lions from reputable physicians, the damage they
will do is ten fold the good you possibly de-
i've from them. Hairs Catarrh Cure manufactured
by F. j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o., contains mer-
curry and is taken internally, acting directly upon
the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In
buying Halls Catarrh Cure be sure you get the
genuine 1t is taken internally and made in Toledo,
Ohio, by F. j. Cheney & Co. Testimonials free.
Sold by Druggists. Price. 15c. per bottle.
Take Hairs Family Pills for constipation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04
superstition In Korea.

No Korean couple would think OF
marrying without consulting the sage.
This he does simply by adding the
brides age to the bridegroom's, and.
after determining which star rules the
destiny of their united ages. he de-
crees that the wedding shall take
place upon the day sacred to that
star.
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Japanese Servants.

Fhe Japanese women have no ser
want problem to solve, simply because
they do not look down on servants as
such. Visitors bow as low to servants
as to their mistress, and if the mis-
tress is away the servants serve tea
and entertain the visitors.
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Try One Package.

II Defiance Starch" does not
please you, return it to your dealer.
If it does you get one-third more for
the same money. 1t will give you
satisfaction. and will not stick to the
iron.
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Cost of Torpedoes.

Since the war began in the Orient
and SO much has been printed about
torpedoes, many people have asked in
amazement why those implements
should cost so much. A good torpedo
made to order comes as high as
$4,000. Even ready made torpedoes
are by no means cheap, as they cost
$1,000 apiece at wholesale rates
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Some people never have good luck.
not even in starting out as the first
grandchild.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Treasure Long Unclaimed.
The Bank of England contains ST.
yer ingots which have lain in vaults
since 1896.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1904-06-04

Defiance Starch is guaranteed big
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