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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21

Within ten minutes walk of Cheap
side is to be found the worst street
in London Probably you would over
look it, fer it is narrow and unattract-
i've. 1 had never noticed this notori-
upon it at its lesser known end, and
was drawn by what 1 saw to negotiate
its evil length.
1t was the spectacle of a baby stand
ing at the open door of public house
with a beer can in its little hands
that drew my attention. 1t stood
there for a minute or two, quite at
home. and then toddled inside. Out of
curiosity ! turned to a policeman
there is always at least one, L found,
at the end of this street-and asked
if the act to prohibit the handing of
drink to children in unsealed vessels
had become a dead letter
'Oh, no. he assured me, keeping
an eye on the baby, but the kid
hasn't come for beer; it's bringing
back the empty can
So here was the end CT the great
act of parliament for keeping chill
dren out of drink shops, They may not
law does not say they shall not take
the empty cans back. And in the
worst street in London the babies
take back many empty cans.
The street began to fascinate-
saw how narrow it was-the roadway
about six feet across. with a mere
strip of footpath on either side. The
stream of life seemed not to enter it,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21

CALAMITY at New Berne. Adjutant
Stearns being among the killed in that
engagement. At Chantilly. in Ferre-.
ro's brigade, Reno's division, the
Twenty-first, had the hardest fighting
of its experience. Lieut.Col. ]. P-i
Rice was killed and out of less than
400 men who went into the action.
twenty-five were killed. ninety-eight
were wounded and twenty-six were
captured At Fredericksburg. while
in FerreroS Second brigade, SturgiS
(Second division), the Twenty-frst
rendered most efficient service, by the
skill and workmanship by which it
kept down the enemy's fire. The regi-
ment went to the front with corps
of sharpshooters or scouts, organized
by Sergeant Tidd. Two color bearers
were killed in the terrible charge at
Marye's Hill, and others were wound
ed, Sergeant Plunkett being among
the latter. Plunkett lost both arms
Leasure's brigade distinguished itself
at the Wilderness, where it swept
down the line across. and in front of
Hancock's position, making one of the
most daring charges of the war.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
Cupid Aid e d by Micro b e

The suggestion that the matrimo-
NAL fever is due to a microbe has
been less strongly opposed by med
ica1 men since the recent experience
of POttstown, in Pennsylvania, says
the Philadelphia Record A number
of young people who were cast for
parts in a series of amateur dramatic
performances were victims of an cpl
demic of marriage. 1t began during
the rehearsals, young man first
showing symptoms of the malady,
which soon extended to the young
woman who was the most intimately
associated with him in the plays. The
advocates of the microbe theory were
not surprised when others presented
evidence of infection. Before the re
hearsals ceased five couples an
nounced their engagement. Since
then the manager. the prompter and
the stage carpenter have succumbed
to the disorder, and there is a reason
able expectation that the epidemic
will extend to persons outside the dra-
matte party. Out of the license fees
already gathered the county clerk has
bought new overcoat and the
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
Secret Code in Prison

Every prison has it's secret 'ttele-
graph for it was not to be expected
that cunning offenders could be long
confined together, even on the .sepa-
rate cell' system, without discovering
a method of secret intercommunica-
ton Prisoners rap their messages
to each other, and experience has
shown. that an attentive ear may re-
ceive and understand communica-
ton thus made through the thickest
prison wall.
The rapS CORES pond regularly with
the letters of the alphabet, which is
arranged for the purpose into six rows,
the first beginning with "a" and the
last beginning and ending the series
with 81" The first rapping indicates
the row in which the letter is to be
found. one for first, two for. second,
and so on; the subsequent raps. given
after slight pause, show the number
of the letter in the row. At first the
table must be kept in mind, but after
a little practice the prisoner is en-
abled to dispense with all conscious
reference to it, the message being real
1y received, as in the Morse telegra-
ply in the form of symbols standing
in place of letters.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21

5 III Ovels Of Lon d on
Especial Correspondence


Go down the street and glance in
some of the doorways, and you will
be Mortified. On the one side is a
long, barracklike row of houses, from
every window of which. as you walk
along, an unkempt head is thrust
Each contains a family. and each fam
lily takes a predatory interest in
strangers.
On the other side of the narrow
street are wretched two-story dwell
ings. The ground floor windows of a
number of them are boarded up. You
are about to thank goodness that such
places are shut up, when you cast
your eye up. and find a head at each
window above. Most of the heads are
women's heads, and half the women
are nursing thieves babies. Both the
four-story and the two-story novels
are let by the room. A few families
have two rooms, and take in dodgers
Police Terrorized.
Into this backwater thieves and
such women have drifted on the ed
Now and then the backwater be-
comes whirlpool, for there is a pub
lie house at each end, and one in the
middle, and the men and women often
get drunk. Then the policemen do
not venture down the street alone,
for the occupants dread and hate the
police, and when excited throw at
them whatever comes handy.
There are perhaps a dozen lamps
down the street. Toward Saturday
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21

In Russia the clew is not so much
in the system itself as in the nihilistic
method of manipulating language with
a view to concealment. This is clear
from what happened recently in one
OIL the central prisons. Word had
gone round to protest, not only against
an excess of heavy work, but against
the bad quality of food supplied to the
prisoners, and the protest was to take
the form of a refusal to perform the
usual tasks on the men being called
together after breakfast.
Somehow or otner the governor OBJ
tanned the message as it had been
raped through all the walls, but he
took it literally as plot to break
prison by the whole of the convicts,
so he armed the whole of the warders
to the teeth, taking effective measures
to prevent the assembly on the NOR
row. This blunder had a highly bene-
fetal effect upon the discipline of the
prison. for the cOnvicts obtained not
only immediate immunity from the
heavy tasks to which they had not
been accustomed. but afterward en-
joyed better food and more humane
treatment.
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preacher who does most of the marry
ing has ordered a new carpet for his
wife.
1t is recalled that of the 1O2 young
men and women who were trans
ported from San Francisco to Manila
in a government vessel to become
public school teachers seventy-eight
went through the marriage ceremony
before the ship reached the Philip
pines. Among the victims in this case
were many hitherto obdurate bach
elors, whose transformation could be
accounted for only by the germ the
DRY. Other instances where matri-
mony has assumed an epidemic form
have been explained as the effect of
example. but there is nothing in the
conditions inconsistent with the oper-
alton of micrObe. At first view it may
seem unreasonable to think an organ
ism so minute as to be visible only
under a high microscopic power could
work a man weighing 200 pounds; but
any person afflicted with the grip will
not doubt the enormous power of a
disease germ. 1t has produced a sui
cidal mania and might, therefore, in
spire a man with purpose to marry.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
The 4Abo,ition" REGIMENT.

The Twenty-f1rst Massachusetts
which was known as the Abolition
regiment from the fact that some of
the men in its ranks were firm adher
ents of Garrison, Phillips and Parker,
served in Leasure's brigade, Steven
sons division, Ninth corps, was in
twenty-three general engagements, had
a total enrolment of LIS, while it's
percentage of loss in action was 1874.
The commanders of the Twenty-first
were Col Augustus Morse, Col. w. s.
Clarke and Col. G. p Hawkes.. Six
men died in rebel prisons. The sur
geon of the Twenty-first, DR.. c.. E.
Cutter of Warren, had been an active
sympathizer with John Brown and an
ardent supporter. and worked with
him in his operations in Kansas Ser
geant c. P Tidd, who died at Roanoke
Island, was one of the men who was
with Brown at Harper's Ferry, at the
time of the famous raid, which has
been described as 1.-The skirmish line"
of the civil war. The Twenty-first left
the state August %, 1861, was brigad-
ed with Reno's command, and became
a part of the Burnside expedition to
North Carolina. At Roanoke Island
five men were killed and -thirty-nine
wounded. In the following month.
under Col. Clarke. the regiment fought
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21

! TWO ON THE TOWER s
Memory of Boynood I


Here where they brew the weather,
Where old ProD>.' fronts the sky,
Come birds on tiuorouS feather
With callow pipe and cry
You them faint and straining,
Our coign of vantage gaining
They wheel and poise disdaining,
And pretty tactics ny.
Gray tattered clouds are drifting
So tranquil through the air.
The sunshine's Splendor sitting
That filters golden share
His yellow rays are cleaning,
Rich barbaric jewels streaming.
Some splendid spendthrift seeming,
And tossing tawny hair
There snarls Chicago's river
CoiIing with foul scorpion spite.
Where dead men lurk at night.
Winding like a serpent creeping
To sting fond. tender dove.
Her girlish vigil. keeping
And yearning for her love-
Like some vast emerald etching
The rolling prairie seems
Some green Siberia stretching
All drenched in golden CLEANS.
The sapphire sky smiles tender.
All fiecked with aerial foam.
Chicagos ringed with sDlendor
Two million are at home.
All Rose on Times swift river
We drift to Deaths ShOreleSS sea-
Our two tributes to deliver
What Fate holds for You and me-
For Youth and Love must perish
The boyish hopes we cherish.
The dreams of youth and maid,
JAMES f. KINSELLA.
Registry Division Chicago Postoftice
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Papa said Harry, what does
man mean when he says to another
man, III fix your"
Now Mr.. BOnsail was reading the
evening paper and didn't want to be
disturbed, so he answered rather i'm
patiently.
Don't bother me, Harry. Don't you
see that 1 am reading?"
But, papa" said the boy, 4 wish
YOU would tell me, for l want to
know, and l won't bother you any
more
'tOh, it means I'll do you up,'"
"In do you up" repeated Harry;
and then, after thinking a moment
but. papa, what does Ill do you up
mean?"
Now, I'll tell you said the father,
land then you must not ask me an
other question this evening. 1t means
that some man is going to kill another
man.
And Harry. who was only 5. opened
his eyes wide looked stupefied, and
presently walked away.
About a week later the little man
was taken i'll, and as DR.. Ainslie. the
family physician, was not within
easy reach, strange doctor was
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but to flow past its ends. leaving it
mere backwater, into which, and out
of which. men and women and chill
dren f1oated now and then in an eddy
And the more l learned of the street
the more l found it resembled a back
water-d foul backwater in the great
London river of life.
Nursery of Thieves.
For this thoroughfare is a den of
thieves. 1t is more than that-it is
q nursery of thieves 1t is the street,
above all others in London, where
thieves are being born by the score
every year. You may go down it's
length and put your hand on fifty or
100 little children's heads, and rest
assured they are thieves, or soon will
be. The odds are about 10 to 1 that
the baby l saw taking back the empty
beer can will develop into a pick
pocket in ten years time.
do they teach the children, then.
to pick pockets?' l asked a man who
knows the street we'll.
No he said. There is no need to
teach them-they learn Almost be-
fore they can walk they learn to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21

From this proud lofty station.
We view the lakes eXpanse.
We watch with keen elation
The whfte-capped pillows dance
Huge waves are fiercely dashing-
Their names their sides are flashing,
As gladiators claShing.
They surge and fierce advance.
Here every place seems quiet,
No turmoilS Vex the ear
No tumult and riot
Are wont to wander here
hinged by the sky and ocean
We watch with quick emotion
The posing gulrs motion.
He piunges, spuIning fear.
Here where the air is rarer
Than air is wont to be-
Your roseleaf face seems fairer
Than Helen's face TO me.
Your tender eyes are glowing.
Their girlish rapture showing
Hark! how-the wind comes blowing
Ger all the land-locked sea!
Far below the big lakes lying
And creeping Ger the land
The Shril sea gulls flying
A hoarse tumultuous band.
They breast the bIeeze blowing,
On buoyant Journeys going.
Their godlike rapture showing
Der surging sea and strand.
-Chicago's squares are teeming
Beneath keen sapphire sky.
IAN, taper1ng spires are cleaning,
The chattering swallows fly.
And exiles from every nation,
OutcaStS or poor of station,
Here receive warm ovation
Where despots and tyrants die.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
To Establish a Soldiers Death.

To Establish a Soldiers Death.
Its a grewsOme case he's on said
Assistant Manager Owens at the Pied
mont as he indicated a short, dumpy
smooth faced man. He's one of the
number who make living by unearth
ing secrets.
up in Vermont there is a lawsuit
on now in which a fortune or two il
involved. Before the civil war a far
mer near Montpelier had two sons, al
the story comes to me from Mr.. Tan
ner, that's his name" Mr.. Owens con
tinued. as he glanced at the register
land both were in the Union army
Both had families when they dropped
civilian apparel for uniform. The
end of the war brought one of the
sons home. The other lost his life
while pushing Johnsons army bach
into Atlanta, and was. when the Union
dead were gathered in after the war
given a resting place. in the national
cemetery at Marietta. The old mar
died dozen years ago, and within
short time the son who followed
Thomas, Sherman and others into At
lanta went to his last rest.
when the surviving son died the
discussion became bitter and eventu.
ated in lawsuit, the heirs of the sol.
der who came home disputing the
rights Of the soldier who was resting
under the shadows of the Kennesaw
In the course of the litigation it be.
came necessary for the defendants tic
show that the soldier who gave his
life to help Sherman into Atlanta is
really dead. 1t must be shown be
yond all doubt that the form resting in
the grave at Marietta is the remains
of the man who once lived in Yer
mont, and to do that there is a posi-
bility that the grave made forty years
ago may have to be opened. AS
understand, the soldier resting in the
cemetery at Marietta was slightly de-
formed in one hand, and it is that
reformation which, if the grave must
be opened, will establish to the salts
faction of the court of the Green
Mountain State the rights of his direct
descendants to their part of the es-
Atlanta Constitution.
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Har and the Doc tor

called in. The doctor had solemn
face and solemn manner, ard Harry
did not feel altogether sure of him.
Presently Mrs. Bonsail left the room
to get something that was needed,
and Harry thought he would make
friends with the doctor by opening a
conversation with him.
Going to give me some medicine.
doctor?"
'-Oh. yes" answered the doctor.
I'm going to give you some medicine.
Don't worry, my little man; I'll fix
YOU
Suddenly there came to Harry the
explanation that his father had re-
Gently given him of those fearful
words, and, throwing off the covers,
he leaped out of bed, rushed for the
door, and before the doctor could re-
cover from his amazement at the
boys astonishing behavior, the little
fellow was clinging to his mother out
in the hall and begging her to send
away the man who was going to do
him up
1t took half an hour to get Harry
quoted down and another half-hour to
persuade him to take the strange doc
tors medicine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
f.War Is He'll"

Much has been written of Gen.
Shermans famous saying. War is
hell To-day it is said many of the
confederates are still bitter because
of Sherman's historic raid and march
through Georgia; yet, OF all the gen.
erals none have expressed deeper re-
get for the fearful necessities of war.
In his letter to James E. Yeatman of
the United States sanitary commits
sion, May 81, 1865, Gen. Sherman
said:
Il confess without shame that I am
sick and tired of fighting-its glory
is all moonshine. Even success, the
most brilliant, is over the dead and
maneled bodies, with the anguish and
lamentations of distant families APP
pealing to me for sons, husbands and
fathers. 1t is only those who have
never heard a shot, never heard the
shrieks and creams of the wounded
and lacerated (friend or foe), that cry
aloud for more blood, more vengeance
more desolation-'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
Gets Tusk of Mastodon.

The MeSsrs. Nicola, of Pittsburg
have presented to the Carnegie muse
UNI a magnificent tusk of a mastodon
found on their property at Sharon, Pa
Director W. j. Holland, of the muse
um, says it is one of the most beau
tifully preserved and perfect pieces of
fossil ivory ever found in America,
preserving its whiteness and grain in
a splendid manner
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crawl home with things chat do not
belong to them. The 5-year-old learns
from the 10-year-old. and the 10 from
the 20. 1t is. in the air of the street,
and terrible the air is in this wealth
err"
A few years ago there was a no.
torious rabbit warren" of thieves in
Shoreditch. When Thieves were being
chased by policemen. or when they
came out of prison, they made for this
warren, where they could lodge in
safety, lodging from one house to an
other, by subterranean passages or
traps in the roofs. But the county
council replaced the warren with
model dwellings. and now the thieves
are i'll 1.-The worst street in London"
They did not want model dwellings;
they wanted novels, and they found
them.
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the earth's surface will be covered
with human dwellings. The noun
famous regins, uninhabitable to man.
kind, would harbor the f1ocks of sheep
and droves of cattle that the govern
ment would raise for feeding her cit
liens. Caves would be dug and mod
ern methods discovered for raising
mushrooms with the same certainty
as cabbages. A new crop every morn
ing would mean 365 crops yearly. Col
Sellers had the same idea about eye
water. The cellars pun is tempting,
but resolutely put aside
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-21
Eight Thieves in Compartment.

Eight Thieves in Compartment.
Two or three years ago, 1 was told,
a Jew, who owned some of the houses,
leased them to a Christian, who pro-
-ceeded to make his profit by dividing
the rooms into two, furnishing each
compartment with shake down. -
two chairs, tin cooking pan and two
cups, and then letting each compart-
ment at Is. a night to anyone who
chose to pay. One night the authori-
ties found eight thieves sleeping in
single compartment. The cOmpart-
ment money was received by a dep
uty," and once a week the lessee came
and carried it away.
The temptation was too much for
the natives. as he might have known.
One night they fell upon the worthy
Christian. half killed him and relieved
him of his hoard But nobody was
arrested. For whatever happens in
this street there are not many arrests.
unless half dozen policemen are on
the spot at the time. The occupants
half murder each other at times. but
no one who valued his life would give
information to the police.
What can be done with it? If you
pull it down as the Shoreditch rock
cry was pulled down, the inhabitants
will migrate elsewhere. An intelli-
gent police officer suggested that the
scores of don t-works" who live in
its novels should be swept into the
army and made to serve for ten years.
1t is obvious that the prison system
leaves such people UNIFORMED. As
soon as the burglars and pickpockets
are released from Jail they run back
to their old street, and there they con-
coct new plans for wrongdoing.
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Mushrooms Coming Food.

Mushrooms Coming Food.
Talking about eating recalls vein
of chatter that the famous special
correspondent, J. A. MacGahan, once
fell into at a dinner party. He in
sisted that the time would come on
this earth when the mushroom would
be the DEMONSTRATING vegetable
throughout the world The fact that
it can be raised in the dark and under
ground commends it to the agricul-
turists several hundred years hence,
when every available square foot OF
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Pension STATISTICS.

The pension department recently is
sued the following statement:
Survivors of the civil war (approxi-
mateiy) $40 900
On the pension roll. 691 900
Not on the pension roll IFS, 900
During the last quarter there were
Is, 657 applications under the No IS age
order.
sioned are married.
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midnight there may be row, and
four or five policemen go along to
investigate. The lamps are alight
when they enter the street. But
while they are struggling in the
whirlpool the lights vanish. The oc-
cupants turn out their own lamps,
and if the policemen get out uninjured
they consider they have had a good
time. The chances are that a beer
bottle flung round a doorway, or a
chair dropped from a window, or a
half brick from anywhere will bring
at least one of the policemen to the
ground. Not long ago the criminal
investigation department went down
the long street at 2 o'clock in the
morning, and searched for a few no
torious characters. In one house were
found ten police helmets, trophies of
fight.
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The Badge Money Cannot Buy