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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
Men of Rrilliancy Seem Scarce.

German professors are supposed to
be as plentiful as strawberries in
June, but the University of Vienna
seems to be unable to find men
worthy of occupying some of it's
chairs, especially. in the medical facul-
ty. The late Prof. Nothnagel's place
has been offered to Prof. Kraus who
however, prefers to remain in Berlin,
and no medical instructor now in Aus
tria seems to be considered big
enough for the place. The chair of
hygiene was vacated two years ago
by the departure of Prof. Gruber to
Munich. 1t has not been possible to
secure as his successor one of the
only four men considered sufficiently
eminent-Gruber, Rubner, F1ugge and
Hueppe-wherefore the professorship
will probably be offered to a younger
man who has yet to make his
reputation.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25

foe and some of them sent to wa
terry grave.
Fishing is done from small boats, or
Gories, of which each sailing vessel
carries eight or dozen. Each dory
is manned by two fishermen.
1t is from these little craft, frail
enough at best, but helpless in the
ice, that most of the fishermen are
lost
Crowding on sail, the schooner may
escape from the threatening mass, but
the dories caught in it are in a des-
perate plight.
The men may crawl upon the NOV
ing ice, but that does not always mean
safety. Borne swiftly on the south
bound current, they are often carried
far beyond the reach of help. When
their schooners finally sail back into
Gloucester, flags are at half mast and
more names are added to the list of
the seas victims, to be read at the
next annual memorial services.
Often far south of the fishing banks
will be seen mute evidences of trag-
edy upon some floating cake of ice. 1t
may be lot of seamen'S gear, a few
tin cans, perhaps, or even dory, but
no sign of life.
The sight of a vessel coming into
harbor with her ensign at half-mast is
all too frequent at Gloucester. And
| many a fine craft sails jauntily away
to the North, never to be heard from
again.
| Overwhelmed by foe or berg, per-
haps, or run down in fog by liner,
| the vessel vanishes with all hands on
| board, leaving not trace of the man
ner in which death overlook them.
A number of vessels are lost by
| dragging their anchors in a sudden
storm. One unmanageab1e craft
will crash into another, and the two,
| locked in deadly embrace, may
/ plunge upon third, and all go to the
| bottom.
| Fishermen always keep their ears
! open for the sound of an approaching
| steamer. When the fog is so thick
! that one can scarcely see the end of
| the bowsprit, there is especial dan
| ger from these steam-driven giants,
with their sharp iron bows that crush
down the little wooden fishing vessels
| as though it were a floating house of
| cards.
| For steamers do not always follow
the law and slow down during fog.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
"Father, HaIlou's Religion.

At one time, many years ago, the
Universalist Society of Methuen,
Mass, was without a pastor, and the
pulpit was supplied from Sunday to
Sunday by different clergymen who
were put up by one of the deacons.
On a certain Sunday when Father"
Ballou was engaged to preach the dea-
con was called out of town, so he ar
ranged with Mrs. Brown, neighbor,
and a straight-laced orthodox, to enter
tain Mr.. Ballou. AS the hostess and
her eminent guest sat at the supper Ia
BILE there seemed to be dearth OF So
ciability- Finally Mrs B., who always
felt solicitous about those deluded
Universalists," broke the silence with:
MIR. Ballou, do you think you've
got religion"
None to boast of, madam" was the
curt reply
1t is needless to say that the learned
divine's epigrammatic answer CONF
pletely disarmed his interlocutor-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
Tried 1t on the Horse.

A boss plasterer, approaching build
ing in course of construction one hot
day last summer, met one of his la
borers with tin pail.
Where are you going, Rooney" he
asked.
I'm going for a can of beer, sir, as
it's a hot day, and we are all thirsty
on the job" replied Rooney.
"That is not necessary. If you
would put a pebble in your mouth you
would never be thirsty"
The next day the boss came to the
building in a buggy Seeing Rooney,
he ordered him to water the horse and
went into the building When he came
out he asked:
Rooney, did you give that horse
drink"
'-Sure, he don't need a drink, sir; I
put a handful of pebbles in his
mouth" replied Rooney.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
His Greatest Loss.

John D. Crimmins tells of a party
that hired boat owned by a man at
Atlantic City who takes out sailing
parties for consideration. A num-
Der of young ladies were of the party
About a mile and half out from
the Inlet the wind freshened most un-
expctedly and there was trouble.
For a while it looked as if the dinky
little catboat would capsize The
girls were considerably wrought up
and gave expression to their fears in
no uncertain manner.
See here, young ladies', said the
owner of the craft, just as one of the
passengers let out an awful shrek.
you seem to forget that if she goes
down I'm the chap that loses most.
She's my foat."-New York Times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
unbrotherIy Comment.

Chief Baron O'Grady, British jur-
ist, was humorist of the first water,
as the following stories will prove One
day a brother Judge, who owed his pro-
motion rather to interest than to
brains, was boasting to O'Grady of the
summary way in which he disposed of
matters in his court
Il say to the fellows who are both
ering me with foolish arguments that
there's no use in wasting my time
and their breath, for that all their
talk only just goes in at one ear and
out at the other"
And no wonder" quietly answered
O'Grady. seeing that there's SO little
in between to stop it!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25

Many a fishing crew, sleeping sound
~ in their hunks, have been awakened
by the crash of collision, only to find
themselves borne downward beneath
the icy waters before they can reach
the deck.
When disaster comes there is less
chance of rescue in those Arctic re-
gIons than there would be further
south. The fishing fleets are widely
scattered, and few other vessels are
in those seas, except an occasional
patroling warship or a clumsy whaler
blown out of her course.
Time after time dory fishermen,
separated from their vessels by ice
foes or during fogs, have manag-
ed to work their way to the bleak
Labrador coast. 1t is then a toss-up
whether they can drag themselves to
some station of human beings or must
perish along the shore.
Lines of dread or sorrow are deep
1y craven upon the faces of the wom-
en- of Gloucester. The girl who, in
her early twenties, marries a fisher
man takes more than an even chance
of being widow in her thirties.
This terrible tax upon human life
has resulted in the establishment of
a memorial day.
Upon certain morning in mid
winter children cast flowers upon the
waters of the harbor-one flower for
each victim of the sea during the pre-
ceding year. Then the fishermen and
their families gather in the city hall
for memorial services. The roll of
the dead is called, prayers are said
and there are addresses.
Why do men follow such a hazard
Gus calling? There are mouths ashore
to be fed, and bread must be got from
the sea.
Naturally the fishermen get better
wages than other sailors, having a
share in the proceeds of the catch, as
a general thing. Most of them are
fairly prosperous owning their own
homes and possessing snug bank ac-
counts.
No Gloucester fisherman ever sails
away to the Northern banks, however,
with anything like assurance that he
will see his home again.
In the truest sense they are men
unafraid," and their very daring casts
a halo of romance about the icy death
traps of the Arctic Montreal
Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
YieIdino All.

"Our wills are ours to make them thine"
Laid on Thine altar my Lord divine
Accept this gift to-day, for Jesus sake.
1 have no jewels to adorn Thy shrine,
Nor any world-famed sacrifice to
But here 1 bring within my trembling
This will of mine-a thing that seemeth
And Thou, alone. LORD, canst under
stand.
How when I yield Thee this. 1 yield
mine all.
Hidden therein Thy searching gaze can
Struggles of passion, visions of delight
All that have or am or fain would be,
Deep loves, fond hopes and longings
infinite.
1t hath been wet with tears and dimmed
with signs,
Clenched in my grasp till beauty hath
Now from Thy footstooI where it van
pushed lies,
The prayer ascendeth-may Thy will be
done.
Take it, Father, ere my courage fail.
And merge it so in Thine own will.
that cen
If in some desperate hour my cries pre-
vail
And thou give back my gift, it may
have been
So changed. so purified, so fair have
So one with Thee, so filed with peace
divine.
I may not know or feel it as mine own,
But gaining back my will may find it
Thine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
Not ~Mike- ponahue's Picture.

Col. mike" Donahue of the Tenth
New Hampshire was somewhat fond
of drink. After the war, the Tenth,
wishing his picture, commissioned an
artist to do the job. After the paint
ing was finished, the artist, seeing one
of the veterans of the Tenth, an Irish
man, called him in to ask his opinion
of the picture
The old Irishman walked up to the
easel, scrutinized the picture, and was
about to put his hand on the canvas,
when the artist cried out: Don't
/ touch it, Don't touch it. It's not
dry.r
mot dhryi Not dhryi" shouted
Pat. <*Then. be jabers. it's not Mike
Donahue-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25


his efforts. after all, as result of his
blind pride.
More than this, as he talked with
her he felt the power of her person
atty and began to wonder if he was
not presumptuous in aspiring to his
beautiful creature, despite all his sue
cess
In fact, as he walked the floor that
night he began to doubt the measure
of his own accomplishments when
viewed relatively. Why, indeed,
should this glorious creature, upon
whom the luxuries of the world would
sit so well, choose life of ordinary
domesticity when the treasures OF
the world were laid at her feet. After
all his success meant only the priv
ilege to keep on working hard, tun-
neling more mountains. bathing more
OF the difficulties of nature. He never
could hope for great riches. Indeed,
he never had coveted them. A liberal
increase he was assured of-but pal
aces and yachts and leisure and travel
and princely luxuries he could hope
for, if at all, only after many years
more of work and then only by chang
ing his motives and his ideals and his
methods.
On the other hand, there was Me
man with all his millions inherited
from both his father and his mother,
invested in securities which brought
an income beyond the hope of spend
ing-he could give her every hearts
desire and permit her to shine as she
was meant to shine. With him she
could become but a part of his life,
and radiate only his achievements.
With Nieman her own world opened
before her. Emmerson admitted this
to himself with great bitterness.
Manlike he accepted his conclu-
sions as established facts, and even
in his repentance failed to declare his
love. He showed it plainly enough
and rallied to her at his ill-fortune.
She was provokingly inscrutable and
| teasingly coquettish. Emmerson was
| driven distracted by her and the love
he had felt for the girl sweetheart he
had left seemed puny beside the
great passion he conceived for the
woman he found.
when are you going to Midas
CASTER" he asked savagely one day.
| when he asks me-maybe," she
replied.
Are you engaged to him?" he per
sisted.
That's rather impudent." she re-
| piled.
/ well, if you are not, it is all under
stood. I reckon he went on, disre-
| garding the danger signals in her
| eyes THE Lord knows l don't blame
, YOU What has a poor devil like me
to offer you excepting decent living
| and heart full of love?'
Just then a servant announced Mr..
| Nieman-
You never offered me anything as
yet" she said audaciously, as she arose
and turned toward the door.
Emmerson leaped to his feet and
started toward her. Just then Niemau
entered, tall, cadaverous, his dead
white complexion accentuated by the
monocle he affected and Miss Ashton
received him warmly, while Emmer
son sank back into his seat with e
surly nod
Nieman was to take her to ths
opera, SO it seemed, and soon the,
went, leaving Emmerson still sittins
gloomily in his chair.
Curse the luck What did sh,
mean?" he muttered. Have l MISE,
, still another chance? That fellow
| looks like he was going to propose to
night
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25

rene, self-poised and beautiful as a
Greek goddess, he felt shock as from
a bucket of ice water, and instantly it
came to his clear intelligence that
while he had been growing in his life
she had been growing in hers. He re-
allied also that he had established
no claim upon her excepting in his
own consciousness. He saw the in
justice and selfishness of his years of
silence and he saw the poetic justice of
the losing of the main prize of
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
difference in creeds.

81 ran across two new sects up in
Minnesota, a few days ago." said the
returned traveller. "In a village of a
few hundred people I saw two large
churches. 1 thought there must be
intense piety among the natives,
coupled with a difference of opinion,
and / made some inquiries.
YAH" said the Swede. 'das wan
we tank Ev she made Adam ate ap-
pie, an das wan we tank Adam dam
rascal all time"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
Was rhis in New York;

A short time ago Mayor Mcclellan,
when requested by a visitor to make
a certain appointment, put this per-
tinent inquiry:
rs your friend honest?'
"Nawi Nawi" replied the visitor.
"That doesn't go. He'd steal the
hinges off a safe, but he's good feI-
Ter, a right good Teller, your honor"
Mike replied the mayor.-New
York Sun
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
Prayer

More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of. Wherefore.
let thy voice
Rise live fountain for me night and
day
goats
That nourish a blind life within the
brain,
If knowing God, they lift not hands of
Both for themselves and those who call
them friend?
For so the whole round earth is every
way
Bound by gold chains about 1.-THE feet of
-Tennyson
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
senator cIark,s Mansion.

The wonderful mansion built oy
Senator Clark of Montana, in Fifth
avenue, New York, is nearing compile
ton The total cost will be abou;
SIS 900 900. 1t is not SO large as one
or two others in the neighborhood
but is by far the most costly of any
of them
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25
Machines Swallow NickeIs.

Since the Nevada legislature legal
lied slot machines there have not
been enough nickels in circulation.
outside of the slot machine bazars, to
buy cents worth of gum for a six
year-old school girl A key contain
ing 81 500 in nickels was recently re-
ceived hot from the factory by Reno
bank
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-11-25

ed so honestly into MS that MS pur-
pose failed
Besides, it was a very different
person into whose presence he was
fashered than the laughing, mischiev-
Gus. vivacious girl of 16 from whom
he had parted ten years ago. As she
came forward to greet him in the full
glow g. young womanhood- tall Sc
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
valuable as an asset only.

valuable as an asset only.
After stating that the immediate
appointment of a receiver is necessary
to protect all interests, a paragraph is
given after an explanatory sort of
fashion, which betrays the manner In
which Mr.. Deviln did business and
how he interningled his different con-
Germs. 1t follows:
That the said corporations have at
all times been managed and controlled
by the said Charles ]. Devlin, who has
been the owner of all or large part
of the capital stock respectively there
of; that the relations of the corpora
tions and the said Devlin individually
to and among each of them have been
of the closest financial and business
character; that the liabilities as well
as the assets of the several corpora
tions and CT the said Devlin have not
been kept clearly and distinctly sepa-
rate from each other, but have been
mingled and confused; that said cor
management as component parts of
thereof it is impossible to separate and
set apart clearly and distinctly the as
sets of one from the other IN all re-
spects, as well as the liabilities. and
that it would be clearly impossible to
settle and administer the estate of
either or any of the said corporations
or the said Devlin without the pres
ence of the assets of the others; that
each of said corporations and the said
Devlin have become involved in the
liabilities of the others respectively,
and by reason of the accomm odation
paper or otherwise have become liable
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

undertaking that our action is
clearly defined and thoroughly UNDER
stood at home and abroad The con-
struct1on OF penal institution is not a
radical departure from governmental
precedent The "provocation" for main
tanning such institutions is known to all
persons. Besides what interests have
the people abroad on the subject of our
our action should be clearly defined. :"
The indictment of the Standard Oil
company is no doubt true and the pro-
vocation was very great, but
we must not make scare crow OF
the law,
Setting it up to fear the birds of prey
The consideration of the bill in the
light of public conditions under which il
was conceived, the title under which it
was introduced in the senate the bill it,
self and its reference by the senate to
its committee on oil and gas, instead Of
its committee on penal institutions, the
passage of the bill by the senate under
It's original title, the purpose of the bill
and the reasons for it's passage as ex-
pressed by the governor in his special
message of approval leave no doubt in
our minds that the object of the bill is
to secure site wherein the state
should construct, operate and maintain
an oil refinery, and, that insofar as the
warden and the board of directors of
the state penitentiary might think it adj
visable they could employ in the con-
Struct1On OF the building and MAINTAIN
ing and operating the refinery, inmates
of the state penitentiary, and for this
reason provisions were made for hous-
ing, feeding, guarding and overseeing
such convicts and the work to be per-
formed by them while thus engaged
Must Amend Constitution.
This is the first time that it has be-
come necessary to invoke the aid Of
this provision of the constitution to pro-
tect the state in its sovereign capacity
from the public disaster which history
shows would follow its engaging in
purely private business enterprise. 1t
has been the policy of our government
to exalt the individual rather than the
state, and this has contributed more
largely to our rapid national develop
ment than any other single cause. Our
constitution was framed and our laws
enacted with the idea of protecting, en-
couraging and developing individual en-
terprise, and if we now intend to re-
verse this policy, and to enter the state
as a competitor against the Individual
in all lines of trade and commerce, we
must amend our constitution, and adopt
an entirely different system of govern
u1ent.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07

night, but the gains were small except
in New York Central and St Paul in
which they reached large fractions. Deal
ings were on a moderate scale
me number of sharp advances made in
the first hour reflected continued specula-
tive confidence. A factor that contrib
uted largely to the general cheerfulncss
was the active inquiry for the high priced
ra1lraod stocks, such as st. Paul Northern
Pacific, Northwestern, Pennsylvania and
New York Central Some of the Pacifics-
and metal stocks were enabled to over
come steady profit taking in them and
made only small gains. Reading retained
Its recent prominence and rose IL to 10eN
Blocks of a thousand or more shsres of
various active stocks changed hands very
frequently Northern Pacific moved up q
points. Northwestern, st. Paul Delaware
and Hudson and Pennsylvania Il and
Erie, Ontaria and Western, TennesAee
Coal, Sugar, brooklyn Transit, and Met.
ropolttan. Street Railway to N
Profit taking caused considera bic reac-
Ton; running to point or more In st.
Paul, Delaware and Hudson. Tennessee
Coal, Brooklyn Transit and Metropolitan
Street railway. Other points of strength
then developed. notably Southern railway.
the Fries, United States Steel preferred
and Amalgamated Copper, which rose a
point. The general list hardened again in
sympathy, but the tone at noon was
slightly irregular and dull. Electric Stor-
age Battery rose and Hide and Leather
preferred fell 1X.
Bonds were steady at noon.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-07-07
HE DEFIES COLLINS.
Walter Evans, State House Janitor,
Says Custodian Is Incompetent.

Walter w. Evans, the colored man
who was the cause of the recent trouble
between Custodian ]. G. Collins and
State Superintendent L L. Dayhoff. does
not entirely agree with what Mr.. Collins
says about the difficulty, and asks for
an opportunity to tell his side of the
storR
He intimates that Mr.. Collins obtain
ed his experience as custodian as the
driver" of a gang of "'niggers'' on a
Kentucky cotton plantation, and that
the reason Collins has so much trouble
with his men is because he swears at
them, and treats them like dogs.
In short. Mr.. Evans refuses to have
anything to do with Mr.. Collins about
the olive branch business, and intimates
that he does not want an armitice, in
PREVENTION or peace negotiations, but is
ready to fight on to the bitter end. He
says:
Il never showed Collins a telegram
from Dayhof, because I did not have
any telegram from Dayhoff. But did
have orders from Dayhoff, before he
left here to meet him at the depot Sat
urday evening with his personal mail,
and did so, and will do so again re-
CARELESS of Collins.
And Furthermore the office work
that have been doing in Dayhoff's Of
fee has never prevented me from do
ing my 5anitor work. I have never re-
fused to do any work that Collins told
me to do when he would tell me like a
treat men like men. Collins knows as
much about being custodian as a hen
does about theology. I have corked
under a lot of men in my life in Mis-
souri,, in Mississippi and in Arkansas
and have had more trouble with this
man Collins, than I ever had with a
man in my life. Collins not only had
trouble with me but he has had trou-
BILE with every janitor here, and there
IS not a janitor here that likes him. Col.
Veale did not have any trouble with the
Janitors when he was custodian, and
the reason is because he did not curse
the men like they were dogs. He would
tell them what to do and that was the
end of II. The work was done.
when Collins took possession of the
state house as custodian, he spent his
first six months in telling how he used
to drive negroe. in Kentucky, and how
many he had under him. 1 thought
when he was telling US janitors about
his Kentucky affairs that he would try
the same thing in Kansas, and sure
did not work. The executive council
knows that Collins is not the man for
custodian. but they think that he will
do better after awhile. He has plenty
of room for improvement.
cit is true that the last legislature re-
duced the janitor force from Is to II.
Bill Hackney, chairman of the ways and
means committee, told me that Collins
told him that he could do the work with
ten men. ]. r. Burrow, secretary of
state, and a fine man, went to the COM
men. The committee refused Mr.. Bur
rows request but the senate increased
the number to II, which number can not
do the work.