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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26
HE GOT LITTLE SYMPATHY.
Man Who Thought He Had Taken
Morphine Learned It Was Sachet.

Morphine Learned It Was Sachet.
A physician had hurry call the
other night to pretty fiat on the
south side of Fort Worth, where
forlorn man was taking care of him.
self as best he could while his wife
was visiting in the east. The doctor
arrived a little after midnight, to find
a pale and agitated man walking the
hand small vial marked Morphine"
s'I've taken enough to kill an army"
he gasped. 81 thought it was quinine.
For heavens sake, do something
quick!"
Well, the doctor did a number of
things and all as quickly as possible,
and the man put in horrible quarter
of an hour-severa1 of them, in fact,
for the medical man was one of your
painstaking and thorough kind. The
man was pronounced out of danger
by morning, and as his anxiety less
ened his wrath increased. Any wom-
an who would go off and leave bottle
of poison in the medicine chest where
anybody looking for quinine pills
might find it ought to be-ke couldn't
find words to express what ought to
happen to her.ZThe letter he wrote
sort TO keep her hair in curl in the
dampest weather. She is, however, a
perfectly heartless creature, and this
is what she wrote back:
ssYou ought to be more careful
about taking things without looking at
the bottle. I've told you that before.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26
Answering Abernethy.

Although one of the main character
istics of. the famous DR. Abernethy
was the readiness with which he could
administer a sharp and witty retort
when occasion arose. he was once con-
siderably nonplussed by the remark Of
a medical student
What would you do the doctor
asked the student at an examination,
If man was placed in your hands
with broken leg?"
Set it, SIR was the reply
Good, very good; you are a witty
young man; and doubtless you can
tell me what muscles of the body l
would move if 1 were to kick you, as
you deserve, for your impertinence?' p.
You would put into notion re-
piled the student. not in the least
abashed, "the f1exors and extensors of
my right arm, for 1 would forthwith
knock you down."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

II have noticed" said the serious,
offhand philosopher, that a woman
will get a golf dress when she has no
intention of playing the game
That's so," admitted the man with
the low forehead.
And" continued the offhand philos-
opher, "she will get ball gown when
she cares nothing about dancing, and
tennis dress when she wouldn't
play tennis for fear she would freckle,
and bathing suit when she has no
idea of going into the water, and a
riding habit when the very thought
of mounting a horse gives her chills,
and"
Yes" interrupted the man with the
low forhead. but when she gets a
wedding dress she means business.
Ever notice that?'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26
Misunderstood?

tan Bough, remarked the lady presi-
dent of the Helpful Band of Uplifters
Why" murmurs the lady secretary
of the Earnest Association of Sympa-
thizers, s'he always impressed me as
man who is perfectly willing to
lend his voice and influence to the
cause of reform"
yes, but I asked him to do what he
could to suppress the drink evil that
is causing the expenditure of SO much
money every year"
"And he refused?''
mo. He said he would be glad to
do so-and then he introduced a bill
prohibiting ice cream soda fountains. >"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

This cut was drawn by a United
States government engineer employed
on the Panama canal; it shows that
the canal, when completed, will easily
accommodate the biggest vessels in
Connecticut.
The entire width of the canal exca-
walton will be $40 feet; the bank on
either side will be 10 feet high and SO
feet wide. So the width of the canal
proper at the water line will be nearly
two hundred and forty feet. There
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26


MadeIine's room a moment later.
tions and broken vows. His face bore
the evidences of dissipation and his
clothing the marks of poverty-not
biting, grinding poverty, but shabby,
genteel poverty.
He thought of the hopes and
ambitions and resolutions of his
youth of his early successes and
triumphs, of his first mad dip into
the waters of forbidden and soul-de-
stroying pleasure. of the gradual
transfer of his allegiance from the
stern and upright God of Duty and
Ambition to the frai1 and seductive
Goddess of Pleasure and Folly, of his
slipping just little here and there
in the faithfulness of his work and
the rigidity of his integrity, of the
stopping of his upward climbing, of
his long struggle to stand still and
hold what he had attained, of his
gradual slipping, slipping on the down
ward path, of his loss of position, his
acquiring of another, his loss Of that
and ever and ever landing in poorer
and poorer and yet poorer places un-
til now here he was without work.
without money, without friends, with
out reputation, his brain scared by
dissipation and his hand unsteady to
any task Failure, failure was the
word which glowed with electric bril-
| liancy before his vision and from the
shadows all about projected the hor-
| rid heads of the reptiles he had crush
| ed out of sight all the years-Re-
proach, Self-accusation, Guilt, Re-
| morse, Shame With difficulty he
stified a cry of agony and brought
| himself back into the reality of the
| present His eyes. again turned out
ward, rested on the stage.
| A woman was singing in a cracked
| voice and dancing to the more or less
lively bars of the music. She was
i painted and powdered and padded and
| her scant clothes were tawdry and
| cheap and not of the freshest or
cleanest. And yet there was some
thing about the woman which arrested
the mans attention and filed him
| with the scent of apple blossoms and
new-mown hay and green fields He
| stared hard at her, then grabbed at
the printed program which announced
Song and Dance by Mile. Madeline
He laughed harshly and murmured to
| himself that he was seeing things
But he stared hard again at the stage
and just then the singer made her
bow and ran on into the wing
In her closing salute she made a
little gesture which sent the blood
| back ON the mans heart and brought
| him to his feet Matte" he gasped
and hurried. not knowing why. to the
stage door, where he pushed by the
protesting keeper and fiercely demand
ed to see Mile Madeline
There were two White faces in Nile
Madeline's little box of room a mo
ment later and later on there were
confessions and self-reproaches and
long stories of sin and suffering and
misery-yes and tears and repent
ance, which must have made the an
| gels glad. After all had been told
Calvin took Mattie's hand and said
I'VE have both sinned and suffered
and failed. 1t is my fault, but 20,
| have had to bear part of the bur
den. Youth has gone, but the year,
lyet stretch out. before u.s. Father il
| dead and the old farm is mine. al
| though it is mortgaged to the last linn
it the money-lenders will give LIE
us go back and start over. No mat
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

I'm glad you called the doctor. for I
don't know what would have happened
IL you hadn't. I marked that bottle
morphine to keep the maid from TAX
ing anything out of it. What you
took were some of those sachet tablets
Flora sent me from Paris, and I'm
sorry you wasted them" Short
Stories.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26


ter what people say. We win live It
down together We can never do it
here In this accursed atmosphere -of
sin and sordidness-"
And so a few days later a man and
a woman OF middle age, poorly clad.
wan, thin, whitehead, came over the
line at the edge OF the world and
walked hand in hand back down the
same board walk, back up the same
dusty road, back over the same stile,
back through the same apple orchard.
back across the same little foot
bridge. over the same sparkling creek,
back through the same clover and
daisies. to the same old farm house
they had walked away from so happily
and hopefully two decades before.
Their eyes did not shine with the
hope and joy and courage of the other
journey, but in the place of hope there
was knowledge, in the place of joy
there was content and in the place Of
courage there was resolve.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

lions and hates and fears and souls.
Ten years after the woman walked
alone to the edge of the world, a man
sat listlessly at a table in concert
hall in the great city toying with the
mug of untasted beer before him. He
heard not the crash and bang of the
cheap little orchestra and saw not the
bedizened dancers on the tawdry
stage, for his eyes we're turned inward
and his ears were ringing with words
and sounds of other days. He was
Misunderstanding of a bootless life,
of failure. of disgrace of misspent
hours and years, of forgotten obliga-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

will be 35 feet of water, and, as the
canals sides shelve inward the bot
tom will be $50 feet wide
The battleship Connecticut, for ex-
ample, is of rs feet 10 inches beam.
Her draught on her trial trip was "a
feet inches, and is 26 feet inches
at her maximum displacement. So
there will be nearly nine feet of water
between the keel of such vessel and
the bottom of the canal, and in pass
ing through it she will be able to use
her own power, working her engines
at very low speed.-New York World
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

which goes with her. In May she
usually goes away for a week or two
and returns with tall red calf with
wobbly legs. Her name is Rose l
would rather sell her to a non-resi-
dent Did he sell the COW? Oh, I
don't know about that I'm just tell
ing you about the advertisement;
that's a11.'-Exchange.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

the great MorId- WHERE OF now she
cared not
And so she had travelled the same
old path along which she had
swung so happily and hopefully
and tr,,stfully with s,m- ten years be-
fore. TO the edge of the world All.
but how bitter the thoughts, how diff
ferent from those on that other walk
And the whistle of the locomotive
sounded just as it did ten years be-
fofe-and she, too, swung out into the
great world to help feed its capacious
NAV which demands ever and ever
human hearts and hopes and ambi-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26
HoppineSS

Happiness is not in wealth.
Not in greatness, not in fame:
Not in power. not in health.
Not in praise nor lack of blame:
Happiness is but to know
How to cherish. how to prize
That which is our own The glow
That we always fancy lies
On the dear forbidden thing
Never was nor will be there:
For the slave and for the king
Joy is but to know guess
That the treasures they possess
Seem to others rich and rare
IS. E. Kiser.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-08-26

tons and hates and fears and souls.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-03-28

We want farmers and farmers sons to take
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lows all kinds OF grain, grass seed, m1llet
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for sample by express or freight, with liberal
terms, or stamp for particulars. Address at
once, J.. e. RUE, Littleton, N. G..
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-03-28
FISH

Drop us a card and we will put you onto
something with which you can turn your
neighbor green with envy by catching dead
loads Of them In streams where he has be-
come disguised trying to catch them the
old-fashioned way. It's something new and
cheap. 1t catches at all seasons-some.
thing no other tackle will do. 1t will tickle
YOU to see it catch house and musk rats
Illustrated catalog of prices and testimnni-
EUREKA FISH NET CO., Griffin, Ga.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-03-28
PRACTICAL POULTRY TALKS.


filed with water and molsten the
eggs. which seems to help them. lave
seen ducks leave the nest during a
thunder storm and lot the ali IN on
the eggs with very satisfactory re-
suits, as every egg hatched. RI
At the end of t~wenty-elght days llt
takes that long for duck eggs TO
hatch) take the little ducklings out
of the nest, place in a basket, cover
ing over with an old piece OF CLOTH
and keep them in the house a day or
two if you have no brooder house.
How +o Handle the Young Ducklings.
Feed after thirty-six hours boiled
eggs chopped fine for first two or
three feeds. Allow no water until
first feed. About third day feed bran
and corn-meal mixed in crumbly
state with sweet milk with a little
meat meal; to this add a good por-
ton of clean sand, mixing thorough
Iy. After the first week the o
ration can be improved on bv adding
cut green clover. onion tops, lettuce,
or in fact, anything green that would
be palitable. F.,
Never allow the old duck to scar
ry" the duckling, as she would run
their leps off or drown them in no
time. Put her in a coop for a day or
two and she will be ready to go back
to the flock.
After the ducks are two or three
days old it is a good plan to make
a little run in some quiet spot near
the house where they can be watched,
placing a box in the run arranged so
they can hover under it.
Sit Ducks After April 18th.
For best results, would advise
Matching ducks after April 18th; it
means less care then and can be
| raised out of doors. Don't try to
teach the little ducks to swim by Civ
ing them a basin full of water. They
know more about it than you do.
Give them only sufficient to drink
and none to "puddle" in.
If you have any further questions
to ask on this subject, write M and
| I will try and enlighten you.
JUNGLE 10"
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1905-03-28

though the poultry C-nuInD Che
duck farms three to one.
There are ten or twelve varieties
of dusks recognized by the Standard
of Perfection, chief among them be-
ing the Pekin. This is a quick grow
err, and has pure white plumage with
rich yellow legs and back, the drake
weighing nine and the duck eight
pounds at maturity. Duck raising IS
quite an industry on Long Island, N:
Y. where from five to seven hundred
breeding ducks are kept on n farm.
Young ducks are always saleable at
a good price even in small towns, as
a great number of people prefer
young duck to chicken.
How to Feed Ducks
Ducks delight in free access to wa
ter, though lots of them r raised
with only enough water to drink and
none to swim in. Of course better re-
suits are obtained when the grown
ducks have access to water, especially
at breeding time.
They are not very choice about
their eating and seem able TO digest
almost anything from cherry seeds
to tin cans or bricks. With good
feeding and care, they will commence
laying about January 18th and will
lay from four to five eggs a week,
until the number reaches about 115.
To secure the greatest number of fer
tile eggs. ducks should be fed a meat
ration twice a week. if in confne-
ment; but if allowed free range and
access to water, this will not be neces-
sary, as they will get all the worms.
craw-fsh and insects they need. On
free range, they require much less
feed and attention than chickens, and
they seem to be immune from disease.
Don't think / ever had one to die
/ from natural cause; occasionally
| have one killed by horse or cow step
inc on it when they get in the way.
Old Ducks: What to Do in the Laying
Lesson.
The care of old ducks is very SIM
| pie. About December LIST | put them
in an enclosure made of four-foot
| poultry wire with shed house in cen
| ire facing south, covering the floor
WITH nay, straw Ut leaves. NCCP
| them in this enclosure for a few days
until they become accustomed to it,
then let them out each day about 10
| o'clock and let them go to the branch.
In the evening drive them in the en-
| closure and feed a warm mash. At
ter a week of less or this treatment
| they will naturally go to their yard to
| be fed.
When ducks show signs of wanting
to lay, / put pine and cedar limbs
around the lot. They will soon make
a nest under these brush piles. The
Pekins are a very timid bird and pre-
| fer seclusion during the laying sea-
son. 1t is best to keep the ducks in
| the enclosure until about noon while
laying, as ducks have no regular time
to drop their fruit; from midnight
until noon seems to be the limit. If
allowed to run they will drop eggs
"in any old place."
During cold weather the eggs
should be gathered as soon as laid if
wanted for incubation. Some duck
men claim that the first batch of eggs
J are not fertile, but 1 have never found
it so. Always get as good results
from first as last laid. I think a
great deal depends on feed and shell
ter at this time.
When the Old Duck Sits.
When an old duck becomes broodv
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16

Albert Percy Watmough- Evans will
serve an indeterminate sentence in the
Penitentiary for issuing bogus checks
to various parties in this city several
weeks ago. The above sentence was
passed on Percy this morning after he
had pleaded guilty to the charge of
obtaining money under false pre-
lenses. Under the sentence he may
serve from one to five years in the
penitentiary, according to his behavior
while there.
At 10 o'clock this. morning Evans
was in readiness for his arraignment
and was taken upstairs to the circuit
judges room by Deputy Joe Blake
ley. In appearance the young Eng
lishman was immaculate. ills hair
WAS carefully combed. his shoes poll
ished and his general attire neat as
usual. He did not seem to be greatly
overcome by the sentence which was
SVEN him, but walked nervously up
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
In Honor of Miss Lillian Rourke.

The Alexander home on Water
street was the scene Of a pretty card
party on Wednesday evening, given in
honor OF Miss Lillian Rourke, of Port
land, the hostess being Miss Jessie
Hartman and Miss Bertha Alexander.
The house was attractive in the decor
ations of Oregon grape and cut flow
ers together with the brilliant illu-
mination of numerous electric lights
and candle light.
A pretty picture was formed as the
players at IL tables were battling over
the game OF 800" The victor of the
ladies In the contest was Miss Faye
Bartholomew, and of the gentlemen,
Mark Moorhouse. After the game
dainty refreshments were served.
The invited list included Misses Ed
ma Thompson, Eva Froome, Faye
Esma Sawtelle, Flea
nor and Constance Despair Esther
and Sadie Sommerville, Myrtle Hill,
Adna Raley, Ethel johnson, Bess and
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
DidiOn-C Crockett.

A quiet but pretty home wedding
was solemnized on Thursday evening,
when Miss Edyth Crockett was united
in marriage to Otto Edward Didion,
at the home of the brides mother,
Mrs. Lucretia Overturf, on College
street The house was artistically
decorated with cut flowers and Eng
lish ivy festooned about the arches
and windows.
Promptly at 8 o'clock the bride and
groom, unattended, took their places
in the bow-window in the living room,
where the nuptial knot was tied in
short but impressive ceremony by the
Rev. Van Nuys. From $3.50 to 10
o'clock the many friends of both con-
tracing parties called to offer con-
gratulations.
Mr.. and Mrs. Didion dispensed with
wedding trip and repaired to their
newly furnished home at 507 Marie
street, where they will be at home to
their friends after December 81.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
Xxx
SOCIETY N9 EVENTS

A brilliant card and dancing party
will be given this evening at the home
of Mr., and Mrs William Matlock,
when they will entertain the men,
bers of the school board and their
wives, together with the school fac
ulty and all of the teachers of the
public schools.
Mrs Matlock will be assisted by
Mrs. Eugene Vaughan, Mrs. Thomas
Warner and Mrs. Fred Laatz. The
invited guests are:
l.. r.. Traver and wife, j. w. Huff
and wife, Clara G. Hall, Mrs. A. E..
Ivanhoe, Agnes E. Shepard. Grace R.
Miller, Mary Quick, Mary Ritner, Mrs.
Maria Paisley and husband, Daisy Lee,
Alma Harris, Bessie Mcdaniel, Mrs.
Pearl Rinearson, Rebah Cans Olita
P. Cooley, Mrs. Nellie McAdam, Hiram
HickcoX, Clara b. Carpenter, Stella L.
Marple, Sadie Baum, Mrs. Della NJ.
Collier and husband. Eva 2. Froome,
Neva Lane, Eva L. Wood. Rozena
Epple, Cora NJ. Sullivan, Roberta
Rippey, Mrs. NJ. Louise Welles and
husband, Walter NJ. Pierce and wife,
Lee Teutsch and wife, Dr. C. ]. Smith
and wife, L. L. Smith and wife. T. G.
HALEY and wife, John HALEY, jr., and
wife, Rev. w. II. Bleakney and wife
Fred X. Noordhoff and wife, Miss Bess
Craig, Alice Van Nuys, Mrs Helen w
Marston, Colonel ]. H. Raley and wife
Rev. w. L. Van Nuys and wife, Cecil
Wade, Bert Huffman and wife. Judge
w. r. Ellis and wife, Lot Livermore
and wife, Rev. James Cornelson and
wife, ]. v. Tallman and wife, Messrs
Dan Smythe, Roy Raley, Roy Rltner
Louis La Dow, John Lambreth. Fred
Schmeer. Charles Hill. F. s. Chap.
man, Frank Mitchell, r.. C. Mcqueen
H. A. Vincent, Rosco Frost, Fred
Lampkin. Charles Sampson, T. d. Tay-
lor, Macy. ]. r. Bickford. John Will
son, z. H. Clarke, Mr.. and Mrs. Ernest
c. Skiles Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer p. Dodd
DR.. and Mrs. Eugene Vaughan, Mr.
and Mrs. Thomas C. Warner, Mr.. and
Mrs. Henry Laatz, Mr.. and Mrs. MAJ
Baer, Mr.. and Mrs. c. s. Wheeler
Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Graham, Mrs ]. NJ
Lane, Mrs. Walter Pierce, Mrs. B. F
Swaggart.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
ANOTHER WONDER OF SCIENCE
biology Inns Proved that DnndruH 4,
Caused by n Germ.

Science Is donlg wonders these days In
medicine as well as in mechanics. Since
Adam lived, the human race has been
troubled with dandruff, for which no hair
preparation has heretofore proved sue.
cessfui cure until Newbro's Herpicide was
put on the market. 1t Is scientific prep
aration that kills the germ that makes
dandrun or scurf by digging into the
scalp to get at the root of the hair, where
II saps the vitality; causing itching scalp,
raining hair, and finally badness. with.
out dandrun hair must grow luxuriantlv
~ Is the only destroyer of dandruff
sold by leading druggists. Send 1oo
IN stamps for sample to The Herpi-
eide Co, Detroit. Mich.
A. G. Koeppen & Bros. special agents
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
Onan-JOhnson.

very pretty and quiet wedding
took place last evening at WalluIa,
Wash, when the eldest daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. N. ]. Oman, Ella, was
united in marriage tod Mr.. David L.
johnson. The ceremony was pro-
nounced by Rev. G.. Leroy Hall, pas
tor of the Baptist church.
Mrs. Johnson was at one time a
resident of Pendleton, and has many
friends here, while Mr.. Johnson is. a
prosperous young stockman. They
left on the midnight train. after a
wedding feast was partaken of by the
friends and immediate family. Mr..
and Mrs. Johnson will make their
home in Pendleton. as he has bought
property here.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
EAGLES BALL AND BANQUET.
Fitting Climax to a Most Enjoyable
Affair,

The grand public ball and banquet
given in the new Eagles hall last
night was one of the greatest affairs
of its kind ever held, and furnished a
lifting climax to the dedication day
,ro gram. The floor of the large new
'ail was In splendid shape and the
's"ciUg Was enjoyed by several hun
lrei, while many others were pres
mt as spectators.
The banquet, which was served in
he large room designed for that pur-
pose, was an elaborate one and was
tttended by about 500 people.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-12-16
Buffet Car on Spokane Run.

1t is said that the Pullman car now
carried on the Spokane -Pendleton
trains will be changed off soon for a
combination buffet and baggage car
This change will reduce the weight of
the train and furnish ample accom-
modations, passengers desiring better
service than the chair cars.