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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
RARRooMs IN THE BIG HOTELS
Are Being Driven From the Field by
the Ro..doir Buffet.

The magnificent hotel barrooms,
which were feature of Broadway life
a decade ago, are being driven from
the field by the boudoir buffet. Old
time hotels like the St. Nicholas, the.
New York, the Metropolitan, the Nor
ton house, Union Square, Coleman
and others that made New York bar
rooms something to talk about few
years ago almost have gone out of ex-
istence- Barkeepers and mixers OF
special drinks that made them famous
either have gone to another sphere or
into other business, and there are
none to take their places. To cite the
most conspicuous example the famous
elliptical bar in the Hoffman house,
which Edward S. Stokes made the
talk of two continents, has been taken
away. The collection of expensive
paintings, so famous that special
view hour each morning was appoint
ed for women, has been dispersed
What was once the most magnificent
barroom in the world in now very
commonplace cafe in comparison with
the more modern New York hotels.
There is a small barroom in another
part of the hotel which bears about
the same relation to the sumptuous
DUKES meudSo DIS d puSuCdiI uOSS
to a pony carriage This is true of all
the big hotels The waiter and small
table have put the barkeeper out of
business. In many of the new boudoir
bars if a customer steps up to the
small bar and orders a drink he is
asked to take a seat at one of the ta-
| bles and a waiter will carry the drink
| to him. This usually involves tip to
| the waiter that approximates one-half
| the price of the drink. The old-time
| barkeeper complains bitterly at the in
| novation of the foreign waiter in the
| barroOm or cafe.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
The oreqon Back Number.

When, in 1898, the Oregon took Cap
tain C1ark's bit in her teeth and GAL
Hoped, in her somewhat numbering bat
tleship way, from San Francisco to
Santiago, $4,000 miles, in less than six
weeks, she was reckoned one of the
best and most up-to-date warships
af1oat. She had been commissioned
less than two years before. That was
seven years ago. How quickly do the
mighty fall in naval warfare at this
day! The Oregon is ordered home
from the China station now to be COM
p1etely overhauled. Everything she
has is to go by the board. Modern"
guns and modern" appliances and
machinery will be substituted for what
has grown ancient since your baby
was born. The Oregon is practically
obsolete to-day.-New York Mail.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
Praise for American Militia.

The strength of the American land
forces lies in its national guard or vol
unteers, both for home defense and
also for expanding the regular army
in time of war. A rifle team of the
Seventh regiment of these volunteers
came over from New York last year
to shoot against a team of our queens
Westminster volunteers. No country
in the world. under any condition of
service, could have produced finer and
more intelligent men than these Amer
lean citizen soldiers, and if they are
q specimen of the volunteers of the
United States-as doubtless they are
that power has no more to fear as
to her land forces than she has as to
her navy.-Iondon Speaker.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
Orchard Cover Crop.

AT this season of the year a cover
crop may be put into the orchard that
has been cultivated, especially if this
orchard is in the north. Experiments
made with cover crops show that they
very materially reduce the distance
that the frost enters the ground. In
some cases the common vetch has
been planted in the orchard in mid
summer, and has made a good growth
during the fall, covering the orchard
with carpet of green. This plant
freezes during the winter, but the
carpet it makes reduces the power of
the frost to pentrate the ground. In
one test in Wisconsin, where the frost
went twenty inches without this cover,
it went only twelve inches with it. It
is too late now to plant alfalfa or
clover, but COW peas may yet be sown~
as may also winter rye. These will
both make a good cover crop by the
time frost comes, and will serve the
purpose intended. Where orchards
have been in sod all the spring and
summer, they should not be disturbed
in the fall but the sod should be left
as cover for the roots of the trees
during the winter.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
Deaths Lullaby.

Lullaby, lullaby. lullaby life
Hush thee to sleep, to sleep.
Why should YOU long for the struggle and
strife,
Stay here and mourn and weep.
When you may sink in my arms and
find rest
Pillow your head on the earth's gentle
breast /.
Lullaby. lullaby. lullaby life.
Lullaby, lullaby. lullaby life,
Close your weariful eyes,
Why should you linger in care and in
strife
Under these sorrowful skies
Come to my arms and win quiet and
peace,
Let all your troubles and fretfulness
cease.
Lullaby. lullaby. lullaby life
Lullaby lullaby, lullaby life,
Briefly yon spangled sun CLEANS.
Why should you love all this fanciful
strife
Chasing the phantom of dreams?
Flee from the quest of but vanishing
mirth,
Come and lie down in the arms of the
earth
Lullaby. lullaby. lullaby life
Chicago Chronicle.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

when you are man reaHy
worth while in other ways, 1 don't see
why you persist in this impossible
AFFAIR.""
81 persist, because it means every
thing to me. and 1 shall persist al
ways, Jane. unless you marry another
man"
Now, don't say that, Wilton, for
although l like men and get on admir-
ably with them as friends, I never ex-
pect to love or marry any mani"
1T is impossible to believe that you
will never love; such a woman is sure
to love and love deeply. Such life is
rounded out only by love-"
But, Wilton, my life is full OF
other things; have no place for love
or marriage"
mot now, perhaps, because your
globe-trotting and your art studies
have crowded it out for time; but
some time it will burst forth into
every fibre of your being, and, on,
Jane, if 1 might have the joy of call
ing it forth"
Really, Wilton, try to be practical
in this, as you are in other matters
With my wandering foot and my dis
taste for home life what kind of
wife would 1 make? Go to some sweet
and loving girl, lavish this beautiful
love on her and let her make you
happy"
'tYou ought to know how useless
is advice like that. 1t is not that L
simply want to marry. l want to
marry you
eff 1 felt worthy of such love I'd be
less unhappy to hear you talk so; but
here 1 am, lacking in the qualities
which are the very essentials to mar
ried happiness
mot lacking; simply crowded out
temporarily. Since have known you
I have asked you three times to
marry me, and you never gave me
this reason before. The first time you
were too young, you said, you would
answer me two years later; two
years later you were afraid to trust
yourself to live on salary, and your
trip to the Orient could not be put
p aside. The third time your mothers
health took you to Switzerland with
her for an indefinite time. Now, that
all these things are out of the way,
your career steps in"
There was another reason in each
case, Wilton. 1 did not love you well
enough. Our friendship has meant
so much to me; in fact, 1 have few if
any friends with whom l have so
much in common; yet have 1 ever
sought to encourage anything more
than friendship on your part?'
You certainly have not; but the
master passion of mans life does
not have to be nurtured and encour-
aged into growth; it grows in spite
of everything"
you sail for Europe, when?" asked
Wilton.
THE 18TH"
'And will remain how long?"
zone year"
"And them"
Magazine illustrating"
Then what?"
why, success. l hope, what more
could / ask?"
You may not ask more; but faI
more than professional success will
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

The newly. married crown prince of
Germany attended some military ma.
neuvers at Doeberitz the. other day
dressed as lieutenant of hussars. A
poorly dressed lad selling picture post
cards approached and begged him to
buy. saying: Herr Lieutenant, here
is the very latest picture of the crown
prince and his young wife. Are they
not a handsome pair?" The prince
bought couple, paying ten prices for
them, much to the boys establishment,
and on his return home next day told
the princess of the compliment the Lad
had paid her.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
HORTICULTURE
SI[S7a.
49, 4 -Iz-=2
II
Tho Cause of Pear BLIGHT.


For ten years 1 have grown pears
for market and have watched and stud
led the trees almost daily during that
time, and 1 cannot agree with expert
ment station men and others as to
the cause of pear blight. I cannot
believe that pear blight is caused by
bacteria or that microbe has any
thing to do with it. An experiment
station professor writing in Country
Life in America" recently went SO far
as to say that the pear blight microbe
is in the nectar of the pear blossoms
and is carried by bees from flower to
flower 1 think it is hardly possible
for the nectar to be anything but pure
when the blossoms open. think pear
blight is caused by conditions of soil
and climate. On certain soils and
elevations even in Illinois, pear trees
are free from blight
Frank Akin.
Illinois.
The cause of pear blight is now
very well known. There is no ques-
ton at all of it's being a germ disease.
The microscope has revealed its char
acter and it has been isolated and ex-
amined. The spore of the fungus that
causes pear blight is both heavy and
sticky and cannot be blown by the
wind from one place to another. 1t
used to be supposed that it could be
blown from one tree to another and
that this would account for the sud-
den appearance of pear blight after
windy and wet period. The germ of
pear blight lives over winter in the
live wood adjoining dead wood that
has been killed by blight. Insects.
especially bees, sip the sap from
wounds in infected trees and later
visit the tips of trees where small
leaves are being formed or blossoms
are opening. The spores of the pear
blight stick to the limbs of the insects
just as pollen sticks to them. When
the insects suck the nectar in the
flowers. the spores are rubbed off and
fall into the flower. From those
spores, minute plants of a thread-like
character develop. These plants grow
through the sap wood and through the
leaves and use up the life fluid that
should go to feed the leaves The
leaves then wilt and turn color, and
we say the tree has been blighted.
There is much yet to be learned about
pear blight, but the foundation has
been well worked out.-Farmers' Re
view.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
ecopyright. 1905. by Daily Story Pub. Co,
BY CATHARlNE CRANHER

breakfast, she received a box of ex-
quisite sunrise roses, and brief note,
which said:
Jane: You leave Chicago to-day.
1 cannot trust myself to say goodbye.
May your life be as full of color as
these roses, but if the color ever fades
and you have need of friend, re-
member that 1 shall be faithful al
ways WILTON.
Jane looked first at these lovely
roses, and then at some American
Beauties. sent by another man. She
pushed the latt from her.
Bah, You are like a common per
son, suddenly grown rich,'' and bury
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

be necessary to make you content"
This attempt to undermine her spro-
fessiona1 air castle rather nettled
Jane, and when the man had claimed
his dance came, she gave him the
sweetest of smiles, while to poor Will
ton she gave only a cool nod as she
walked away He stood and watched
her as one watches the fading of a
beautiful sunset, when all its gorgeous
colors die into a somber gray. When
she passed from his sight it seemed to
him that all the color of his hopes had
turned to this same gray. He left
without again entering the ball room.
The next morning as Jane was at
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
LAST OF THE AFRICAN RULERS.
Lerothodi, Great Chief of the Basutos,
Is Dead.

Lerothodi, Basuto chief and last OF
the great native rulers, is dead. Des-
perate fighter, keen diplomat and able
ruler, Lerothodi made his mark in the
history of South Africa from the time
he became chief. He was the leader
of a nation of 100000 people jealous
of their freedom, born fighters keen
for battle, and in the troublous times
when the government of Basutoland
was shifting between Cape Colony and
the Imperial government Lerothodi
proved his leadership. He was big,
stout man, who in his later days wore
European clothes even in the kraa1.
He was described as the Paramount
Chief of the Basutos, a position
largely due to the fact that he was
descended from the chief who found
ed the tribe in the early part of the
century.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

mira1 Togo shortly after the battle
admitted that his flagship suffered Sc
verely-more so than any vessel in
his main squadron"
1t is not believed the loss of the
battleship will cripple Japan's navy
seriously, since she has two new bat
tleships, the Kashima and Katori, now
on the ways and to be completed by
1906, and two others for which the
designs have been made. but which
cannot besdelivered for effective serv-
ice much before 1908.
The disasters in the Japanese navy
previously reported were the battle
ships Hatsuse and Yashima, sunk by
mines; the cruiser Yoshino, sunk by
being rammed by the Kasuga, and the
cruisers Idzuma and Miyaka, sunk by
mines. The small unprotected cruiser
Kaimon also was lost.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

ing her face among the ones that
Wilton sent, she added, but you are
genuine aristocracy."
Something like a dewdrop could be
seen among these roses, and match
for it was in either of James eyes. She
had not thought that their parting on
the veranda was to be their last for
year. She had been almost uncivil
to Wilton, who was after all her best
friend. Seized by an impulse she did
not stop to define, she selected one of
the most beautiful roses, and enclosed
it in a box with her card, on the back
of which she wrote:
This rose brings my parting mes
sage. Thank you many times, dear
friend-and goodbye. JANE"
BY the time it reached Wilton Jane
was aboard the Twentieth Century
Limited, we'll on her way to New
York.
Though Wilton had seldom written,
he had kept her supplied with the
latest American books. and the home
newspapers. OF late, however, she had
year was nearly over she met some
received fewer of these. When her
Chicago friends, who poured out all
the home news and gossip.
"And. Oh, Jane" one of the girls
said, your old standby, Wilton Ellis,
has joined the Widow eagles train.
and they do say she means to rope
him in"
Jane was conscious of being closely
watched by all of the party when this
was said, but no sign of such con-
seriousness was visible as she asked,
rather indifferently:
who is this Widow Oagle, 1 don't
think she was there when 1 left?"
"Oh, no, she came in the winter.
Half the men in town have been de-
voted to her. Her husband was an
army officer, killed in the Philippines,
which, Jack Gwinn says, is proof to
him that there is luck in store for all
men, even though it be late in COM
ing
When Jane sat down at her desk
that evening, she did not seem to be
interested in the illustration she had
begun. She pushed it aside and drew
picture of a beautiful woman, sur
rounded by admirers, while Cupid
dragged away trunk, labeled
widows Weeds"
Two months later, when she ar
rived in Chicago. almost the first per
son she saw was Mrs. Dan Shelley,
who said:
"Oh, you wandering Gypsy, how
good to see you again. And I'm Civ
ing a dinner tomorrow evening You
can't say no; 1 won't listen. And
wear your fetchiest Paris gown, for
there is nothing new in this old
! town"
When Jane entered Mrs. Dams
| drawing room there was a perceptible
/ murmur of admiration. Around
her bare white throat were beautiful
| strings of amber beads-her only or
naments. In harmony with all these
| autumn tints, James changeful haze
eyes looked out from under their crown
| of copper colored hair
Nearly all the guests were her ole
acquaintance, but among the strang
| ers, the first she met was Mrs. Oagle
who had Wilton in tow
1t seemed of late that Mrs. Oagle's
songs were part of every function
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
Keen Observation Made Him Rieh

Prof. Blake, the head of the cleo
trical department at the University
OF Kansas, has been taken into rich
company that will make submarine
signals Prof. Blake made the discov-
cry years ago and patented it. When
a boy he noticed that if he dived and
another kid knocked two rocks togeth-
er under water he could hear it, as
all boys know. He applied electric
wires to this theory and it is expected
viii get rich.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

The so-called pedigreeing of plants
is misnomer, when such plants are.
not produced from Seed Selection Isl
one thing, but it is, not pedigreeing.
A plant cannot be its own parent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30

There should be a label on every
package of fruit that is sold in the.
market showing where and by whoms
it was grown. This will tend to dol
away with dishonest packing.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-09-30
TIE World Of Trouble

SIGH a world o. trouble
Sighin browns the songs
Never Wit felt happy.
But a cyclone comes alonSt
When the sky looks cleareSt,
Comes asightnin' flash,
When l feel like dancin'
Fiddler calls for CASH.
An if I was in glory.
An walked outside the town.
Satan sure would git me
An. levy on my CROWN
Atlanta Constitution.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-06-08
Thirty YeArs Ago

A battle occurred between miners and soldiers near Hazleton, Pa.
 Martial law was declared In the min ing region of Pennsylvania because of riots by striking workmen.
 Moody and sankey, the reyivslists, opened a new hall in Bow street, Lon don, constructed for them and capable of seating 10000.
 Paul Boyton, in bathing suit. made an unsuccessful attempt 10 swim across the English channel from Dover to Boulogne. n
 The steamer believed to be So con. strueted as to do away with sea sick. ness crossed the English chsnnel-sue. cessfuily, 1t was announced.
 Contractor T. J. Hines and Clerks Channel and Van Week, of the Post once Department at Washington, were arrested in connection with con. tract frauds.
 With a solemn and emphatic denial of the charges against him, Henry Ward Beecher concluded his direct tes- timony in defense in the Brooklyn trial.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-06-08
Forty fears Ago.

Mobile was evacuated by the Con. federates.
 The testimony In the so-called Chi cago conspiracy trial before a military court at Cincinnati closed.
 Henry 8. Foote, Confederate Sena- tor, arrived in New York from Europe, travelling steerage to avoid detection, but was arrested.
 Lynchburg surrendered to Union scouting party; Selma, Ala, and Mont gomery were reported in Union hands
 Gen. Robert E. Lee, at Appomstto surrendered the Confederate army ot North Virginia to Gen. Grant on the terms proposed by the latter.
 A jubilee celebrat ton was being held in every city of the North because of the surrender of Lee and the apparent end of the war.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-06-08
FHty Years Ago

The first dental clinic in Germany was esta blished.
 The ship canal at St, Mary's Mich, was opened.
 Broussa, in Asia Minor, was visited by earthquake, and all wooden build ings destroyed by fire.
 The system of registered letters was introduced in the United States postal service.
 The prohibitory bill of Pennsylvania was signed by the Governor and be- came a law.
 The United States gave twelve months notice to Denmark of it's in- tendon to terminate the treaty of 1928. by which the payment of sound dues was recognized.
 The depot of the New York and Erie Railroad st Jersey City. with several passenger and freight cars, was de- stroyed by fire.
 The church tenure bill. putting the property of all religious denom!na tions In the hands of trustees, was signed by the Governor of New York.
Alaska sentinel., 1905-06-08
The . reets of Ls n don.

London is the hardest city In the world to get about in. London has streets more crooked than those of any other city. She has more streets of the same name than any other city London has 151 Church streets. It has 129 Union streets. l19 John streets 11s New streets, 108 George streets s9 Queen streets, 95 King streets. 9l Charles streets. Ss William streets, s7 James streets. I8 rrincess streets and b7 Elizabeth streets. When you tell [ London cabby to drive you to Eliza beth street he will ask, with a smile (Which of the 57 varieties, sir"
Alaska sentinel., 1905-06-08
Seventy.five Years Ago.

oxen were used for the first time on the Santa Fe trail.
 The King. of Spain issued q decree sbolishirg the operation of the Salic law in the succession to the spanish monarchy.
 President Bustamente. of Mexico, forbade further immigration from the United States.
 Ohio was the fourth State in populs- ton In the United States.
 Seven persons were burned To death in lodging house Ire in London.
 The first omnibus used ss public conveyance in New York began it's trip through the city.
 The Bank of England lost f3G0,o 900 by Fauntleroy's forgeries.
 President Jackson at a public dinner in Washington gave the following toast: Our federal union; it must be preserved Vice President Calhoun responded Liberty dearer than union"
Alaska sentinel., 1905-06-08
A JUDGES WIFE PAN SH5k K 4E5 5E5 SIDE
Quickly Cured by a Short
 Course of Pe-ru-nd.

MRS. MINNIE F. McALLISTER, wife
 of Judge McAllister, writes from l2l7 West 33rd street, Minneapolis, Minn.. as follows:
 ''l suffered for years with a pain in the small of my back and right side. It inter fered often with my domestic and social duties and never supposed that ] would be cured. as the doctors medicine did not seem Is help me any.
 Fortunately member of our Order advised me to try Peruna and gave it such high praise that I decided to try it. Although I started in with little faith, I felt so much better in week that felt encouraged.
 ''l took it faithfully for seven weeks and am happy indeed to be able to say that am entirely cured.
 Words fail to express my gratitude. Perfect health once more is the best thing could wish for, and thanks to Peruns, enjoy that now"
 Pain in the back, or on the right side.
 How often a physician hears this complaint,
 Over and over We hear women say:
 nave pain Tn the small or my pach' l have a pain in my right side, just be- low the ribs. These symptoms indicate pelvic or abdominal catarrh.
 They indicate that the bowels are not acting properly-that the liver is out of order - that the pelvic organs are congested.
 Pelvic catarrh-that is the name for it.
 Peruna cures pelvic oatarrh, when all Of these symptoms disappear. The catarrh may be all in the ab- dominal organs, when it would be prop erly called abdominal catarrh.
 At any rate, it is one of those cases of internal catarrh which can be reached only by a course of treatment with Peruna.
 We have on file thousands of test- monials similar to the above. It is impossible here to give our readers more than one or two specimens of the number of grateful and commendatory letters Dr. Hartman is constantly re- ceiving in behalf of his famous catarrh remedy, Peruna.