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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

They sat on a fiat boulder in Pine
Canon, while heavy-set, bull-necked
man in a black mask leaned on rife
and looked at them. The girl was
white and silent, and her escort held
her hand. He was a young man, dark
and imperious, but his eyes had
soft glow in them, and he looked at
her with that ecstatic expression
which but one woman can bring to a
mans face.
Don't worry" he whispered, as he
fondled the little hand, lit isn't any
thing serious. The men have my
checks to pay for our ransom, and
when they return with the money we
will be released. 1t is only the mat
ter of an hour or so. Turn your
head Mary do believe you are cry
ing And l thought you such brave
girl" he continued in tone of forced
raillery. .You are always laughing
at me because 1 am timid with dogs,
and last week you refused me again,
for no other reason than because l
ran away from a gang of drunken
rowdies. / never thought to see you
crying over such a harmless adven-
ture."
Don't make fun of me, Harry"
tears. 81 never said that 1 was brave.
1 know that I'm a c-coward, but l
want my h-h-husband to be brave for
both. And you're not" she continued,
indignation getting the better of her
fear. when these men came, you
just held out your hands; and you've
been like a l-l-lamb."
Harry turred his head aside to con-
ceal the broad grin that flashed
across his face. Then he moved near
er and caught her other hand.
Listen, Mary" he said. 81 know
that you think me a coward, though 1
am but cautious. 1 can risk myself
when there is any reason for doing so,
but a reason with me must be some
thing more than mere braggadocio-
You have lived in the West so long
that you can appreciate nothing but
spectacular bravery. In my part OF
the country, that is not needed.
am not what you think me; indeed !
am not"
Mary disengaged her hands and hid
her face in her handkerchief Il
think that l know you," she said in
a smothered voice. 'At least, there
is nothing hypocritical nor false about
you. You do not pretend to be what
you are not"
Harry's face was convulsed in an
extraordinary manner, and turned to
a sea-green hue. NO" he answered
family, Il have never pretended to
be better than 1 am, even to you. But
If anything would make me false to
myself, it would have been a desire
for your appreciation; a wish to be
what you would have me be-
ST understand you." she said. &c
even know what you are thinking o.
now. You believe that 1 might-love
you-if you could make me admire
your bravery. Is it not so? And yol
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

Two years ago, when the heads of
big financial, mercantile and educa-
donal institutions were bending be-
meath the impositions of the coal trust,
President Harper of the University of
Chicago, shrugged his shoulders and
smiled.
said. IF the worst comes to the worst
l shall burn up my back yard
The newspapers printed this decla
ration of independence, giving it wide
spread publicity. Students of econo-
mics were impressed; and the average
citizen remarked Absurd" when he
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

love me if you would. At least, 1 will
show you that you have a false opin-
ion of me. Hello there, Mr.. Out
law,"
well, whatcher want?" growled
the mask. You sit still there,
Fletcher, an don't come none of your
Arkansas tricks on me. Whatever
want, hey?"
Il want a match Harry returned,
land I'll trade you a cigar for it.
Will you come here, or may l walk
over there?"
Come a1ong'' said the man as he
threw the rifle in the hollow of his
arm. Il don't care if 1 do smoke,
SEEM it's YOU
mo. no." Mary whispered. 81
didn't mean it, Harry. You must not
do anything so foolish"
Il must go, anyhow he answered.
''The man will be suspicious else, and
perhaps start a row himself You
must not worry, for I won't do any
thing that seems dangerous" And
with a final sit will be all right" he
strolled over to where the outlaw
stood.
Here he said, offering a cigar,
take that, old man-and that! and
that," delivering two heavy blows
on the mans chest. He of the mask
staggered backward, and Harry
snatched the revolver that dangled
by the outlaws hip
Now he cried, were on even
terms. and I'll teach you what it
means to bother Miss Lindsey"
The outlaw did not wait to be
taught, nor to regain his equilibrium
The blows started him down the
canon, and, still at a half-falling
angle, he began to run Harry bound
ed after him, while Mary, with
clasped hands and sparkling eyes,
sprang to her feet.
Harry" she cried, come back
come back to mel" But Harry did
not heed her, and she sank down on
| the boulder.
Harry and the outlaw were ex-
| changing flying shots as they ran, and
| in a moment the fugitive bounded be
hind a heavy dyke of granite When
| Harry reached the rock. he found the
| man sitting down, and blowing and
had fallen of. and a round, red, laugh.
| ing face was disclosed.
| observation-disclosures" the . outlaw
gasped. Il amt no good at a run nc
more 1t kind of--ah-cleans me out
Amt got no wind at all How'd l dc
it, partner? Say, that was rich. Ha!
| hal hal"
SSH SSH" Harry Kissed. You'll
give the whole thing away, Evans
and 1 can't stand another no."
us it goin' to work." Evans asked
"She's a fine gal. Fletcher an vnr
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

matically feed wet peat and discharge
dried peat at the rate of 500 pounds
every three minutes. The dried stuff
is then chopped and conducted
through a rotary drier and fed into
very powerful press, where, under
great pressure and heat applied to the
mold, it is pressed from soft, dry pow
der into hard, dense block much like
coal. The peat is pressed through an
open tube, instead of against a fixed
resistance mold, and the only base
is the movable base of other briquets
being pushed out ahead, which offer
resistance by friction against the side
of the mold. Yet that resistance gives
a pressure of thirty tons to the square
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

left to do but find the proper way to
convert this peat ground into peat
fuel. While Boston theorists have
been specializing why this task was
feasible and really ought to be done,
a Chicago man of Scotch-Yankee origin
has worked out the problem to
practical success.
The new method is an original one,
and simple, as all great things are
simple. The ground is dug by machin-
cry, conveyed by bucket chain to the
plant where it is dried in centrifugal
machines that whirl at the rate of
$50 revolutions a minute and auto
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07
KEEP FAITH WITH CHILDREN.
Matter in Which Mothers Sometimes
Show CareIessness.

Matter in Which Mothers Sometimes
Show Careiessness.
Many woman who would not think
of lightly breaking a promise made
to. a grown-up person is utterly care
less about keeping her word with her
children She promises whatever is
convenient at the moment, and appar-
emily thinks that the breaking or
keeping of those promises is a mat
ter in which she can please herself,
and that her children have no right
to consider themselves aggrieved if
she does not do so.
A mother who acts thus does her
child grievous harm. She forgets that
the sense of justice is strong in quite
a little child, and that it is natural
and reasonable that he should expect
his parents to be as good as their
word and to fulfill their promises
even at the cost of convenience. Prom
ises should not be lightly broken, and
the parent who is guilty of this soon
loses his children's confidence, which
is one of the sweetest things which
our little ones can give us.
When boys and girls learn to doubt
their parents truthfulness, says
Woman's Life, they soon look around
for someone whom they can trust, and
on that person they shower their af-
lection and bestow their confidence
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

inch and makes a briquet much more
dense than could be secured by pres
sure in a fixed die. The surface is
then scared or glazed, to make it
weatherproof. This American method
does away with the need of a cement,
while all foreign processes require
pitch, bitumen, or oil as a binder,
which costs more for the added mate
rial than the entire operation.
Mans inventive genius in the Chi
cago method has scooped nature. as
it were, by applying great pressure
and heat-such as nature employs in
forming the worlds coal supply out
of peat beds-but nature works slow
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07
DUTY a Cordial.

No mans spirits were ever hurt by
doing his duty, on the contrary, one
good action, one temptation, resisted
and overcome, one sacrifice of desire
or interest, purely for conscience sake,
will prove a cordial for weak and low
spirits, far beyond what either indul-
gence or diversion, or company. can
do for them--Paley-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07
Will Breed zebras in Africa

Lord Howard De Walden, probably
the richest young man in England,
has gone to east Africa on a hunting
expedition after big game He has
purchased large territory near Lake
Victoria Nyanza, where he intends to
establish a farm for breeding zebras.
His estate, which consists entirely OF
property in London, is worth over
81 900 900 a year.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

greater danger than this for your
sake
"Oh, no. MOI" Mary whispered.
Don't do it, Harry. He might kill
you, and land "a" Her voice died
away.
And you love me?" Harry asked
eagerly. You don't say so. but 1
know it already. 1t is only your ex-
aggerated ideal of bravery that keeps
you from confessing it. You think
that 1 am not worthy of you; but
am, and 1 will prove it,
you take a good deal for granted"
said Mary with sudden GOODNESS. 81
don't think that 1 have given you any
reason to say that my interest is
more than friendly"
ct isn't that" he replied. ct spoke
hastily, but l meant that you could
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

ing just as. long under proper condi-
lions of burning. Our peat fuel is
equally good as a steam raiser or for
domestic use. It is even more clearly
than anthracite, as it is entirely
smokeless, sootless, sulphurless, Gin
derless and clinkerless, and makes
scarcely half as much ash. Think of
having fuel that burns entirely up in
flame and leaves no wastei of course,
our peat fuel is not to be compared
with dirty, wasteful soft coal for
minute 1t is the equal of anthracite
and will take the place of hard coal
and compete with it in any market"
Chicago Inter Ocean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-01-07

there. 1t would be. a brave deed,
Harry. 1t would be too brave-too
RASH"
NO" Harry answered, mot rash,
and not as dangerous as you think.
It would need but a little quickness,
and l have that. l am going to do it.
Mary. l am going to get you away
from here before the men return 1
will not ask you to marry mel will
not do this for reward. But you know
tina: love you and 1 would risk a
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11
Retaliation at a Dance.

She was young. 1t was her first
season, and it pleased her to snub her
cub cousin most numerically when.
ever he asked for dance.
No" she protested, one evening
you can't see my program-it's all
full"
but therell be extras. Can't /
have an extra?'
"Ye-es," returned the young wom-
an, Srudgingly yel.nquishing her card.
"but don't lake Tie first one, it's prom.
ised'
Later In the evening when she
looked TO see which dance her cousin
had appropriated she found that she
had food for reflection The young
man had put his name down for the
four hundred ana ninety-ninth extra.
Chicago laecord-Herald Sunday Mag
azlnc.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11
BEST POSITION EoR work.
Facing the East is Recommended by
an Authority.

Facing the East Is Recommended by
an Authority.
To test the truth of the assertions
of many persons that they sleep bet
ter with their heads pointing to the
north, work better facing the east, and
so on, DIR. Charles Fere, who is we'll
known for his ptudies in physiological
psychology, has constructed delicate
machine which he calls an ergograph,
with which he has achieved some in
teresting results. This machine reg
listers the number, rapidity and quail
ity Of the movements of the index fin
ger when writing or performing any
accustomed work.
He announces that his experiments
with II prove that work done by per-
son facing the west or east is better
by rs per cent than similar work done
by person facing the north or south,
and that when working facing the
west 1t is about % per cent better than
when facing the east
This matter of orlentation seems to
have an influence upon the nervous
system, due largely, it is believed, to
the fact that the earth is gigantic
magnet. Many learned men have no
ticed that they sleep best with the
head to the north and work better
facing the west, while at least one
famous pianist finds he plays with
the greatest ease when the piano
faces the east.
It may be that the great migrations
Of the human race, all of which have
been from east to west and the OBJ
served tendency OF trees to develop
in the same general direction are in
some way related to these phenomena
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

When father built the veranda,
He kicked about the expense,
But ma, she said:
Don't mind it, Ed
Don't think Of dollars and cents"
That autumn Clara was married
1t made pa glad as could be,
And ma would smile
Most all the while,
I'm proud of that porch" said she.
Last summer both Belle and Amy
Would race for the porch at night,
And all the rest
OF us thought best
To stay indoors, out Of sight.
But Belle ran faster than Amy
She got her man in July;
And Ill commend
That porch to send
A bachelors oath sky high.
Last Sunday Amy informed US
That she mad told Jimmy yes"
And now us three,
Pa, ma and me,
Can get on that porch / guess.
cleveland Leader.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11
eoop INpEx 10 cAARAcrER.
Habits and Idiosyneraeles Betrayed In
the Lauuh,

Habits and ldiosyncracies Betrayed In
the Laugh.
Anthropoioglsts say that the ability
to laugh comes to the child as 1t
grows older. The first smile is OBJ
served when the child is about forty
to sixty days old but it does not be-
gin TO laugh until some time after
that.
Children and women laugh more
than men, not because the cares of
life lie less heavily upon them, but
because the the former are more ex-
citable, and because the moderating
power of the cerebral hemispheres is
less in them than among men gem
orally.
Profound study makes men serious,
and so foolish people are sometimes
noted for laughing immoderately.
Yet laughter is not so much an index
to Intelligence as IT is to the condi-
ton of health. Healthy, vigorous peo-
pie are proyerbially of good-humored
joyous, laughing natures, while the
"sallow, gloomy-eyed dyspeptic" is a
description scientifically accurate.
The envious, wicked and maleyolent
rarely laugh, because, phrenologists
say, they are impregnated with bile
and are, therefore, morose The
naughty, the vain and the awkward
also laugh very little, for fear of los
ing their dignity The Spanish people
proverbially grave, are good ex.
ample.
People who-have lines extending
downward from the angle at the
mouth toward the chin well marked
rarely laugh, and, moreover, show q
tendency to pensiveness in youth and
melancholy in after life.
Those who have lines raging out
ward from the eyes are, on the con
trary, people who laugh good deal
especially when the upper lip is
framed by two deep burrows running
down in the mouth.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11
Lookinq After German rItIe.

The Prussian authorities are taking
steps to prevent the unlawful use Of
the prefix won" The police have
been ordered to send in lists of all
persons who prefix won" to their
names. These will be CAREFUL gone
over by the heralds, and all persons
found using this highly-prized addition,
but not entitled to do so, will be noti-
fed that unless they discontinue its
use they win be punished.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11
SONS OF COOP MANnnRe.
elder slster's Effort to Uphold Repu.
tation Of Family,

tation Of Family.
AS the Oldest of the family, Anna
felt keenly the necessity Of keeping
close watch upon the manners of her
two younger sisters, lest disgrace be
attached to the good name of the fam
lily. Her intentions, at all events, were
beyond cavil, although as much could
not always be said for her manner of
carrying them out.
Certainly the provocation was great
when Annals younger sister deliber-
ately put an entire hard-boiled egg in
her mouth IN the crowded steam car
on the way home from school. Only
a few persons saw the dreadful deed,
yet Anna straightway rose, crossed
the aisle and administered to the Of
fender box on the ear which re
sounded from one end of the car to the
other. Thereupon she resumed her
seat, in the proud consciousness of a
duty well performed.
why, Anna, how could you do such
thing, and publicly, too?" said her
mother later after hearing fearful
recital of the incident from the lips OF
her youngest daughter
well, / just wanted to show the
people," was the reply, that even
though Lefty behaved SO badly, l, at
least, had been taught to have good
manners" -Chicago Record Herald
Sunday Magazine.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11
Import EnnlIah Soma alrds.

An attempt on large scale to in
troduce English song birds into Brit
ish Columbia is at present being made.
The Victoria (B. CO Natural History
society is taking out consignment of
500 birds, consisting of 100 pairs Of
goldhnches, 100 pairs of larks, and
fifty pairs of robins.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

disappears. Then catarrh is REEe
manently cured.
If you do not derive pcOmpR and
satisfactory results from the RsR g9S
Peruna, write at once to DR. Hart
mann, giving full statement Of Tuur
case, and he will be pleased 10 give
you his valuable advice gratfSs
Address Dr. Hartman, President nir
The Hartman Sanitarium. CoirInhus.
Ohio.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

If you wish to buy bargain, all you
have to do is get bottle of DR.. Cald-
wells Qaxatlve) Syrup Pepsin, and
use 1t at the least sign Of headache,
dizziness, constipation, biliousness, in
digestion, etc. This small investment
will be the best Bargain you ever
bought, for 1t will bfng you health at
a nominal cost. Try it. Sold by all
druggists at soc and 200. Money back
If 1t fails,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Champion, Mich, Jan. Especially
"A case of especial interest to women
is that of Mrs A We,latt, wife of a
well known photographer here. 1t is
best given in her own words.
Il could not sleep, my feet were
cold and my limbs cramped," Mrs.
Wellatt states. II had an awful hard
pain across my Kidneys ! had to get
up three or four times in the night.
was very nervous and fearfully des-
pondent,
II had been troubled in this way for
five years when commenced to use
Dodds Kidney Pills, and what they
caused to come from my kidneys will
hardly stand description
by the time had finished one box
of Dodd's Kidney Pills was cured.
Now | can sleep well, my limbs do
not cramp, do not get up in the night
and feel better than have in years.
owe my health to Dodd's Kidney
Pills"
Women's Ills are caused by Dis
eased Kidneys; that's why Dood's
Kidney Pills always cure them.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Few escape those miseries OF win
terra bad cold, a distressing cough.
Many remedies are recommended, but
the one quickest and best of all is
Simmons Cough Syrup Soothing and
healing 10 the lungs and bronchial pas
sages, It stops the cough at once and
gives you welcome rest and peaceful
sleep.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

sAn using ALIENS FOOT-EASE, and
can truly say I.would not have been without
It so long, had known the relief it would
give my aching feet. ! think 1t a rare good
thing for anyone having sore or tired feet
Mrs. Matilda Holtwert, Providence, r, L"
Sold BY all Druggists, 26c Ash today,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Despite the fact that hara-kiri is re-
garded as a national institution of ia
pan, instances of self-destruction in
that empire are much fewer than in
the leading lands of Europe.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

of an attack. On each and every oc-
casion the results obtained were Just
as satisfactory as when the pills we're
first brought to my notice. just as
emphatically endorse the preparation
to-day as did over two years ago"
Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y,
proprietors. For sale by all druggists,
price so cents per box
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Dr. Thorley, medical town coun-
cilor at Bolton, England, calls small
bedrooms death traps, and the council
Is seeking parliamentary powers to
prescribe a minimum cubic space for
bedrooms
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Sufficient sherry wine to supply the
worlds demand for a quarter of CEN
fury is said to be contained in the
storehouses of Jarez la Frontera, in
Spain.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

he does not have Defiance Starch, you
may be sure he is afraid to keep It un-
til his stock Of IL OF. packages are
sold Defiance Starch is not only bet
ter than any other Cold Water Starch,
hut contains 16 or. to the package and
sells for same money as - OF. brands.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

A report from German East Africa
lie to the effect that there are over
100000 zebras in the colony. They
appear sometimes in herds of from
200 to 400 animals.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Automobiles have been put to many
uses, but 1t remained for clever Ger
mantown electrician to put machine
to use as novel as it was ingenious,
though simple at that. The arc light
at the northwest corner of German
town and Chelten avenues suddenly
went out on Thursday night. Kicking
the pole and a dozen other familiar
methods failed to jar the carbons into
proper position.
Then the lamp was lowered, but all
were afraid to touch it, as no one had
rubber gloves or other insulation. The
chances of an accident we're increased
by the wet pavement and dripping
lamp. Just then as the darkness and
delay became most vexatious at that
much freQuented corner, an automo-
bile drove up and its owner got out
and went into the postoffice A happy
thought struck the electrician, and he
had minutes hurried conversation
with the owner The electrician
raised the lamp, while the automobile
list drove the machine under it. Then
the electrician stood on the automobile,
safe with the protection of insulation
from the four rubber tires, and easily
adjusted the carbons, and there was
light again. Philadelphia Record.
A IA. y,
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

McCANE's DETECTIVE AGENCY,
Houston, Texas, operates tho largest force
of competent detectives In the south
Give them = oaIl.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

It's funny what the womens clothes
that are never seen are mostly made
for show.
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Catarrh is systemic disease cur.
able only by systemic treatment. A
remedy that cures catarrh must aim
directly at the depressed nerve cen
tiers. This is what Peruna does.
Peruna Immediately invigorates the
nerve-centers which give vitality to
the mucous membranes. Then catarrh
Shiner gazette. [volume] (Shiner, Tex.) 1893-current, 1905-01-11

Robert R. Roberts, NJ. D., Wash
ington, d. O., writes:
"Through my own experience
as well as that of many of nlyI
friends and acquainfancss who
have been cured or relieved of ca
J tarrh by the use of Hsrfman's
Peru1a, can confidently recon-
mend 1t to those suffering from such
disorders, and have no hesitation In
prescribing II to my patients. ~
Robert r. Roberts.