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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1905-06-10
Lackinu in Experience.

Somebody who calls himself Prof.
Trent, claims that Daniel Defoe, who
wrote Robinson Crusoe,' was the
greatest liar that ever lived
81 guess the professor never met one
of our expert campaign liars"
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On the hundredth anniversary OF
Schil1er's death $4,000 copies of the
special edition of his poems will be
/ given to the school children OF Berlin,
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A woman ha sto be mighty pretty
to make you feel it would be a shame
to expect her to know how to have
good things to eat.
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The unfortunate mans friends
ways live a long way off.
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To have a kind word for someone
who is disliked is to be looked upor
with suspicion.
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Try me fust once and I am sure &c
come again. Defiance Starch.
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He who doesn't marry too young
remains in the bachelor class to the
end, according to a disappointed be-
nedict.
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The name of the empress of Japan
is o Handspring" The name OF
the crown prince is Yoshi Hito.
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A fairy story: Once upon time
there was a female elocutionfst who
refused to speak a piece even after
she had been invited to do so.
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| The chief virtue of some people is
that tley are not bad.
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When Your Grocer SAYS

he does not have Defiance Starch, you
may be sure he is afraid to keep it un-
til his stock of IL o. packages are
sold. Defiance Starch is not only bet
ter than any other Cold Water Starch.
but contains 16 to the package and
sells for same money as IL or brands.
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In thy name, o Liberty, what . lot
of divorces are sought.
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GOVERNMENT LIGHT.
HISTORIC cHickAMAUcA PARK
AeLAZE WITH ILLUMINATION.

United States System OF Lighting Mill
tary Post Pronouqeed Gratifyingiy
Suceessfui-Six and One-Half Miles
Of Mains-Sixty-Five Street Lights.
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A hustler makes things hum and an
idler makes them humdrum.
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A man can't be in two places at
once unless he is an officeholder.
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of which take their pat
their confidence and te
what they are taking.
can afford to do, becau
MEDICAL DISCOVERY /,
ingredients and after a ,
that has hundreds of thu
to its credit, placing II
criticism.
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II Stands Alone
not only IN re-
spect to its in
0rodinnfS h.<

also as the only medicine for stomach.
liver and blood disorders, which abso-
lutely CONTAIN NO ALCOHOL.
lit Stands Alone s ssrs the es. se al
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13

went to the making of their hero before his rise
to heroic stature. In this book Napoleons
childhood in Corsica is traversed with sufficient
detail; he is followed through the period of his
military pupilage at Brenne. Paris, Valence and
Auxonne; and, with careful attention for the in
termediate episodes of his early manhood. the
author finally describes his performances at
Toulon. The record is. of course. profoundly
interesting. and while MIR. Browning might
have given us a more brilliant book, he has at
least given US one which is accurate and we'll
ordered For the beginner he supplies an ad-
mirable Introduction TO the works of Mason
and Chuquet.
He gives at the outset a good picture of the
household in which Napoleon reared u
child. household in which the and court
ly Charles Bonaparte and his Spartan WIFE
Letizia RamOlinO. exercised amiable but de-
termined rule. The future soldier was adored by
his women folk, but he had to toe the mark
"Once, when he was nearly grown up" says Mr.
Browning, 'he laughed at his grandmother, and
called her an old witch LetiZa very angry
and Napoleon, knowing that he would be pun
ished. kept out of her way. However going to
his bedroom to dress for dinner, she followed
him. and. taking advantage of his deshabille
gave him good thrashing." Letzia, it was, we
are told, who gave him many of his strongest
qualities, including his economical bent. Ma
pOleon never forgot the scenes on which he
opened his eyes in infancy. and he cherished as
fondy his memories of those who then cared for
him. Long after. when he paused in the Bay
of Ajaccio his way back from Egypt he
caught sight of Camilla Ilari. his old nurse He
made her come to his coronation. and to the end
was kind to her and to her family. But we must
return TO his earliest characteristics neatly sum-
married in the following passage:
Napoleon's mother tells that she had arranged
a large empty room for the children to play in.
While the others were jumping about drawing and
scribblng on the walls. Napoleon used to beat a
drum WELD sabre of wood and draw soldiers on
the walls ranged in order of battle. He was very
industrious. and showed great capacity for math-
ematlcS. His first teachers were nuns. They were
very fond of him, and called him the mathemati-
clan. He then went to the school which formerly
belonged to the JesuitS He exchanged every day
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13

markabIe for his knowledge Of geography" and
he threw himself with passion upon the reading
of history Plutarch was his favorite author.
and, says Mr.. Browning. lit is reported that
one of his nicknames was The Spartan given
to him on account Of his admiration for that ma
ton" He seems never to have been a boy in
the ordinary understanding of the word. caring
for sports and delighting in associations with
his comrades. He solitary and even sulIen,
though under a certain moral discipline. i'm
posed by the school boys he disdained. he
learned, after time. to meet them half way
But there is no blinking the fact that Napoleon
was man and q genius in his teens Mr.
Browning quotes letter written by the lad to
his uncle at this time. Ihe remarks it contains
on the character and future of his brother Jo-
seph might have been written by the father of
family He was not Indifferent to the nat
ural emotions. and indeed, his affection for his
parents brings an element of something like
tenderness into the story of his formative years
Much is made too by his present bioeraDber or
the way in which he remembered, amid the
splendors of his prime. every one who had fig
ured at ali pleasantly in his bOyhood But he
Went up to Paris to take his place in the EcoIe
mihtaire about as sternly resOlute a student as
ever entered that famous institution
Perhaps he had even then that confidence in
MS destiny which was entertained by his father
and as we have seen. by others in Corsica 1t
is said that when Charles Bonaparte was dying
he asked for his son. crying Where is Napo-
leon? Where is my son Napoleon whose sword
will make kings tremble. who will change the
face of the worId?' Sustained by belief in his
star as lively as this. though not. perhaps, SO
clearly formulated. he labored at the military
school with uncommon steadfastness. 1t is in
teresting to note that he was at this period no
less high minded than Industrious 1t was the
same at Valence. where he was auartered on
leaving the school: if he STUDIED dancing and de-
pertinent he also paid the strictest attention
to his duties as young artillery officer and. as
at Brienne. he read omnivorously. HE was at
that time" writes Joseph "a passionate ad-
mirer Of Rousseau. the inhabitant OF an ideal
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13
THE DOWN BY MOONLIGHT.
RALPH HODGSON.


The down looks new whose lonely slopes ciInos
Yet is he old despite the dress he wears
Old as the dark and COncreate with Time:
Waste with the affiictiOn of uncOUnted years.
A weary head he stretches to the pale
OF heaven. One bended arm OF him UprearS
A shaggy fist in seeming to aSsaI
Imagined iightnngs fraught with new distress
For his old brow. And one arm seems TO tran
It's atrophied and bOny nakedneSS
Down to the streams that bless the living land.
AS if to mitigate the loneliness
He too would reach. as we. another's hand
So quiet this hour is grown, whispers fall
Were sacrilege: within me as 1 stand.
Shy wonder. waking. seems common brawI
And even thought itself is over loud
Desire alone is dumb. No plOverS call.
And if owls fly. their flight is unavowed
For cry / hear of theirs. Peace here and far;
And save the moons loved presence, one lit cloud
Is sole 'twixt me and nights first listening star
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tho piece OF white bread given him for i1nen f9r OK
the rough brown bread of the common soiaien. ~
order that he might accustom himself TO SOLDIERS
fare. At the age of eight he had such pasSton t
for arithmetic that n shed built Tor MN os
hind the house, where he might work undistu@Ioea @
Sunk in meditation he walked about IN the eveal .
ing with his stockings about his heels. anu va
much ieered at in consequence. Letizla mas tole
us that on May S. Ill., the family bailin DrouSle
TO their house two young and spirited horses ~
poIeon mounted of them. and, 70 the terror
of every one. galIOped off 10 the farm. laughlLS5
Mt their fright. Before he returned ne exahiltu
the mechanism Of the mill carefully. ASKING now
much corn 1T could grind in an hour. and on Deihs
told calculated that it cOulf grind so 'ucn IN a
day and so much in week When tne IaIIhet me-
brought the child back. he told his mother thsit
If he lived would become the foremost man f in Ia
the world Genius industry and the power OF IN
spirfng and feeling deep affection were the chiei
notes of NapoleOns early childhood
He matured rapidly. While developing Re
publican ideas with an ardOr beyond his years
he nevertheless had misgivings about accept
ing the education provided for him by the King.
and at Brienne. though he never won a prize.
he followed his studies with devotion He was
more than sound in mathematics; he was re
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13
THE GUERDON.
BY A c FENsON.

BY A c EENSON.
Twenty long years ago,
And it seems like yesterday.
And what have / got TO show,
What have / gained by the wayI
/ have loved my fellow -men.
But have loved yet more my viii:
i was needless and faithlesS then
am faithleSS and needless still
ThirStinS for love and joy.
Eager to mould and plan.
These were the dreams of a boy.
These are the dreams of a man
East and West they are gone.
My comrades of yesterday;
Some of them striding on.
Some of them faIrn by the way
Yet this is my thought alone.
This have I won by the way
That twenty long years have flown.
And it seems like yesterday
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13

world a lover of the great works or Corneils
OF Racine. OF voltaire. which we deeiaimed To-
gether every day. He had collected a number
Of books which occupied trunk larger than
that which contained his clOthes-the works or
Plutarch, OF Plato. Of Cicero Of Cornelius
Nepos. of Livy and OF Tacitus. all translated
into French. besides the writings Of Montaigne.
of Montesquieu and of RaynaL do not deny
that he had also with him the poems OF Ossian.
but I deny that he preferred them to Homer
1t would be interesting to go step by step with
the hero of this volume through his apprentice
ship. but for the details must commend the
reader to Mr. Browning. and Lay stress in this
place simply upon the salient traits Of the bud
ding commander. He worked with the viii cf
an enthusiast and the endurance Of a day
laborer. Even when. at Auxonne. he was put
under arrest for twenty-foUr hours. he devOured
the copy Of the Digest which he found in the
room. and at every turn he displays the zeal and
the assimilative faculty Of youth bound 70 get
though the heavens fall He shows mental
adroitness. too. the readiness OF the man des-
tined to be not only cOnqueror but a states
man. Always. finally. he is thinker. and
though for time, his return to Corsica. he
pIunSes into the politics Of that distressful ISL
land with more energy than discretion. one can
not help feeling-as though it were written be-
tween the lines of his early history-the influ-
ence of a conscious purpose pointing steadily
to the ef1orescence which was to astonish ths
world
His faciIe assumption of the headship OF his
family is an old story His mother was scan
dealized by his expenditures in entertaining
those who would be useful to him" but she fol
lowed his lead. and when the troubles in Corsi-
ca sent all the Bonapartes in hurried fight 20
France Napoleon became still more enphatI-
cally the master of his family's fortunes. He
was severe. and. according to his brother Louis.
"he was angry at the least observation. and got
into a passion at the slightest resistance" but
we see practically nothing in him, down to the
time of his leap into position of Importance
at TOulOn. of that ruthless egotism which is for
ever attached to his name That was 10 come
later. when growing success meant growing am
bition, and he sank in dreams Of conquest the
simpler. more generous impulses of his nature
But the impulses were there. bearing good fruit
in the morning of his career. and Mr. Browning
performs useful service in making them more
familiar to the general reader. He does not at
tempt to whitewash his hero; he does not ask
us to palliate NapoIeOn's mistakes as the heir
of the Revolution. in the light of his exemplary
conduct young man But he sheds more
light that conduct than is customarily Of
fered by writer's dealing with the greater epochs
In Napoleon's career. and he thus contributes
to a wider knowledge Of historic truth
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13
NAPOLEON.
His Boyhood in Corsica and HIS
Early Training an France.

NAPOLEON The First Phase Some Chapters
the Boyhood and Youth of Bonaparte. ll69-
1888. By Oscar Browning, NJ A Svo. PIP a5-
John Lane.
This volume is appropriately dedicated to Lord
Rosebery. as the author of Napoleon The Last
Phase" and though it is not so cleverly written
it deserves a place beside that diverting book.
The historians have always had something to
say about the beginning and the end Of the most
extraordinary career of modern times. but just
as it was left to Lord Rosebery to throw a
special glamour over the captive Of St Helena, in
a book written in English for a popular audi
ence, so it has been left to Mr.. Browning to ap-
peal In much the same form and much the same
way to readers anxious to know precisely what
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13
FRENCH ORTHOGRAPHY.

From The London Chronicle.
The reform OF French photography moves
slowly. The Minister of Public Instruction ap-
pointed commission. which proposed some
radical changes. The Academy appointed a com
mission. which proposed scarcely any changes
at all-merely the removal of few double con-
sonants. Even these trifieS were declared to
be the bulwarks of French literature. and NJ
Faguet, who was the reporter of this commits
sion. was roundly abused by poets and others
The Minister of Public Instruction is perpleXed
between the two commissions. SO he has appoint
ed third. which, IT is thought viii settle ths
kraf
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13
ODE AFTER RONSARD.
BY A. f J. RAwLINSoN-

By A. f J. RAWLINSON.
Come let us see the rose. my sweet
That clad in purple robe did greet
The mornings sun, all newly blown;
Whether this eve. she still doth wear
That rple-pleated robe and fair
Complexion as thine owni
Alas. alas, a few brief hours.
NV sweet and on the sod she showers,
All me! her petals far and wide!
Nature. thou cruel stepdame, may
So sweet a blossom but one day
From morn to eve abide?
Then. dearest If my song be truth.
Gather the blossoms of thy youth!
All! pluck ahi pluck the fieeting hours
While green the sap and red the blood!
For sure at last shall Age cOrrode
Thy beauty. as this flowers
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13

The other day writer. believing in the in
herent depraVity of editors, played pretty trick
upon one of them to prove that a manuscript
submitted would not even get itself read. To
the third page he fastened a postal order for
twelve copies of previous issue of the journal
20 which he was offering his work. but the whole
bundle came back to him untouched. Where
upon, we infer, he chuckled with unhOIy glee
Let him chuckle. The editors witherS are I'M
wrunS. For the editor has yet to be heard from
who knowing his business, cannot tell from the
first page of manuscript whether or not it is
going to be worth his while to read on to the
end. We like Mr. ShOrter's comment in THE
Sphere on the mares nest discovered by the
aforesaid crafty contributor. Il do not believe
it is possible" he remarks, 'f0r an essay as
good Roast Pig or The Superannuated
Man. for story as good as The Man Who
Would BE King for poem as good, let us say.
as Mrs. MeynelIs 'Renunciation'-if one of these
things were written by an absolutely obscure
writer-tO fail to find its way into print in the
course of 4 few months In other words
there is really no such thing to-day as unrec-
ogniZed talent" How could an editor not ut
terry stupid, help recognizing "The Man Who
Would Be King" for a work of genius by the
time he had read the first page? 1t is poor
rule that won't work both ways
New-York tribune., 1905-08-13
Gbe Nens1Do1:k gribarau& E.
SUNDAY, AUGUST Is, 1905.

Something must soon be done to abate the
dramatizatiOn of police court reports in the
form of the short story, or contemporary hctloh
will get a positively evil name. Crime Stalks
through that fiction with n persistence thlt
would be funny if it were not little disgust
ing. A humorous critic in the London "Ilmes,
aIluding satiricaIly to the resounding phrases
in which Mr.. Swnburnc has dedicated Loves
Cross Currents" to Mr. Watts -Dunton, goes on
10 say with wicked point, Mrs Waterbrook
owned to David Copperfied that if she had a
weakness il was for Blood. 1t was very rea-
sonabIe weakness, and one that no writer
should be without" Nowadays it seems as III
a passion for burglarouS and other criminal
motives were the weakness that no writer
should be without. The villain of fiction is ne
langer Il singular individual turning up only
under special circumstances, and wearing the
unmiStakable stamp of his villany. He turns
I'D everywhere and he is far more likely to look
like gentleman than to look like brute. We
pick up one magazine, and find well known
author making great play with tale of perilous
but successful theft. This is followed by
story about one "Snorkey Timms' and his fell
low practitioners of the gentle art of Peter
claiming" which, being interpreted, means the
Stealing of travelling bags from railway sta
tiOns. This magazine is not exceptional The
criminal hero is to be encountered on every
side He makes most obnoxious company and,
incidentally, he is getting to be a bore
How fond the author of ''Waverley" was of
preface Mr. Nj. h III. Mccartney shows us in
pleasant paper in "LOngman'S." Scott put all
manner of good things into his prefaceS. Ia
them he talks about the legends on which he
based his works. he talks about his anonymity,
ne writes long descriptive passages, and when
he is not discOursing upon fiction in general,
and his own fiction in particular he is CRITICS.
ing the critics. Mr. Mccartney quotes one de-
Iightful illustration of SCOTS scorn of the crit
ical tribe. "And now, We generation of critics,
he says, 'whO raise yourself up as if it were
braZen serpentS, to hiss with your tongues and
to Smite with your StingS, bow yourselves down
10 your native dust and acknowledge that yours
have been the thoughts of ignorance and the
words of vain foOliShneSS." Who would not
write n preface if, in the writing of it, one
might whack the foe after this robustiOus fash
ion? But the preface Il work of art is
dead as Julius Caesar. We can understand why
writer's of fiction give it the cold shoulder.
Scott himself says, 'Most novel readers, as my
own conscience reminds me- are apt to be guilty
of the sin Of omission respecting that same mat
ter of prefaces." But the preface to a book not
Il novel would not go unread if authors were
take little pains with it AS matter OF
fact the modern preface is perfunctory and
odds and ends of information or of gratitude
for assistance received are flung with literary
conscience whatever.
The other day a writer. believing in the in
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-24
REGARDED AS FILIBUSTERS.
Alleged Laborers Bound for Guatemala
Looked on With Suspicion.

The Secretary of State has called to the
attention of the Department of Justice GER
tain movements of bodies of men at Mobile.
Ala. who are believed to be engaged in
filibusterng expedition against Guatemala.
This action has been taken at the sugges-
tion of the Guatemalan government, which
represented that an American port was be-
Ing used as a base of hostile operations
against a friendly nation. and that themen,
who were represented to be merely laborers
going to Guatemala TO develop railroad
concession were really a part of force re-
cruited in the United States to initiate a
revolutionary movement in Guatemala.
The State Department had no means at
its command to learn the facts so 1t called
upon the legal department of the govern
ment to make inquiry and, IL need be. TO
take the necessary steps to nip the move
ment IN the beginning.
II Is learned that the relations between
Guatemala and Mexico are threatened with
I, severe strain, and the government of the
former country is disposed to connect the
revolutionary movement with Mexican ac-
tivities Mexican troops placed on the
boundary between the two countries oSten-
siby to maintain neutrality and prevent
the organiza ton of filbustering expeditions
directed against Guatemala are under sus-
piCion of being intended to invade the
smaller republic and rapid exchange OF
diplomatic notes is in progress between
Guatemala City and the City of Mexico
Meanwhile. following the precedent eStab-
lished during the existence of the last clash
between Mexico and Guatemala over the
boundary line, several years ago, the State
Department has given instructions to It's
agents In both countries to use their good
offices TO prevent the growth OF Ill feeling
between the two countries. and is doing all
that it can properly do here in the same
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HIS MIND AFFECTED.
Special Attorney Fuller Breaks Down
in Chicago.

Leslie Fuller, special attorney of the
Department of Justice, was taken into Gus
tody at Chicago yesterday for an examina-
ton as to his sanity, and the department
mas telegraphed to r. V. LaDow, one of
us onicials now in Chicago, asking him to
took after the interests of the young at
torney Mr.. Fuller was sent west to make
an investigation in the Indian territory of
some charges against a federal Judge He
was on his way back through Chicago when
he suddenly became affected and attacked
a stranger in the streets, both of them roll
ing and fighting in the snow. The two men
were arrested. and a physician recon-
mended that Fuller be held pending an ex-
animation. 1t Is stated here that Fuller
went away from Washington in good
health. but in the last few weeks he has
written TO Charles w. Russell, assistant at
toFney general. who was over him. saving
mat he had been ill and that his head had
been affected. 1t is thought that a case
OF grip had been complicated by a nervous
ATTACK and IL Is expected that a rest and
some treatment will restore the young man
RULER has been in the department several
years. and was appointed from Michigan
ne STANDS we'll in the department and
there has been no reason to suspect any,
thlng wrong with his mind.