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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
uNwRiTTgN PAGE OF HISTORY.
Incident Said to Have Caused Ciay's
Defeat for Presidency.

An unwritten page in the history OF
American politics came to light at the
city hall in Minneapolis when Mary
Hunter, colored. 95 years old and a
former slave, gave her version of the
failure of Henry Clay to be elected to
the presidency of the United States in
1882.
She witnessed the famous banquet
given by the state of North Carolina
to Mr.. Clay at Asheyi1le. Hundreds of
tables were spread under the trees,
and no greater enthusiasm was ever
evoked by political event than was
displayed there. Nearly all the prom
inent men of the south were there,
and the name of Henry Clay was on
every tongue.
His election seemed assured until
cloud of scandal crossed the hori-
zon- Clay. she said, fell in love with
beautiful octoroon, who had been
freed by her master in North Carolina
The secret was exposed a few deys
after the banquet, and for many weeks
the magnificent girl was the object of
all gossip in that part of the country.
my mother knew the girl well,'
said Mary Hunter, land the talk start
ed caused her to disappear. No one
ever heard of her after that"
In order to save the social standing
of those who attended the great feast
the matter was not spread broadcast,
but leading politicians of both the
south and north were asked to pre-
vent Henry Clay from ever occupying
the presidential chair.
How their work succeeded is mat
ter of history in North Carolina, but
when Clay was defeated the subject
was dropped and no one cared to
probe it further.
Mary Hunter went to Minneapolis
when the Sixth and Seventh Minneso-
ia regiments returned at the close of
the civil war. She has worked nearly
every day since she was seven years
old and still earns her living by hard
day work. A short time ago she in
jured her back, and for the first time
in her life, she has asked for charity.
81 must work or 1 will die she told
Edward Ekman, of the poor depart
ment. IF 1 can get little wood and
something to eat for a few days I will
be up and working like 1 always have
done"
Mary Hunter has been employed by
several prominent families, who say
she is wonderfully bright and active
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Clock to Control Liohts.

Consul Albert Halstead of Birming-
ham reports that an automatic gas
controller has been patented and is
now on sale in England which may
materially lessen the cost of public
lighting in the municipalities of the
United States if in practical operation
it fulfills the claims of it's owners.
The controller is said to be adapt
able to any type of incandescent burn
er, to fit any lamp and to be instan-
taneous in it's lighting and extinguish-
ing. The mechanism consists of a
clock which can be so set as to light
the gas each night and extinguish it
each morning, so as to make an auto
matte variation of the time of lighting
and extinguishing according to the
calendar In short, by means of a
chart, the street lights are turned on
and off, lighted and extinguished at
a different moment each day through
out the year, according to the season.
This is an advantage, it is claimed,
over any other controller now on the
market, one adjustment a year being
suffi cient.
1t is claimed that the apparatus
would require no attention except
winding once a fortnight, and that
once set it would not have to be reset
for year. The gas can be turned
on and off in the ordinary way.-Sci-
entif1c American
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
MI0EmmoE Cole

A mother should come to her child's
aid at this critical time and remember
that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound will prepare the system for
the coming change and start this try
ing period in a young girls life without
pain or irregularities.
Miss Emma Cole of Tullahoma, Tenn,
writes:
Dear Mrs. Pinkhan:
&c want to tell you that am enjoying bet
ter health than have for years, and ows
it all to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound.
T" When fourteen years of age suffered al
most constant pain, and for two or three
years 1 had soreness and pain in my side,
headaches and dizzy and nervous, and
doctors all failed to help me.
Lydia E. Pinkhams Vegetable Compound
recommended, and after taking it my
health began to improve rapidly, and think
it saved my life. sincerely hope my expert
ence will be a help to other girls who are pass
ing from girlhood to womanhood. for know
your Compound will do much for them"
If you know of any young girl who is
sick and needs motherly advice ask her
to write Mrs. Pinkham, Lynn, Mass,
and she will receive free advice which
will put her on the right road to a
strong. healthy and happy womanhood.
Mrs. Pinkham is daughter-in-law of
Lydia E. Pinkham and for twenty-five
years has been advising sick women
free of charge.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08

The lands in Barber, Clark, Conan
che and Kiowa are in small tracts and
rough, and may be bought for cash. In
the other counties the public domain
is subject to homestead entry only.
In the districts, besides the public
domain, are 1884 acres of forest
reserve.
Homesteaders are taking the pub
lie domain at the rate of about 5000
acres day. Where there is no home
stead land good quarters are selling
from 81 to Sc an acre. 1t is quite evil
dent that a goodly proportion of home
seekers, coming west on the popular
Semi-monthly land excursions, have
found the country to their liking. AS
a colonizer of western Kansas the
Santa Fee is a success.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Old soldiers TAX of Legislation.

The old soldiers of Lawrence are
anxious about the legislation they
will get this winter. 1t has been de-
cided to ask the legislature to pass
laws to strengthen and make manda-
tory the veterans preference law; to
make a general soldiers and sailors
relief law, making relief more gener-
Gus, dignified and patriotic; to ex-
empt the homesteads of all honorably
discharged soldiers and sailors, and
of their widows to the value of 81 200
from taxation; to give to all members
in good standing in the G. A. R. one
half the fare of regular passenger rates
in Kansas; to make the dissertation of
Memorial day, May 80, by carnival, cir
Gus, or other hilarious amusements
or displays or ball games, horse rae
ing or other sporting entertainments
a misdemeanor, punishable by fine
and Imprisonment; to enact a law
providing for the erection of a state
soldiers and sailors monument; to
make suitable appropriations for the
maintenance and enlargement of the
state soldiers and Sailors Home at
Fort Dodge, Kan, and the Mother
Bickerdyke annex.
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Incapacitated.

AS the extra hand" rose from his
dinner in the farm kitchen the farm
er's son informed him that he was
to pitch hay in the afternoon.
Il won't do it," was his curt reply.
"All right, please yourself. 1t
doesn't make any difference to me, .
retorted the farmers son. MY father
told, me to deliver the message, and
If you don't pitch you'll get into
trouble with him."
Il won't do it for either you or
your father," rejoined the man. You
should ha' told me sooner. At din
ner time I filled myself for raking,
and 1 can't pitch."-Youth's Compan-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08

Mexico has a cactus which grows
toothpicks, another, ribbed and thick
ly set with teethlike spines, which
furnishes the natives with combs;
there is another cactus, the long.
curved spines of which resemble fish
hooks; there is another which is an
almost perfect imitation of the sea
urchin; still another resembling a
porcupine; there is another covered
with long, red hair, which is nick
named the red-headed cactus.
There are several varieties which
serve as timepieces- One of these,
the Cereus nyctica1us, opens its bios
SONS at seven o'clock in the evening
and closes them at seven o'clock in
the morning; another opens at eight
o'clock and closes at eight o'clock the
next morning; another opens at nine
o'clock in the morning and closes at
noon.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
RHEUMATISM STAYS CURED
Mrs. Gotta, Confined to Bed and In
Constant Pain, Cured by DR..
Williams Pink Pills.

Rheumatism can be inherited and that
fact proves it to be a disease of the blood
1t is necessary, therefore, to treat 1t
through the blood if permanent cure
is expected External applications may
give temporary relief from pain but as
long as the poisonous acid is in the blood
the pain will return, perhaps in a new
place, but it viii surely return. Dr. VIII
Iiams' Pink Pills cure rheumatism be-
cause they go directly to the seat of the
disorder, purifying and enriching the
blood.
Mrs. Henry Gotta, of West Cheshire,
Conn, is the wife of the village ma
chinist s.Several years ago." she says,
ssI was laid up with rheumatism in my
feet, ankles and knees. I was in con-
slant pain and sometimes the affected
parts would swell SO badly that could
not get about at all to attend to my
household duties. There was one period
of three weeks during which was con-
fined to the bed. My sufferings were
awful and the doctor s medicine did not
help me.
Zone day neighbor told me about
DIR. Williams Pink Pills and decided To
try them. After had taken them q
short time was decidedly better and .
few more boxes cured me- What u
better, the cure was permanent"
Remember DIR. Williams Pink Pills do
not act OH the bowels. They make new
blood and restore shattered nerves. They
tone up the stomach and restore impaired
digestion, bring hestlthful, refreshing
sleep, give strength to the weak and make
miserable, complaining people strong,
hungry and energetic They are sold by
all druggists, or will be sent postpaid, ON
receipt of price, 90 cents per box. <iz
boxes $3.50, by the Dr. Williams Medi-
cine Co., Schenectady. NY.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
The Scotsman's Diet.

For centuries the chief diet of the
Scotch people has been oats in some
form or other. AS a result they are
to-day the strongest, both mentally
and physically, of any nation in the
world. The best rolled oats made is
Quaker Oats, and our readers can now
get large family package for Csc,
and with each package, free, a beauti-
full piece of imported china. Ask your
grocer to-day for family package Of
Quaker Oats.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
jew Writer of Humor.

Sholem Alekihim, Russian writer
who has just arrived in this country,
is regarded as somewhat of a liter
airy anomaly among authors of the
Hebrew race hailing from the cars
domain, being a humorist His real
name is Sholem Rabinovitz and he
lived in Kief when the anti-Jewish
riots took place there. After a long
time in hiding he reached a seaport,
where he eventually managed to take
ship for this country. He was edu-
Gated for a rabbi, but his humorous
turn was too strong and he took to lit
erature.
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Tried by Court Martial.

E. G. Moore, a member of a Topeka
post of the G. A. R., is on trial be-
fore court martial for s1andering P.
H. Coney, commander of the Kansas
department of the organization. Moore
and Coney have been enemies for a
number of years and the quarrel was
conducted in the open this summer
when Coney was a candidate for COM
mander of the national department of
the G. A R. Moore is said to have
attacked Coney in circulars issued dur
ing the meeting of the national en-
campment. This is the first court
martial ever held by the Kansas G.
A R
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Out of the Livery Business.

Herbert Loomis of Stockton, has
sold the telephone exchange at that
place and purchased thirty horse-pow-
er Cadillac and will go into the auto
livery business. This makes two autos
at Stockton engaged exclusively in
the livery business. They are very
successful and with another machine
would about put the liverymen out of
business SO far as travelling men are
concerned. They make two trips to
a neighboring town while the livery
men are making one One of the ma
chimes recently made the trip from
Stockton to Plainville, up grades, in
55 minutes.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Great Amusement Park.

Kansas City is to have the greatest
amusement park in the west 1t will
be a stock company and will be capt.
salized for $4,000 This amount will
be expended in purchasing the ground
and other preliminaries incident to
getting the location in readiness for
the concessions, which will be equal to
any in the United States The park.
when completed, with all the amuse-
mept features incident to the up-to-
date carnival attraction, will probab-
lv represent a cost CT 100000
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Anti-Germ Phones.

In an English telephone the con-
struction is such that the mouthpiece
is omitted altogether, thus obviating
the possibility of transmitting dis
ease The receiving and transmit
ting apparatus is combined in a small
metal case, which is held continu-
ously to the ear both in speaking and
listening This instrument is so deli
cate that it is not necessary to con-
centrate the sound waves on it by
speaking with the mouth close to the
receiving diphragm-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Porter Had Change.

Chevrolet, the automobilist was
talking of American railways They
are superb" he said Abroad we
have nothing like them But the ex-
pense. On my way down to Florida
/ said to the porter as the time drew
near for us to part: Porter, you have
been very attentive and 1 want to
give you something, but have NO
change Then 1 took out $40 bill
from my wallet Certainly, SIR the
porter answered, pulling out a larxe
roll of money How viii you have It,
sir? In fives?'"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Sugar from Sweet Corn Stalks.

Prof H W. Wiley, of the depart
ment of agriculture, believes that the
stalks of sweet corn might be made
to yield sugar of the best quality
They contain much more sugar than
those of the common field corn, and
the sugar content is at its maximum
at the time when the ears are pulled
Sugar, of course. is readily converted
Into alcohol, and, inasmuch as each
100 pounds or stalks will yield 6h
pounds of absolute alcohol, it is easily
seen what a good thing the farmer
has been allowing to go to waste.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08

and a comparatively untried region.
which they, taught by and following
the methods of their fathers, will
make prod uctive and habitab1e. Al
ready, they have harvested crops of
milo maize, kaffir and sorghum. and
next they will harvest their first
crop OF wheat, which always is the big
crop for these Russians 1t was their
big crop in Russia, and so it is in
America. They will also plant al
falfa, orchards, broom corn, small
fields of Indian corn, and the inev-
table garden patch Except the gar
den stuff and the fruit trees, all will
grow without artificial irrigation. For
the garden and the orchard, it is only
20 or so feet to water, and a wind
mill or two will do the rest.
The writer of this has seen grown
on the upland, by Will and Robert
Austin, II miles south of Syracuse,
this season, wheat that will thresh out
thirty bushels to the acre and Indian
corn that will shuck forty. The same
land grows all the other cereals in
abundance.
Carl Kaesler, on the farm adjoining,
has a garden patch, watered by two
windmills, which produced, in great
abundance this year. cabbage, toma-
toes, sweet potatoes. Irish potatoes,
parsnips, carrots, gherkins, beans,
cauliflower peanuts, pumpkins,
squash, watermelons, .canteloupes, and
so on to the end of the garden king
dom. In this garden, square of one
tenth of an acre produced forty bush
els of Irish potatoes. The same soil,
properly cultivated, would produce
peaches, cherries, etc, and surround
ing the house is a thrifty growth of
locust, box elder, and other trees pc
culiar to the altitude, where 1900 or
1900 hens find shelter.
The Austin boys began eight years
ago with $3.50 cash and two home
stead quarters. Since then they have
bought four more quarters, and it
all is under cultivation, or in pas
ture- They have good houses and fine
stone barns and sheds for their stock,
and besides hundreds of chickens, tur-
keys, geese and ducks, they have ITO
head of steers and yearlings, 80 pigs,
II horses, and so on Mr.. Kaesler has
eight quarters, which he has accu-
INFLATED in ten years, similarly Gull
uvated, improved and stocked. Late
~ he has made chickens a mainstay,
selling the eggs only, and they yield
him revenue of from $12 to SIS
week He is connected with town,
as are his neighbors, by telephone, and
when dealers or other customers want
eggs they "call him up The Austin
boys and Mr.. Keasler are not alone
in prosperity here; their neighbors
are doing equally well. Their post
Office is Syracuse
Homesteaders, following the exam
pie of the Russians, are fast taking up
the public domain of this dodge
City, land district. July 1, 1906,
there were 415,20S acres, subject to
sale or homestead entry, in the dis
trict, distributed by counties as fol-
lows.
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Marshall county's Corn Crop.

The average corn yield in Marshall
county this year is 40 bushels to the
acre. The highest yield yet reported
is SIS bushels and the lowest is 33.
Assessors return at the county clerks
office show that 2O4,1 acres of Mar
shall county land were planted in corn
this year, which will make the yield
for the county 8,166,200 bushels. This
is worth s2,449,s $50 at the present price
of 80 cents a buShel.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
An Ancient Invitation,

Come, Let Us Eat the Fathers
Soup Together" is a form of invita-
ton still used in eastern countries.
According to tradition the forbidden
tree from which our first ancestor ate
was the compliant, and when he was
expelled from Paradise the angel
Gabriel supplied him with food. Adam
not being instructed in the art of
bread-making, boiled the corn and
made a soup of it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Robbed Dentists of Gold.

A burglar broke into two dental Of
fees at Leavenworth, that of DR.. @.
G. S. Nichols and that of DR.. B. E.
Nelson. The burglar took about $3.50
worth of gold and bridge work at DR..
Nichols office and s12 worth at DR..
Nelson's. DR.. Nelson was robbed a
year ago. This is the fourth time in
three years that dental offices here
have been robbed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Gets "conscienceu Money.

County Treasurer w A. Pierson, of
Coffey county has received a contribu-
ton to the county's conscience fund in
the shape of two five dollar bills
wrapped in a piece of letter paper
bearing only the words Back Taxes
Conscience This was enclosed in
a blank envelope and that enclosed in
another envelope and mailed at Santa
Barbara, Cal.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Killed While Hunting Rabbits.

William Clutter, resident of Bridge
port, died as the result of a gunshot
wound received while hunting. Clut-
ter. with three companions, was hunt
ing rabbits, when Clarence Peck, one
of the men, fen and his gun was dis
charged, the bullet entering Cutters
abdomen
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Mcdonald Held Without Bail.

D. D. Mcdonald, charged with the
murder of John Walkenbach was given
his hearing in the city court at Leav-
enworth and bound over to the De-
cember term of the district court. He
will be held without bail. Mcdonald
Is the Kansas City contractor who
shot and killed John Walkenbach of
Leavenworth after quarrel over
money matters.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
citv superintendents Meet

The first annual meeting of the AS
sociation of City School Superintend-
ents was held at Emporia. The asso-
citation is confined to superintendent
of cities of the first and second class
and was formed in Emporia last June.
Supt. l. d. Whittemore of Topeka is
president and Supt- L. D. Lowther of
Emporia is secretary.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Dynamited a "JointD Building.

A building just outside the corpor-
ate limits of Conway Springs, which
has been run for several years as
Joint and gambling house, was blown
up with dynamite. The building was
empty at the time. An injunction
against it's use as a place for sale of
lntoxicants was recently granted by
The district court.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
The Duet.

Tippler Cat club)-Doesn't the still
small voice reproach you when you
tell your wife a lie about being at the
Officer
Rounder-Yes, but it's a choice be-
tween the still, small voice and loud,
big one-Boston Transcript.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Saved from tine FLAMES.

eff all the deeds of dog heroes came
to light an account OF them would fill
many Volumes says Chums.
"a gentleman who owned a pair of
very fine horses possessed also a St.
Bernard dog which was deeply at
tached to the animals. One night
Bruno, the dog, awakened the family
by furious barking, and it was soon
discovered that the stables were on
fire.
THE owner unlocked the door,
dashed in, and at great personal risk
released one of the frantic horses and
led it out He then found that it was
impossible to return for the other, ow-
ing to the violence of the flames. At
that moment he was astonished to see
his dog appear leading the horse, the
end of the halter rope dangling be-
tween his teeth.
Investigation showed that the St.
Bernard had actually bitten the rope
through in order to save one of its
friends from SO horrible a DEATH"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
The twentieth Gas Wen.

The Good Speed Oil & Gas company
Of Kansas City brought in three and
one-half million gas well one mile
southwest of Mound City This makes
the goth well of that capacity drilled
in that vicinity in the pact three
years.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Consolation.

Mr. Hussel-The doctor says If /
don't take a little rest and not work
50 hard III be dead IN year.
Mrs Hussel-What consolation it
must be to you to know that your life's
insured
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
A kansan Started 1t.

H. A. Perkins, of SearchHght, New,
who discovered that that towns S1,0S5
remittance to- the San Francisco re-
lief fund was unaccounted for and
whose persistence in the matter led to
the uncovering of vast frauds by Reuf
and Schmitz, is an ex-Kansas editor.
Years ago he published the Olathe
Mirror and afterward for eight years
he was editor of the Manhattan Ma
-tiOnaliSt.
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The Kansas Nearly Complete.

The new battleship Kansas is prac-
tically completed and will be given
her trial trip December z. The Kan
sas is building at the yards of the
New York Ship Building company at
Camden, N. J. November / the con
strucsors reported to the navy depart
ment that she had reached the 93-1
per cent stage of completion and that
she would be finished by December
l. The course she will go over ON hel
trial trip has not been selected The
new ship will be fitted as a flagship
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-12-08
Schools Teach Gard Playing.

Schools Teach Gard Playing.
Card playing has become SO general
among German women of the upper
classes that regular lessons in play
ing are now given in fashionable
boarding schools for girls.