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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-11-24

l OOO1J .
The Trego County High school ex-
poets to give a short program at the
school house next Wednesday after
noon.
Don't forget the entertainment
next Wednesday evening and remem-
Der il begins at o'clock sharp, CEN
trail time.
III. L. Olson, was up from Riverside
township Thursday and made us a
pleasant call. He had his name writ
ten there.
We are pleased to note that John
Horak is improving, and his son Ru-
doIph says he will be up and around
in few days.
The Union class for Bible study
will meet in regular session next
Tuesday evening, November 81, at
the NJ. E. church.
Henry Schroeder, who left here the
first of the month for Kansas City,
Kans., for medical treatment, writes
he will be home soon.
The ladies of the Episcopal Guild
have sent out invitations for dance
next Thursday evening to be given in
the new bank building.
hn in he Enfc
copal church Sunday, November 25
at IL a. m. and 8 p. m. Everybody
invited. J. III. Lee, Rector
H. j. Harwi and son Harry left last
week for Hot Springs, Arkansas,
where Mr.. Harwi hopes to recuperate
his health.-Hill City Republican.
Everybody says Wa-Keeney audi
ences are the slowest on earth. Let
everybody prove it lie next Wed
nesday evening. Marvin Williams.
Everybody is cordially invited to
attend a Thanksgiving sage Social"
at Center school house, district 10, on
Tuesday evening, November 81, 1906.
Wanted = Improved and
raw land close to railroad.
List with us and we will do
the rest. Burns & Richard
Joseph Locker, one of the prosper
Gus young farmers of Glencoe town
ship, was a county seat visitor We'd
nesday. We acknowledge a pleasant
call.
Found-In Wa-Keeney near rail-
road track, holdback strap and bit all
new. Owner can get same by calling
at this office and paying for this
notice.
Verbeck & Lucas are agents for the
Singer sewing machine. If wanting
machine call and see them. They
will make you right prices for cash
or time.
Mrs A. B. Jones left for Kansas
City. Tuesday evening. She will 60
from there to New York City to
spend the Christmas holidays with
her son Glen.
| Messrs. Frank King, Joe Keraus
and Frank Hastings went to Ellis,
Tuesday, where they were initiated
in the Council degree of A. F. A. W.
They report a royal time.
Some people say that figures won't
lie, but they do. In our election table
We transferred the figures in Miss
Margaret SwigRett's majority, in
stead of 80 it should read 49,
Commissioner-elect w. F. King was
up from Glencoe last Thursday and
made US brief visit. Mr.. King read
= very interesting paper at the insti-
tuition in the afternoon.
Young man. take your girl to heal
Marvin Williams next Wednesday
evening and give her good reason tc
be thankful. 1t will sweeten hel
disposition and she will dance all tbs
better afterward. Plenty of time fol
= both.
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DAWN o. = NEW DAY.

The world is watching with interest
the EFFORT of Russia to substitute Tor
absolutism a representative form OF
government. Not much IS expected at
once. Policies are not changed IN a
day and while outward forms some
times disappear rapidly in the face Of
revolution much of the old substance
remains for years.
France has been a republic in name
and form for more than q. quarter OF
g. century but much of abselutism still
attaches to the administration Of pub
lie affairs. The state still clings to the
army as its chief safeguard against the
people and the popular will has no
voice in the choice of the nations
head.
Russia is the last of the great ma
tons to yield to the invlncible march
of the army Of human liberty. The
aristocracy dies hard. It has fought
every inch of the ground and its MEM
hers have been assassinated by scores,
but there have always been others to
take their places and brave death
rather than surrender a position which
enabled them to tax the workers for
their own ACKNOWLEDGMENT.
Ignorance and superstition prevail
ing in the dominion of the czar to a
greater extent than in any ether Euro
pean country have rendered the task of
those striving for better things doubly
hard.
The first parliament that ever as
sembied in the realm Of the Muscovite
met yesterday and none can say what
it will do. It is fairly representative
Of the masses and it is scarcely con-
ceivable that the people will not be
the gamers.
If they but have the patience to wait
the blessings of freedom will be theirs
in time. Though it come slowly it will
rest on a firmer foundation than If
acquired by revolution and bloodshed
They can learn more valuable lesson
from Germany or England than from
France.
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TIE SPIRIT OF ADAM.

Opponents OF woman suffrage are
seizing upon the result of the recent
election in Kansas City, Kas., and
making use of it as an argument
against the exercise of the franchise
by the gentler half of our citizenship.
This course can hardly be looked upon
by fair minded people as other than a
manifestation Of the spirit which has
come down to us from Adam. which
tends to blame everything that goes
wrong on the woman.
If the election Of Rose was wrong
and subversive of good government
and respect for law what were the
men of Kansas City, Kas., doing that
they didn't turn out and prevent II?
If they assume to be the embodiment
Of all that is right and true, and just
and noble, they should make good
when opportunity offers and show
these wicked women that while they
have permitted them to exercise the
rights Of voting and paying taxes. they
are not licensed to nullify the law and
fly in the face of the supreme court
Of the state.
It is conceded that about half Of the
women voters cast their ballots on the
side of law and order If the men had
done their duty to the city, the state.
and to themselves as the guardians OF
the public veal by divine right, the re-
suit would have been different.
The election returns show that II
the issue had been submitted to either
the men or the women voters exclu-
sively the result would have been
about the same. Why then should
blame attach to one class more than
to the other?
The suffrage is not conferred upon
women because they are expected to
reform politics. but because they are
entitled to It as much as is any other
class of citizens
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ENDS AS USUAL.

Once more the expected has happened.
The wife Of James G. Blaine, Jr., has
announced her intention of suing him
for divorce. When she married him
five years ago with the intention of
reforming him, her parents and her
friends foresaw the end that has now
come about.
It is only history repeating itself.
Many women before Mrs. Blaine have
made a similar experiment and the
result has rarely if ever been different.
Characters are not made in a day and
once made they do not often change.
especially as the result of marriage
Yet with all the evidence before them
girls continue to initiate Mrs Blaine
and probably will go on doing so for all
time. Parents understand these things
but their advice is usually disregarded.
If young people could disabuse their
minds of the notion that their cases
are different from those of millions who
have gone before. there might be so
few unhappy marriages that the di-
vorce courts would be nearly driven out
OF business.
Much of the marital infelicity in the
world could be avoided if couples con-
templating the formation of a life part
nership would become better aeauaint-
ed before marriage than they usually
do and realize that what they find in
each other during courtship is about
what they will be compelled to endure
after the wedding ceremony.
Some advocates of divorce reform
hold that If separation were rendered
less easy it would cause more hesita-
ton; that people would be more delib-
crate in taking a step known to almost
irrevocabIe. but when it is remembered
that many like Mrs. Blaine reject the
advice of parents and friends, this may
we'll be doubted
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JAYHA WKER JOTS

Military euchre still holds favor as a
popular amusement at Burlington.
Down at Blue Mound the young men
are still accepting positions inst ead
of securing jobs.
The piano contest method Of induc-
ing subscriptions has reached the rural
districts A Manhattan paper is trying
it on the public.
The man With the hotel register graft
has been in Clifton and the editor OF
the News tells his readers what ne
thinks about him.
The La Cygne Journal takes no
chances. In chFonicling the death of a
citizen it says: 1T is claimed that his
neck was broken"
It is a poor country paper that has
not been able to furnish it's readers with
letter from somebody in San Francis
co since the earthquake.
A Manhattan attorney is said to OBJ
ject to Overmyer for attorney general
on the ground that he is lawyer. He
says precedent is against his election.
Hint from Florence Bulletin: Topeka
will have to make a big Improvement
in their hotel and restaurant facilities
if they expect to have an exposition IN
1911.
Dickinson county water has been
so well advertised that it has attracted
has taken over the entire distribution
of it in bottles.
The Ottawa Herald believes it is not
too late to point out the romantic mar
riage of Dave" Mulvane. Of Kansas,
to a wealthy widow in New York as
another victory for organization and
system.
The Burlington City council mas done
its best to make July a dull day. It
has passed an ordinance forbidding the
discharge of firearms of any kind or
fire crackers, sky rockets, loaded canes
or any other noise producing and nerve
shattering devices invented and sold to
small boys for use on the Fourth Of
July or any other festive occasion.
A San Francisco relief committee
was organized at Jewell as soon as
the news of the earthquake came,
and in order to get quick action the
committee shipped a carload of flour,
relying upon the subscription OF
enough money to reimburse It, But
before all the money was subscribed
the news came that San Francisco
had all the aid it could handle. and
the people quit subscribing. The
Jewell relief committee is now holding
the sack about 5000 worth.
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POINTED PARAGRAPHS.

rEron, the chicago News.]
~ 1ass man knows the more sus-
icious he IS.
unatic,s train Of thought IS usual-
w on the sidetrack.
Most people are two-faced and
few are three-faced.
Nothing .pleases an actor more than
q LOT Of strenuous glad hands
when speaking of amusement cir
,4as - 10 nroper to include circus rings.
4 stubborn fountain pen has inter
runted many a mans flow of thought.
Pelieion is a good thing, but it
doesn't cut a very wide swain IN a
horse trade.
He who is away from home most of
the time lodges a lot Of domestic
trouble.
rs all right to while your time
avTav after you have done something
worth while
Even though a woman considers
man a bore she invariably believes
that he considers her interesting
If a man refuses to set the example
he is foolish If he expects the world TO
have a good opinion OF him.
Statistics show that the sooner a
man allows his wife to have the last
word the sooner the controversy viii
end
one seldom realizes how much
worse the world Is growing until he
hears Two old settlers exchanging
"reminiscences.
1t is true. nevertheless. that after 9
woman of 80 has been q widow for si1
weeks she imagines all her married
women friends envy her.
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GLOBE SIGHTS.

LFrom the Atchison Globe.I
After all, how well worthless men
get along.
A spoiled child is almost as hard to
raise as a turkey.
An Atehison hired girl who is quite
old, IS taking singing lessons
Romance is like fire: If you play
with it you are liable to be burned.
The belief is growing in Atchison
that Miss Dayse Wayne Appleton is a
hand holder.
Why don't the cut worms cut dan
deltons, Instead of corn, and beans,
and peas, and other valuable things?
Nothing makes a man quite so i'll
natured as to be expected TO be CRATE
full for something that does not please
him.
one reason that so much informa-
ton is incorrect is that enough people
do not say: II don't know" when
asked a question.
There is a great deal said about love
at first sight; not much said about the
hatred at first offense, which is more
sure.
A business man who drinks in the
middle of the day, attracts as much
unfavorable comment as a girl who
acts bOisterous in a crowd.
People are always hearing that bad
conduct is sure to be punished. It is
true no doubt about 1t. But it is
equally true that good conduct is al
ways rewarded.
How people take notice!'' Don't
forget that they will take a fall out of
you when you give them occasion. And
much in your conduct that you think
all right will not suit the people.
Every boy says his do gwon't bite:
| that, If people passing pay no attention
/ to his barking, they won't be hurt.
Still, people hate to be scared to death
| to oblige boy who insists on keeping
a cross dog.
Ever occur to you that you are call
| ed upon every day to do a lot OF un-
necessary work. in addition to that you
| are compelled to do to earn a living ?
| So many people think they have a
right to work you.
In the novels it is very sweet and
pretty when the man carries off the
/ girls glove, and wears it next to his
| heart. In real life. she remembers
that they cost $1.50 a pair and thai
/ he has spoiled a pair she had counted
on lasting at least three seasons.
There seems to be a impression that
/ the American people are always look
ing for fun. When a farmer an
nounces a picnic at his pasture, he has
a poster printed saying there will be
may not be the slightest prospect OF
fun.
If you had a daughter. and she
to your house to live the day after the
| wedding, would you like It, or would
/ you feel grateful for another son
! People are different about such things
how would YOU feel? Wed fear We
wouldn't ike it.
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I'm going to say something. Yos
needn't mind. as this viii be the las
time that you will ever see me-
The girl seemed about to interrupt
out Whitcomb' gave her no oppors
Tiff were free, I'd do my best
70 make you love me. You are my
ideal Of what a girl should be. That
knowledge can do you no harm. can
It And, as I can't help feeling it.
aHt no more disloyal to that other
girl IN telling than in feeling it. Come.
we must set out for your camp"
But the girl stood still. The lower
ing sun glinted on her beauty until
Whltconb turned away with frm
pressed lips.
-Perhaps-if only she. has for
Whiteomb turned to her curiously,
Would there be-no. I've no right
to ask now
The sweet mouth dimpled. eff that
little girl had lived out of doors for
i've years would you recognize her,
1 John Whitcomb p
Whitcomb put out a trembling hand
and turned her face full into the sun,
A great conviction lighted his face.
Margaret" he cried, Margaret, dc
you love me stIl1?"
Yes" said Margaret. and there was
no sound on the river bank but the
I ripping of the water.-( Copyright
1908. by Beatrix Reade.1
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QUAKER REFLECTToNs.

IFrom the Philadelphia Record.J
Spring poems are being sprung.
The married cynic is generally
anonymous.
A mans nose IS naturally the scenter
Many a vaunted family tree is merely
underbrush.
At least a rabbits foot is lucky for
the rabbit that still has it.
There is quite a difference between
tireless energy and the tiresome kind.
It doesn't take long for some fellows
to make dollar look ike thirty cents.
In the days Of the typewriter the
man who uses a quill makes a goose of
himself.
"Sillicus says a rainy day fills
him with ennui" Wagg-.I suppose
with Sillicus it never rains but it
bores."
When the girl who has read novels
all her life receives a proposal she Is
naturally disappointed that II didn't
happen like it does in the books.
Blobbs=''I tell you. a fellow should
think twice before he marries." Slobbs
Yes. and even then he is apt to Won
der what IN thunder he was thinking
about
Youngpop@'I wonder what my
baby is going to be when ne grows
up p VVigwag-"I should say he was
going to be- a tennis player, judging
from his racket and baWl"
First Suburbanite-'sW are going to
have an earlier train next week" Sec
ond uburbanite=''What do we want
with an earlier train? It will enable
the cooks to leave before breakfast.
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KANSAS cONAENT


The Leavenworth Times is opposing
the election Of Harris on the speciai
ground that Harris IS pledged to en-
fore the prohibitory law, and that ne
Will keep his pledge. while Hoch VIII
not. What do you think of thats There
are several good reasons why Harms
should not be elected governor, and II
Hoch had as much nerve as cotton
tail rabbit that reason suggested Dy
the 1eayenworth Times would not be
one of them. If the papers that be-
lieve in the lax enforcement OF the
prohibitory law keep hammering on
Harris as the prohibition candidate they
win just about elect him. Kansas IS
dead rotten ripe for a reinforcement
campaign, and If the state ever gets
1t clearly into it's head that Harris
means business and viii act some ana
not talk enforcement, he will go In BY
five figured majority. 1t will be just
as well for the cause OF our beloved
governor. If the prohibition talk on Har-
rfs be shunted into the scrap heap
This is not the time to talk of law
enforcement. It would be, however. a
good thing to have little real law en-
forcement, just to keep something go
ing, upon which we could have an is
sue.-Emporia Gazette.
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Fully Diagrammed.

why" asked the man with the
thick eyeglasses and the sympathetic
smile fiuttering about his lips. &C
cording to Judge. why is the Indian
that cooks the dog soup like the old
fashioned bandanna that was worn as
a political badge when Thurman ran
for vice PRESIDENT"
ed the man with the discouraged hair.
The other man repeated the conun-
drum.
Il can't figure it out" announced
the man with the discouraged hair:
ssWhv. it's as plain as day" gurgled
the man with the thick eyeglasses and
the sympathetic smile. Hes a red
cur chef ''-Exchange
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Observations by Bent Murdoch on the
joys Of being a statesman: Cant ex-
pect the hotels in a town the size Of To-
peka to take care Of two or three thou
sand rush in and rush out guests. and
it is not polite to speak unkindly Of the
taverns for not doing it. Not many
years ago Topeka hotel guests had to
get up early to permit the biscuit shoot
ers to use the sheets for table cloths,
while the very men who made the most
noise about the sloppy feed served 70
the delegates at the late convention,
swarmed into the hotel annex and swill-
ed beer from pine board. resting on
the top Of two hard luck barrels. and
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An ..Exclamatory'' Ailment.

A coIored man in the employ of
Representative James D. Richardson,
Of Tennessee, was detailing to a friend
the particulars of a relatives. illness,
when. according to the congressman p
the following dialogue ensued between
the two darkies:
Eyes, street" exclaimed the negro
first referred to, Nose is sure a sick
man. He's got explanatory rheuma-
tism."
"You mean infiammatory rheuma--
tisrn,'' explained the better-informe q
colored man; de word explanatory
Eyes. sir, I knows it does" quickly
responded the other. in a tone Of de-
cided conviction. land OATS Jest what
de trouble is,-de man Jest yells all de
time. Success Magazine.
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REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR,
IFrom the New York Press.I

IFrom the New York Press.
A mans own funeral is expensive
but 1t saves him a lot Of money after
ward.
The amount of work boy puts into
baseball would raise a lot of potatoes
for him to eat.
Every man would be a prohibition
ist II there was as much fun In II as
being the other kind.
A baby IS never as pretty as his
mother says it is and hardly ever as
ugly as the neighbors think.
When a woman gets to a certain age
without any man ever having asked
her to marry him she IS always talking
about what a terrible 5ilt she used
to be.
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ERON OTHER PENS
RUSSIA AWAKENING.

A very assuring thing is contained IN
the following paragraph from a late
st. Petersburg cable:
"A great scandal has been caused by
the premature publication of the draft
of the new fundamental law, or CON
stitution of Russia The emperor has
ordered an investigation to determine
how the news leaked out"
II at this early day real news IS
leaking out, and the authorities are
finding it necessary to threaten a
smelling committee" then is free
press at work and politicians are busy
Russia must be waking up. Enterprise
is afoot. Public sentiment IS BENG
considered, and means are being en-
ployed to reach and shape it. People
with information of value In their pos
session are anxious to spread It in good
time for a desired effect Hence this
sensation and these royal tears.
This is but a beginning. When the
Douma organizes, and the executive
departments under the new order get
busy scoops" in the way OF news VIII
fire many hearts. Politicians with some
thing of interest in their possession will
be anxious either to hide it or expose It.
II to hide it, their anxiety viii betray
them. and in some way 1t will leak out.
If to expose 1t, they viii know where
to place it, and then how to AFFECT sur
prise and help swell the volume OF de-
nunciation.
The car may be deeply offended, but
ures. They either do not find, or they
refuse to follow, the scent. The usual
procedure is to make a terrible demon
stration against the press, flourish a
fine and Jail sentence over every scrib-
bier in reach, ignore plain tracks that
lead elsewhere. and then quit. A great
laundering in the index is all there is
to it. Then disgust and subsistence IN
til another leak occurs, and then an
other fruitless attempt to fix the re-
sponsibility.
The fact is that many Of these leaks
serve valuable public purpose. And
sometimes the worry about them is
largely affected. A good way to in
crease interest in a subject is to at
taeh to it mystery of publication
give it the flavor Of stolen fruit. Then
everybody tastes It, and judgment about
it becomes general
Russia is to be congratulated on at
last having a channel for such state
secrets as should not be kept too long
under cover, and which when offered as
surprises command the proper atten-
ton Washington Star.
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KNEW IT ALL THE TIME.

Miss Tarbell, Link Steffens and Ray
Baker are not so smart as we have
been giving them credit for being.
We could have told them right off,
without suffering that Mr.. Mcclure.
the owner of the magazine. was the
editor of MeClure's. His enterprise
and Judgment made it a great maya
zine before any of these writer's were
known to fame. And he was the in
strument by which they won their
place in the public eye. The great
editor is not always the fine" writer,
but he is always the man with the
broad vision and the infallible instinct
to know what the public taste de-
Hutchinson News.
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never said word. And be it known
that these very same plutocrats We're
delighted few years ago, to eat
sorghum molasses and corn bread from
a red table cloth spread over the top
Of a dry goods box. But then Kansas
must put on airs. when away from
home, even if its breath smells strongly
Of the oniony hash It filled itself up on
the morning 1t left home to be q states
man.