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suls general. While congress did not
authorize in this measure the practical
civil service recommended by Secre-
tary Root, it is understood that the
policy of the administration will be to
adopt civil service methods in future
appointments. Already they have re-
quired candidates for appointments to
pass an examination fully as rigid as
the civil service commission would de-
wise. The president has let it be
known also that after this bill be-
comes a law the appointments in the
future will be only to the lower
grades of consul and that the higher
places will be filled by promotion as
vacancies occur.
There is another reform that has
not yet been accomplished. but which
is being strongly urged by business
organizations and those who demand
that the American consular service
shall be filled by Americans. In an ad-
dress recently submitted to congress
by Minister Barratt on the subject of
Americans needed as vice and dep
uty consuls,'' he tells the following
rather startling facts: OF 60 con-
sulates general, 20, or one-third, have
vice or deputy consuls who are not
Americans. OF 225 consulates, 113. or
half. have vice or deputy consuls who
are not Americans either by birth,
naturalization or residence. OF IL
commercial agencies, nine, or two
thirds. have nonresident vice and
deputy commercial agents. OF six
consulates where the incumbents are
permitted to engage in business. two
have foreign or deputy vice consuls
and one has a consul who is not an
American OF Al consulates and COM
mercial agencies where the officers are
paid by fees and allowed to engage
| in business, 25, or over one-half, have
| vice or deputy consuls who are not
Americans, while in six cases the con-
| suls or agents are foreigners.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28
Danger of Dizziness.

"Dul1ness,'' says a writer, "is re-
sponsible for large amount of human
error and misery. The danger OF dull
ness" he goes ON to say, in a learned
and interesting way, sis the danger of
complacently lingering among stupid
and conventional ideas, and losing all
the bright interchange of the larger
world. The dull people are not, as a
rule, the simple people-they are gen
orally provided with narrow and
self-sufficient code; they are often en-
tirely self-satified, and apt to disap-
prove of everything that is lively, ro-
mantle and vigorous Simplicity, as
a rule, is either natural gift, or else
can be attained only by people OF
strong critical powers, who will, firm
ly, and vigorously, test, examine and
weigh motives, and arrive through
experience at a direct and natural
method of dealing with men and cir
cumstances. True simplicity is not an
inherited poverty of spirit; it is rath-
er like the poverty of one who has
deliberately discarded what is. ham
pering, vexatious and unnecessary, and
has learned that the art of life con-
sisists in disentangling the spirit from
all conventional claims in living by
trained impulse and fine instinct,
rather than by tradition and author
ity. l do not say that the dull peo-
pie are not probably in a way the
happier people; I suppose that any
thing that leads to self-satisfaction Is,
in a sense, a cause of happiness; but
it is not a species of happiness that
people ought to pursue. Perhaps one
ought not to use the word dizziness,
because it may be misunderstood. The
kind of dizziness of high degree, not
only by practical, but even of mental
ability. / know several people of very
great intellectual people who are mod
els of dullness. Their memories are
loaded with what is no doubt very val
liable information, and their conclu-
sions are of the weightiest character;
but they have no vivid perception, no
alertness, they are not open to new
ideas, they never say an interesting or
a suggestive thing; their presence is
load on the spirits of a lively party,
their very facial expression is a re-
Duke to all ht-mindedness and triv
iality. Sometimes these people are
silent, and then to be in their pres
ence is like being in a thick mist;
there is no outlook. no enlivening pros
pect. Sometimes they are takers; and
and 1 am not sure that that is not even
worse, because they generally dis
course on their own subjects with pro-
found and serious conviction. They
have no power of conversation, be-
cause they are not interested in any
one else's point of view; they care no
more who their companions are than
pump cares what sort of vessel is
put under it-they only demand that
people should listen in silence.
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from They are made in all prices
from ten dollars to any amount of
money a person wishes to spend
Modern thing goes long way toward
making CRATE attractive, and thing
for this purpose gets better and
cheaper every year. When pretty tiles
are set with a fitting mantel the de-
sign is extremely pleasing.
But it is the utility part of the CRATE
that offers the strongest inducement
to put one in. Our grandfathers did
not appreciate an open fire because
they had no other means of heating
house. Houses were not constructed
as well then as they are now, and
grandfather was obliged to warm one
side of himself at a time. The proc
ess of turning around, alternately
freezing and thawing his different
sides, tired the old man, and his re-
marks on the subject were well cal
culated to discourage open fires in the
houses of the coming generation, be-
cause what grandfather said was true
whether he understood the subject or
not. Since that time we have learned
how to make a house alright by
means of building and better work
manship, and we have other heating
devices
A fire in the kitchen will take tbs
chill of the whole house in mild
weather and a small fire in the parlor
crate in the afternoon and evening
will attract not only every member of
the family, but several of the neigh
bors who are not fortunate enough to
own a crate. The greatest bid for
popularity when the chilly evenings
of fall and spring come around is an
open fire. Any woman may be So
cial leader in her community il she un-
derstands how to manipulate an open
fire, and is willing to throw in a smile
or two as occasion offers.
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The Prime of Life.

The larger part of the great for
tunes of this country have been accu-
INFLATED after their amassers have
passed 40. In fact, writes o. S. Mar
den, in Success Magazine, the first 40
years of a mans life are the prepare
tory years, the years of training and
discipline. A large part of this time
he is laying the foundation-just get
ting ready to rear the superstructure.
Many of us stumble around many
years before we get into the right
place. and then, for additional years,
we make many mistakes Most men
do not get wise until they have passed
40. They may get knowledge before
this, but not much wisdom. Wisdom
is a ripening process. 1t takes time.
At the age when DIR. Osler thinks men
are becoming useless, Lincoln was
trying to get an appointment as a
land commissioner, and failed At the
same age nobody outside of his own
little community knew Ulysses s.
Grant. He had not then accomplished
anything of note, and yet he 1ecame
the greatest military figure of his day.
Every man makes his own dead line.
Some reach it at 35, some at 40, some
at so; some do not reach it at so;
some never reach it, because they
never cease to grow.
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anu manners They are just like
other folks in their habits of living
Mr.. Beverage said the other day.
Most of them are as regular in their
hours as the Virginia farmers-and
most of them are farmers Practical
ly all those from the Indian Terri
tory follow that.
Probably the star boarder of this es-
adjustment is the chief of the Sene-
cas-, Andrew John. He spends great
deal of his time here every winter in
the interest of his people. The Sene-
cas- are a nation Independent of the
United States, and have made several
treaties with the federal government
Chief John said the other day that it
is a puzzle to the lawyers to determine
just what the Senecas are as a tribe
and what they are as individuals. IN
der the laws of New York they are q
corporation existing by a special act.
The chief tells some interesting tradi-
lions of the Indians. speaking of whom
the other day he said:
Several winters ago some 20 of us
representing half dozen tribes used
to assemble here evenings with inter-
prefers and relate legends of the va
rious tribes 1 was struck with this,
that each tribe adopted as the favor
lite animal of, their tales that most
frequent in its own country
The Creeks and Choctaws, original
ly from the south, were fond of the
'possum and the rabbit Our Seneca
legends have to do with animals we
hunted. especially the deer The ia
vorite Seneca legend is of child of
our tribe that overcame giants and
evil spj- it, The Sioux told tales of
marvellous battles with the buffalo ana
the Chippewas, from northern Mime
sofa. filed their stories with fur-beaE.
Ing animals
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28

Mr. William A. Radford will answer
questions and give advice FREE OF COST
of building for the readers of this paper
On ntbo of hiS he M
without doubt, the highest authority on
all these subjects ADDRESS all Inquiries to
Chicago. ILL.,. and only enclose two-cent
stamp for reply
Three rooms and a hall downstairs,
three rooms and a bathroom upstairs,
quickly describes this house plan.
But every house has a distinguishing
feature There is an endless variety
of features in house building. There
are more combinations of rooms, pas
sage ways, windows, positions of
doors and other necessaries than most
people realize. The distinguishing
feature of this house upstairs is the
number of closets. In all my expert
ence I never knew a woman to have
closet room enough. OF course a
builder cannot bring himself to turn
the whole upstairs into closets, and it
would not satisfy anyone if he did.
But the architect has taken advantage
in this plan of the peculiar shape of
the roof to work in two closets for
each of the front bedrooms and one
for the other bedroom.
Another good scheme in this plan
Is doing away with the upper hall.
You land in the middle of the house
within arms length of any one of the
four doors that open into the differ
ent rooms. There is no floor space
wasted here.
The study of architects for a hun
dred years has been to save room. 1t
costs money to inclose a lot of I'M
necessary atmosphere. and it costs a
whole lot more to heat it every win
ter for lifetime afterwards. Thirty
years ago high ceilings were fash
ionable. A lot of fellows who had
more money than they knew what to
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28

The drainage SO necessary to reclaim
millions of acres will have to be
handled by the government and Rep
resentative STEVENSON, of Minnesota,
has introduced bill for the reclama-
ton of swamps.
1t is estimated that there are 10o.-
100000 acres of swamp lands in the
United States, some 10000 900 of
which have been surveyed and the
great bulk of which would make
splendid farms if the excess of water
were drawn on In the Kankakee
river basin in Indiana and Illinois,
there are 40O, 900 acres of the very
richest bottom lands that are sub
ject to overflow Where they have
been reclaimed through expensive prt-
waite drainage works, they are worth
as high as $3.50 an acre 1t has been
estimated that this whole track could
be drained effectively at cost of not
more than $40 an acre
In Florida, the Everglades alone
would afford an empire of some 7,OOO.-
ginia are vast swamps, among them
the famous Dismal swamp In Illi-
nois there are 1000, 600 acres of swamp
land; in Michigan about 5000, 900; in
Iowa, 100000 acres; in Minnesota,
100000 have been surveyed and there
are huge areas not yet surveyed. The
Stevenson bill demonstrates tnat the
government can transform swamps
into fertile farm lands and that the
settler or owner will pay back to the
government the relatively small cost
of the improvement.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28
Whose Witness?

When Rufus Choate was United
States district attorney in Boston,
says an exchange, three sailors were
before his court for the robbery from
their ship of a bag of specie, and one
of them turned states evidence.
Upon the stand this witness, to a
final question by Mr.. Choate as to
what inducement the others held out
to him to join them, with shame-faced
hesitancy made substantially the fol-
lowing reply:
well, sir, arter feelin' round a bit,
they ses to me, ses they, Come on,
Jack, an jine us. It's dead easy an
it'll make us all rich; so as if we do
git ketched we can hire Choate, an
he'll clear us if they find the money
in our boots-'"
One could never forget the serio
comic expression on that naturally
grave face, as Mr.. Choate, amid sup
pressed laughter, in which both court
and jury had to join, busted himself
with the papers upon his table, and,
turning to the defending consul with
as much dignity as the situation per-
mitted, said: Hes your witness"
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do with built great big expensive
barns with IL or 15-foot ceilings and
called them houses. They had not
money enough afterwards to heat
them properly because in building
they neglected the proper proportions,
and neither they nor their architects
understood the principle of the cir
cu1ation of warm air. These fellows
and their families burned thousands
of tons of good anthracite coal in
their efforts to keep themselves COM
Portable in the winter time. But they
always kept mum about their actual
feelings. After freezing for several
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28
master General

master General Madden says If your
stamps don't stick, don't blame the
post Office department.; blame the
weather bureau. 1t is not the muci-
lage that is responsible, but the pc
culiar atmospheric conditions preva-
lent this winter and spring. If the
little red stamp will not adhere to the
envelope there is no comfort until a
better brand of climate is dealt out
by Chief Moore, of the weather bu-
reau. There is also another trouble.
The post Office department issues two
styles of stamps. the summer stamp
and the winter stamp
Mr. Madden admitted the other day
that there was an unusual number OF
complaints about the stamps not stick
ing, while he said upon investigation
of these complaints were found to be
unjust. For instance" he said,
there is complaint from business
man in New York. We sent an agent
to investigate, and found that in his
establishment man had been in the
habit of wetting the stamp by taking
a big sponge and drawing it across the
back of the sheet of stamps, wiping
the mucilage completely off.
while every complaint we have
run down has turned out to be with
out sufficient foundation, there must
be something wrong or we wouldn't
get so many. The gum is exactly the
same as that used last year, when
there were practically no complaints;
SO the fault can't be there. My opin-
ion is that there is something in the
atmospheric conditions which causes
this
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28

The capitol guide was telling two New
England school-teachers in the senate
gallery interesting things about the
senators below. There are several of
Them he said, that have eaten too
many society dinners and drunk too
much firewater-" .-Oh, how dreadful in
our public men." said one of the teach
ers. But there is Senator Lodge. He
doesn't drink, does he?" "Oh, no. re-
piled the guide. He is a teetotaler- He
even thins his water" Such are the
beguiling tales related by the re-
sourceful reporters OF Washington
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EDITOR

and it can be built for $1,000 to 81 200
under favorable conditions, according
to location. The arrangement of the
kitchen, pantry and dining room is a
model of perfection Where the eel
larway is handy like this and the
business section of the house confined
to nutshell. as in this plan. a, wom-
an can do her own work and dress
for company at two o'clock every day.
There is only one chimney, but there
are three f1ues; one for the kitchen
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rank is that of captain, but who has
been at the head of this bureau since
it was established and has done the
work of three men, will become briga-
der general. This bureau deals with
SO many interests and it's head is the
executive for so many branches of gov
ously considered as deserving to be
raised to the rank of a department,
with its chief one of the cabinet Off
GERS. 1t has to deal with matters in
the Philippines, Hawaii and Porto
Rico and is a little government with
in itself.
Col Edwards, who has been chief
of the bureau SO long is one of the
most energetic and popular officers in
the service He served in the Philip
pines and was on the staff of Gen.
Lawton when the latter was killed,
and he knows the affairs of that archi-
pelago as thoroughly and in as great
detail as anyone in the government.
He has served under Secretaries Root
and Taft and has been the trusted
confidant and assistant to both. They
have relied upon him for information
and for advice regarding the Philip
pines and have trusted the admins
tration of insular affairs almost ex-
clusively to him.
While Col. Edwards is a hard work
er he is also fond of play. He and
Secretary Taft take good deal of
their diversion together in the. way of
horseback riding.
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The Disappearing Eagle.

TIE genuine bird lover will note
with some dismay the increasing value
of the eggs of eagles, as evidenced by
the higher prices obtained each year
for these now somewhat rare trophies
of the collector A couple of eagles
eggs from Scotland have recently
brought as much as 92 ($10) apiece
in the auction room, while a short
time before two Reay specimens real
lied 80 shillings each.--Pall Mau Ga
zette-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28

A special report from the depart
ment of agriculture at Washington
gives interesting information about
food exports from the United States
Among other things it is shown that
the United Kingdom of Great Britain
and ireland is one of our best customers,
and that about half of its meat supply
comes from America There is not
wanting proof that great deal of the
roast beef of old England" once
roamed the prairies of the United States
under the lively supervision of the
Yankee cowboy
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28
Pesky Postage Stamp.

HERE has been
more complaint
during the past
winter about post
age stamps than
has been heard for
years. The pesky
things just would
not stick half the
time, and the pos
t al authorities
have been round
ly abused. Third
Assistant P o 8 t.
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Our Swamp Lands.

DIV that irrigation
has attained so
much Importance
in the west and
attention is at
tracted to the
wonderful fertil-
ity of d e s e r t
lands when water
is turned upon
them, interest has
been revived in
great sections in
the east that have
hoo.
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Better Consular Service.

T LAST there will
be some reform in
the consular Serv-
ice. A bill has
been passed and
is soon to become
a law that reor-
ganiZes this serv-
ice, does a w a y
with all fees and
is calculated to
improve the per-
sonnet of the con-
suls and the con-
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Indians in Town.

y 1HE boarding
house for Indians
kept by B. F.
Beverage, and of
w h i C b mention
was made in these
dispatches recent
ly, there is at
present quite a
delegation of the
red men. 1t is in
teresting to visit
this place and no.
tice their habits
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28
WASHINGTON GOSSIP
COL. EDWARDS WILL BECcME
BRIGADIER GENERAL.
FOR AMERICAN coNsULs.
Practical Civil Service Recommended
Swamp Lands as Well as Arid
Lands Need Attenton-Queer
Atmospheric Conditions

1t
is now the pur-
pose of congress
to give the rank
of brigadier gen.
eral to the officer
holding the posi-
ton of chief of
the bureau of in
sular affairs in
the war depart
ment. This means
that Col. Clar-
ence, whose real
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and untillable because they are COW
cred with water. For every acre of
western desert land which can be sub
dued by irrigation, there is an acre
OF eastern swamp which can be
drained and made highly productive.
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range, one for the furnace, and one
is provided for a CRATE in the parlor
if the parties building the house so
desire. Personally, 1 am very fond
of CRATE. A good crate with a hand
some mantel helps very materially to
furnish a room, and there are thou
sands of mantel designs to choose
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1906-04-28

mornings at breakfast the men ha-
bitually swore in private Their con-
victions were never given out for pub
LEGATION, and they would not have been
published if they were Unfortunate
" when a man with considerable
money starts a fad others follow as
nearly as possible and it becomes a
fashion But the high ceiling house
fashion has completely run itself out.
Honest. conscientious architects have
done their share towards killing it,
for which we should be duly thankful
The size of this house is "a by 81
feet. exclusive of porch; small house
when the size and number of the
rooms are taken into consideration.
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suffer in silence and drift along from
bad to worse, knowing full well that
they ought to have immediate assist
ance, but a natural modesty impels
them to shrink from exposing them
selves to the ques1ons and probable
examinations of even their family
physician. 1t is unnecessary. Without
money or price you can consult q wo-
man whose knowledge from actual ex-
perience is great.
Mrs. Pinkham's Standing Invitation.
Women suffering from any form of
female weakness are invited to promptly
communicate with Mrs. Pinkham, at
Lynn, Mass. All letters are received.
opened, read and answered by women
only. A woman can freely talk of her
private illness to woman; thus has
been established the eternal confidence
between Mrs. Pinkham and the women
broken. Out of the vast volume of
experience which she has to draw from,
it is more than possible that she has
gained the very knowledge that will
help your case. She asks nothing in
return except your goodwill, and her
advice has relieved thousands. Surely
any woman, rich or poor. is very foolish
If she does not take advantage of this
generous offer of assistance.
If you are i'll, don't hesitate to get q
bottle of Lydia E. Pinkham' sVegetab
Compound at once, and write Mrs. Pink
ham. Lynn. Mass, for special advice
When a medicine has been successful
IN restoring to health SO many women,
you cannot well say, without trying it,
a. 1 do not believe it will help me-
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1t matters but little what you think
of a man provided that you do not
think aloud
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STOP,
F. AND CONSIDER
= The ALL
IMPORTANT FACT

IhaC IN ADDRESS,
ing Mrs Pink
ham you are con-
6ding your private
ills to q woman
q woman whose e
ence with women
eases covers q s
many years.
Mrs. Pinkham is
daughter in : law
Lydia E. Pinkhar
and for many years
underherdirection,
and since her de-
cease. she has been
advising sick wo-
men free of charge.
M anu WON en-