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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
MEN BUSY CLEANING AND
PAINTING WHITE HOUSE

THE White House will be spick and
l span, on the outside as well as in
side, when the presidential family re-
turns from Oyster Bay next fall.
twenty painters are now at work on
che old building.
The White House is constructed of
Virginia sandstone, which is exceed
ingly porous. Mrs Adams, the first
mistress of the presidents house, as
it was then called, complained bitter
ly to her friends of the coldness and
dimpness of the building during her
frs. winter there. There were no
stoves or other heating apparatus ex-
cept the large CRATES in the executive
residence then. and the roads were so
muddy that wood In sufficient guam
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
PRESIDENT ORDERS CUT
IN CANAL ZONE EXPENSES
NJ AsHINGToN-By direction Q


w ASHINGTON.-By direction of
w the president there is to be an
other reorganization of the isthmian
canal commission. This time the
principal branch of the commission
affected will be that in Washington.
which has been executing the orders
of Chief Engineer Goethals with
reference to the dispatch of labor and
supplies to the canal zone. Now,
however, the president has given inn
perative instructic- hat the most
rigid economy c, emit with the
highest degree of efficiency" shall be
the policy. AS a result an order has
been issued abolishing the auditors
Office and placing the work of auditing
the accounts of the commission under
the auditor for the war department
The purchasing business will be in
trusted to an officer of the army.
Joseph Bucklin Bishop of New
York, who has been in charge of the
Office here since the reorganization
some months ago, may proceed to the
isthmus and perform the duties of
secretary there. The advisability of
this action is now under considera-
ton. The president has stated en-
phatically that Mr.. Bishop must be
retained at his salary of $4,000 per
annum. David R. Ross, purchasing
agent, and Ernest S. Benson, general
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20

and luxury! According to the depart
ment infant mortality varies between
% per cent. and so per cent.
A celebrated doctor of the Assist
ance PubIfque has declared to the
Academy of Medicine that in Paris.
infant mortality varies between five
and 80 per cent.-according to the
mode of feeding and the care given
the infant
Convinced of the startling truths of
the Nancy experiment, the founders of
the Abatement Maternel are demand
ing money to do for all the poor or
working mothers of Paris what my
shirt factory is doing for it's hands
and what the "Baby's Smile is doing
for the mothers of Nancy-giving cash
for babies.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
CONTROVERSY OVER THE
FAIRBANKS BIRTHPLACE

Much was made of a picture in
the book representing the house in
which Mr.. Fairbanks was born. AS
the house was burned few years
after his birth and no picture had
been taken of it, Mr.. Fairbanks at
the request of Mr.. Smith (my father)
made a rough pencil sketch from
memory which was dressed up for
publication This, Mr.. Smith says,
is all the connection Mr.. Fairbanks
had with the picture.
In the autobiography Mr. Smith
says Mr.. Fairbanks was four years of
age when the cabin was burned, and
Indianians are pointing to the asser-
ton that Mr.. Fairbanks can sketch
with accuracy building that was de-
stroyed when he was four years old
as a demonstration of his wonderful
memory
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20

chances of employment? Certainly
it was but yesterday that unencum-
bered girls had preference. Now girl
mothers, even, go before them!
Rooms Always Waiting.
1 saw the babies in the shirt fac
tory's nursery, 140 babies from three
years Ga few among the eldest) down
to three weeks. That was three
weeks ago. There must be new
ones. Because this extraordinary
shirt factory has three sunny bed
rooms always waiting at the DISPOSE
ton Of prospective mamas.
A capable young doctor is employed
by the year to spend half his time
in the nursery. Ten maids manage to
do all the work, including every
baby's daily bath-this with the help
of mothers, who have the right to
slip in four times day, ten minutes
each, in alphabetic order; and the 80
minutes aggregated outside the visit
of the lunch hour are not deducted
from their pay.
What does the factory give the
babies?',, 1 asked the young doctor.
''Sterilized, non-tuberculous milk
when their mothers cannot nurse
them; all their first baby clothing,
baths. hygienic surroundings, medical
attendance, pure air, sunlight, warmth,
safety-quoi, the only things a baby
needs! Apart from these things the
establishment favors mothers!"
"How2''
Had you seen two girls 1 saw last
week, you'd be surprised" he an
swered. Both were marriages at the
Marie, very affecting; but as 1 assist
ed at the preliminaries of one in par
ticular, 1 have conceived a great adj
miration for the proprietor of this
factory. To look at him you would i'm
agine him a hard-headed, cynical bus
mess man, you would certainly have
been astonished at the tact and pa
thence he employed to persuade a way
ward youth to make the mother of his
babe wife. q refer to the youths
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
When a Friend. Isn't Wanted.

Women are getting more and more
opposed to shopping with their
friends" declared a little saleswoman
in a Euclid avenue dry goods store
Saturday. I heard one woman say
here at this counter while ago that
the better she knew a woman the less
she cared about having her along with
her when she is shopping. She said
that if they were intimate. her friend
knew enough about her already with
out knowing what she paid for every
thing she wore Plain
Dealer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
stiIt Mourning.

$50, Bob Smiths lost his wife. Is
he getting over his grief YETI"
Not yet, I'm afraid. You know
how slow some insurance companies
are In settling up"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20

Paris.-There is a tragic hole-in-the-
wall in every ward of Paris.
1t is a kind of low window, without
glass, in the side facade of the local
public charities establishment. Look
ing at 1t, you perceive it ends in a
closed wooden box, movable and dis
connected with the wall inside. 1t
looks like a dumb-waiter or dish-ele-
vator.
1t is umb-waiter-not for dishes,
but for babies! Up the dark side
street there comes a wretched mother.
What shall she do with the infant in
her arms? She has reasons not to
answer questions. She shrinks from
investigation. Shall she put baby on
a doorstep?
No; everybody in Paris is aware of
the strange, sacred holes-in-the-wall of
the Assistance Publique.
She waits until there is not a soul
in the dark side street. She walks
up TO the dumbwaiter. 1t is at the
height of mothers waist
She shifts baby to it. She hesitates.
1T must be done. She pulls bell rope.
No bell is heard; but the dumb-waiter
slides to one side-and the baby dis
appears,
TeIHdpS the poor mOLner STANDS ana
looks a moment at the hole. All she
can see is just another waiting box
space-the size OF another baby. 1t
is waiting for another baby. But, in
side the Assistance Publique, she
knows her infant is already warm and
fed and cared for.
There, inside, a bell is ringing.
Dringi dring!
Saving Life For France.
Hey, there, a baby's come! Dust!
quicker than that calls the greffier
from his little Office. Nurses fit to
the hole in the wall-there is a life
TO save for France. They lift the
sliding box's lid; and baby looks up
at its new protectors.
1t is the oldest, most primitive, and
for a great class of cases-the only
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
The First Six Weeks.

The First Six Weeks.
France will do tiff only on the
evidence of the "Baby's Smile of
Nancy.
why did I stipulate for first de-
lay of six weeks?" explained Prof
Herrgott the other day to a rich and
influential Paris audience. And why
is the work called the 'Baby's Smile?'
First, because infant mortality is most
frequent between the ages of one day
and six weeks. And, secondly, be-
cause it is during the sixth week that
the first smile appears on baby's HpsI
do you not know that? Well, when
a mother has fed baby at her breast
until the epoch when she sees that
smile appear, baby is saved No
bottle for him, He will not be aban-
doned either by mother or breast"
"On condition that the mother has
the means to keep her baby with her"
interrupted one of the vice presidents.
What are $50 bills for?" snorted
the professor. Senator Plot is right.
Every mother is a creditor of the
state. Pay your creditors-it is always
a good investment. Yes, pay cash for
Understanding Heilig in New York
Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
Senator Plots Good Work.

In the French senate there is a man
who already forced the general gov
eminent to begin handing good money
to families of five children. This is
Senator Edme Plot, highly remarka-
BILE personality.
Son of a Burgundian family so poor
that he was kept from school to work
in the fields, he broke stone on the
highways and worked over all France
was taking small contracts on his own
account; and he finally became the
greatest of all French railway con-
tractors.
Becoming very rich, Senator Plot
has made himself famous throughout
all Burgundy by a special kind of
iberality-the financial helping of
poor parents.
Actually he is the great authority
on depopulation; president of the
senate committee relative to subsidies
which the law already permits to be
granted to communes for distribution
to families of five and more, and au-
thor and untiring pusher of a bill for
the subventioning of every mother of
a newborn child.
You ask working mothers to
suckle their babes for a full year
to give you population" he says.
What have they the right to ask
of you? Cash, CASH. Give cash for
babies,''
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20

babe, of course). Two philanthropists,
a young widow and a discreet retired
business man, friends of the boss,
spend their time visiting the homes of
our work women and girls"
How are those with babies IA
vored?" l insisted.
Aided to Responsibility.
Secretly. Winter Jackets The coal
supply attended to- The landlord
tranquilized about the rent-and in
doctrinated of his duty not to dis
criminate against children in his
house. Furthermore, he is informed
that the girl-mother is at once mans
victim and the states creditor In
stead of being cold-shouldered, she
should be aided-to marriage, when
possible-but always to hold up her
headi'
Howl
We'll, what is the matter with sup
plying her with a filled-gold wedding
ring to display on the proper finger?
And why shouldn't her landlord in
struct his ianitor to speak of her as
a young wife whose energetic husband
has preceded her to Algiers, there to
found a home? Or, If she prefers, a
widow? We are not hidebound par
usans of the impossible, like the
Societe de la Charlie Maternellei"
That rich and powerful society
first of its kind to help young mothers
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20

chances of employment? Certainly
it was but yesterday that unencum-
bered girls had preference. Now girl
mothers, even, go before them!
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-20
Paris Takes Up Work.

fariS ! axes Up WoTR.
In Paris the work has I
up by the Abatement Mate
Mothers Nursing-to VIII
last ten years of his lif,
Perier gave much of his en-
considerable sums of N
which Senator Plot would !
lect as a nucleus for his or
in which the state is to pa
the babies.
You have doubtless heard
depopulation; but only q
bring home to you the lon
result of concentrated Fren
tion-mingling stresses Of
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
The Color Line Among Plants.

Ine COlOr Line Among FIoute.
 Did you ever see a blue rose, a pink violet. or a yellow clematis7 A red gentian, yellow sage. or a blue rhodo- dendron? The florists art will some times so far overcome nature as to give us yellow hyacinth or a green monstrOsity called a rose. but In state of nature you might,as soon OK pect to find haired baby. or a kitten with a green coat, as a flower violating the color line" of its race. Why 1t Is we know not, but any two of the three colors. blue. yellow and red. seem to exclude the other one. We have roses in all shades of pink. rcd and yellow. but never blue; morn- ing glories in all shades of blue and pink. but never yellow; iris. blue and yellow. but never red. Apparent cx- captions to this law. as in the lilies and orchids. are due to the fact that plants of related families or genera are often confounded together in the pop ular mind. as the lily and amaryllis. or clover and lucerme. But when left to themselves. you may take 1t as an established rule that flowers of the different color series rarely or never cross their color line. It is only by violence. and against Its will. that the hyacinth can be made to forsake its native blue and red and take on sickly yellow hue. or that the psnsy will exchange its purple and gold for an unnatural red. Does this stead fastness of the flowers contain no les. son for us?
 The commonest of all flower colors, is yellow, the rarest and most highly evolved, blue. Red Is the favorite of hummingbirds and many butterflies.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
Flowers sandF FZower Gro.vers Official Organ of Montgomery Flower Growe Association.

Nature has her favorite color scheme TOT each season. In spring. and suni- mer, 1t is white; in autumn, yellow. The other day I made a trip to BaI- ttmore on one of the fast trains. and even while dashing along at the rate Of a mile minute. 1t was still pos- stble to recognize many old friends of the fields and roadsides by the flashes of color they gave forth as the train sped by. l was pleased afterwards to find some of them exposed in the scarlet milkwecd. or butterfly plant, and the Indian pink. vied in beauty with the daintiest products of the gar den. The fields and meadows were white with wild carrot. better known as Queen Anne's Lace" while the ox-eye daisy, the feathery meadow rue. the wild chamomile, and the creamy yarrow, could all be distin- guished by their peculiar shade and texture. in spite of the rapidity of the train.
 By and bye all this will be changed. when the asters and goldenrods and wild suntlowcrs begin to appear. and nature makes ready to lay aside her summer robe of virgin white and put on her autumn splendors of purple and gold. Already gay clusters of black eyed Susans are beginning to cast their bright glances at the passersby. the St. Johns wort and wild fox gloves are assembling their saffron hosts, and the great dingy-white pani- cies of the sCmach are taking the place of the milk white hawthorns and blackberry blossoms in the copses [ nd hedgerows E. F. Andrews.
 Washington. D. C., July 23. 1907.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04

How much time have we," said Marcia as they started out. Mir Kerr warned me that you had probably allotted a certain time to our walk and that this must not De exceeded"
 Kerr" said Fabian viciousiy, "suffers from softening of the brain. We are 1koing to make this walk just long as we possi- biy can"
 Marcia laughed her ripplIng laugh that seemed to Fabian the most divine music hs had ever heard; but she returned to the sub Ject again when they had reached the Falls and were sitting the messy bank for . rest.
 Impulse is better than system" she de- clared. Now suppose that you had not fol- lowed impulse. but had gone into breakfast I should have lost a delightful walk"
 The argument is most potent" he said gravely. Behold in me . backslider from system"
 ''Tims will tell" she declared. We shall see."
 But time told strongly In Fabnn's favor To hasten the cure he went to an opposite extreme. Instead of the most regular life he led the most cratic existence aided and abetted by Marcia. The day before his re- turn to town she declared his cure com- pIete.
 You have not done a single thing today at the time you usually do it." she declar- ed as they leaned over the bridge that span neu the tiny stream and iet thefr eyes fe3st upon the moonlit landscape. You did not even have dinner.'
 "Yes. the cure is complete" he said. 'T think rather like doing what want to do instead of following a well ordered plan. But you have gotten me into worse trou- ble."
 Marcia did not answer. Her eyes follow ed the ripple of moonlight across the water and the hand that rested upon the railing gripped the wood more tightly.
 You should ask what the trouble is" he said after a moment. Then should tell you that instead of a schedule the most important thing in life Is you. You have lifted me out of my humdrum existence into the new world of love- dear. Is there hope that some day my love will be returned ?-
 T think had better say yes she said with happy little laugh. Tt will ensure the permanency of the cure"
 And do you love me a nttle?" he asked humbly.
 soft little hand stole into his. ..Dick, dear" she said softly. Why else should 1 have worked so for your cu-e?"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
Distinguished Americans.
Life.

spssfsr snd presiden,ai hack ~ritsr Also canal digger. trust buster and all around sport This young man began when the country was republic. He inherited ha. ted 2 splendid constitution. put of walking on railroads and. not sat- ished with this. frequently jumps on them He is not good at arithmetic and can not even count beyond three. His principal amusement is raiding Filipino Funerals,". "Extingnished Ca. nal Engineers" and Leonard Wood" Favorite motto: Uneasy lies the head
 Bryan. W J. A dlstnguished and exentigutshed presidential impossibil- ity who first created an enemys coun- of 1t that he could afford to become the editor of paper. This gentle man took the remains of the Demo- cratic party and getting them firmly death' Since then Wall street has looked up and prosperity has spread It's rich, warm mantle over every mag nate in the country, at times almost rubbing Its fringe even against those who are too poor to know how to be dishonest and too proud to steal any wa way Alter successfully .aTha playing & in President of Nebraska" he travelled in Mexico and Europe. unlearning every thing he did not know about the silver question. and has since then become anywhere west of the Missouri river. Principal occupation. nursing a vain hope. Author of Every Cloud Has a silver Lining ,o, Teddy Bsar s,nt, Batting, can lead q donkey to water. but you can not make him think"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
siIk Schools In Lyons.

Writing of q silk school in Lyons called the Ecole Superieure de Com merce United States Consul Covert says: Tt receives pupils from foreign countries and teaches them the entire silk business, from the raising of the worm to making the designs, weaving the silk and putting 1t upon the mar ket While the pupil is learning to make silk he can also acquire thor ough knowledge of the French lan- guage. A two years course of study includes loom and weaving instruction, commercial law, political economy, bookkeeping and modern languages. At the end of the two years study the graduate never has any difficulty in ob- taining situation in one of the silk houses of Lyons"
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
ROyul Author.

Princess Fedora of Schleswig -Hol- stein. the youngest sister of the Ger man Empress is the author of nov el recently published in German. en- titled. Hahn Berta." She has TO- mantle history, having declined all of fers of marriage since the tragic death of her fance, Duke Frederick of Meek lenburg- -Schwerin. who. while In conn mand of a torpedo boat, perished in the Baltic with the entire crew.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04
They Will Have To Kick.

Marion County News.
 The News desires again to say that taxes are too high, and too much money ia heinz foolishly expended. The Demo- cratic masses will not much longer stand the burdens put upon them without doing some vigorous kicking
The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-08-04

Japanese spies are bobbingt up in unexpected places all over the Nworid sketchingf Notifications.
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-15
VIRGINIA OBITUARY.

Harrisonburg. David Shirkey
died at his home at Linville, this
county, of old age. He was ninety
three. He is survived by three sons
and two daughters.
Miss Ann Elizabeth Landes, aged
twcnty-three, daughter of J. II.
Landes, of Stokesville. Augusta
County. died as tho result of a
stroke of paralysis Besides her
parents. she is survived by four
brothers and four sisters.
Luray.-Capt. T. J. Keyser. aged
about seventy-nine years, died at
the home of his nephew, John A.
Brumback. in Springfield district.
this county. When the war broke
out. Capt. Keyser was living i'm Cali
Cornia, but Immediately moved back
To this county, where he organized
a company and served throughout
the entire war
The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1907-08-15
VICIOUS DOG BITES FOUR.
Animal Killed After Lacerating
Three Women And Boy.

Richmond. Especially Mrs. John
Krause lies dangerously wounded,
and her son. Albert. is said in a pre-
carious condition as the result of
attacks by a ferOcious bulldog, the
same animal which on Saturday at
tackled Miss Julia Rye and her sis
ter, the latter of whom was severely
bitten by the animal.
The animal first made an attack
upon the boy, who was severely bit
ten in the thigh, the dog retaining
his bold on the flesh until beaten
or with a stick.
MRS. krause was explaining the
accident when the dog came crouch
Ing to her feet. The woman did
not suspect that the animal meant
harm until he jumped for her waist.
He sank his teeth deep into her
flesh, tearing the clothes from her
body from the waist down. He was
hnaliy beaten. off with a stick.
Tie dog was killed after having
ma&e several attacks upon the agent
of -the Society for the Prevention
of Cruelty of Animals, who had been
summoned.