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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
MR.. JOHNSON NOT TO BLAME
Good Old Lady Understood How the
Mistake Occurred.

There is a good old lady who cannot
resist speaking well of all her ac-
Quaintances.
On Thanksgiving day she told the
colored man who did chores about the
place that he might go into the barn
yard and help himself to chicken.
The man obeyed with alacrity and was
most profuse in his thanks.
In the course of a few days the
lady's husband informed her that on
Thanksgiving day neighbors had seen
Mr.. Johnson seize two choice hens
from the coop.
II did tell him to take one," con-
fessed the lady regretfully, but, you
know, dear, how intensely Mr.. John
son celebrates the holidays Why, he
simply cannot help seeing things dou-
BILE"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Women Who Write at Home.

About one woman in 100 keeps up
her music after marriage, although
they may have passed years of their
own time and spent many dollars be
longing to their fathers in study. The
number that drops OF in art is even
greater but writing has fascination
difficult to resist. A great deal of the
writing done by women comes from
homes, more or less comfortable and
happy. Much of it is the kind not
easily duplicated and it would be nom
sense to compel such women to forget
their talents. Many a son has been
fitted for his life work by the ability
of his mother to earn money at q
steady rate
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
CURIOSITY AROUSED.

do 1 want party liner" snapped
Mrs Harker, with much emphasis
mo, indeed! Why, the idea! wouldn't
think of having one
Don't blame you, madam" replied
the telephone solicitor, with a sly
wink at the milkman. Party lines are
very embarrassing. When you go to
the phone to call up some one you are
likely to hear Mrs. A. telling Mrs B.
all the latest gossip of the neighbor-
hood. Then you will hear the butcher
telling Mrs. z. how much she owes
him and what he is going to do if she
doesn't pay him.
NGraciousi"
Not only that, but you can hear just
what MISS x. says to her beau during
lunch hour and what old man Smith is
telling the pretty widow down in the
apartment house and-but what is the
use of wasting time? You don't want
a party line. They are too embarrass
ing GoOd-day, madam, +"
But Mrs. Harker had him by the
arm.
Come right back" she said, firmly,
''and take my order for a party line.
What if it is embarrassing? We all
have to stand embarrassments some
imes.''-Chicago Daily News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
THREE BOYS HAD ECZEMA.
Were Treated at Dispensary-Did Not
unprecedented Five Months
Perfect Cure by Cuticura.

my three children had eczema for
five months. A little sore would ap-
pear on the head and seemed very
itchy. increasing day after day. The
baby had had it about week when
the second boy took the disease and
a few sores developed, then the third
boy took it. For the first three months
took them to the N Dispensary
but they did not seem to improve.
Then 1 used Cuticura Soap and Cud-
cura Ointment and in few weeks
they had improved, and when their
heads were well you could see nothing
of the sores. Mrs. Kate Keim, 512
West goth St, New York. N. Y, Nov
1, 5 and Z, 1906"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
BEES MAKE FRUIT GROW.
Honey the least of the Profits from
Busy Insects

Honey producing is only one of the
missions or the bee Indeed, for actual
profit, the honey is but "a minor item
Some years ago 1 moved to a small
place up the Hudson river. / wanted
bee farm and selected for that pur-
pose spot among apple, cherry and
plum trees, some of which had never
borne fruit, others none for years
past My landlord told me I might cut
down certain trees, as they were
worthless, and he intended putting
out some fine nursery stock.
Being busy I did not cut the trees
down They blossomed freely and of
course we paid no further heed to
them than to break blooms by the
armful when we wanted floral deco
rations.
The cherry trees were, much to the
owners establishment, loaded with
very large, perfect fruit. He could not
understand it; such a thing had not
happened for years.
Early in the autumn while waiting
for a swarm of bees to settle 1 OBJ
served a number of fine apples upon
one of the smaller condemned trees.
When the landlords attention was
called to them he was completely mys-
tilted and called in his neighbors to
see the wonder.
Later we gathered from this tree
nearly a barrel of the finest fall pip
pins ever seen in that vicinity.
No argument would convince the
man that them pesky bees" had any
thing to do with the yield of fruit on
the place. He insisted that some sort
of fertilizer must have been used.
Since that time have demonstrated
by scores of experiments that trees
which had for many seasons borne lit
tie good fruit, or possibly none at all,
have been brought up to a high stand
ard of productiveness by the presence
of bees. They carried the pollen, fer
tilted the blossoms and a bountiful
harvest was the result.
Regardless of the honey crop, every
fruit grower should have a few col
onies of bees. If when the bloom sea-
son is past there is so little nectar in
midseason flowers that the bees must
be fed it is decided economy to feed
them, as in cases where a strict ac-
count has been kept the cash value of
orchard products alone has been
doubled by their NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
an Life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Noun. Mckinley. pirieurtie..

In mountain climbing the world
over the climber usually arrives fresh
and unfatigued at the base of the
peak he wishes to storm, and as a rule
begins his ascent at high altitude
On Mount Mckinley, as described by
a writer In Outing, it is the opposite.
There are rs miles of rugged foothills
and glaciers to be crossed-with
heavy packs-before the base of the
mountain is reached. and then the
climber is confronted by Is, 900 feet of
rock and ice.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
HolIsnd,s Queen pomlneerlno.

Hollands queen, Wilhelmina, has ex-
allied notions of her royal authority.
She is said to interfere in a most per
sonal way with the conduct of Dutch
foreign relations She looks upon the
Dutch colonies as, in some sort, the
private appanages of the house of
Orange. Her prodigious personal pop
ularity with every class Of her sub
jects saves her from some of the con-
sequences of her unconstitutional ten
denotes
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
When You Don't Need II.

Ever notice it?'' queried the install
ment Questioner
Did 1 ever notice what?" asked the
man at the other end of the dia-
1Ogue.
That as long as you don't want to
borrow anything you are always bump
ing into people who want to lend you
something?" continued the party of
the prelude.-Chicago News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

The mean thing"
What now, Jeanette?"
why. 1 told him / was going to
have a birthday cake with a candle
for each year
And what did he say7
What did he say? Why, the horrid
man said he thought 1 should use
dozen or so electric lights, as might
exhaust the candle supply "-Chicago
News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Y9A. o ~ 1DzkAl
Still IS
Fireproof.

Fireproof.
You say your husband frequently
gets overheated?" Intercepted the po-
lite clerk in the haberdashery. Then
perhaps you had better get him eel
1uloid collar
NO" replied the wife of the irri-
table merchant, II think one of ashes
tos would suit him better
Asbestos
Yes; you see. his clerks say he
Is always getting hot under the col
lar "-Chicago News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
AHronted.

You do not have much success In
making social distinctions over here"
said the European.
That's fact" answered Mr..
Dustin Stax. When l think of the
way a man who receives only the
paltry salary of a judge is permitted
TO talk to a man with my income, it
makes me burn with indignation-"-
Washington Star.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Too DANGEROUS to Be True.

Hezekiah-I won't deny that l sent
a substertoot when 1 wuz drafted dur
in the war;-fact is, I'm proud Nv it!
That there substertoot told me hisself
that he killed more'n a hundred an
fifty rebelsi
Obadiah (dryly)-I've heerd that
substertoots wuz dangerous but you
can't make me swaller that yarni-
Puck
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Nice of Tom,

"Yes,'' she said, 81 always like to
go out with Tom
But" her friend replied, ''he seems
so stupid. He hardly ever says any
thing"
81 know. Still 1 can sit and tell
him my troubles by the hour and he
never lets me know by word or sign
that he is being bored. ''-Chicago Rec
ord-Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Asked and Answered.

How long have you been married 30
asked the friend who had just re-
turned from trip abroad.
six months" was the reply
And how does matrimony strike
your" queried the other.
''Oh, like a good many of my ac-
quaintances-for money" answered
the ex-bachelor.-Chicag News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

And Vet, They Make Fun of Them.
Mr.. Foggy London-What causes
the delightfully."- clear weather you
have in New York?
Mr.. Man NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. dear
boy.-Life.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Put Him Out.

Married him just as he was get
ting over a long souse, didn't she? p
"Yep-caught him right of the bat
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
His'n.

Patient-f you'll allow me to speak
that tooth you insist upon pulling is
not the one that aches.
Dentist-Confound it, sir-who's do
ing this job-you or me?-Harper's
weekly.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

B1obbs-He's a hot1headed individ-
ual, isn't he?
Slobbs-Hot-headed? Why, that fell
low is so hot-headed that he has 10
wear a stove-pipe hat in midsummer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

There is no debtor in the world SO
honorable-so superbly honorable-as
love.-Henry Drummond.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Money in II,

He noticed the purse of her lips.
And his love fiared up like 8 rocket:
said the broken-down sport,
This maid I shall court
Perhaps there's a purse in her pocket
Chicago Daily News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

It makes the mind very, free when
we give up wishing, and think only
of doing what is given us to do
George Eliot.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
The Natural Result.

Wheat is going up now, isn't it?"
remarked the casual reader of the
papers.
Yes" replied the young specula-
tor with d chuckle.
Its the wheat just now that's be-
hind the dough- - Baltimore Amer
lean.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Miss Sue Brette-Thev saw

Miss Sue Brette-They say your
performance was a real treat
Foote Lighte-So it was. My au-
dience was made up entirely of dead
heads 1t was my treat-Yonkers
Statesman
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Ins and Outs,

1t does seem strange, without a doubt.
In this great race for tin.
A man Will never be ..all OUT
Until he is all in.''
Chicago Daily News.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

Smokers have to call for Lewis Singl
Binder cigar to get it. Your dealer G
Lewis Factory, Peoria, Ill.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

FITS, st. Vitus Dance and all Nervous
Diseases permanently cured by DR.. Kline S
Great Nerve Restorer. Send for Free s.. 90
.rial bottle and treatise Dr. R. H. Kline.
Id. 93l Arch St Philadelphia. Pa
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

Mrs. WinsIew's Soothing Syrup.
For children teethfng softens the gums reduces
nammstion aiays pain, wind collie. 25c bottle
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

RED CROSS BALL BLUE
Should be in every home. Ask your groc,
Tor it. Large 2 OF. package only cent
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

A man can do no wrong-after the
undertaken gets him.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
nnOSQuitOeS

Cttiman-Aren't the mosquitoes
pretty thick?
Landlord Soakem-No, rather thin.
I should say, but they'll fatten up
some when we get few more board
ers, 1 guess.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
Leg Pulled.

What makes Bjenks walk so
lame?"
He spent his vacation at the sea
shore. Sentinel
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28
To Farmers Everywhere
Why Work Yourselves to Death Trying
to Make Living.
Land Fertile and Grows Enor
mousy Profitable Crops With Little Labor
Read This Carefully.
Enid, Oklahoma, April 10, 1907.

Enid lahomaA
Ny Dear Atacosa County ranch and spent
sin looking S
fIandI wase 1 did
helsda andh black with
but no blow sand.
foundtb land all IN a
Ii nion, is
handas n sell for $50
wensth Isawan drank, was
l edoneo of New Homes Sweet
the views shownb n j
of
unty this is 70
climate ndo the in
bevery lac to answer any one
selling from 10 to $40
of
DR., c. r. SIMMONS,
AIanno San Antonio, Texas.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

Virtue is bold and goodness never
ul.-Shakespeare.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

Il am going to ask a great favor of
you." she said. hesitatingly.
1t is already granted" he an
swered. devotedly.
A very great favor" she repeated.
as IL doubtful of the propriety of stat
ing it You're sure you won't think
1t presumptuous or forward in me?"
Never" he answered. Il glory in
this evidence of your trust and conf
dence. Only tell me what 1 can do
for you
Wen. she replied, with evident re-
luctance. would you mind getting up
on that rustic bench? Papa painted
1t this afternoon. and he will be awful
~ provoked if he has to do 1t over
again."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-09-28

-. Guide. contains Ks for sale
exchange with owners address, Want farms and
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
PUT IN GOOD LieHT.4
One Comforting Thought in the Death ,
of the Chickens.

lady who had recently moved to
the suburbs was very fond of her first
brood of chickens. Going out one at
ternoon she left the household in
charge of her eight-year-Old boy. Be-
fore her return a thunderstorm came
up. The youngster forgot the chicks
during the storm, and was dismayed
after it passed to find that half of
them had been drowned. Though
fearing the wrath 10 come, he thought
best to make a clean breast of the
calamity, rather than leave it to be
discovered.
Mamma" he said, contritely. when
his mother had returned, mamma, six
of the chickens are dead"
'Dead!" cried his mother. six!
How did they die?"
The boy saw his chance.
II Think think they died happy"
he said.-Harper's Weekly.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
Farmers Fight to Death.

Liberty, Mo-, Aug. 25.-As the
elimination of a neighborhood feud
of much bitterness and long stand
iIg, John Porter Stollings was shot
and killed in the streets of Liberty
about noon Friday by William J.
Sewer, during a duel in which Stol-
lings with club, and Sewer with a
gun, fought until the former fell, dy-
ing from three bullet wounds. Both
were prosperous middIe-aged farmers
living about two miles from Chandler,
five miles northeast of Liberty, In
Clay county.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
A MOVE FOR Two-cENr FARES.
sion Will Bring the Subject
Before the Board.

Topeka Kan, Aug. 25.-Frank Graf
AN, attorney for the state board of
railroad commissioners, Friday an
nounced in a signed statement that
he will at once file complaint with
the board for an order that the rail-
roads establish a fiat two-cent passen-
ger fare in Kansas. The complaint
will probably be filed Saturday.
Mr. Grattan indorses Governor
Hoch's message. He thinks that If the
board makes an order and the roads
do not obey, the governor should con-
vene the legislature in special session,
so that Kansas can get the benefit of
a two-cent fare while litigation is on.
After the complaint is fled notice
will be served upon all of the defend
ant railroad companies. who are given
ten days in which to answer. The
date of hearing is then set. and ten
more days notice given, which will
make the hearing probably twenty
days from Saturday. The board will
then, if the evidence warrants it, make
an order.
Mr. Grattan's action stops all spe-
cial talk for at least a month or more.
All of the railroad commissioners are
at their homes and Secretary Sinner
will not talk.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
No Chance in Policy Now.

Provincetown, Mass. Aug. 21.-The
laying of . the cornerstone of the
Cape Cod Pilgrims memorial mon
ument Tuesday gave President
Roosevelt his first opportunity of the
summer to break silence upon pub
lie questions, and the 40 minutes
speech which he delivered from a
platform on top of Town Hill, was
one of vigor and directness upon
matters of national importance. The
feature of his address was his ad-
vocacy of a national Incorporation
law and his stand in relation to vio-
lators of the law, especially corpora
lions. With emphasis he declared
that the administration would not
waver in its determination ito punish
certain malefactors of great wealth, /"
continuing he said:
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
TO BRING A COUNTER SUIT
Labor Interests Propose an Action
Against Manufacturers.
Mr. Gompers Asserts a Conspiracy
Exists to Crush Organized Labor
Might Disregard Injunction.

Washington. Aug. 22.-FoIowing a
meeting of the executive council Of
the American Federation of Labor
Wednesday. President Gompers said
that most probably the federation
would bring -counter-suit against
the National Manufacturers associa-
ton, charginls that body with conspir-
acy He stated that the association
recently met in New York with the
object of devising means for the in
jury of organized labor and that it
has been made evident that there is
to be concerted effort against that in
terest.
Mr. Gompers in an interview We'd
nesday CHARGE that the recent Van
Cleave injunction proceedings against
boycotts and publication of unfair
! is were instigated by the Manu-
facturers' association which, he said,
recently decided to raise 81 500, 900 to
crush organized labor. Mr.. Gompers
added:
The executive council of the Am
erican Federation of labor decided
Wednesday that the case to be met in
the courts shall be taken on the
broadcast scope. The justification of,
or exercise of our rights sought to be
enjotned are not illegal or unlawful,
and we will continue to assert them.
we know we are within our legal
rights and we propose to exercise
them regardless OF personal conse-
quenees.
so far as 1 am concerned, wish
to state this, when it comes to a
choice between surrendering my
rights as a free American citizen or
violating the injunction of the courts,
do not hesitate to say that l shall ex-
ercise my rights, as between the
two"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
AN AMERICAN UNION.
Mr.. Choate Has a New Plan for Al
lotment of Judges for lnterna-
tonaI Court of Justice.

The Hague, Aug. 26.-Joseph H.
Choate is working on new plan for
allotment of judges for the interna-
tional high court of justice, under
which the representatives of the Unit
ed States and those of all the Latin
American countries will form one
group. This plan, it is believed,
will dissipate any feeling arising from
the previous proposed allotment over
the lack of equality of any state in the
representation of the court
This union of the whole of the Am
erican continent, it is considered,
would be of great Importance not only
in the establishment of the court, but
as a great political move, rallying
around the United States as it would,
all lne states of Central and South
America. >Such a plan would insure
the court the immediate adhesion of
81 countries.
Adding to these countries Germany,
Austria, France, Great Britain, Italy,
Japan and Russia, which are also IA
vorable to the proposition, this would
give the court the adhesion of two
thirds the countries of the world, with
out taking into account other coun-
tries whose support is most likely,
such as the Netherlands, Spain, Tur-
key and Switzerland.
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
METHOD IN HIS soLlclTUDg.
WilIie's Deep Interest in Playmate's
Health Explained.

This story is well in keeping with
the spirit of the age, says the New
York Tribune. A Bronx man tells it
about his little boy. The neighbor's
young hopeful was very i'll. and Willie
and the other youngsters. in the block
Mad been asked not to make any noise
in the streets. The -neighbor's bell
rang one day and she opened it to ind
Willie standing bashfully on her front
steps.
How is he to-day?" he inquired in
a shy whisper.
He's better. thank you, dear, and
what thoughtful child you are to
come and ask"
Willie stood a moment on one foot
and then burst forth again, I'm erful
sorry Jimmy's sick
The mother was profoundly touched.
She could find no further words to
say. but simply kissed him. Made still
holder by the caress, Willie began to
back down the steps, repeating at in
tervals his sorrow for his playmate's
illness. At the bottom step he halted
and looked up. IF Jimmy should die, -
he asked, kin 1 have his drum?"
Free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1888-1908, 1907-08-31
Lynchinq Gases Dropped.

Springfield. Mo-. Aug 26.-W. R.
Self, prosecuting attorney of Greene
county, has dismissed the ;ynching
cases which have been hanging fire In
'h;E county. He stated tina. it was Inn
possible to secure witnesses The
lynching or taree neg, IS in Spring
fiolC occurred Easter lcorn;rG 1906.
The negroes were burnel TO death.
Twenty-three indictments of n 4mberS
of the mob followed and two arrests
were made.