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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

If everyone concerned would keep
In mind the fact that an angry dog is
not mad dog, 9,999 times out of
every 10000, says Cleveland Leader,
1t would contribute much to the pub
lie comfort in times of hydrophobia
talk
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Happy AlfonsoI His castles In
Spain seem to have materialized very
felicitously.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

The car says he would be willing
to die if he could make Russia happy.
Why doesn't he try moving away?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Prof. Jim Jeffries has turned down
an offer of $4,000 and expenses to
fight Prof Bill Squires. 1t impairs a
mans usefulness to society to be too
rich
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Stolypin, the Russian premier,
seems to lead a charmed life, and, in
spite of plots and counterplots, may
live to write his "reminiscences.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

They are not saying much down on
the isthmus. just now, but the rec
ords for digging are going up and up,
month after month. The canal is
coming and coming fast
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

With a contract in his pocket under
which he will be entitled to draw
s2Oe, 900 year, for four years, Caruso
might build himself a whole ZOO" of
monkey houses.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

The man who referred to it as the
merry month of May is generally sup
posed to have been poet but he was
probably satirist.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

A New Jersey woman has recovered
a verdict of 81, 500 against the Erie
railroad for injury to her voice. She
must have proved that the road
cracked it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

An arraignment in court of a young
woman who has attempted suicide is
assuredly not calculated to make her
take a roster view of existence.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Once in while the voters get bus,
and elect an honest man.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

If so, use Red Cross Ball Blue. 1t will make
them white as snow. 2 OF. package cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

THE American Indian never
laughs" says the London World. Go
on-we know some in this town that
seldom do anything else.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

The prince of the Asturias has not
yet arrived at the stage where he VIII
grow strong by eating Spanish onions
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

In England the manufacturers of
bicycles are almost as prosperous as
the automobile builders. Is this a
revelation of British slowness or just
proof of common sense?
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

There are times when the still,
small voice of conscience seems to
come from the big end of a mega
phone.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Finland is thinking seriously of try
ing woman suffrage and the abolition
of the liquor traffic. Either would ere
ate commotion enough in almost any
part of Europe
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

That Berlin laborer who has been
Jailed for making faces at the kaiser
should restrain his feelings till after
dark
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

From a legal point of view Methu-
selah has held the age so long that
the statute of limitations prevents any
successful attack on his title.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Census bureau figures indicate that
some women work until they get mar
ried, then secure divorces and go back
to work
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

The cantaloupe will soon be here
and then you will have to gamble
whether it will be good or bad when
you buy one.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

Clear white clothes are sign that the
housekeeper uses Red Cross Ball Blue
Large OF. package, cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13

A boost when needed is better thar
. pull that isn't
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
TWO TERRlzLE YEARS.
The Untold Asonies of-NesIected KID
ney Troubles.

Mrs. James French, IS Weir Street.
Taunton, Mass, says: when began
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-07-13
H. s. GIvLER. Pub.

May was almost as pleasant as De
cember-
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The Farmers Opportunity
$4,000 Acres in the ''Garden Spot of the World"
is Now Being Opened Up to the
American People.
Dr. Chas. F. Simmons Just South of San Antonio
the Market.

will $780, payable SO
the flower ten months in
balny and glorious sunshine
month
the Where the climate is SO mild that the Northern farmer here
pract
rapidly
andyi
ter az hey do in
hard to have In
dol han in anyc in the
built for than half
sunstro N
and Throat
fruits
the water Is pures tandpl
Churches OF all denouf
fnadons plentiful
is so
of a
DR.. CHAS. E. SIMMONS,
25 Alamo Plaza. ANTONIO, TEXAS.
OF no MONEY TILL CURED
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WHOLE NO. 1899.
"a Small Thing"

Do you believe In progressf Do
you believe that all the wonderful
achievements OF the nineteenth cen
tury-the railroad, the telegraph, the
telephone, electric light, kerosene.
sewing machine. agricultural machin-
cry. steamships, trolley cars, etc.
have made life easier and better
worth living7 I do. 1 believe that a
man who lives forty years under
modern conditions has experienced
more life and better life than Methu-
salem, though he had lived twenty
centuries OF his time.
The triumphs OF the nineteenth
century were triumphs of human SER
vice-the placing of knowledge and
the fruits OF knowledge within the
reach OF the common man. Every
mans life is better. happier. more Sc
euro because OF them. We live moro
comfortable, more sociable lives in
better and more comfortable houses
because OF them. Even the hopeless
dweller in the worst city slums Is
more comfortable in his physical con-
ditions than the middle-class citizen
OF the days Of George Washington.
In little things as in great, comfort
and convenience have been the leg
acy Of the Century OF Improve
ment." Paint, in a certain sense, is
minor matter, yet It gives beauty,
healthfulness and durability to our
dwellings. Fifty years ago painting
was serious proposition, a luxury
for the owners of stately mansions
who could afford the expense Of fire.
quent renewals. To-day ready mixed
paint is so cheap, so good and so uni
versal that no house owner has an
excuse for not keeping his property
well painted.
small thing. indeed. yet several
hundred large factories employing
thousands OF chemists and skilled
workmen. are running every day In
the year to keep our houses fresh,
clean and wholesome.
small thing, yet a can Of good
ready mixed paint, such as one may
buy from any reputable dealer, en-
bodies the study OF generations OF
skilled chemists, the toll OF q thou
sand workmen in mill. laboratory and
factory, and the product OF a long
series OF special machinery invented
and designed just to make that can
OF paint and to furnish us an infinite
variety Of tints. colors and shades.
1t was a wonderful century, that
nineteenth OF our era, and not the
least OF its wonderful gifts was that
same commonplace can OF paint.
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As Pat Explained II.

Mike and Pat worked for a
wealthy farmer. They planned to
turn burglars and steal the money
which the farmer had hid in one Of
the rooms of his house. They waited
until midnight, then started to do
the job
In order TO get the money they
had to pass the farmers bedroom.
Mike says, I'll go first. and If it's
all right you can follow and do just
the same as l."
Mike started to pass the room.
Just as he got opposite tho door tho
floor creaked. This awoke the
farmer who called out, who's
there?"
Mike answered with meow"
Initiating cat. The farmers
wife being awake, too, said. "Ob,
John, It's the cat" and all was
quiet.
Now Pat started 70 pass the door.
and as he got opposite TO It the
floor Creakod again. Tho farmer
called out again, louder than before.
Who's thero?'
Pat answered, Another cat
Buffalo Times.
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The Mighty Hairnin.

The wife of a Kansas farmer, so
the story goes, got tired of asking
him to fix some .hilgs about the
house that needed fixing, and one day
after he had come home from town
she told him she had done the work
herself.
And you know" she said, "the
drawer that was locked for over a
month, and which you said couldn't
be opened except by a locksmith?
Well" triumphantly, 81 opened it,"
Well, well! How in the world
did you do it,"
With a hairpin. And the oven
door," she continued, has been Slip
ping around on one hinge for ever SO
long just because you were too lazy
to fix it; but it's all right now"
well, I'm glad you had it fixed. "
Had it fixed! I fixed it myself
with hairpin. And then that crayon
portrait of mother, that stood in the
corner for almost six solid weeks, be-
cause you never would bring me any
picture hooks-I got it up with a
hook l made myself-out OF hair
pin"
Well, well" was all he could say.
and there's Willie. You've been
coaxing him and bribing him for over
a year, trying to break him of biting
his nails, and ] broke him in a
week "
with a hairpinl" he muttered
meekly.
MOI" she snapped Don't be a
goose! With a hair brush! kan
sas City Journal.
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thoroughly familiar with Il, who have
Seen working upon just those same
gaps for years, and he has to be n
clever man, indeed, who can step In
to such field and nll the gaps. He
may waste his whole lifetime at
tempting to do so and never be heard
Of and never make enough to keep
the wolf from the door.
1T seems to me that it would be
poor policy to advise a young man to
earn his living in so precarious a
fashion. 1t would be better for him
to go to work along some line in
which he shows an aptitude, and his
inventive genius (if he has any will
crop out because of the fact that he
will see where the chances Of i'm
provement lilo in his particular work,
and thus there will be suggested to
him the ideas which his inventive
genius will be able to put into some
practical form"
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RaIsIna GLOBE by EIeetrieltx.

BY spreading currents from a stats
tical electrical machine over plot of
growing carrots Professor Lemstroem
of Helsingfors, according to b. Tolks-
dorf in the Leipsic Illustrirte Zeitung,
has increased the yield by 80 per cent
during the first year and 80 per cent
in succeeding years, as compared with
similar plots not electrically treated
On small parcels OF land experiments
with potatoes, the currents being gen
Grated in the earth by means OF cop
per and zinc plats sunk at intervals
and connected by insulated wires
above the growing vines. have record.
ed an increased yield OF from go to
100 per Cent.-New York Times.
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A Pioneer Of ELECTRICITY.

The learned Ampere-whose namo
is used more frequently every day in
these times Of electric traction-has
been dead for seventy years. and a
memorial tablet in his honor Is short
ly to be unveiled at Lyons He is
probably better known to most of his
countrynen for his absence OF mind
than for his scientific achievements.
He it was Though Newton is often
said to have done the same thing
before) who cut big and a little
hole in his door for the cat and the
kitten to go through. He 1t was who
dipped his biscuit in the inkpot and
thought the wine rather bitter; who
while examining the markings on a
pebble took out his watch to look at
the time. but put the pebble in his
pocket and threw the watch away.
There are scores of such tales about
Ampere. He indeed thought little OF
anything but his scientific pursuits,
neglecting his health and his for
tune and leaving behind a legacy
without which half the electrical in
ventious of to-day would have been
impossible. He certainly merits a
commemorative tablet. 49, London
Post.
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Grasshopper Glacier.

One of the small glaciers in Mon
tana is of especial interest on ac-
count Of the fact that i'm the mass Of
ice there are imbedded two strata Of
grasshOppers. each about a foot thick
There are literally tons of grasshop-
pers in the ice. and the question nat
urally arises as to whore they came
from. The most obvious explanation
is that centuries ago two enormous
swarms in course of migration were
caught I'm a snoWstorm, chilled and
buried i'm the snow, where they have
remained till now in a perfect state
of preservation In tho accounts OF
the early western explorers a few i'm
stances are related of meeting large
sw0rms of locusts on the mountain
tops in the Rockies. It is a very for
tunate circumstance that the great
extension Of agriculture I'm the West
has broken up the breeding grounds
of these insects Country Life i'm
America.
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SAGE OF NEW LEBANON" DEAD.
Milo Mead Gave Away Nearly 81 ,OOO,.
600 to Perpetuate His Hobby.

Milo Mead Gave Away Nearly ST 600.
600 to Perpetuate His Hobby.
Milo Mead, known as the Sage Of
New Lebanon" a Greenwich Conn. }
philanthropist, who has spent nearly
$1,OOO,0OO on public improvements
during the last few years, died at his
home, at Bryan Shore, recently, after
a short illness. He was eighty-twO
years old
Mr.. Mead was born In East Port
Chester in 1924, in the house which
he occupied during his entire life.
He was descended from one of the
original settlers OF Greenwich, and
was a great-grandnephew OF General
Ebenezer Mead, a noted Revolution
airy commander He inherited about
$50 acres OF land in what is now the
centre of the thriving village OF East
Port Chester.
Mr.. Mead's one hobby was to have
East Port Chester known as New
Lebanon" and to-day the inhabitants
are about evenly divided as to whether
that or East Port Chesteris the proper
name for the place. In the vicinity
all sign posts are duplicated. Wher-
ever one points to East Port Chester
another beneath it points to New
Lebanon. These sign posts were
erected by Mr.. Mead.
The sum which he gave to the COM
munity and to various societies and
enterprises for the words New Leb-
anon" is thought to have been nearly
$1,00O,000. He gave a large tract of
land for a public school to the town
of Greenwich, with the proviso that
it should be known as the New Leb-
anon School. He gave another large
tract to the Danish Society with the
same proviso. He has brought many
new enterprises into the town, often
giving the land or selling it at a re-
duced rate If the firm would use New
Lebanon in It's business. He was
noted for his wit and his pointed ar
ticles on public matters in the public
press.
Much Of his landed estate will
probably go to the town for a New
Lebanon park.-New York Times.
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DREADNoUGHT DESCRIBED.
Hngland's BIZ Battle Ship BrisNcs
With Forty-two Great Guns.


The first official announcement re-
speeding the British battle ship
Dreadnought is contained in a white
book on naval construction.
Besides the ten twelve-inch guns
announced, the Dreadnought Will
have twenty-seven underground.
quick-firing anti-torpedo boat guns
and five submerged torpedo tubes.
In the arrangement of the armament
six OF the big guns are mounted in
pairs on the centre line of the ship
and the remaining four are mounted
in pairs as broadsides. Thus eight
twelve-inch guns, or eighty per cent.
OF the present plan armament, can
be fired on either broadside, and four,
possibly six. twelve-inch. or sixty per
cent. can be fired simultaneously
ahead or astern.
In view of the modern potentiali-
ties of torpedo boats, and consider
ing especially the chances of tor
pedo attack attack toward the end
o. battle, the anti-torpedo boat
guns are widely separated, so that the
whole of them cannot be disabled by
one heavy she'll
Special attention has been paid to
protection from submarine explo-
sions.
After thorough consideration from
every point OF view, the white book
states, experts had no difficulty in ar
irving at a decision to adopt turbines.
which are considered moro advanta-
geous for seagoing speed, providing
sufficient stopping and turning power,
and for purposes of quick and easy
maneuvering. The speed is designed
to be twenty-one knots. The bunker
capacity is 200 tons, with which the
breadnought can steam $500 sea
miles at economical speed and $500
miles at eighteen and one-haIf knots.
The estimated cost of the Dread
nought, including guns, is $S,987,-
4S5
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Pnonourann rost CARR.

An ingenious device is at present
all the rage in France 1t is neither
more nor less than a talking post
card. The cards are about three
times the thickness of an ordinary
card, and are fitted with monograph
ic discs. Instead of writing your
communication in the ordinary man.
ner you make it verbally at the office
where you purchase the card. 1t is
recorded, the address is written on
the other side, and 1t is then posted.
The recipient places it in an ordinary
Photographic machine and hears the
voice of his or her friend The cost,
including taking the record OF the
voice. the card itself and the post
age to any part of France. is half a
franc
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LOOSE TEETH
Made Sound by Eating Grape-Nu,s

Proper food nourishes every part
OF the body. because Nature selects
the different materials from the food
we eat, to build bone, nerve, brain,
muscle, teeth. etc
All we need is to eat the right kind
OF food slowly. chewing II velour
digestive organs take It up into the
blood and the blood carries Il all
through the body. to every little nook
and corner
II some one would ask you, rs
Grape-Nuts good for loose teeth?
you'd probably say. "No. I don't see
how IT could be" But a woman In
Ontario writes
For the past two years I have
used Grape-Nuts Food with most OK
cellent results 1t seems TO take the
place of medicine I'm many ways.
builds up the nerves and restores the
health generally.
"a little Grape-Nuts taken before
retiring sOOthes my nerves and gives
sound sleep because DO relieves
irritabllity OF the stomach nerves. be-
Ing predigested food)
Before I used Grapo-Nuts my
teeth we're loose in tho gums they
we're so bad 7 was afraid they would
some day ell fall out Since I have
used Grape-Nuts i have not been
othered any more with loose teeth.
'All desire for pastry has disap-
peared and / have gained I'm health,
weight and happiness since I began
9 use Grape-Nuts Name given By
Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich Get
the famous little book. "The Road %
Melville" in pkgs There's q rea-
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Made in Germany.

When Joe Chamberlain heard that
5000 German torches had been used
on the occasion of his sevenueth
birthday he said to a friend: 1T IS
fortunate that we have not yet
passed our Protection scheme. i
should certainly have taxed these
torches, and who knows il to-day
there would have been shown me
such graceful homage? Besides. +
should not have enjoyed this fine
German illumination il is cheap,
bright and agreeable, and Jest Of
all. 20 does not stink.
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sesmed to return to them as they fell
upon tho Englishman's steadfast
face. Serge was behind, on his eager
face a5strange luminous uplifted look.
The old man did not come until Vera
was strapped in her place and Beau
lieu stood ready to step in.
I'VE shall meet, Count, in happier
circumstances when the Terror Is
over. Meanwhile your treasure Will
be safe, please God, in England. -
British Weekly.
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six Product Of Switzerland.

extent to which Switzerland figures
among the producing countries of
the world which, so far as Europe is
concerned, have always been sup
posed to be France and Italy. But
Switzerland exports annually silk to
the value Of about 100000 OO. nearly
all going to European countries.
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THE DITCH.

ditch TO But tho TO
o
learned tos
wander
ngnook
brook.
Mstson+Dolsn aional Magazine
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j. II. Waldo & Co.'S.
LIVERY AND FEED STABLE,
GRANTsVILLR, w. VA.

Keeps constantly on hAndI Baiod
Hay, Chop eto. at reasonable rates.
Gan supply you with q horse single
horse buggy, twO-horse buggy or sur,
rey, With or without driver, Tor short
or long trip, on short notice and ~
Reasonable prices
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II fell TO- the lot of nve-ycar-old
Wallace Stewart. being the third son
in rapid succession, 20 slit the family
ashes as his brothers had done be-
fore him one morning the boy was
told by his beaming father that a
baby had arrived the night before.
Wallace also beamed, much Co the pa-
rents qualification
And just think It is our FIRST
little girli'
WallaCe's smile vanished and he
scowled like a pirate
"a gir1l" as II 60 we're the SYM
onym for all that was opprobrious.
"Geel must I always sift ashes2"
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Al daybreak. when there was a lull
i'm the steady storm, the carriage
stood ready iu the courtyard. The
Englishman came out first, not wish
ing to intrude upon the last fare
wells.
cts ain right, Ivan?" he asked the
squat-faced driver, whom he had
bound TO his service by many kind
nesses. The man nodded, and bent
TO tighten the girths as they came
from the house He smiled 90 him
self, observing that to outward seem
ing there was no girl Vera wore a
suit OF her brothers, and q long coat
and a small cap with flaps tied about
her ears.
She was very pale, and there was
anguish in her eyes. But hope
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Excursions from London to Paris
and return, allowing fourteen hours
i'm Paris, are advertised at $3.50.