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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-05-29
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-05-29
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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1908-05-29

Trunks, Suit Cases, Bags,
Everything for Travellers.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Ceremony of Calling in Spain


Calling in Spain bristIes with cere-
mony. When a first visit is paid, the
hostess says at parting Your honor
has taken possession of your house,
for all l have is yours
If anything during the call is adj
mired, the remark follows at once.
TT is at your disposal
The answer to which must be-. 81
hope my hostess will enjoy it for many
years
When means allow of it, a woman
has her box at the theater. I'm this
the scene between the acts often re
sembles an Eat home while at the
end of the play visiting is carried on
for an hour or more while the audi
ence is nomina1ly awaiting its car
riages.
hardship in a Spanish woman s
life is the long period of mourning
into which she is plunged for even
quite distant relatives. For a cousin
seen perhaps but once, and who has
died hundred miles away, black is
worn for a year, during which time al
visiting is stopped, the piano is locked
and no one looks out CT the window.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14

was not long before we saw the glori-
Gus old stars and stripes being waved
from the very highest point above the
palisades. Never was there a more
inspiring sight, which was cheered
again and again by the boys in blue
who were each personally and deeply
interested in our success. / expected
we would now view the charge on Mis-
sion ridge, which we instinctively felt
was the next move From our ele-
waited position we could see the line
of blue stretched northward up the
valley for miles, facing the ridge
while on the ridge and along the west
foot extended the lines of gray, in
trenched, awaiting our movements.
But we were destined to take an active
part in that fierce charge. Our bri-
gade was formed after eating a hasty
breakfast of bareback and coffee,
marched back down the mountains
side and took our former place on the
right of Thomas line. Our line then
charged douhle-quick across the plain
under musketry fire from the con-
federate infantry, and the artillery
that lined the top of the ridge. 1t
seemed like advancing into the jaws
of hell. But that was an army of
seasoned veterans; no halt or WAIVER.
The confederate line at the foot of the
ridge could not stand it, but clambered
back and tried to form and make a
stand behind some earthworks half
way up This was now the moment
and the place where the boys took
matters into their rwn hands; each
was his own thinking general, and
| with one impulse followed with a yell,
and kept the rebel line on run to the
| top and over ON the other side 1t
was a soul-inspiring sight, on reaching
| the top, to view the whole confederate
army in precipitous flight down the
other side, followed by a plentiful
shower CT loyal musket balls.
Hooker did well, but his part was
| confined to the storming of Lookout
1t was Thomas brave old Army of the
/ Cumberland that drove the confeder
| ate army up. over and beyond the
ridge, and which so alarmed Gen.
Grant by their spontaneous charge UT
| the ridge without orders.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
RELYING HIS WAR DAYS.
Old Soldier Camps Before His Fire in
Paramount Park.

What is the secret of the magic
power of a cracking fire to conjure
up memories of days that are dead?
The answer to this abstruse question
may be left to psychologists. Few will
deny that a cracking fire has such
power In the leaping sparks and the
reddening logs one finds that stimulus
to muse and to mediate in moods that
range from melancholy to merr1ment.
This, in brief, is the line of thought
that obsesses Maj James H. Work
man, a civil war veteran, who recently
determined to become a hermit. In
the winter of life his mind harked
back to the days of battle and sudden
death He longed once more for the
alluring freedom of the simple life OF, a
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Watching the BUGS.

Probably the most important ques-
ton in the minds of Kansas farmers
today is, What of the bugs?" The
offices of the departments at the Kan
sas State Agricultural college are busy
places all the time, but just at this
time the entomologists, Professors
Headlee ana Dean, are working hard
to help the farmers meet some gr1ev-
Gus problems. Visits are being made
first to one section of the state, in
vestigating the 'tgreen bug then to
another on Hessian fly queries, and
just now at Wichita investigating the
attack of the San Jose scale on the
fruit trees and determining the best
methods of com batting this new pest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Latest Kansas Events.
Assessing Railroads.

The members of the state tax COM
mission are working out the plans and
schedules for assessing the railroads
of the state this year. me commits
sion intends to go over practically
every mile of railroad in Kansas. Trips
over the branch lines will be curtailed,
but the main lines and chief branches
will be visited carefully. The special
session of the legislature appropri-
ated $4,000 for inspecting - railroads
this year. The commissioners hope
that they will be able to charter a car
conveniently furnished. This car is to
be attached to regular trains and left
as the commission desires. A working
force will be taken to make the tabu-
lation of values as the board fixes
them instead of relying on notes being
taken on the trip. Before the trip be-
gins the railroads will be required to
furnish the commission with full lists
of all their property. Stops will not
be made at small stations, but every
terminal or shop point will We visited
and carefully inspected to see that all
property is listed and the correct val
ueS are given.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
WHEN A NAN ouEERs HIMSELF
How = Drummer's Joke Made a Good
Thing for Others.

'Oh, yes, am on the road for the
same old firm and at the same old
wages" said the drummer as a look
of disgust crossed his face, land 1
never expect to get anything better.
When man queers himself good and
hard once he seldom gets another
look in
Something happen to you?" was
asked
Two years ago when I had west
ern route, struck the LATEST, sleep
lest village in the United States I
never saw such a place before or
since. Dead asleep, and I don't believe
the whole population had hundred
dollars in cash. 1 was put out at
not being able to do business, and
thinking to play a joke on the town
asked the landlord of the inn what
he would take for his place. 1t was
worth perhaps thousand dollars, but,
of course, he doubled the sum 1
said I'd take it as soon as the deeds
could be made out. Then I went out
and bought shop, store and six
dwellings in the same way, permitting
the owners to name their price. With
in half a day 1 had 'em woke UP. I
offered to buy three or four farms
in the country around
''An for joker"
'+An for a joke. hadn't $50 to
my name. The usual result followed.
Every one became suspicious that
had a big thing on and refused to
sell The excitement continued and,
as a matter of fact, a big manufac-
tory was located there, railroad
was built, shops established, and to-
day it is busting little city. I gave
it its start. If I'd have gone at it
like business man 1 could have Sc
cured a hundred options and been in
the swim, but as it was L was left
out of the good thing and never eX-
pect to strike another I'm not kick
ing That's the drummer's luck.
Sugar goes up and sugar goes; down,
he stays right there.'-Rehobpthl Sun.
day Herald.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
The major win first offer the visitor

The major will first offer the visitor
a cup of coffee He never forgets
that every time a halt was made in
war time coffee, the great recuperator,
was in requisition- The coffee he boils
over the blazing logs in true camp
style. If you catch him at meal time
he will offer you a share of the con-
tents of his haversack, another habit
he acquired in the days of the COS
He is not hermit of the kind that shuns
society. The campfire was what the
old soldier craved. The more visitors
he has to his open-air home the better
pleased he is. But the veteran is per-
fect1y contented when alone He re-
clines for hours on a park bench that
he has moved to the spot Behind this
he has improvised a wind shield, and
in the little clearing in front he makes
his log fire. Lying thus he gazes
steadily into the blaze, dreaming of
the old stirring days of the war, living
once more in the ha1cyon time when
life was like wine that bubbles and
sparkles in the glass. The musing old
soldier sees in the blaze the figures of
men in blue leaping to the charge, he
catches the CLINT of steel as the yelling
lines clash and hears the sound of
cannon as the artillery gets to work
In the same magic element the ma
jor conjures up the dark days he spent
in Libby prison, the scenes of carnage
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14

soldier. He determined to live once
more, as nearly as possible, the life
of his soldier days by camping in CHE
open, beside a roaring fire, to prepare
his own meals, to bid defiance to cold
and wet and, in imagination at least,
to campaign again with Sherman and
Grant.
Had the old soldier been friendless
and alone he might have buried him
self permanently in some secluded
spot and reveled in his campfire
dreaming until taps" sounded for the
last time. But the major is blessed
with a devoted wife and a host of
friends, and no one would listen to his
suggestion that he retire to the woods
to end his days with the birds and the
squirrels for companions. So he COM
promised by pitching his camp in an
out-of-the-way ravine in Paramount
park, Philadelphia, says the New York
Tribune, where he is as completely off
the beaten track as he would be in the
wilderness. The park authorities hui
mored the old soldiers within.
Joyfully the major selected his
campground, in a picturesque spot,
where the trees shelter him to some
extent from the wind, and here he can
be found, no matter how severe the
weather.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
War Settlement Warrant.

A curiosity in the form of a war
settlement warrant was issued re
Gently to John l. Curtain CT Bellefont
Pa, for the sum OF 6z cents. 1t is
now about A years since Gen. Curtin
was mustered out of the service, and
in all these years he never dreamed
that he had any such claim against the
United States government 1t appears
that in calculating the time of his en-
listment an error was made, and this
was Just recently discovered. The
number of the order is 16,021, which
indicates that there were a few Chains
paid before this one
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
AS the Engineer Explained, It,.

1t is said that unless one can impart
information one does not really pos
sess it. The late Prof. Angelo Heilprin
used to tell story, says the Washing
ton Star, illustrative of this point. The
professor himself had a most learned
and lucid mind. Not only could he
master a question; he could lay it so
clearly before you that you became
master of it, too.
Two commercial travellers on the
way from Reading to- Philadelphia
once got into an argument over the &C
ton of the vacuum brake.
It's the imitation of the tube that
stops the train,'' declared the first
traveller
Wrong, wrongt' shouted the, sec
ond It's the output of the exhaus
tion''
So they wrangled for an hour. Then
when the train arrived in Philadelphia
they agreed to submit the matter foI
settlement to the engineer That gen
tleman, leaning condescendingly from
the window of his cab, listened with
an attentive frown to the two travel
ers' statement of their argument
Then he smiled, shook his, head, and
said:
well, gents, ye're both wrong about
the workin of the vacuum brake
Yet it's very simple and easy to; un
derstand When we want to stop the
train we just turn this ere tap, and
then we fill the pipe with vacuum
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
The College Contests.

For two years about five thousand
boys and girls in Kansas have been
engaged in most useful contests for
supremacy-contests in growing corn,
vegetables and flowers, and in making
bread, canning fruit and mending and
sewing. This is certainly a great edu-
cational movement, directed by the
Kansas State Agricultural college, thus
interesting our boys and girls along
lines of every day living To grow
good corn, to grow beautiful flowers
or to bake good bread ought to be as
commendable as to excel in billiards,
roller skating, or in doing fancy work.
The boys corn contest this year is to
be divided into two classes-(b) boys
from 10 to IA years of age and (a)
boys from IA to 20, the former plant
ing one quart of corn and the latter
ten ears, in an ear-to-row test The
boys and girls Industrialist from the
Kansas State Agricultural college has
been sent to every rural teacher in
the county, and to all institute officers,
and we ought to be ready for a great
big contest this year. The boys and
girls who join these contests will re-
ceive during the year considerable lit
erature from the agricultural college
bearing upon the several contests, and
will have letters from the college. max
ing this sort of Correspondence
course" as well as a contest.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
A Bio Gas strike at lola.

The Lanyon Zinc company struck a
Is, 900, 000-foot gas well on the Ram
sey farm, five miles southeast of lola.
The well is in the territory which has
recently developed on which one ID,
two eight, three four and two 1 ZOO, 900
foot wells have been found recently.
The territory was never before pros
pected, although on the north of it gas
has been obtained for the last ten
years. The indications are that the
territory extends to the extreme east
ern edge of the county, making one of
the largest fields yet discovered in
Allen county.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14

MISS BESSIE FARRELL 1011 Third
1VA Ave-, Brooklyn, N. Y, is Presi-
dent Of the. Young Peoples Christian
Temperance Association. She writes:
'sPeruna is certainlya a. valuable nerve
and blood remedy, calculated to build
up the brolxen-down health of worn out
women. 1 have found by personal ex-
perience that it acts as a wonderful re-
storer lost strength, assisting the
stomach to assimilate and digest the
food, and building up WORKOUT tissues
In my work 1 have had occasion to
recommend it freely, especially to
women.
81 know of nothing which is better to
buildupt the strength of a young mother,
in fact, all the ailments peculiar to
women. so am pleased to give it my
hearty endorsement"
DIR. Hartman has prescribed Peruna
for many thousand women. and he
never fails to receive a multitude of
letters like the above,. thanking him
for the wonderful benefits received
Man-a-lin the Ideal Laxative.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Good Prices for Land.

The rise in land values continues in
Dickinson county. A 32O-acre farm
east of Abilene that six years ago sold
for $4,000 and then was thought high
and which has changed hands several
times at increasing prices sold for $24,-
900. Nothing has been spent on the
place in improvements during all the
six years besides the usual fixing up
of new corners. Other lands are sell
ing at $50 to SIS an acre.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Evolution of the Saloon.

There was talk of starting a pool
room at Logan and woman wrote
a letter to the home paper opposing it.
as follows: 1--WE might as well call
the poolroom a billiard hall, for where
there is a poolroom started there is
billiards and then soon a bar with soft
drinks, which gradually get harder and
harder until a full-fedged saloon is
blossomed from the bud started as a
poolroom."
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14

in the many battles in which his regi-
ment, Rush'S Lancers, took part. From
the heart of the fire sad faces rise to
greet him once more. Some are
marred and red with wounds. He sees
them as he last saw them, lying dead
or dying on a hundred battle fields.
Old comrades of the camp and the
field, fellow veterans of the Grand
Army who have preceded him into the
beyond, privates, captains, majors,
colonies, a great army of them, they
rise up before the old man, as he
muses. in front of his campfire, salute
him gravely and pass upward with the
smoke.
The soldier hermit says he will live
by his campfire all the winter, no mat
ter what the weather. Although he
hasn't been heard to say SO, those who
know him believe he would be quite
happy in the thought of being found
dead by the fire in the ravine, for in SO
dying his last hours would be softened
by the presence of his comrades of the
days when the lancers fought for the
union, The old mans glazing eyes
would see them to the last, coming out
of the heart of the fire to salute him
gravely, this time not to pass upward
with the smoke, but to form his body
guard into the other world.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
To Preserve Pawnee Rock.

Governor Hoch has appointed the
following committee to raise the funds
to pay for the work of preserving
Pawnee rock in Pawnee county; Mrs
j. s. Simmons. Hutchinson; Mrs w
A. Johnston, Topeka; Mrs l. J. Smy-
ser, Sterling; Mrs Elizabeth Johnson.
Portland; Mrs Ida Wilson, Abilene;
Mrs. Grace Bowman. Pawnee Rock
The rock has considerable historical
interest to Kansas The owner Of the
land, B. p Unruh, has given ground
for a road leading to it on condition
that the state take charge of it.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
To euiId New Cement Plant.

A contract has been let for the con-
struction of a cement plant just north
of lola, to be known as the Union
Portland Cement company. The plant
will have capacity of 5000 barrels
of cement day and will give employ
ment to about 400 men. The contract
has been let to Victor Deutner of Pitts
burg, Pa. 1t will require a year to
build the plant. There are now two
plants in operation III the county, and
five projected, two of which are under
actual construction
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
viii Serve Without Salary.

For the first time in the history of
Leavenworth a municipal ticket was
nominated at a big mass meeting
which in all probability will have no
opposition at the election the first
week in April. Leavenworth recently
adopted the commission form of city
government and the men selected will
serve as mayor and commissioners.
Every member has pledged himself to
serve without salary. The mayor will
be allowed enough to pay secretary
and stenographer.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
AN INSPIRING SIGHT.
The Fighting on Lookout Mountain
and the Charge Up Mission Ridge.

l carried gun and took an active
part in both battles of Lookout Noun
tain and Mission Ridge, writes a cor
respondent of the National Tribune.
being in Carlin's First brigade, First
division, Fourteenth corps, which was
the extreme right of Thomas line in
the valley facing Missionary ridge,
from which position l watched the adj
vance of Hooker's men as they drove
the confederates around the north face
of Lookout mountain. The lines on
the side of the mountain were occa-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Levees Alonq the verdieris.

Three drainage districts have been
formed along the Verdigris river I'M
der the new drainage district law. One
of these districts, known as No. 1, has
it's levee well under way. This district
is composed of the east side of Cot
feyville and of the farm land adjacent
along the river. 1t has voted $4,000
bonds and has contracted for their
sale A levee ranging from two to ten
feet high is now being built to protect
this district from overflow.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Senator Plumb was Worker.

John S. Gilmore of the Wilson Coun-
ty Citizen recalls that Senator Pres
ton B. Plumb was in Fredonia for tne
last time on October 10, 1891, just two
months before his death He came to
the Citizen Office, and on the editorial
table, in a little more than an hours
time, wrote with pen and ink, COM
plete, "a letters and almost so teie-
grams"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
Mo compromise With MiIIcrs.

All negotiations to close up the suit
of the state without a test in the
courts against the so-called millers'
trust have fallen through and the mat
ter will have to be fought out. Six
months ago the state filed a list of
interrogatories in the Sedgwick coun-
ty court. These vii now have to be
answered
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14

sionally obscured by the lowering
clouds. But Hooker's brave men were
running out of ammunition, and our
brigade, being the nearest, was or
dered to his assistance. carrying an
extra lot of cartridges. We climbed
directly up the steep sides, and were
IN time to assist in the final charge, as
darkness closed over the scene The
confederates fell back, abandoning the
mountain during the night. a fact we
did not discover until next morning. IT
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
A Girls Strange Confession.

Josie Dietrich, a 14-year-old girl, ac-
cording to a story told by a man
named Hicks, confessed that she four
times set fire to a barn belonging to
her mother, Mrs. Barbara DIETRICH, Ev-
ing southwest of Emporia. She also
confessed, says Hicks, who is a neigh
Dor and friend of the Dietrichs, that
she had once set fire to her mother
residence The fires have always been
discovered before any serious damage
resulted. Mrs. Dietrich recently of
fered a reward of $3.50 for the arrest
Of the firebug, but has withdrawn the
offer The girl fell from a hay NOW
several months ago and physicians say
she is mentally unbalanced. She could
give no reason for setting the fires
when questioned by her family.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1908-03-14
chauffeurs Of the Eighteenth Century.

chauffeurs Of the Eighteenth Century.
In the last decade of the eighteenth
century a band of French 'bTigands
fiourished in and about the forest of
La Muette. close to Merevilie- To
these .-Pingres." as they called them
selves. the common people gave an
other name. All over France they
were known as the sschau1eurs," from
their use of fire, applied to the feet of
their victims who would not tell where
their money was hidden.