Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-11-27

Spain may surprise King Alfonso
some day by demanding a twentieth
century government.
Street cars reeking with the pun
gent odor of moth balls remind the
people that winter is near.
No wonder the earth is shaking just
at present. There are enough things
doing on it to make it a trif1e nervous
III Noah's ark was as full as the
Smithsonian institution soon will be. ii
must have been loaded beyond Plim-
soils mark
There is reason to believe that
henceforth the great white plague will
occupy more modest quarters in the
census reports.
Once in awhile. even now. man or
a woman will die for love. but IL
doesn't happen nearly SO often as was
formerly the case.
Meals on railroad trains average 20
cents Who buys them at a lower
price than that to cut down your SLIPS
check to the average?
1t is only the conventional kind of
living that comes high. When a man
can get a pair of khaki trousers and
two khaki shirts for two dollars. what
more does he need?
proposed society fox hunt in Ohio
has been stopped by the humane So
cieties. The humane authorities must
have thought some of the hunters
were in danger of catching the fox
The car will not visit Moscow, the
old capital of the empire. He ought
to sympathize with the demands of
his people for greater freedom, for he
seems to have very little of it him
self.
Only short time ago the wireless
telegraph and aerial navigation were
classed as visionary; to-day they are
practical realities. Progress in the
twentieth century moves with fleet
feet
The military aeroplanes of the flu.
ture will drop bombs on warships
Warships of the future will be fitted
with guns to destroy aeroplanes. And
SO the take-and-give invention of war.
fare goes on.
The joy riders of Gotham have
broken out afresh. Nor will their raw
ages be checked until the law and the
authorities devise a punishment to fit
the crime. which ought not to be diff
ficuit in this day of resources.
England has turned out the biggest
sea-fighting machine yet. supposed &c
be impervious TO torpedoes Now the
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auering torpedo. That is the way. AS
soon as an immovable obstacle is
found out then human ingenuity gets
quickly to work on another Irresistible
force The comforting reflection with
peace lovers is that no war could
last long with such instruments Of
Wholesale destruction.
The bureau of statistics of the de-
Partment of commerce and labor an
nounces that continued Improvement
in the Industrial situation of the coun.
try is indicated by the reports of lead
ing internal commerce movements
during the past month There is a big
Increase in the transport alton and use
of materials like soft coal coke and
iron in the output of mills and distri-
button of products With good grain
GUS winter.
The total dividend and interest pay.
meIts October l will reach sI6f,72I,
QUO. which is sI6.574o0o more than
last year. showing the marked adj
yancement in prosperity and the gain
in industrial activity within the period
indicated. And the way in which mills
are starting up. crops are coming to
market and railroads are getting busy
exhausting the stock of surplus cars
and calling for more. gives sufficient
indication of still better times in the
immediate future.
The theory that man must depend
on the munificence of friends if he
wishes to enter the lists of literature
and be entirely contented with the
glory that may come to him is per
feet absurdity. Inventors work for
glory and for money. Men who write
give fair return to the world They
are entitled to some reward more tan
gibie than mere words. He who con-
tributes a classic to our literature
adds to the sum total of civilization
His work is more lasting than the
In the United States education has
long been too much of an accom-
plishment. not a training For our
boys and our girls we have been
proud to provide a schooling that or
naments their lives with graces of
conduct or smattering of knowledge
that NAV fiatter our vanity while -