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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

From present indications it
looks as though Wa-Keeney is
going be in line, and it's to be a
blue coat, at that. Push it along.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

Roy F. Hammet has finished
j. II. Acres barn.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

Mrs. d. w. Keller and daugh-
ter, Gretchen, left for Iowa this
week, where they will visit with
relatives.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

Press Bush, wife and son spent
two days in Wa-Keeney this
week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

On Monday evening some of
the young people surprised Wal
ter Swiggett at his home in
honor of his birthday.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

Mrs. G.. l.. Hardman was on
the sick list this week.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24
LOCAL NEWS.

Improved farm for rent II.
Long
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

OCCdSlOldliN a SOOO uIdu SIOWS
dissatisfied with Kansas, says
the Seneca Tribune. The milk
is too yellow or the honey too
sweet. and he doesn't like to have
them flow over his land any way.
So he parts with his farm, sells
his live stock, and other things
too numerous to mention" and
moves to Oklahoma There he
takes his good Kansas money
and buys a farm which today is
and tomorrow is not because the
wind has blown it away. Or he
tries Colorado and slushes in the
mud trying to irrigate strip of
bottom so narrow that COW can
Jump across it. Then he hears
of Texas and goes down to hunt
the bag at the end of the ram
bow In the day he scratches
sandburs out of his flesh and at
night centipedes crawl over his
face When his money is all
gone he begins to feel like he did
the first night he stayed away
from home. He yearns for good
old Kansas and the yearn sticks
in his throat and chokes him till
the tears comes in his eyes. He
would give d months work to
see the COWS standing at the bars
on his old Kansas farm and hear
the horn for supper. Memory
is a marvellous painter and paints
best the things we love best. 1t
pictures to the traveller the corn
silking in the fields he used to
own, the wheat yellow for the
harvest, the clover stretching
away in a carpet of red and
green, richer than the rugs of
Persia. It showed to him the
elms as they whispered to his
children at play under them,
points to the roses in the corner
of the rail fence and in infinite
detail paints a thousand things
that touch the heart and proves
it's whimsical power. Happy is
the man who wakes to find that
he has wandered from Kansas
only in his dreams. Osborne
County News.
In our community is a quiet
fellow whose chief aim in life ap-
pears to be to mind his own bust
ness. He is member of a
and goes regularly-rain
or shine, hot or cold He sits
pretty well back and always
when the contribution box is
passed he drops in his mite. He
what he thinks he
should to the preachers salary,
and helps out on every other
proposition. He gets up
in no public meetings to shout
put how much he will give and
he never writes a long winded
letter to the local paper on any
certain movement. He goes and
comes quietly; he has pleasant
word for everybody; he pays his
debts and provides well for his
family. When a neighbor is sick
ne drops around at the back door
and asks if he can do anything
He knows of empty coal bins in
5he winter time and sends around
/ jag of fuel. He is never tangled
up in lawsuits or disagreeable
rows He hasn't
accumulated great fortune in
gold nor is his name written a
single place on tablet of fame
The Lord didn't intend him to
De great general here and wear
/ brilliant uniform and a sword,
md he knows it. He has done
lis best quietly, honestly and
any grandstand plays.
When he goes it will be quietly,
nd a modest monument will
mark the place of his voiceless
lust. But Over Yonder he will
,et his uniform and sword, and
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1909-07-24

the sick list this week.
Roy F. Hammet has finished
rodding J. H. Acres barn
Press Bush, wife and son spent
two days in Wa-Keeney this
week.
Miss Edna Steele is i'll at the
home of her sister, Mrs. Walter
Parks.
Mrs. L. G.. Wetzel has gone to
Omaha and Lake Manawa for
few weeks.
F. w. Wheeler of Sterling, ILL.,,
was in the city this week on land
business.
Gilbert Mathews and wife of
Banner, spent Sunday at the
Olson home.
Steve Babbitt, district mana
ger for Central Life" is here
from Beloit.
L. Tatman has sold his prop
erty in the west part of the city
to J. III. Courtney.
Rocky Ford muskmelons were
on the market this week and
were selling at 1Oc.
Row R1alxolu and uifo of OOa1-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
HOW TO DESTROY EXPLOSIVES.
Precautions to Be Taken with Gun
powder and Nitroglycerine.

The best way to destroy ordinary
black gunpowder is to throw it into a
stream under conditions that prevent
any harm coming to human beings or
animals through the dissolving of the
saltpeter. If no suitable stream is
available the gunpowder may be
stirred with water in tubs, or the dry
gunpowder may be poured out en- the
ground in long thin line and ignited
with fuse at one end.
To destroy dynamite cartridges the
paper wrappings should be carefully
row with their ends in contact and
the first cartridge ignited with fuse
without cap. Even with these pre-
cautions a simultaneous explosion of
the entire mass may occur, SO that 1t
is wise to retire to- safe distance.
The row of cartridges should be laid
parallel with the wind and ignited at
the leeward end so that the flame will
be driven away from the mass.
Frozen dynamite should be handled
with special care, as it's combustion is
peculiarly liable to assume an explo-
sive character. A small quantity of
dynamite may be destroyed by throw
ing it in very small bits into an open
fire.. or the cartridges raay be ex
ploded one by one in the open al,
with fuses and caps.
Dynamite should never be thrown
into water, as the nitroglycerine
which it contains remains undissolved
and capable of doing mischief. Other
| explosives which contain nitroglycer-
inc should be treated in the same way
| as dynamite.
Ammonium nitrate explosives may
be thrown in small fragments into an
open fire, or If they dc not contain
nitroglycerine may be destroyed by
means of water. I Explosive caps
should be exploded singly with pieces
of fuSe.-Scientific American.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
HOW RUDE MISSED A GUESS
Tried to "Touch" Manager McAIeer
But Failed.

RUDE Waddell, who is not setting
the world afire these days pitching
the ball that he did in former times.
is still the same Jealous person,
though, when it comes down to going
after the long green. With Jimmy
McAleer holding the whip hand the
big RUDE finds the touching" game a
mighty hard proposition, for McAleer
will not be held up for any money be.
tween pay days unless the holder-up
can give most plausible kind of an
excuse for needing the "kale" before
the time is due for paying it over.
When Connie Mack was handling
Waddell he stood for a whole lot of
these touches" on the part of the ir-
repressible RUDE. Now, with Jimmy
McAleer, an entirely different policy
has been adopted as far as Waddell's
touching" propensities are con-
cerned
When the ST. Louis club was last in
Washington Waddell thought that he
was due to take a bit of flyer, and
so he sided up to Jimmy one even,
ing after dinner and remarked:
N guess I couldn't get $40 off you to
night, could 1, jimmy"
why, Rube," drawled McAleer, as
he turned over the paper he was read
ing. you ought to make your living
on the race track
"How's that?" inquired the puzzled
pitcher.
Simply because you are such a good
guessef," calmly answered the St
Louis manager, as he buried hinsel
in the contents of his newspaper
while the RUDE turned on his heel and
walked away, muttering under his
breath.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
CURES COLDS QUICKLY

A never failing home remedy for
coughs and colds is made from the fol.
lowing formula to be mixed at home.
1.-TWO ounces of glycerine, one-half
ounce Of Concentrated pine compound,
one-half pint Of good whiskey; mix and
shake thoroughly; use in doses of a
teaspoonful to a tablespoonful every
four hours"
Thus will cure any cough that is cur
able, or break up an acute cold in
twenty-four hours. The ingredients all
can be gotten at any drug store.
The Concentrated pine is a pine prod
uct refined for medical use and comes
only in half ounce bottles, each en-
closed in a round case, which is air.
tight, but be sure that it is labeled
Concentrated"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

They pick up tunes with surprising
readiness, and repeating them with
trills and variations" is an amuse-
ment that never pals on them.
1t gives the missionary respite for
his letters home or to fan asleep over
a book or to go out and look at the
stars and wonder how it would seem
to talk to a man of his own kind or to
hear good music or merely to see cleo
trio lights, to feel hard pavements un-
der his feet and hear the changing OF
street cars. Or he may wonder how
in all the petty worries that sap his
strength he is to keep the freshness Of
mind that will enable him to present
spiritual ideals in the guise to appeal
to a savage people. But in this re-
spect he often feels that he is past
praying for.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
Friendly Advice.

IF I ever marry" said the bachelor
who was beginning to be old, Il shall
be careful to pick out a lady whom
can treat as my equal"
"Oh, say, old chap" answered the
married man. 81 wouldn't do that If
I were you. I can tell you from ex-
perience that a woman who would
submit to such treatment wouldn't be
worth having around the house."
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

tain English firm the workmen a year
or two ago originated what they called
the Lazy club. 1t was entirely their
own idea, which for obvious reasons
has received neither recognition nor
financial support from the manage
ment, but has been most excellent
means of reducing the number of late
corners.
Whenever workman is more than
five minutes late after time he finds
the gate locked and he is not allowed
to enter until the half hour is up.
This half hour is deducted from his
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
Must Build His Own House.

Shelter must be provided for teach
ers and pupils, and also for horses,
calves, pigs and chickens. Brick is a
favorite material, for the African
woods usually are too hard to be
worked easily. The minister fresh
from a theological seminary may find
that building a brick kiln with moth
ing but African labor is quite as diff
cult as to construct Greek sentences
And that is the beginning. He prefers
not to think Of the masonry, the put
ting in of doors and windows and the
matching of the roof At least he does
not need to worry about the floors.
The native girls take that part of the
building into their own hands. They
simply fill it up with an even layer of
red soil taken from an ant heap. They
rub it and pound it and sprinkle it,
and rub it again till it shines like
black polished marble, and there is
the floor. Healthy? Well, no; but it
is cheap. When night comes the ma
tives gather around the fire in the
kitchen or the schoolhouse to sing.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

wages, but in addition he has also to
pay to the treasurer of the Lazy club
about five cents for coming late.
If he is late more than once or so
during week everybody is aware of
the fact, and the second or third time
he makes his appearance after start
ing time he is greeted with d terrific
combination of noises produced on
any available material by his fellow
workmen.
At certain periods the accumulated
funds of the Lazy club are divided.
not among those who have produced
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

There Catarrh this section Of the country
than other diseases put together and until the last
few years supposed to be incurable. For great
many years doctors pronounced 1t local disease and
prescribed local remedies, and by constantly falling
to cure with local treatment pronounced 1t ncurabe
Science has proven Catarrh to be constitutional dis
and therefore requires constitutional treatment
Halls Catarrh Cure. manufactured by F j. Cheney
Co.. Toledo Ohio is the only Constitutional cure or
the market 1t Is taken internally In doses from
drops TO teaspoonfu. 1t acts directly the blood
and mucous surfaces Of the system They offer one
hundred dollars for any 1t fails to cure. Send
tor circulars and testimonials
Address; F. J. CHENEY & CO.. Toledo. Ohio.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Take Halls Family Pills for constipation.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
DUST EXPERT IN A WAY,
One Man Who Is Constantly Conscious
of the Presence of Gust in S>e Air.

mo matter where you live s9d how.
ever high in the air you al9ays find
dust settling on everything every
where, but" said the near-sighted
man, ''if you want to realize this fact
as you never did before you want to
wear spectacles and work at some
employment that requires constant
bending over.
Fourteen times a day, or as much
oftener as you look, you will find
your glasses covered with fine par
ticles of dust. Maybe you don't look,
and then maybe some bigger particle,
some speck that is by comparison q
veritable bowlder of dust, settles
there square in your line of vision,
where it may not obstruct your sight
but where it cannot fail to arrest your
attention. Then when you take them
off to remove that bowlder you find
your glasses covered with dust in
finer particles, as you would nnd
them, indeed, however often you
might look.
"Over such an area as that of New
York, for instance, there are tons of
dust floating in the air, as though,
perhaps without figuring out it's
weight, many people, such as house
wives and storekeepers, are aware;
but perhaps nobody is reminded of
this SO constantly as the man who
wears spectacles and who bends over
at his work, and on whose glasses,
where it is ever before him, dust is
constantly settling"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
HAVE FORMED LAZY CLUB.
Plan of English Workmen to Discour
age the Habit of Being Tardy.

One of the best assets of a manu-
featuring plant is the interest of en-
ployes, and when this develops into
friendly rivalry its value is many
times increased. Frequently work
men will adopt methods spontaneous
ly that are of great assistance to the
firm.
In tEs engineering shops of q GER
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

them, it should be noted, but amcng
the entire staff equally. Thus the late
workman is made to pay the early
corners for his laziness. The last dis.
trlbution was just prior to a bean.
feast" and funds accumulated during
IL months were distributed, amount
ing to over seven shillings e head
System.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

The Best Laxative-Garfeld Tea! Com
posed of Herbs, it exerts a beneficial effect
upon the entire system, regulating liver,
kidneys, stomach and bowels.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

PILES CURED IN TO IL DAYS.
of Itching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Piles in
to IL days or money refunded. Soc.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

Many a girl wto Is looking tor a
husband mag discover that ever arrer
she gets him she may spend mast Of
her time looking for him.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

If every man was compelled to act
as his own fool-killer there would be
an epidemic of suicides.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

Men are sometimes so good and so
great, that one is led to exclaim: Oh,
that they were only a little better and
q little greater!-J. H. Newman.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

If Your Feet Ache or Burn
get a Csc package of Aliens Foot-Ease. 1t gives
quick relief. Two million packages sold yearly.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

children, is no puzzle at all to them. 1t
was thus their own kings lived when
they were in their glory. In the same
way the agricultural figures of speech
in the parallels of Christ fit right into
their own speech. Their favorite books
in the Bible are those that abound in
picturesque imagery such as the
Apocalypse, the Book of Job and
best of all-The Song of Solomon.
1t is very different thing when it
comes to learning a foreign language
and mastering the intricacies of gram
mar, arithmetic and geography. Gram
mar might as well be relegated to the
outer darkness at once When you
have taught an African native the diff
ference between a verb and noun
you have taught him about as much as
his mind can grasp. On the other
hand, the children learn easily foreign
words and expressions in parrot-like
way. A young native who has worked
for a white man for month or two
has no difficulty in calling his breth-
rem 'black devil and damn niger"
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

ALI sorrow is an enemy, but 1t car
ries friends message within it, too.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

Smiles make a better salve for trou-
BILE than do frowns.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
Bible Images Familiar.

Glasses and recitations and more
particularly lessons to be prepared Of
fer more violence to the native preju-
dices. He likes to hear the Bible
stories or stories of other countries and
to read them for himself when he has
mastered the combination of letters in.
to familiar sounds. The oriental images
of the Bible are perfectly familiar to
him. The idea of the patriarchs of the
Old Testament living in tents as cattle
men and yet being really kings, which
is such puzzle to city bred white
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

~
" W mighty hunters and ex-
V plorers. The hardest
fight that Is waged for
the opening of the continent is not a
fight in the open with wild beasts or
bowling savages while the world looks
on and applauds. Rather it Is a Crap
ping in the dark with shadows, the
shadows of spiritual gloom that loom
so black and yet are so elusive to the
grasp. 1t is fight for the spread of
light in dark places waged by men and
women unused to physical hardships
and with a breeding that renders them
peculiarly sensitive to the spiritual
wear and tear of their work. It is a
fight without fanfare, without an audi
ence, and too often without immediate
results.
If President Roosevelt accepts the
invitation of the Methodist Missionary
society TO take part in missionary work
while travelling through Africa he will
have thrown the weight of his influ-
ence in the scales for a cause particu-
larly in need of such help. In the same
way as the presidents declarations
against race suicide unquestionably
have helped domestic life, SO perhaps
he can throw some light on phase
of civilizing work peculiarly misunder-
stood by the majority of white people
at home and abroad. 1t requires no
great stretch of the Imagination to get
a vision of the president preaching a
common-sense religion to a black au-
dience, just as he has preached do
mesticity, fearlessness, strenuousness
and great many kindred virtues to
the people in America. But it requires
an intimate knowledge of the African
character, its keen sense of authority
and position, its veneration for "big
chiefs" of whatever country, to gauge
the tremendous influence his words
would carry
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22

with his wife and babies through
South Africa when no one else dared
venture outside of the white settle
ments, and no one thought of modest
ing him. He was the only man who
had any influence over Moselikatse,
the most bloodthirsty chief in South
Africa.
The great Norwegian missionary,
Bishop Schroeder, held similar posi-
ton in the regard of the fierce Zulu
chief Cetewayo, and it was Schreuder's
presence in the English camp that
gave the natives courage to surrender
themselves to the British when they
had been vanquished in the last Zulu
war in 1870. His house was the only
white mans dwelling that was left
standing in Zululand. The savage
army, drunk with temporary victory
split in two; one division passed over
the hills to the north of Schreuder's
station, the other over the hills on the
south, for the chiefs knew that in the
frenzy of battle their braves could not
be restrained from destroying what
ever came in their way.
Missionary work in most parts of
Africa has lost much Of it's spectacular
features. 1t now is mostly matter
of hard, grinding, monotonous work
The popular conception of missionaries
includes two figures. One is that of a
spiritual fanatic bent mainly on teach
ing the savages to sing hymns instead
of bowling war songs, the dupe usual
ly of willy savages who feign "conver-
sion" while laughing in their new mis-
sionary Bingham sleeves. The other
is that of a clever self-seeker exploit
ing the childish native to his own ad-
vantage.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1909-01-22
Great Aid to Missionaries.

Great Aid to Missionaries.
Even if the president should not
take an active part in the work, he I'M
doubtedly will visit the mission sta
lions, and the mere fact that chief
of such bigness that the full scope of
the African imagination hardly can
take in his orbit visits Familiarity with
the missionaries will give very help
full prestige to them in the eyes of the
natives. Respect for his own chief is
the bone and sinew of the Africans
code of morals and is, in fact, one with
his religion. Combined with this is a
surprising penetration into the who
who" of other nations. 1t takes an
African native something less than
five minutes to know who is the real
thing" and who merely masQuerades
in the borrowed feathers of authority.
The hostile attitude toward missions
sometimes taken by individual white
magistrates often has done incalcul
able harm to the work of the mission
airy, because these magistrates in the
native eye are invested with dignity
as the representatives of the great
white chiefs "pesheya" Con the other
side-meaning of the ocean,. The
coming in person of one of the great
est of these chief to the house of their
own 4'umfundisi'' (teacher) will nell
tralize the unfriendliness of any resi-
dent magistrate.
On the other hand, President Roose-
welt in his writings certainly will
touch on the practical side of a work
of such significance as that of the
Christian missions. The question of
the capacity of the African native for
civilization must be answered at the
mission stations if it is answered at
all
Missionaries have opened the coun-
try to white men, and the chief high
ways penetrating the African CONT
nent still are called missionary
roads," When Livingstone's house
was sacked, his books torn and scat
tered to the winds and his medicine
bottles broken in revenge for his
championship of the natives against
the aggressions Of the border rufians,
this disaster was the impetus that
drove him to his real work as an ex-
plorer. No one ever has accomplished
more with fewer resources. To the
last he remained always the mission
airy, travelling among the natives as
one who sought only their good and
had nothing to fear from them. All
the world knows how Livingstone's
work became the inspiration of STAN
ley's career and resulted ultimately in
the real opening of the dark continent
Even before Livingstone's time his
father-in-law, Robert Moffat, travelled