Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-01-01


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Calamities from unavoidable causes
are pathetic; calamities from avoid
able causes are criminal
Merry-gorounds are unpopular IN
South America. where they are trying
to get over the revolutionary habit
The new society for the study and
prevention of infant mortality is well
come in the long list of worthwhile
institutions.
Come into our store and have a
it," reads local tailor's ad- We sup
pose the fit" takes place when the
bill is presented.
Latest in the line of inventions is
an automobile equipped as an aero
plane destroyer. The automobile has
some reason to feel resentful-
The Denver scientist who says linn
burger cheese will cure cancer must
believe those cancer germs have a
sense of smell well developed.
Sitting in Nome, a United States
Judge is conducting a case in Seattle.
AS the distance is 1000 miles. the trial
cannot help being long drawn out
DR.. Hills is perfectly safe in max
ing prophecies to be fulfilled in the
year 29O9. as few of us who hang upon
his words will be here at that time.
Emperor William is satisfied to let
the Wright brothers be monarchs of
the air. If he can be lord of the land
rf he hG oh
for him.
Street dust kills % per cent. of
those that breathe it, but if they did
not breathe the dust they would pick
up germs. and it's all the same in the
long run.
In spite of their recent rise. eggs
are not ashamed to be seen in COM
pany with the humble ham, if anyone
still has the requisite price for bring
ing them together
Considering that newspapers are
published in % languages i'll this coun-
try-a fact not generally known-why
shouldn't the exchange editor have an
increase of salary?
A New Jersey institution for the
named a "preventorium." The Eng
lish language. as well as the human
body needs defenders.
1t is said that the society bellies OF
ST. Petersburg are angry over the stu
alton in Finland. since the off1cers
who figure largely in social affairs
will now have to leave with their
troops for the recalcitrant duchy and
desirable partners will be lacking in
court-circle dances This is sad, but
hardly the most tragic circumstances
which will arise from the situation.
Two bankers in New York have
been sentenced to prison for taking
money for their own use from a saw
ings association of which they were
officials In sentencing them the
judge said they were simply plain
thieves. There is a great deal in a
name when it is used in this blunt
fashion, for it strips much of the
illusion from i'll doing
A New York man is suing his wife
for separation because he says she
stayed out at night and left him to
mind the children and make the beds
The masculine marital worm is begin
ni0S 10 turn. Dul l0e QlS0 FTGnCh heel
of modern femininity is set so firmly
on the writhing insect that it is
doubtful if the turn will amount to
much more than a frantic but fugi-
tive squirm-
A Roman paper says that negotia-
lions are going on, on the part of the
American government, for the sale of
a house destined to be the seat of
the American embassy Perhaps the
state department is trying to find q
home for its new ambassador, merely
as a convenience to him, so that it
may be ready when he reaches Rome.
But It is not buying the house on its
own account
There was a large increase in the
aumber of divorces in Maine last year.
but an increase of only two in sui
cides Whether the latter fact Is to
be explained by the former is not
stated.
That Servian prelate who dreamed
that King Peter was deposed had the
tactlessness to tell his dream to
friends, in confidence Thereupon
King Peter had a better dream; the
preIate is to be tried for high treason
After this Servian prelates will take
sleeping powders, and not dream