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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

John Warde of Westerham is gen.
orally believed to have been the faith
er of fox hunting. He was master of
the hounds for over half a century,
and then he sold his pack for the
record price of 1000 guineas. This
mighty hunter" writes Gibson Thomp-
son, died in 1888 at the ripe old age
of eighty-six, at his home in Charles
street, Berkeley square One of the
portraits of him at Squerries court.
that by James Green, is in the din
ing-room. His favorite hounds were
two, Glory and Beauty; the picture
shows him with but one, and he is
supposed to be soliloquizing: My
Beauty hath deserted but my Glory
remains"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
4. S. GIvLER, Pub.
ExTRAvAcANcE.

The great bane of American life to-
day is extravaganza We talk of sins
and abuses. like drunkenness, immor-
atty, dishonesty, divorce. and a, doz-
en- and one other evils, but as a fact
ed by extravaganza. a part of out
growth of it This failing is common
to every walk of life, says the Pitts
burgh Gazette-Times. The poor are
extravagant as well as the rich The
have nots'' offend as do the ~haves,
whatever difference there is being in
degree and not in principle Our ma
tional government is extravagant, and
so is our state government, our coun-
ty governments. and city govern
ments, and all of them are in debt
excepting the state. Most of our rail-
roads are extravagant and all are
heavily in debt, and corporations are
extravagant and, with rare exception,
in debt. Hence, it is natural that the
individual also should be extravagant
and that debt should be matter OF
course and insolvency not unusual If
it were possible to get at the details
we would not be long in discovering
that this national trait of extrava-
gance is responsible for a consider
able part of the high cost of living
Not for all of it, of course, since the
burdensome cost of living is world
wide condition, the thrifty peoples of
certain sections of Europe not being
immune. But in this country we aP-
pear in the past 10 or Is years to have
surrendered abject1y to the tempta-
ton of extravaganza until the mere
suggestion OF economy, whether in
print or conversation, exposes o. to
the unpleasant suspicion of being "a
tightwad.'
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
TURNSDOWN BRYAN
Villa Refuses Request of United
States For Body of
Benton.
WOUNDS WOULD TELL STORY
Physicians Declare They Could Tell
by Examination of Corpse Just
How Englishman Was Killed

WaShingtno, d. Gust what Cen
eral Villa proposes to do about the
demand of the United States govern
ment that he deliver up the body OF
William S. Benton, the British subject
killed by Villa at Juarez, apparently
is an open question.
Early in the evening Secretary
Bryan had accepted a message from
the const1tutionalist chief to Consular
Agent Carothers at Juarez as a prom
Use that the body would be turned
over to American authorities as soon
message was translated to read that
the body would be delivered, but not
at this time
Just before midnight State Depart
ment officials made public this an
nOuncement:
American consul at chihuahua re-
ports that Villa declines to deliver
Benton's body, but will permit widow
or relatives to visit cemetery with
American representatives; that for
their benefit he will order elimination
of the body, which then will be rein
tered in grave from which it is re-
moved"
From the character of the wounds
discovered on Benton's body, physi-
clans will be able to say whether
Benton was killed by pistol shot, as
his friends claim, or by a firing squad
as Villa asserts 1t is generally ad-
mitted in official circles that such an
examination will be of great value in
either affirming or disproving an i'm
portant point in the general explana-
ton of the affair made by Villa.
News of the hanging of Clemento
Vergara, an American citizen, by Mex
lean federals near Nuevo Laredo,
Mexico, directed attention to the
Huerta government on the subject Of
protection for foreigners. Representa-
Ions in behalf of Vegara had been
made by the state department some
time ago, but no information about
his whereabouts or the reported exc
cution have been received here at this
time
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

Commenting on the fact that how
ever inaccessible business man may
be to callers, he will generally an
swer the telephone, Electricity says
that the explanation is a very simple
one. There is an element of mystery
about telephone call The called
party never knows, until he actually
responds, whether or not the caller
is a person of Importance, or has
something of vital import to commune
cate 1t is just a matter of luck, and
your average business man, no matter
how deep he may be in the conduct
of his affairs with others actually
present. will almost invariably break
OF the most important personal con-
versation to answer a telephone call.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
WESTERN CANADA
CAME INTO EVIDENCE
AT THE CRUCIAL PERIOD FoR
SUPPLY OF WORLDS FOOD
STUFFS.

The present demand for foodstuns
In all parts of the world, and the ex-
pense of producing it on high-priced
lands, would make it seem that west
ern Canada came into evidence at the
crucial period There is to be found
the opportunity that will be large
factor In meeting this demand With
its millions of acres of land, easily
cultivatable. highly productive, acces-
sible to railways, and with unexcelled
climatic conditions, the opportunities
that are offered and afforded are too
great to be overlooked.
There have been booms in almost
every civilized country and they were
looked upon as such, and in the course
of time the bubble was pricked and
was burst But in no country has the
development been as great nor as
rapid, whether in city or in country.
as in western Canada
The provinces of Manitoba, Sas-
katchewan and Alberta have the larg-
North American continent, and their
cultivation has just begun
Even with a two hundred million
bushel wheat crop, less than eight
per cent of the land is under the
ploughs, four per cent being in wheat
Less than five years ago the wheat
crop was only 100000 bushels It
is a simple calculation to estimate
that If four per cent. of the available
cultivatable area produces something
over 200,000,000 bushels, what will AZ
per cent produce? And then look at
the immigration that is coming into
the country. In 1901 1t was 1919,
1900 being from the United States;
in 1906 it was 1S9, 064 of which 1000
were Americans, and in 1913 it was
about 100000, of which about 140,000
were Americans But why have they
gone to Canada? The American farm
er is a man of shrewd business in
stincts, just like his Canadian brother,
and when he finds that he can sell his
own farm at from 500 to 5000 per
acre and move into Canada and home
stead and pre-empt half a section for
himself, and similarly for all his sons
who are adult and OF age upon lands
as rich and fertile as those he left,
and producing indeed several bushels
to the acre in excess of anything he
has ever known, it will take more
than an ordinary effort to prevent him
from making the change
And then, too, there is the American
capital following the cdp1Cal OIL Drawn
muscle and sinew, following 1t so as
to keep in touch with the Industrious
farmer with which it has had dealings
for years back. This capital and the
capital of farming experience is no
small matter in the building up of a
country.
Nothing is said of the great mineral
and forest wealth. of which but little
has been touched
No country in the worlds history
has attracted to its borders a larger
number of settlers in so short a time,
or has attracted so much wealth in a
period of equal length, as have tho
Canadian prairies. Never before has
pioneering been accomplished under
conditions so favorable as those that
exist in western Canada today.-Ad-
vertisement
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
CONDENSED NEWS ITEMS
Criminal

Criminal prosecutions IN the
United States may be revolutionized
by a decision of the supreme court
restricting the conditions under which
prosecuting officials may seize papers
belonging to persons accused OF crime
The immediate result of the decision
was that Fremont Weeks. an express
messenger at Kansas City, viii be
given a new trial on a charge of using
the mails to further an alleged lottery
scheme.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
FACE BROKE OUT In PlMPLEs

Falls City, Neb.-"My trouble began
when / was about sixteen My face
broke out in little pimples at first
They were red and sore and then be-
came like little boils. i picked at my
face continually and it made my face
red and sore looking and then I would
wake up at night and scratch it. 1t
was a source of continual annoyance
to me, as my face was always red
and splotched and burned all the
time.
but could find nothing to cure it
had been troubled about two years
before I found Cuticura Soap and
Ointment I sent for a sample of
Cuticura Soap and Ointment and tried
them and I then bought some L
washed my face good with the Cuti-
cura Soap and hot water at night
and then applied the Cuticura Oint-
ment. In the morning I washed it
off with the Cuticura Soap and hot
water. In two days 1 noticed de-
cided improvement, while in three
weeks the cure was complete"
(Signed) Judd Knowles, Jan. 10, 1913.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold
throughout the world Sample of each
free, with 32-p. Skin Book Address post
card "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
only 20 Banks stay out.

Washington.-Alth official tab
ulations were not completed, treasury
officials estimated that fewer than
twenty national banks OF 7,493 in the
United States have not made applica
ton for membership in the federal
reserve banking system.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
Civil War General pies.

Portland. Me.-Maj- Gen Joshua T.
Chamberlain, ex-governor of Maine
and former president of Bowdoin Col
lege, died here, aged &c. He distin-
guished himself in the Civil War. and
had been surveyor of customs here
since 1900.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
Has 90 Grandchildren.

Preston, Minn--Ninety grandchil-
dren were present at the sixtieth
wedding anniversary celebration or
Mr. and Mrs Michael O'Connor here
Mr. O'Connor, said he hoped the num-
Der of grandchildren would grow to
one hundred before he died.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
Use for Old Umbrella Rods.

make fine plant supports. Disconnect
them where they join the upper part
and also where the ring slips the han
die and you have a double rod to slip
into your flower pots, and if they are
painted gray they are unnoticeable.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
Doubles Oil Dividend.

New York.-The Standard Oil COM
pany of Ohio has announced SO
quarterly dividend and So extra, pay
able April 1, to stockholders OF rec
ord, March 6. The last dividend was
So quarterly and 81 extra
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

A surgeon has invented device to
tell people when they are hungry 4
more valuable invention. probably,
would be one TO tell many of them
where they can get something to eat
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
Must Die for Murder.

Atlanta, Ga.-The state supreme
court has refused rehearing on the
appeal for a new trial for Leo NJ
Frank. under death sentence for muir
der of Mary Phagan-
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
Wolf Loose In Chicago.

Chicago--AIl available policemen
from the North Ha1sted Street station
searched the North Side residence sec
ton for timber wolf, which was be-
lieved to have entered the city in the
storm in search of food
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

Probably no physician has ever en-
gagged in the undertaking business as
a side line Yet the ice man has no
qualms in selling coal
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
sians Eiaht-Liour Bill.

ashington-President Wilson has
signed a bill limiting the hours of Ia
Dor of women in the District of Co
lumbia to eight hours =
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

DR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets regulat,
and invigorate stomach, liver and bowels
Sugar-coated, tiny granules, easy to take al
candy. Adv.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

II any more wonderful discoveries
result from animal experimentation
the least that science can do is to
erect a monument to the dog.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14
It's Kind

How do they propose to entertain
the convention after business hours ?"
Il supposed with canned music"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

The fellow who tries to keep right
up to the minute doesn't. worry about
hard times.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

Give a woman plenty of rope and
she'll use it for a c1othesline.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

There was once veracious fisher
man. but it happened that he always
had fine luck
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

Ever the high cost of living doesn't
seem to have any effect on the wages
Of sin
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

A vivid imagination is as dangerous
as little learning.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1914-03-14

If we sing our own praise we must
provide our own encore.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-19

OF course, the first thing they asked
for was Evelyn. and ! told them ABOUT
her being In town and the new
clothes. But not about the soldiers
nor Penelope.
Nov expect" whines Dave
wen see her about once a week
all on account OF clothes"
"Davy," says |, "a woman ana
clothes means the same thing.
But Dave. he sings up to her win
dow:
"'oh. tell me where my Eva's
gone!'"
And Evelyn throws open the win
dow and filings kiss and laughs
happy as btaZes all changed the
minute Dave comes, She has sewing
things In her mouth and hands, and,
as she waves something drops out
OF her hand into the tall grass. We
all tries 10 find II but II Is no good.
and she laughs, kind OF excited. and
says:
"Only an empty spool boys. Don't
bother" and we didn't-no more.
(Contlnued.)
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fight for you-and another old man
thatll do his best 70 hurt any one
who hurts You
"Ah, daddy. daddy, daddy how we'll
! know that! And how bitter that
makes it."
i expect it's about your being a
rebel amt it," asks l.
She mods.
Well, how often must ! say not 10
bother about that--that We don't care
how rebel you are? You shan't be
hurt for IL Wen see 10 that"
She cries and leans her nice head
down on me
"0h IL YOU only could-if you only
could. daddy, daddy. darling. An.
you are the only ones who can't.
Daddy. II they Kill me-will YOU see
that ! am decently Inferred and not
thrown on the dunghill as I deserve
70 be? ! love you-all now more than
that other thing FL used 70 love
when the devil was awake Daddy,
whatever happens. don't you, for
Gods sake desert me, Stay with
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there's none ready made about here,
for"
She signs hard and long.
And | am going 10 make II last
long. long, long hoping and praying
that before II Is done nay Ulysses may
return and save me, and make a
happy ending
Then she suddenly takes another
tack
Daddy, sometimes | hear that the
war can't last long any more What
do you think?"
Well says. not very cheerful.
its my opinion that the war'll last
as long as the South has anything TO
fight With Gosh. Sometimes | al
most wish EN- successfully are such
grand fellows No matter how many
we kin there's always others aeon
/ ing. No matter how little they got 10
eat and wear nor how little ammu-
milton they got. they fight, Yes-as
long as they can fight this war'll keep
on"
/ She gives a long moan.
What" SAYS, you don't mean
it,"
oh daddy" she says, 'if that lis
THE only way 10 stop IT, let us pray
as do. that my people may soon.-
oh very soon-haye nothing left to
/ fight with-men or guns or food
Think OF that, will you. from such
/ rebel as evelyn,
Evelyn" says l. that is serious
! from a rebel like you. Are you sick
why is t.? Stand fast by your col
ors''
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-19

here any more" She pounds her
breast Something else has taken
its place. Yes, | am brute. But, j
suppose, II could, I'd sacrifice the
whole -for-that one other
thing But" she laughs little,
maybe | can keep my tapestry from
being finished till the wars over,
That's my only hope
oh" says. then that's the trou'
BILE! You're bothering because We've
changed your mind for you, You can't
be rebel any more and you think you
oughtn't be Union Say. Evelyn, that
makes me laugh, IL does, really. OF
course, we're glad you're Union. But,
III You amt sure about r. Why Keep
on being rebel Wen all love you
Just as hard What's the odds-foT
woman And. II you can't do either
the one or the other. which | expect
is your trouble, just forget II and be
happy It's hereditary: that's why
I'm Union And it'll work itself out
all right Do You hear? Just be
happy. That's what'll please us
most"
Goshens, When | looks up the
turn OF the stair. where she had been
she's not there | don't think she
heard a word OF that nice stun OF
mine. | didn't like that
Jon and Dave came a little later
as happy as a pair OF June bugs, real
" on joins back. with a string OF fish
as long as your arm What do you
think of that! Dave on joins back
I wonder how far Jon'd carried him
WHY Dave had caught up and was
| as big as Jon now,
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me and give me another chancei"
II wish you'd tell me exactly what's
up" says |. though / expect an old
fool like me wouldn't understand a
nice young girls thoughts"
Daddy" she asks. did you ever
hear the story of Penelope"
Il never was acquainted with her.
! suppose she lives in Hartford
County. not?" answers l..
She lived I'm Greece
"rhe country in the geography !
says, mot the Shnitglers place?
Yes She was the wife OF q great
soldier named Ulysses And while he
was OF In the wars many other chiefs
came and wanted her and they all
brought their weapons, and all
thought him dead For men didn't
WOO women in those days they took
them But, scared though she was,
she kept them all ar bay playing one
against the other by promising 20
choose one OF them as soon as r
tapestry she was weaving for her hus-
hands shroud was finished, But, al
night. she ripped out what she had
woven ny day. SO that II took a lone
time-and then Ulysses. who had not
been killed, returned as she had
hoped and PRAYED he would. and all
ended happily for her"
Well" SAYS that's a nice story
But what's the answer
~ am Penelope daddy dear" she
saws. "and this is the tapestry"
She holds UP the bundle shed
brought home
"Tve got a grudging permission "a
weave my own shroud because
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-19
WAR"
Copyright 1913
The Bobbs-Merrih Company
By
John
Luther
Long

NO. | must make them myself
says Evelyn.
Welt thought Il was funny that
the tired sad look came into her eyes
when she said that instead OF the
erazy-with- JOY look a girl would nave
about making her own pretty clothes
II came often now
Il suppose no one can see tnem'
I laughs, when they're doneg
Daddy she says. mo, you VIII
never see them
And again the sick look came IN
her eyes,
And. / shall be secret--with my
door locked while I'm working on
'em. You won't mind, will you, Tor a
little while?'
NO" / says, "but the boys"
"Ah. the boys" she SAYS suddenly
turning away and choking I'm ured
--awfully tired. III go straight 10
my room"
went with her as far as the stair.
steps. There she stopped. couple or
steps up, and says, so pitiful that
felt like comforting her.
Daddy, did your passions ever lead
you where YOU oughtn't 10 go? Where
it's death?" =.
II don't know what YOU mean,
says l.
Suppose that when you were very
angry-say at me--you unconsciouSIy
betrayed me 20 enemies-or fixed II
so that some brute would come and
beat me, put me IN prison, Kill me-
and then, when you repented and low
ed me again. and tried TO get the
brute 10 stop coming 10 beat and XIII
me. YOU couldn't, You had gone too
far-told too much-brought the dan
ger too near"
Again" SAYS /. "You are talking
in parables. never read EN-, be
cause I do not understand EN-. The
Psalmist might as well have made
translation for fellers like me-if he
wanted us 10 know what he was talk
ing about What's the English OF H.
Evelyn"
And you had to keep on doing
things 10 please the brute-even let
ting him take you 10 keep him from
taking me-"
'Me?" SAYS I. "rd shoot the brute
and be done with it weuldn I
stand no such hell Not for min
ute"
But II he were so big and imper-
vious that you couldn't injure him
Just shoot and shoot and shoot ana
be laughed Awhile he, with one
twist OF his thumb and finger, could
take the head of of me you love-
She sighs and is silent for while
or of OF you--or jon
Another and worse sigh, and more.
silence
Or Dave-whom love-"
Come back" says l. "and fetch the
dictionary with you,"
But she Just goes on-holding harn
20 the side OF the stair. dropping her
nice head. as II II was about all she
could bear.
'cWi-wouldnt you keep on trying
10 please the brute-even though you
suffered--oh, suffered hell itself
died-so as to keep him from me?
mean from you-all?"
oT dont understand, dear says |,
as kind as possible-for | never saw
her so worked up. 'But II It's trou-
BILE. let your old daddy-yes, and Jon
and Dave. too. help you"
"And suppose" she goes on, that
was Just the hell of II, as YOU said
that you couldn't-daren't- on
them TO help you-the, the only ones
who would, - Suppose that merely
calling on them would ruin them
Suppose that you had 10 do II all
alone-and that you were only girl
after all. like me-"
Evelyn" says | again, II don't I'M
derstand You got TO speak plain. II
you are in trouble-or any OF your
friends-von got two brave bows 70
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-19

Biologists are trying 10 estimate
the ages OF the oceans by comparing
the amount OF sodium they contain
with the amount they receive annual
ly by washings from the continents.
The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-19

A kindly old German unfolds
a stirring tale of the strife
ridden sixties, full of the
fire of patriotism and love.