Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1919-07-10

DuC nevertheless one IS mentioned as
being put on the market in early bible
i days. You Will find the record of the
1 sale in the latter part of the 18th
chapter of Genesis.
i Old ST says that the great dislike
j some of us common folks pretend to
have for the alleged 400 is something
i fierce.
The spoken word is a fragile, in
i tangible thing, without size or sub
Stance, or measurable dimensions, and
/ yet it may live long and work veal or
woe, more or less according to the IN
i tention of the speaker. Passing from
mouth to mouth it may bring mes
| sage of good cheer and helpfulness, OF
| from friend to foe it may sting and
/ rank1e in the heart of the helpless
| hearer for years and years and at last
| it may come back to its author-a
blessing or a curse.
i No less important but more stable
| is the written or printed word, be-
cause it is matter of record and can
not, be evaded gainsaid. And this
| is true even though the place of re-
| cord may be ever so modest and OBJ
scure There is no candle so feeble
| anu IIIck0IU1S tIleaI IL may uOC odIC
some ray of light out from under the
bushel of it's commonplace environ
ment. There are those who pretend
| to despise the little country newspa-
per, as having nothing in it,, sim
pie purveyor of home1y, unimportant
| neighborhood happenings. But sim
| pie, obscure and ciTeumscribed as it
| may appear, the little country sheet
has its friends and its sphere of in
| huence. There are those who read its
columns eagerly. And occasionly an
echo comes back to US to convince us
that it's readers are more numerous
and more widely scattered than the
| unthinking public may suppose. A
| Missouri subscriber who has been
reading The WORLD for nearly forty
years recently reminded the writer
that she is still taking the paper and
reading Dictagrams. More than that,
her copy of the paper is forwarded in
succession to three other widely scat
tered families. Verify, the speaker,
writer publisher never knows the
number of his audience. Nor yet can
/ he tell what Impressions he may UNI
| knowingly give them.
| FOrty-f1ve horse or mule-drawn We
| hicles may have been seen on the
streets of Wa-Keeney one afternoon
/ recently. OF course twice that NUM-
Der of gas wagons were in evidence
but the proportion of old-time convey
ances was unusually large, probably
because farmers came to town pre-
pared to haul out harvest supplies
machinery and building materials
| Another "rare BIRD in this vicinity
is the tree toad, nevertheless we have
seen two three. No, the tree toad
doesn't fly. He climbs trees but does
| not build his nests in trees. Neither
does he rob birds nests. His color is
/ very much like the color of the bark
| OF the tree on which you may find
| him. That is his way of hiding, and
| he is very modest songster. Yes, he
sings but his chirp is about as musical
as the dark of the dogwood. Yes, the
| dogwood is tree but of course it
| barks
If the authorities of Holland are not
willing to surrender Bill and Fritzie,
the arch-murderers, for trial and pun
ishment, then said authorities should
be regarded by all the civilized world
as their accomplices
i No, the said murderers and others
who planned and begun the great
i world war should not be hung shot or
4 electrocuted, although they more than
deserve it, They should be given just
about the same punishna that was
given Napoleon.
i Danish them to some lonely island
IN mid-ocean. Let them see no one
i but their guards. Let no other human
ever speak to them. Let them never
hear from the outside world, and
there let them die of old age or the
i dry rot
i Yes, let the collection include Won
Bethman Ha1lrug, Count Brainstorua
Ludendorf, Hiddenbug, and all the
i other chief conspirators against the
i peace and security of the world Let
Il them commune together over their