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WESTERN KANSAS WORLD H. a GIVLER. Publisher. - WA-KEEXEr, 1 V- ' " KANSAS Probably Pat Sheedy's $5,000 prayei Tug is not much worn. It costs something to Mve these days, but it is even more expensive to die. It is apparent that a great many citizens are taking pingpong for that golf feeling. A fellow's friends always think that his capacity for drinks is three less than his own estimate. It Is certainly very considerate In the vegetarians not to try to crow over ns in these beefless days. ; Four revolutions are now going on In South America. The insurrections are too numerous to mention. Mrs. Nation has established a pri vate home for inebriates and will give the water cure a thorough trial. Many an eye was dimmed and many a heart saddened by the passing of everybody's friend Sol Smith Russell. So many new systems of wireless telegraphy are being developed that a trust or combination becomes impera tive. Copper has been discovered in pay ing quantities in Oklahoma. Probably some of the Indians have been shed ding color. Will the news that Count Zeppelin has been ruined financially by his ex periments with airships discourage Santos-Dumont? The high price of beef will dispose of that old adage, the comfort of many a young lover, that "two can live as cheaply as one." An expeditiqn will start In July to rescue Arctic Explorer Baldwin. Res cue expeditions to rescue the rescuers will start out as circumstances war rant. Down in Providence, R. I,, the au thorities think of stopping ping-pong because it has become a gambling game. Is there no innocence left in the world? The husband who wants a divorce in Maryland would better abandon his prerogative. The legislature has passed a law permitting the wife to cross-examine. A Michigan man has had his head repaired with a bone from a dog. Now if he will not chase wagons and bite the milkman he will probably get Along all right. John W. Gates is reported to have lost a lot of money in wheat. It must keep Gates pretty busy figuring to be able to tell what he is worth at the end of each week. J. Pierpont Morgan is said to have made $12,500,000 for bringing about the steamship combine. It would be economy to put him on a salary and not pay him space rates. With New Jersey appropriating J10, 000 to exterminate her mosquitoes and Kansas $5,000 to exterminate her prairie dogs, we shall soon be rid of all the wonders of nature. This is the season of the year when the .congressman who has an. eye to his political future will send neatly packed and carefully selected garden seeds to his suburban constituents. According to a dispatch there was nothing noteworthy in France on May day with the exception of a general state of tranquillity. What more note worthy could there have been in France? The banana is deservedly gaining ground as a food product, but in these times when by-products are so wonder fully utilized, why is the banana peel not only neglected but allowed to make trouble? When Santos-Dumont gets his line of airships in operation between Great Britain and the United States he will probably establish elevated depots or skimming stations at convenient dis tances along the route. If men would only lay as much stress on the duty of voting when they have the ballot as they do on the right to vote when they are trying to get the ballot the world would have a better brand of citizenship. There are so few hearty funmakers In this workaday world that none of them can join the great majority without leaving an unfilled place. Everybody who ever saw Sol Smith Russell will be one of his mourners. The shah of Persia,' who is going to travel in Europe during the coming summer, will not be accompanied by any of his wives. Europeans who will have to entertain him are worry ing for fear he may also leave his bathtub at home. "Unfortunately," says the Roches ter Democrat and Chronicle, "it is im possible to obtain testimony from Eve as to whether or not Adam was a myth." That may be true, but should not the testimony of Eve's daughters bave some weight? "Beauty of JT. m, sw-w-sm. ,-. Irrigation and Scientific Farming Have Made the State a Veritable (Special OLORADO Is at the present Sjft, time, without any question, jf'ti one of the most prosperous ; states In the Union. Indeed II U Jit is having an old-fashion- ed boom. This applies not only to the larger cities like Denver, Pueblo and Colo rado Springs, but to - every nook ' and corner of the state. In ' Denver more- new - buildings are being erected than at any one time ever before In its history. More men are being employed In its different manufacturing - establishments, and more new. enterprises are under way than at any previous time. At Pueblo the Colorado Fuel and Iron Co. are making additions to their already vast works, that will cost ten million dol lars and give employment to 5,000 more men. This company is now one of the largest Iron manufacturing concerns in the world. At Colorado Springs new reduction works are under way that will cost several millions of dol- A Mountain Cascade. Iars and employ thousanc-3 of men. There are' several things to be credited with this happy condition of affairs. First may be mentioned the pros perity of the agricultural interests. The wide-awake, progressive farmers of the country are just beginning to learn that the only scientific way of farming is by irrigation. Not only are crops rendered surer, but the pro duction per acre is enormously in creased, while the market reports show that as far as quality is concerned, grain, vegetables and fruit of all kinds are immeasurably superior to those grown in more humid regions. The de velopment of irrigation enterprises is therefore proceeding at a rapid pace. The summer flow of water in most of the larger streams was long ago all appropriated, while vast quantities ran away in the winter and early spring unused. Hundreds of storage reser voirs have already been constructed to hold these surplus waters until needed and many more are now in process f construction. Some of these are very costly. One is being built near Fort Collins that will cost $300,000, and Lake Cheeseman, near Denver, is about completed at a cost of over a millien. The latter will be a lake of no incon siderable size. In fact will be the larg est body of water in the state. These various reservoirs permit the cultiva tion of hundreds of thousands of acres that would otherwise remain a barren desert. Already Colorado has passed California in the number of acres cul tivated by irrigation and is of course a long way ahead of any other state or territory. And what enormous crops are raised on these lands! Fifty bushels of wheat Fool tn a, cuos, to the acre', four hundred bushels of potatoes, eight to ten tons of alfalfa are not much above the average. A traveler on the Santa Fe riding from the state line to , Pueblo, or on the Union Pacific riding from Sterling to Denver, can hardly realize that the beautiful, highly productive farms through which he Is passing were only a decade ago considered a part of the Great American desert. The discovery that these irrigated lands were peculiarly adapted to the cultivation of the sugar beet Is one reason for the great interest shown Just now in these Irrigating enter Colorado. Paradise. Letler.) prises. There are already four large beet sugar factories in active opera tion, three more are building, and will be ready for this season's crop, and at least twenty others are under contem plation. Farmers claim beets to be the most profitable crop they ever raised. Over $300,000 was paid out last fall to the farmers living near the town oi Loveland. Farm lands double in value when a factory is located near them. Many readers will be surprised to know that Colorado is forging rapidly to the front as a fruit-producing state. The Grand Valley peaches have long been known in the eastern markets for their superior flavor, and of course Rocky Fort melons and cantaloups are known the world over. But these are not the only fruits raised. Last fall fifty carloads of apples were shipped direct from Canon City to New York, and E. J. Matthews of Paonra sold nine thousand boxes of apples at one dol lar a box. These things are beginning to at tract the attention of homeseekers. Many are already coming in, but the indications are there will soon be a stampede in this direction. Lands are yet reasonable in price, but are bound soon to double and ' quadruple in value. SOMETHING WORSE THAN ATHEISM Physical, Not Mental, .Affliction. Kpt Devout Man from Chores. A zealous and, in nis way, a very eminent preacher, whose eloquence is as copious as, and far more lucid than, the waters of his beloved Cam, hap pened to miss a constant auditor from his congregation. Schism had al ready made some depredations on the fold, which was not large, but to a practiced eye ' the deduction of even one was perceptible. "What keeps our friend, Farmei B' , away from us?" was the anxious question proposed by our vigilant min ister to his clerk. "I have not seen him among us," continued he, "these three weeks; I hope it is not Socinianism that keeps him away." "No, your honor," replied the clerk, "it is something worse than that.'"- Worse than Socinianism? Heaven forbid it should be deism!" "No, your honor, it is something worse than that." "I trust it is not atheism." "No, your honor, it is something worse even than that." "Worse than atheism? Impossible; nothing can be worse than atheism." ."Yes it is, your honor; it is rheu matism." Tit-Bits. "Black Dan" Webster. Daniel Webster did not possess one of the attributes of a popular leader. The very greatness, of hie abilities raised him far above the mass of men and put him out of touch with them. He inspired awe, but not affection. No mortal man ever thought of coupling his name with any thought of popular endearment. Jackson was "Old Hick ory," "Old Roman"; Harrison was "Old Tip," Clay was "Harry of the West," "The Mill Boy of the Slashes"; and Taylor "Old Rough and Ready"; but the senator from Massachusetts! was "the Honorable Daniel Webster" to his dying day. Even the cartoon ists could find no other name for him than "Black Dan." It was to "Roug and Ready," therefore, and not to Daniel Webster, that the Whig masse: turned in 1848, when they were done with Henry Clay. Century. Admiral Evans as a Diplomat. A relative of ,. Rear Admiral Evans tells the following characteristic story of the boyhood of the popular sailor: As a boy he had been talked to by the clergyman of the church which his fam ily attended regarding the keeping of Lent, the clergyman trying to impress upon the youngster the idea that the right -way of observing Lent was to deny himself that which he most en joyed. When three weeks of this sol emn season had passed without young Evans appearing in church, the clergy man called to see what was the trou ble. . . .. "Why,' said Evans, "I am keeping Lent strictly,-' just as you told me to, by denying myself my greatest pleas ure that of hearing you preach." New York Times. Experiment Not a Saeeess. They were in the grocer's. Said the grocer, seeing a blind man about to enter: "Are you aware how delicate the touch of a blind man is? When Nature deprives ns of one sense she makes amends by bringing the other senses to wonderful acutenesss. Let us illustrate by this man. I'll take a spoonful of sugar and let him feel it. and you will see how quickly hell tell what it Is." The blind man, having entered, he was put to the test. He put his thumb" and finger into the scoop, and without hesitation said, "That is sand." Everybody laughed but the grocer. Msri Kot Goo Horseman, Few of the sovereigns of Europe are good horsemen. The German emperor has not what can be called a good seat. The Emperor Nicholas is far from be ing a good horseman, while the kings of Sweden Greece aid Denmark detest riding. The king of Portugal labors under the disadvantage of stoutness. Prince Ferdinand of Bulgaria cannot ride for ait hour at a time, and Klmg Alexander of Servia Is afraid of horses m U -7 - r A midnight battle with a giant lob ster, armed with powerful claws and worked np to good fighting trim, was fought by Charles McVane, fisherman and resident of Long Island, four miles from Portland, Me., in Cascoe Bay. Mr. McVane had - been fishing all day with indifferent success and had decided to pull up and start for shore. As he neared Ram Island, which is a barren strip of land with bold, rocky shores and entirely devoid of trees, he spied a large flock of sea duck hod died together in one of the tiny coves that run up into the shores of the island. The sight of the ducks aroused his sporting instincts and made him forget the cheerful fireplace of his own cottage. To make a long story short, he spent an hour or so among the wary sea duck sailing about.from one cove to another, catching first one and then another flock napping. So ardent did this duck hunter be come in the pursuit of his game that he was surrounded by the chilly gloom of an April night almost before he knew it. McVane Is a man of action. With a sweeping glance at sea and sky, and not even stopping to pick up the last duck he had shot, he turned his boat's bow toward the island and beached It well on a strip of sand. - With a knowledge born of many similar experiences he turned his dory upside down, and, with the aid of the sail and his oilskins, made himself a tolerably comfortable rest ing place for the. night. McVane had been asleep, as he Judges, some three or 'four hours, when he was suddenly awakened by an iey cold stream of water trickling under him and running up his trous ers legs. - Scarcely had he regained his senses when this forerunner of the deluge was .followed by a mighty onrush of water that took him, his boat, and everything else in its way, pounding up the beach. Such was the force of the wave that a heavy piece of driftwood was hurled against McVane's head with sufficient force to render him unconscious for a few seconds. When he recovered he was lying high and dry on the beach, but he had a horrible choking sensation, and his neck and throat felt as though clasped in a vice. Clutching with his hand he grasped the hard, cold shell of a monster lobster. He seized the claw that gripped his throat and tried to break its hold, but the sturdy fish erman had been weakened by the blow on tne head and the immersion Crickets Sold on yiscension Day Vtcxuresqne. Custom in Florence- "Crickets! Crickets! Fine sing ers!" cry the Florentine venders on Ascension morning. "Two cents, four or five cents for crickets, fine - sing ers!" All day long the streets are cheerful with the call, and with the crickets songs. For this Is the festi val which in Florence is dedicated alike to the human soul, and to its symbol, the cricket, whose beginning, life and departure are as much a mys tery as the coming and the passing of man's elusive spirit. You may select your own song-bird if you like from the tangled heap in the peddler's net covered barrel, and yon may choose your cage, too, according to your taste and pocketbook. Your cricket you must pick out with care, for the strength and vivacity of its voice will decide your destiny for the coming year. A merry singer foretells good luck, health, and happiness; a sad one augurs misfortune. You will give your pet a. fresh green lettuce leaf, there fore. If you are clever. On Ascension morning devout Flor entines go to mass. . In the afternoon a merry throng crowds the cafes and the Cascine, the beautiful park which lies sunsetward from the city, along the Amo. The common folk sit on the "grass and eat "I cannelloni," the large kind of macaroni that Is . the peculiar delicacy of this feast day. The beau monde promenades up and down the long avenues of the Cascine. swinging their cages and chattering about their respective merits of their song birds. When the hills and villas beyond the Amo have begun to fade from view and Monte Morello and the Appenines on this. side have grown dim upon the Bight, they let their crickets free. in the Icy water. The giant crusta cean clung with tenacity. McVane rolled over on to his stom ach and pinned the lobster undei him; then he tried once more to force the cruel jaws apart, but, though be moved them slightly, he was yet too weak to do anything more. For fully five minutes the fisherman and the lobster struggled, one to release him self, the other to maintain its hold. Perhaps the weight of the man's body was too much for the lobster or perhaps he repented of bis midnight assault, for it suddenly relaxed its strangling grip and in a second Mc Vane had released himself and seized the lobster just back of the head and the base of the claws, the safe grip a fisherman knows so well. The ex hausted Long Islander managed to carry the huge crustacean to high ground and fortunately found a deep, smooth hollow in the ledge, the slimy sides of which afforded no; hold for the prisoner's claws and thus kept it safely until daybreak. Then McVane took the lobster to Portland and turned it over to Taxidermist John A. Lord, who has just finished mounting it. This monster measures four feet and one-half inches from the tip end of its tail to the tip of the longest claw, and it weighed 27 pounds. Significant. A certain composer abroad had an opera accepted and anticipated for it! a great success. On the strength of j this supposition he promised each of cue musicians 111 iae un:utu a. uu j supper witn wine aa uoaum m iie conclusion of the performance. To his surprise and dismay the opera at its premiere was a complete fiasco and was all but hissed off the stage. After all was over he returned into the orchestra to collect some missing manuscript and found there seated one j solitary musician a trombone player. "Well, my friend," he inquired kind ly, "what can I do for you?" The musician looked at him earnest ly and replied in tones of significant sincerity: "1 liked It." Short Stories. Eviluh Married ' 'Women. "Ton may think you know American women with advanced ideas and un conventional modes of living," says a publisher, "but they are not to be compared to their English " sisters. There is nothing so demure as an English girl before she is married, but matrimony, somehow or other, seems to change, her whole nature, if one may judge from the way she breaks loose." Philadelphia Record. Career ot Gov- Clarke. Gov. James P. Clark, who defeat Senator James K. Jones in the""Rs!t for the Arkansas senatorial nomina tion, occupied the gubernatorial chair of Arkansas from 1895 to 1897. His political career began in 18S6, when he was elected to the state legislature. Ha was elected attorney general on the. Democratic ticket in 1892. He was born in Yazoo City, Miss., in 1854. Gov. Clarke has been practicing law at Lit tle Rock since his retirement as governor. Coaling Snips at 8ea. Some Interesting experiments have Just been carried out in midocean by the British navy. The result was thoroughly successful, and it has been found that battle ships can be safely coaled while traveling at the rate of ten. knots. The Trafalgar and the Em press of India were the vessels experi mented on. Japan's Mills So Dr and Nlgrht. All mills in Japan run day and night and change hands at noon and mid night. The vast majority of . mill workers are children, who work 11 hours at low wages. In one mill at Osaka 2,600 workers are under 15 years of age, and operate only 3,709 spindles. In America 300 persons operate the same number. Rheumatism Cured at I-Jt. Lake Sarah, Minn,. May 12th. Thou sands will read with pleasure that a cure for Rheumatism has at last been found. A Mrs. Hildebrandt of this placa after trying very manr medicines hjR recently found a successful remedy Hhr this painful disease. - This woman suffered " so with the Rheumatism in her arms that sleep or rest became impossible. &ne neara of Dodd's Kidney P1II3 but . having little faith in anything was very reluctant to spend any more money for medicine. However, she decided to try one box and this helped her so much that she continued to use the Pills. Now she says: I am real well and I don't know how I can express my thanks to Dodd's jvianeyaiis ior what tttey have dona for me." A . and a Snap. In 1837 Mr. Thomas Saverland brought an action against Miss Caro line Newton, who had bitten a piece out of his nose for his having tried to kiss her by way of a joke. The defendant was acquitted, and the judge laid down that "when & man kisses a woman against her will she is fully entitled to bite his nose, if she so pleases." The Kiss and Its History. SCARED TO DEATH. Dr. Francis W. Mo.N'amara of Chi sago says: "Millions of people are made wretched every year or, perhaps, bave their lives shortened, by feeling that they have heart disease. They have a pain in that region, and their own diagnosis is sufficient to convince Ihem of the malady. As a matter of truth, there is seldom any pain fronve heart disease. The trouble is indiA. gestion only. The stomach, lying jus a; under the heart, is distended to a pain ful degree by gases, and, crowding to ward the heart, makes the pain seem to be in that organ." This opinion simply confirms the claim of Dr. W. B. Caldwell, who orig inated the formula of "Syrup Pepsiu," the guaranteed cure for indigestion and constipation. All druggists sell it, but be sure to ask for Dr. Caldwell's 0 r ; WJ S .U. I It's always, advisable for a poor liar to tell the truth. DO TOtE CLOtHES LOOK YELLOW? If bo, use Red Cross Ball Blue. It will make them white as snow. 2 oz. package 5 cents. Every man who is long on vanity is short on common sense. HalTs Catarrh Core Xs a constitutional cure. Price, 75a Gossips are people who go around stabbing reputations in the back. "I Want Everybody to Know How Completely It Cures Indigestion."" This shows the unselfish disposition of Mr. Hodge, of Orchard Cottage, Ippleden, New ton, who, having been cured by Vogelers Compound,' wishes every other sufferer to know of the benefit he has received from this marvellous remedy. He tells his story as follows : . " Gentlemen I find Vogeler's Compound a remedy lboe ail others ; last year 1 was in a thorough bad oate oi health, and could hardly drag one leg after the ather. 1 had tried dozens of remedies advertised to ure mdirestioa and all its attendant evils, but was rapidly going from bad to worse, when I had the good fortune to be recommended to take Vogeler's CorrX pound. I did so, and am thankful to say it made - ? new man of me. I should Kke other people to know its virtues, and how completely it knocks under the worst forms of indigestion and dispepsia. (Signed) - Gnoses H. HoDcr. Vogeler's Compound is the greatest reme dy of the century for all stomach disorders and Ever and kidney troubles in both men and women. A free sample bottle will be sent on application to the proprietors, St. Jacobs Oil, Ltd, Baltimore, Md. : Why Is It , That St. Jacobs Oil always affords instant relief from pains, after all other remedies bave signally failed ? . Simply because it is peculiar to itself, wholly unlike another rem edy. It possesses great penetrating power, reaching the very seat of the disease. It acts like magic It conquers pain quickly and surely. It is an outward application, and is-used by millions of people. AVE ClOriEY Huy xtut goods at Wholesale Ibices. Our l.soo-page c&taloirne win be sent upon receipt of 15 cents. This amount does not even pay the postage, but it is sufficient to snow us that you are acting- , to good faith- Better send for It now. Your neighbors trade with, us why not you also i i CHICAGO The house that tells the troth,