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The Western Kansas World
H. S. GIVLER, Pub.
"WAKEENEY
KANSAS
May no one strew tacks In, the path
of the happy couple who were married
In an automobile.
On raising the lid off the Panama
teapot no tempest worth mentioning
has been disclosed.
Young couples who are married In
automobiles are always exposed to the
danger of an early falling out.
Portugal has a new cabinet, but Por
'tugal is too orderly to have any rignt
to expect to attract public attention
The woman who has posed as the
late Jay Gould's widow continues to
die frequently, and the mourners are
few.
Reginald Vanderbilt paid $650 for a
box at the Chicago horse show. He
could have got a pretty good horse foi
that.
As a discourager of the boll weevil
the Guatemalan ant is acknowledged
to be one of the worst failures of the
season.
Old-fashioned marriages were made
in heaven. A marriage ceremony re
cently was performed over the tele
phone. Hello!
It appears that most of the nations
are willing to have another Hague
peace conference if it is possible not
to interfere in their affairs.
A Chicago park visitor gave a mon
key several drinks of whisky. The
monkey should resist this foul at
tempt to make a man of him.
Now that Boston has set the seal of
critical approval on "Parsifal,' the
late Dr. "Wagner has indeed good rea
son to feel spiritually encouraged.
Some scientist will happen along
presently to tell us that the Japa
nese are so healthy because the kiss as
a form of salutation is unknown in
Japan.
The women at the St. Paul party
who allowed their hostess's husband
to examine their stockings in search
for missing money were not blue
stockings.
The governor of Guam announces
that his people need school books.
Owing to the mildness of the climate
. they will continue to get along with
out trousers.
Emperor William says art is partly
a devious road that leads far away
from the true ideal of beauty. He
must have been looking over some
horse show posters.
A scientist of Sicily announces that
breathing coal dust will cure consump
tion. Why didn't he discover a cure
that would be within reach of the pa
tient of moderate means?
In accordance with his previously
expressed wish, no women were al
lowed at the. funeral of Col. Boyd at
Ncrristown. We wonder if any wom
an regrets that he is dead.
A wild rumor has gained credence
to the effect that Oom Paul Kruger
buried a lot of gold somewhere in
Africa before his banishment. No
doubt the Boers will bore for it.
Jealousy caused a Nyack. N. Y.,
boy 2Vi years of age to murder a lit
tle girl. Still some people don't be
lieve there is anything in the claim
that a man is old and worn out at 35.
A man tells us that no great suc
cess is ever achieved in this world
by kicking. If he will accompany us
to the football field in a few weeks
we will compel him to change his
tune.
Bandit Raisuli has caused It to be
known . that he would like to cap
ture another foreigner. He will hard
ly have a chance. The brevity of
Perdicari's fame shows that it
doesn't pay.
Our grandfathers used to claim that
if whisky were a poison it was a very
slow one. But nowadays when the
chief ingredient of whisky appears to
be wood alcohol the action is some
what accelerated.
Jacques Marie Joseph Maurice des
Rosters de Balaine took out natural
ization papers in New York the other
day. He'd better cut a lot of it out it
he expects to keep up with the pro
cession over here.'
The clergymen of the country have
teen asked to preach on the subject
of peace, and many of them are com
plying. The sermons may not stop the
war, but they ought to have a good
effect on the choirs.
Just as It is well that all men dont
want the same woman for a wife, so
it is fortunate that the man who Is
crazy about baseball doesnt take the
same vivid interest In football, too.
Otherwise the work of the world nevei
would be done.
The London Times reports that
. there is "a serious overproduction of
Scotch whisky, with a consequent de
pression of prices." This does not.
liowever, prevent the general sale
f counterfeit Scotch whisky at the
msual Hi-ices over here.
HAS FONDNESS FOR SNAKES.
Little Pennsylvania Darkey a Puzzle
to Naturalists.
Prof. H. A. Surface, State Economic
Zoologist, has found the "Boy Snake
Charmer of Harrisburg, according to
a dispatch from the Pennsylvania
city.
The other day Prof. Surface was
engaged in sorting snakes for his
new volume, "On the Snakes of Penn
sylvania, when a little black face ap
peared in the doorway and a squeaky
little voice asked: '
"Is heah wheah de snaik man
lives r
The professor thought a moment
and then said that, he was the man
who was looking for snakes.
The little fellow beamed and asked
the professor if he would let him see
some of his snakes. -
"Certainly," said the professor, and
he went to his collection, where a
lively rissing viper and a large black
snake were coiled up. Both of these
snakes are perfectly harmless, but
the boy did not know it. He was de
lighted over the snakes and the
squirming and twisting of their beau
tiful bodies seemed to charm him.
When Dr. Surface's attention was
diverted to another part of the room
the negro had reached into the box
and took out the hissing viper, and
followed this by lifting out- the black
snake, which coiled about him. He
was fondling the snakes when Dr.
Surface turned and the boy was ap
parently not a bit afraid.
The boy's name is James Dean and
he is a familiar object on Harris
burg's streets, clad in a red sweater,
short trousers and shoes that have
seen better days. He wears neither
hat nor stockings. At the meeting of
the Harrisburg Naturalists' club. Dr.
Surface took "Jimmy" Dean as an
object lesson and the little fellow
handled the snakes as if they nad al
ways been his playmates, much to
the astonishment of the members of
t&e club.
A Kicker.
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I PUT
Raising Trout for Market.
There ought to have been more
than a suggestion to some farmers
with an available water supply at
hand in the tank containing trout six
months, 1, 2, and 3 years old, shown
by Lewis Johnson & Son of West
Brattleboro, Vt, at the Valley fair.
The three-year-olds weighed two
pounds apiece, and at market value
they are worth $1.50 each in season,
Mr. Johnson claims that he is making
more from the sale of his trout each
year than many a farmer gets from
his entire establishment. Some rais
ers insist that trout can be put on the
market for "the price of pork."
Curious Fish.
The oldest inhabitants of the New
York aquarium are the striped bass,
which have been there for ten years,
having been placed in one of the floor
pools before the building was opened
to the public. In May, 1894, fifty-five
specimens, weighing from a quarter
of a pound to four pounds, were se
cured, thirty-seven of which have sur
vived. Most of those that were lost
died in the first yearymnd in the last
four years not one has died.
Imagination Too Strong.
A young man suffering from imag
inary cancer has just committed sui
cide at Horsforth, near Leeds, Eng
land. His friends failed to convince
him that he was not a victim of the
terrible disease, and the best medical
advice in the district was- sought in
the effort to cure him of his fears. All
failed, however, and the young fellow
was so tortured by- the hallucination
that he poisoned himself in his bed.
Crows Pounced on Wounded Enemy,
A young man in Brookvllle, Me.,
shot a large hawk a few days ago.
but before' the wounded bird had
reached the ground a large flock of
crows pounced on the unfortunate
bird and carried him off to regions
unknown.
French Baby Carriage.
The French youngster's first im
pressions of Paris are viewed from
this style of baby carriage. It is com
pactly built to economize space in the
many small apartments of the French
eaoltal.
NEW JERSEY FIRE ALARM.
Steel Rims of Old Locomotive Wheels
Put to Good, Use.
Most of the towns in New Jersey,
even including so large a place as
Long Branch, have steel wheel fire
alarms, which arouse communities
around them in a very wide radius.
The wheels are merely the steel rims
of big locomotive drive wheels. They
are given to all towns desiring them
by the Central railway of New Jersey,
from its disabled rolling stock. Some
times the alarm is mounted in a
wooden tower frame, and again is
hung from the arm of a stout post.
A big hammer hangs on a post, and
any one discovering a flre.clangs the
alarm and calls citizens "to action.
Tne above photograph was made
from one of . the most gracefully
mounted fire alarms in, the. State at
Avon, the rival of Pleasure Bay, on
Shark river, where ocean beach sum
mer resorters drive for steamed clams
and cooked crabs, taken from the
salt water while you wait, observing
the whole process from dining room
verandas overlooking the water.
PAYS 42-YEAR DEBT.
Soldier Finds Widow of Man Who
Lent Him $15.
Mrs. E. R. Bootey of Jamestown, N.
Y., was at home the other day when a
stranger came to the door and asked
her name.
Finding she was Mrs. Bootey, he
said he was lying in a southern hos
pital forty-two years ago, and wanted
to get home, btrt had no money. A
companion gave him $15, with which
he made the journey. , His companion
was E. R. Bootey, a lad from Chautau
qua county, and he never fiw him
again.
Mr. Bootey has been dead several
years, and the stranger paid to his
widow the $15, adding another $10
for interest.
Mrs. Bootey had never heard her
husband speak of the incident, but ac
cepted the payment and thanked the
man who was willing to pay a claim
that every one else had forgotten after
forty-iwo years. New York Herald. -
Fifty Goats' Fatal Spree.
Fifty drunken goats caused a great
dear of excitement in Old Forge.
Some men dumped a quantity of fer
mented wheat in a vacant lot near
where a number of goats were pas
turing. The odor arrested the attention ,of
the goats as being very tempting.
They swarmed- down the mountain
and had a glorious time eating the
wheat. The effect on the "butters"
proved fatal, as they had eaten so
much that they were poisoned. The
residents feel the loss severely, as
they derived their milk supply from
the goats. Montrose (Pa.) Independ
ent. Reserved for Humans.
Cannibalism appears to, be unknown
among the lower animals in a state
of nature. In India some instances of
snakes devouring one another have
been collected, but it has been point
ed out that in every case cited the
snakes were of different species.
This, it is declared, is no more an act
of cannibalism than the devouring of
a field mouse by a rat. Unquestion
able cannibalism was noted some
years ago in a London menagerie,
when a python ate another of its
own kind, but this was under the un
natural conditions imposed by life in
captivity.
From French Prayer Book.
French prayer books of 1525 con
tained these sporting scenes among
others.
Freak of Pacific Fishing Season.
Fine, plump shad, with fully devel
oped roe in them, such as come to
market in May, are now being caught
by fishermen on the lower Columbia
in their traps, and are causing won
derment as to where they have been
loafing all summer. The fishermen at
tribute this freak on the part of the
shad to the universally dry season.
Portland Oregoman.
Dogs Yielded to Temptation.
A beer wagon collided with an Ice
cream cart at Providence, R.- I., and
the beer and ice cream became gen
erally mixed In the gutter. Some
dogs started in to eat the mess, and
two became so drunk that they could
not Ktnnd.
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DESECRATED GRAVE OF MILTON.
Diabolical Act of Drunken Men Com
mitted a Century Ago.
There are probably many, even
among the subscribers to Milton's
statue, who will be surprised to learn
that the body of. the great poet was
once on view at a charge of threepence
a head within a few yards from the
site chosen for this splendid tribute to
his memory.
It was in 1790, after a carousal, that
two overseers and a carpenter enter
ed the Church of St. Giles, Cripple
gate, where Milton lay buried, and,
having discovered the leaden coffin
which contained his body, cut open its
top with a mallet and chisel. "When
they disturbed the shroud, Neve says,
when telling the story of the ghoulish
deed, "the ribs ell. Fountain con
fessed that he pulled hard at the
teeth, which resisted until someone hit
them with a stone. Fountain secured
all the fine teeth in the upper jaw, and
generously gave one to one of his ac
complices. Altogether the scoundrels
stole a rib bone, ten teeth and several
handfuls of hair; and, to crown the
diabolical business, the female grave
digger afterward exhibited the body
to any one willing to pay threepence
for the spectacle. Westminster Ga
zette. DOG HAD NOT FORGOTTEN.
Stung by Bee in Puppyhood, He Cher
ished Resentment.
"Something must have stung your
dog," said a resident of this city to
a suburbanite, whom he was visiting
a few days ago, as he noticed the an
tics of a large collie which, after
snapping .- frantically at a flying in
sect, lowered his head and carefully
licked his right forepaw..
"No." replied the owner of the dog,
"that is only a little delusion of his.
When he was a puppy a bee stung
him on that foot you see him attend
ing to, and ever since he has cher
ished a standing grudge against flying
insects. Apparently the sight of one
not only arouses his anger, but re
calls most vividly his first experience
with one, for each time after run
ning after one, whether he catches
it or not, he stops and tenderly licks
the place where he was stung two
years ago. As far as I know he has
never been stung since then." Phila
delphia Press.
Love in Zululand Cottage.
Poverty being already present no
window is provided for his entrance,
and if love goes out by the door he
must go on all fours. The becoming
costumes of the handsome young
couple show traces of European influ-
Gift for Texas University.
The museum of Baylor university
at Waco, Texas, has recently received
as a gift from the Rev. Z. C Taylor,
Bahia, Brazil, the complete skuII, the
blade bones, several vertebrae, and
three ribs of - an immense specimen
of the common fin whale or rorqual,
captured in the South Atlantic The
length of the skull is 15 feet, width
across the top 8 feet, hight from the
ground 6 feet, length of lower jaw
bones 13 y feet, length of ribs 6 feet
4 inches, length of bladebone 5 feet 4
inches, width 4 feet. Weight of skull
2,884 pounds; of each of the lower
jawbones 545, of the bladebones, 35
pounds.
Statistics of Billiards.
Taxation enables many curious ta
bles of statistics to be compiled. It
would probably puzzle the best of
English statisticians to guess even
approximately at the number of bil
liard tables in use in England. There
is no such difficulty in France, where
the billiard table is a taxed luxury,
and its relative frequency in . com
munes of all grades of population and
wealth is made the subject of calcu
lations as elaborate as they are in
genious. In all France there are
89,676 billiard tables, divided among
18,601 communes, and realizing more
than 40,000 in taxes. London Tit
Bits. Woman Shot Deer from Carriage.
The other day Mr. and Mrs. Daniel
Iott of Houlton drove np to B planta
tion and while 5lr. Iott was a short
distance in the woods after partridge.
Mrs. Iott, who was sitting In the car
riage, spied a large buck deer at the
edge of the clearing and immediately
brought her rifle to bear upon Mr.
Deer. He dropped after receiving one
cartridge. Lewiston Journal.
Small Rental for Church.
When Goodyear Bros, of . Buffalo
bought the sawmill and bouses at Me
dix Run, Mass, there came into their
ownership a union church, which had
belonged to the Dodge company. The
Goodyears have now rented this
church to the Methodists for 10 years
for 10 cents, or one cent per year.
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The Glory of Winning.
Not for the cries of "Hurrah" from the
"rough-spoken crowd
That cheered for another last night,"
and to-morrow will turn
With cheers for some new hero, fearless
and strutting and proud
Such glory i spurn.
Not for the praise of the gray-bearded
sages who prate
Of yesterday's doctrine as foolish or vile
or worn-out,
Who to-morrow will grimly declare to
day's creed out of date
Their plaudits 1 flout.
But for their sweet approval who, love
ly and gentle and fair.
May some day sing unto their sons or
my glory I strive;
How long. O ye heroes, if they ceased
to praise would ye dare ?
Whose hopes would survive?
S. E. Kiser in Chicago Record-Herald.
Thirteen-Year-Old Soldier.
"I was mustered into the service at
camp Chase, Lowell, on Sept. 3, 1861,"
says storekeeper Edwin F. Cushing at
the navy yard, a resident of Somer
ville, "and, I was born at Dover, N.
H, on . May 29, 1848, my age at the
time of muster was 13 years 3 months
and 5 days. My final discharge was
given me at Gallops island In Boston
harbor, on August 26, 1865, thus mak
ing the official duration of my connec
tion with the regiment just one week
less than four years.
"Of course," says Mr. Cushing,
"there were a great many more boys
in the army. But the larger part of
these under-age. youngsters got in dur
ing the last two years of the war,
and as I began with carrying a musket
and kept right on in that sort of duty
during the major part of the time I
was in the army, the claim has been
made in my behalf that I am the
youngest soldier, with four years of
active service to my credit, who en
listed from Massachusetts.
"Whether or not that is so, and the
record may be duplicated several
times in this as in other states, I am
satisfied," said Mr. Cushing, "tnat I
became a soldier full early enough,
and but for some 'hardening I had
just received on a New Hampshire
if-rm, my experience in performing
the duties of a full-fledged enlisted
man might have been much more diffi
cult than it proved to be. Then again,
my regiment, the Twenty-sixth Massa
chusetts, did not see much real work
in the field for nearly two years and
the life in garrisoning forts and in
policing New Orleans gave me a
chance .to grow to the full measure
of a soidier's duty, so that when we
reacted Sheridan in the Shenandoah
valley, we were all a toughened lot of
union defenders.
"The 'Twentysixth, " said Mr. Cush
ing was one of the Butler regiments
that went to Ship island with Gen.
Butler in November, 1861, our com
mander being CoL E. F. Jones, who
led the 'old Sixth through Baltimore,
and Col. Jones is now one of the
youngest men in the regimental asso
ciation, of which body I am the secre
tary. The regiment was encamped at
Ship Island until April, 1862, our bri
gade commander being Gen. J. W.
Phelps of Vermont, who was recalled
by President Lincoln for issuing those
famous emancipation proclamations,
Gen. Phelps being the first of the
union commanders to attempt the free
dom of the slave in general orders."
Civil War Losses.
O. W. Norton, in a letter to the
Chicago Post, says: Many of your
readers are interested in the war be
tween Russia and Japan, and follow
ing the accounts of the battles are ap
palled by the great losses reported in
each of the armies. These losses
seem enormous, and the impression
is general that the world has not seen
before such desperate fighting. Com
paratively few of your readers are old
enough to remember the fighting in
our own civil war, and fewer still
have made any study of the statistics
of our own losses in battle. Modern
weapons, especially the small arms
with their small bullets, are much
more merciful than those used !n our
great war, when the bullets were one
inch long and fifty-three one-hun-dredths
inches in diameter, causing
fearful wounds. The papers report
that a very large proportion of the
men wounded on both sides in the
present war have already recovered
and returned to the ranks. The news
paper accounts of the great slaughter
in these battles are usually exagger
ated and the figures greatly reduced
by the official reports.
Perhaps your readers would be In
terested in some statistics of the civil
war, comparing them with reports of
battles in the East. The following fig
ures are taken from a book compiled
by William F. Fox, entitled "Regimen
tal Losses In the Civil War." This
book is accepted as authoritative, and
by far the most reliable publication in
the statistics presented. The figures
are not estimated losses, nor taken
frcm the accounts of special corre
spondents in the field. They are com
piled from the muster rolls and official
reports on file in the War Depart
ment. .
The following table gives ths per
centage of loss in several regiments
In one battle to the number of men
engaged In that battle, ranging from
60 per cent to 82 per cent of the men
who entered any one battle. In the
table from which I copy these figures
there are a large number of other
regiments In which the losses exceed
ed half the number engaged, but this
list is long enough to show what stuff
our American soldiers were made of.
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e ust includes killed, wounded and'
missing. A small portion of those re
ported missing were taken prisoners,
but the greater part were reported
missing in battles where no prisoners
were taken, and were so reported be
caus at the time the report was made
it was not known absolutely whether
they were dead or severely wounded
and left on the field.
Pet.
Regiment and battle loss.
One Hundred and Flrty-first Penn
sylvania Gettysburg ..73.7"
One Hundred and First New York
Manassas' 73.8; .
Twenty-fifth Massachusetts Cold
Harbor 70.
Thirty-sixth Wisconsin Bethesda
Church 69. &
Twentieth Massachusetts Fredericks
burg 68.
Eighth Vermont Cedar Creek 67.
Eighty-first Pennsylvania Freder-
lcksburg 67.
Twelfth Massachusetts Antietam 67.0
First Maine H. A. Petersburg 66.5
Ninth Louisiana (colored) Milliken's
Bend
One Hundred and Eleventh New
York Gettysburg 63.
Twenty-fourth Michigan Gettysburg.63.T
Fifth New Hampshire Fredericks
burg 63.6.
Ninth Illinois Shiloh 63.S
Ninth New York Antietam 63.0
Fifteenth New Jersey Spottsylvania.62.
Eighty-second New York Gettysburg. 62.
Fifteenth Massachusetts Gettysburg.61.9-
Sixty-ninth New York Antietam 61.8
Fifty-first Illinois Chlckamauga.. 61.
Nineteenth Indiana Manassas 61.
One Hundred and Twenty-first New
York Salem Church 60.
Fifth New York Manassas 60.6-
Ninety-third New York Wilderness. 60. 0
Back at Chattanooga.
"I was in Chattanooga last week."
said the captain, "and went over
the Chickamauga battlefield to locate
the camp of the First Illinois in 1898.
I couldn't find it, or at least I could
not locate it by any of the old land
marks. All traces of the old camp have
been obliterated, and new camps of a
more permanent character have taken
the place of the old ones. In a few
months other changes will have taken
place, giving to the regular cavalry
stationed in the park the model bar
racks and camp of the country.
"The Seventh cavalry is there now,
the troopers riding along the roads
that were the scenes of many dashing
soldier adventures in September, 1863.
An old surgeon riding with me over
the field pointed out where a full regi
ment of rebel cavalry crossed the river
in the rear of his brigade and galloped
by a log shanty behind which he had
just established his field hospital.
The men in gray seemed oblivious of
the men in blue firing in front, and the
men in blue were . as oblivious of the
presence of the enemy's cavalry in their
rear. That illustrated, the doctor said,
what a mix-up there was at Chicka
mauga. "A little later our driver, pointing
to a large manufactory near the base
of Lookout mountain, said: 'In spite
of the mix-up some of the boys were
lucky in the outcome There is a fel
low named Patten, an Illinois man,
by the way, who is worth $2,000,000'"
because of a leg shattered by a can
non ball over in the park, before it
was a park. He was so severely
wounded that he could not be sent
north with the other wounded of the
battles hereabout, and was still in
hospital when the war closed. The
result was he remained here, went
into business, and is now worth $2,
000,000. If his leg had not been
crushed by a cannon ball, or if he had
gone home lame, he might have lost
his chances , to become a millionaire."'
Chicago. Inter Ocean.
Deaths of Confederate Officers.
Much - has been said in the Euro
pean press of the death of Lieut. Gen.
Count Keller, of the Russian army,
who was killed in a recent battle with
the Japanese in Manchuria. Gen. Kel
ler was the first officer of high rank
killed on either side, with the excep
tion of the Russian Admiral Makhar
off, who was blown up in a warship
at Port Arthur. It may be out of
place to mention that in the civil war
in th's country the Confederates had
killed in battle no less than fifty-two
general officers, of whom one was a.
general of the highest rank and commander-in-chief,
Albert Sydney John
ston, who fell at Shiloh, and three
lieutenant generals, Leonidas Polk.
Stonewall Jackson and A. p. Hill.
There were eight major generals and
forty brigadier generals. The Confed
erates fought great odds, and it was
necessary for officers of the highest
rank to expose themselves. They
went with their men into every dan
ger, and thiB was the reason why so
many were killed in battle, while few
escaped being wounded. New Or
leans Picayune.
Veterans Passing Away.
Soldiers of "the disappearing
army, as the veterans of the civil
war have been termed, are dying at
the rate of 100 every day, from sun
rise to sunrise. This pathetic show
ing is made by the quarterly state
ment of the pension bureau, given eut
by Commissioner Ware. The mortal
ity among soldier pensioners of all
wars and classes last year was 31,278
deaths, of which 30,071 were volun
teer soldiers in the civil war. Com
missioner i Ware estimates that there
are from 150,000 to 180,000 soldiers of
the civil war who are not on the pen
sion rolls. These he has designated
as "the unknown army." It is said
fully 38,000 civil war veterans (pen
sioners and nonpensioners) died last
year. Washington Star. .
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