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iThe Western Kansas World H. S. GIVLER, Pub.. AVAKEEMEY - i KANSAS Some men are as bard to set along "With, as balky horses. In Japan it is extremely bad form for a woman to contradict her hus band. Banzai! France and Germany should note how Sweden and Norway settle their little differences. A monument is to be - erected to John Smith. Not you, gentle reader the Pocahontas Smith. A German chemist has invented a kind of beer that contains no alcohol. But why should he call it beer? War is a serious matter and not a picnic, as you might imagine from the way some European nations behave. Now that the automobile has been invented the next thing is to have it tamed and made the servant of man. The Italian singer who mistook ni trate of silver for water must have been in the habit of taking his drinks solid. There is in New York a policeman who has made ?250,000 in real estate. Evidently he was not always asleep on his beat. Dr. "Wiley has gone into executive session to pursue an investigation of limburger cheese. ' Science also has ' its martyrs. Now old Pelee is impolitely elbowing in between the dove of peace and Tom Lawson for a front seat In the glare of the limelight. It cost an Ohio man $20 to swear at a woman over the telephone. Here is a case where long-distance bravery did not triumph. Here's hoping that a sudden turn of events won't make the dove of peace ' feel that it has got mixed up in a pigeon-shooting match. Henry James may be right in saying that the American newspapers use ' "sloppy English," but at least It can be generally understood. "Men do not die of hard work," says ' the Boston Globe. "We knew a man tonce who died of hard drink, though. A cake of ice fell on him. Fashion struck a death blow to the waiting hoopskirt industry when it de creed that only women who are over thirty should wear the things. Garden seed four thousand years ,old have been discovered in Egypt, but Egyptian Congressmen are not . sending them out to their constituents. j "Who knows? If Russia's dream of an alliance with Japan is realized, come day the czar may be friendly enough with the mikado to call him "Mik." , . "We owe an Immense debt to medi cal science," says the Detroit Free ' Press. Same here, brother, and the .doctor is beginning to get disagreeable about it. "We have noticed that since the re sult of the ocean yacht race was an nounced. Sir Thomas Upton isn't talking so much about taking part in the next one. Human nature is queer. Thousands of people now would like to see those photographs with the newspaper girl's picture in them that the president has ordered to be destroyed. A literary critic says in painting -women, she must be made "either an- gelically radiant or heroically dia bolic." Let us strike the golden mean and say "angelically radiant." "Smacks of Treason" is the caption of an editorial in the Washington Post. We have not read it, tut pre sume it treats of the kisses bestowed by a married man on the pretty house maid. . A French engineer thinks a railway could be built around the earth, in cluding a tunnel under Bering strait, for $250,000,000. Probably a few more thinks might cause him to alter his figures a little. The Boston Globe invites ns to "imagine a daily newspaper written in the style of Henry James." But if they cannot imagine such a thing in Boston, we don't see how we can be expected to do so. .- The Birmingham Age-Herald says: A Richmond pastor has Induced the women members of his congregation . to leave- their hats at home. The plan will work all right until next April. .Then there will be trouble." Young Willie Ziegler proposes to use his .$30,000,000 for the purpose of , discovering the north pole. In this cool manner probably he will be able to i escape the accusation, when it Is all over, of having "burned up" his money. Perhaps the young English scientific .man who by putting radium and ster ilized bouillon in a test tube has ouc--eeeded In producing some of the phe- .nomena of generation is on the verge ot a great discovery, and perhaps be Is only enthusiastic - - WARSAW'S BLOODY HISTORY Massacre. Fire and Sword for Centuries Have Marked Story of Polish Capital Captured by the Swedes, taken and retaken by the Poles, occupied twice by the Russians between 1764 and 1793, besieged by Prussians and also by Russian forces, ceded to Prussia in 1795, occupied by the French in 1806 and finally seized by the Rus sians in 1813 such is the war history of Warsaw in modern times. If to this were added various uprisings from 1831 to 1863, in which hundreds of lives were lost, it can be seen eas ily that the old Polish capital is a Gope7nor6enera.is Palace. WkrsaOr' town with a sanguinary record almost nuparalleled in the annals of Euro pean cities. Massacre, fire and sword are the principal words in its records. Warsaw is beautifully situated on the left bank of the Vistula on a ter race that is 100 feet higher than the navigable river. It now is the capital of the government of Warsaw, is 405 miles east of Berlin and 650 miles southwest of St. Petersburg. The city has two large suburbs, Praga and New Praga, and is defended by a score of detached forts. It continues to be the gay and active metropolis of Poland, whose literature and arts it dominates. The newer part of the town is well built, but the older sec tion contains quaint, ancient houses and narrow, sinuous thoroughfares. The center of life is the Palace square, near the river and the ter minal of the Alexander bridge, an imposing structure that spans the Vistula. Near by is Theater square, with the town hall, the latter flanked by the fine Grand Theater, the prin cipal house of amusement in Warsaw. There are well-kept boulevards and a number of gardens, and along the river in Praga stretches the magnifi cent Alexander Park. The city is rich in historical struc tures. All told, there are six Russian and over thirty places of Roman Catholic worship. The Roman Cath olic Cathedral of St. John was found ed In 1360, and a new Russian cathe dral has just been completed. The MAP OF DISAFFECTED REGION f- . , -rr t'j f Mf3 . - .' : . T S- PETERSBURG j POLAND f " I elij ' omr Capital tt 1 m UJoriSt4M , jag ftagow i f f AT anA district ' ' 1 JtMl4 "a v south jrifussiA iVer'Z.zL-J' r'rrrirL fmtSHimtf antniom Y". -. . . g. ! s fun : i "" sT - ' . Nearly every industrial city in Rus sia and Poland has been the scene of bloodshed and revolt. The map shows the wide area affected and the power ful industrial centers. Lodz, the scene of the latest carnage, has a Partridges as Housebreakers. Awakened by the crash of breaking glass at 4 o'clock in the morning, James Murphy of Jefferson, Mass., went on a burglar hunt. Softly de scending the stairs to the dining room, he listened to the intruder as he scratched round in the dark. He could get no answer to his demands for an explanation of the invasion of the Murphy domicile and finally lighted a lamp. It was then seen that all the noise came from a .much frightened partridge which was hugging close to one corner of the room. Church of the Holy Cross dates fmm 1695, and the old royal palace, that centuries ago sheltered Polish rulers. is now the residence of the alien Rus sian governor. The Lazienki Palace is an imposing structure, but is coupled with associations repugnant to the feelines of Datriotie Poles. Ti ls merely an elaborate memorial to the Polish generals who fell in 1830 while fighting under Russian colors against their- country. While it can be said that In the matter of public Improvements, such as waterworks, transit facilities, etc., Warsaw is backward, it still remains the great industrial and commercial center of Poland. Its manufactures are extensive. In the printing trade alone there are over fifty book print ing establishments. Leather, coal and wheat are the leading commodi ties of trade, and Russia is the chief consumer of these products. The ar tisans of the city are estimated to number 65,000. The superior courts of the district are located in Warsaw, and there reside also the principal dignitaries of the leading religious faiths. While the head of the city adminis tration is a magistrate, over him al ways stands a Russian general, who virtually is the chief of police. The population of Warsaw is about 650,000, of whom one-third are Jews. There also are thousands of Germans. A Russian garrison of 30,000 men is kept in barracks to awe the people. It has a famous university, a noted medical school and art and educa tional establishments of various kinds, but a drawback to these insti tutions is that instruction generally is given in Russian. Warsaw is first mentioned in 1224. It was the residence of the mediaeval dukes of Masovia, and early in the sixteenth century it superseded Cra coa as the capital of the Polish king dom. It was made a royal residence in 1550. population of 325,000 and is called the "Manchester of Poland." This city has a textile Industry whose annual production is worth $45,000,000. There are over 300 manufactories, 30,000 men being employed in the cotton Malicious Enolish Snirmw Farmers in the vicinity of Swanton Center, Vt, are out with a new indict ment against the English sparrow. The corn was being pulled badly. It was thought by the crows, but when all the usual renidies used in dealing with that bird failed to bring results it was discovered that the work was being done by the sparrows. The blade is pulled up by the roots, but as the kerne is not eaten or in any way appropriated to the use of the tres passer, the charge is simply "mali cious mischief." Precepts Boys From a place at the cobbler's bench at a mere pittance, William L. Douglas has risen to the highest executive po sition in the State of Massachusetts, that of Governor, and has made him self a millionaire. , His rules and precepts of success were given recently by him through the Boston Sunday American. They are rules that he has tried and tested, the rules which have elevated him to the highest position in the gift of the state, the rules which have won for him an enormous fortune. The Governor is Interested in boys He declares that these rules are given for the benefit of boys. Here they are: What are the secrets of success? Will I tell the boys of Massachusetts what I think they are? Recently in talking to a delegation of bright-faced boys, I told them that they should, in order to make the most of life, obey the old maxim, "Stick to your last." Everything in nature is fitted to do one thing well and spends its whole life doing it. You never hear of the ant going into the honey-making busi ness, nor of the bee building ant-hills for a change. Each one knows its place in the world and sticks to it, and that is what boys must do if they would accomplish great things. And remember always to keep your ambition up to the top notch. What ever you do, try to do it better than the other fellow. At school make it a point to stand at the head of your class, and at play don't be satisfied until you can jump the farthest or throw the straightest. Then when you Troubles of A . popular clergyman took a half dozen letters from his pocket, 9ys the Boston Post.. "These are anonymous letters," he said. "They have come to me during the last three weeks. I am continually receiving strange anonymous letters questions, usually, that I am request ed to answer in the sermon of the next Sunday. "Recently a young man wrote an onymously aiii said that when he was a boy of 16 he worked for a grocer. He stole from his grocer's cash draw er, a little at a time, over $300. Now he was prosperous and he desired to return the money. Would it be suffi cient to return it as 'conscience money from an unknown source," or should he make the grocer a confession? I answered that it would be sufficient to return the money. "I got a letter last year in a wom an's hand that asked me to preach against the sin of murder. 'One will hear you," said the letter, 'who has murder in his heart, the murder of an innocent, white-haired old man." I preached my best sermon against mur der and I didn't neglect to draw a fancy picture of an old man with He Liked "Grudely" Beer The venerable economist, Edward Atkins, who recently told woman how much she ought to spend on dress each year, met the other day a young girl. The gown of this girl was simple and beautiful, and Mr. Atkinson, in his capacity of dress expert, admired it. "A grudely gown," he said. "A pret ty grudely gown." " 'But I don't know what 'grudely' means," the young girl objected. " 'Grudely' is an epithet of eulogy," said Mr. Atkinson. "It is an. obsolete word, preserved in the story of the northern farmer as extinct flies are sometimes preserved in amber." "But what is the story of the north ern farmer?" "I'll tell you," said Mr. Atkinson, smiling. "There was a northern farm One Cause of Appendicitis is often due to bad teeth, said Dr. E. S. Thompson, lectur ing at Gresham College, London. The same organisms, he said, were pres ent both in defective teeth and in the diseased appendix, which proved that dental decay was capable of causing appendicitis. "I see no evidence to show that our teeth are deteriorating to an alarming extent with the growth of civiliza tion " he declared, and he pointed out that an even larger proportion of dis eased teeth had been found among Egyptian and Roman remains than ex isted at present. "Tobacco has an injurious effect on The North Sea's Summons The voice of the North se calleth. Solemn" and full and Blow; "Come down to my icy caverns. My grottoes and deeps below. I will lay my head on your forehead And on your fevered breast-. Xou shall sleep serene and quiet No dreams shall haunt your rest. 1 saw the boat of the Norseman Afloat in the silent night; I marked in the danger calmness. In the eye undaunted liKht. "Come down!' I cried. 'We're kindred. Thou man of fearless brow!. The door am I of Valhalla!" How still nis slumbers now; "When the herring-boats outwander 1 lilt my mignty arms. How -beats my heart for fishers, r iae lovers ox ocean cflarms; Should Study enter business life this matter of set ting ahead will become a habit Now I want to give you another thing to think about while you're grow ing up and preparing to win fame and fortune in the commercial world. It is this: Don't try to do what you like do what you can. That's a good companion-piece for "stick to your last." Don't let the attraction of some thing you don't know lure you away from the thing you do know. Once upon a time a young man whose fath er made pickles, and who had learned the pickle business from A to Z, de cided that he'd like - to go into the business of making molasses candy. He didnt know anything about it, but he liked molasses candy and thought it would be great fun to make it and sell it. So he proceeded to try his hand at the business. The result was disastrous. His candy wasn't good candy, because he didn't know how to make it properly', and, therefore, no body wanted to buy. Finally, he went back to the pickle business and made a fortune, because he certainly did know how to make good pickles, and everybody bought them. Do what you can and stick to it. That's wisdom. About the most strik ing sentence I remember is this one, written by the great philosopher, Thomas Carlyle: "The king is the man who can." There's a whole volume' of sound sense contained in those seven one-syllable words. All the elements of success are there set forth and the whole secret of greatness sticks out conspicuously from that simple sen tence "The king is the man who can." a Clergyman white hair being slain by a young chap. "Sometimes, In these letters, ethical questions are propounded that stump me. A sailor, for instance, once wrote something like this: 'Two years ago, before I got religion, I married a sweet young girl, and we now have two beautiful children. I am a big amist by rights, for in '97 I married a Malay girl in Port Said. She was a bad one, drunk all the time, and one night she cut my head open with a bot tle in my sleep. So then I left her. Since I got religion I have tried to look her up, but she disappeared from Port Said five years ago, the same day a traveler was robbed of a silver watch and a bag of gold. Now, I want to do the right thing. Ought I to leave my present wife and try to find and reform the other one. Ought I to confess to my present wife?' "I told this sailor he had sinned, but, under the r circumstances, he had best keep quiet and say nothing unless his first wife turned up again. "Thieves, murderers, bigamists, forgers and what-not write to me for comfort. It is amazing how miserable all these undiscovered and unpun ished evil-doers are. It goes- to show how wretched a thing sin is." er of the old school, who, as he rode Londonward on his gray mare,,espied one morning a cozy inn. He stopped before the inn door, and rapped with his cropstick. A pretty maid -ap peared. " 'Has t'ou gotten any grudely good beer?" the farmer asked. " 'Yes, sir,' said the maid, as she dropped a curtsey. " 'Then fetch a quart, lass said the farmer. "The quart was brought in a mug of polished pewter, and the farmer toss ed it off, smacked his lips, and said, in a hesitating way: " 'It seems pretty grudely. Fetch another quart." " 'This, too, was brought, and the farmer, after draining It, smiled. " 'It is grudely," he said. 'A grudely beer. I'll get down and have some." Los Angeles Times. Appendicitis the digestion," he went on, "but I do not think that nicotine has any more effect on the teeth than alcohol. But tobacco certainly . blackens the teeth, and so causes many persons who are careful of their personal appearance to brush their teeth more often than they would otherwise do." He had found cod liver oil amazing ly successful in promoting the growth of teeth in children, and he recom mended the tooth brush drill as part of the curriculum of schools. Dr. Thompson also urged the practice of washing the teeth after meals, and rubbing them twice a day, and particu larly the last thing at night. London Mail. The cold it has kept these waters As pure as falling snow. Come hither, intrepid seamen!" - Behold they lie below. "No harbor am I for spices; Upon my diadem f In filigree of frost I wear The midnight sun for a gem. The unknown north has fingers That reach into my tide. Oh. not for balmy pleasure He clutches deep and wide. "Ho, ye who fear not anguish. Ye souls of steel, come forth! . As Jacob fought with the angel. Come, struggle with the North! Stand face to face with trouble And meet death with a shout. The pale that dims your courage Snail blow the north star out!" Tooths Companion, LASTING RELIEF. J. W. Walls. Su perintend ent of streets of LebanoL, Kv savs: "My nightly rest was broken, owing; to irregular action of the kidneys. I was suffering intensely from sever pains In the small of my back and through the kidneys and annoyed by painful passages of abnormal secre tions. No amount of doctoring reliev ed this condition. I took Doan's Kid ney Pills and experienced quick and lasting relief. Doan's Kidney Pill will prove a blessing to all sufferers from kidney disorders who will give them a fair trial." - Foster-Milburn Co.. Buffalo, N. Y proprietors. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. Heaven isn't exclusive enough for some women. Every housekeeper should know that if they will buy Defiance Cold Water Starch for laundry use they will cave not only time, because it never sticks to the iron, but because each package contains 16 oz. one full pound while all other Cold Water Starches are put up in -pound pack ages, and the price is the same. Id cents. Then again because Defiance Starch is free from all injurious chem icals. If your grocer tries to sell you a 12-oz. package it i3 because he has, a stock on hand which he wishes to dispose of before he puts in Defiance. He knows that Defiance Starch has, printed on every package in large let ters and figures "16 ozs." Demand Defiance and save much time and money and the annoyance of the iron sticking. Defiance never sticks. If marriage is a lottery the Mor mons must be ticket speculators. Important to Mothers. Examine carefully erery bottle of CASTORIA, s safe and eure remedy for infanta and children. and see that it Bears the Signature of In 1788 For Over 30 Tears. The Kind You Bave Always Bought. The drowning candidate catches at a straw vote. Mrs. inslow's Sootfalnar Symp. For children teething, softens the gurus, reduces ffi nsmmstion. allay pain, cures wttvloollu. 25cabotUe Expect Too Much of the Horse. You put blinders on a horse so that he can scarcely see anything that is going on about . him, and then you blame .him from trembling and jump ing and starting to run at every little noise. You forget how frightened you were when with blinded eyes y'ou were Initiated into the awful mysteries of the High and Mightful Lodge of Un biased and Superincumbent Chinwag gers. And why shouldn't a horse be frightened as easily as a donkey? The Sparatan Boy. The Sparatan boy hid the wild fox under his Jacket and let the sharp- teeth gnaw him without a complaining murmur. "Anyway," he said when they were investigating the extent of the damage, "anyway this will entirely relieve zner of any necessity for having my appen dix removed." We Can Bank on the Answer. Proud Ohio Tell us why, Oh, yvby your bankers, eight or ten, Haven't told us Which can hold us Best, the mighty sword or "pen." Makes No Difference. "Want ter buy a bull pup?" . "No sir. I'm a clergyman." "Wot uv it? Bull pups don't care who owns "em." Hard cider is scheduled as a soft, drink in Kansas. IN COLONEL'S TOWN Things Happen. From the home of the famous "Keyh- nel Keeyartah of CartersviUe," away- down South, comes an enthusiastic let ter about Postum: "I was in very delicate health, suf fering from indigestion and a nervous, trouble so severe that I" could hardly sleep. The doctor ordered me to dis continue the use of the old kind of coffee, which was like poison to me. producing such extreme disturbance- that I could not control myself. But such was my love for it that I could not get my own consent to give it up for some time, and continued to suffer. till my father one day brought home a- package of Postum Food Coffee. "I had the new food drink carefully- prepared according to directions, and gave it a fair trial. It proved to have- a rich flavor and made a healthy, wholesome and delightful drink. To- my taste the addition of cream great ly improves it. "My health began to improve as. soon as the drug effect of the old cof fee was removed and the Postum Cof fee had time to make its influence felt. My nervous troubles were speedily re lieved and the sleep which the old cof fee drove from my pillow always came to soothe and strengthen me after I had drunk Postum in a very short time I began to sleep better than 1 had for years before. I have, now used Postum Coffee for several years and like it better and find it more benefi cial than when I first began. . It is an unspeakable joy to be relieved of the old distress and sickness." Name given by Postum Company, Battle Creek, Mich. There'? a reason. . Read, the little book, "The Road to JVeUville," in each pkg. '- Vr