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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09
Drifting for Two Years.
Seattle, W. T., Post Intalligencer,

Seattle. W. T.. Post 1nteligencer,
Captain J. N. Armstrong, now in COM
mand of the bark Kalakaua, loading
lumber at Port Blakely for the west coast
of South America, was ia Seattle recent
~. Captain Armstrong will be remem-
bered as the commander who brought
the ship Templar from New York to San
Francisco few years ago on one of the
most remarkable passages on record.
After being out for some time the captain
went into foreign port, and for some
reason his crew, excepting the officers
left Finally two English ships came in,
and from them Captain Armstrong made
up new crew, and after being out four
days the entire crew, including the cap
tain and his daughter, were taken down
with yellow fever. The first mate died,
and several Of the sailors. Those who
had the disease less violent threw the
dead overheard one by one. The ship
drifted about without pilot or navigator
for more than year. The captain for
two years was 30 violent nom the
ravages Of the fever that he had to be
chained to the deck to keep him from
jumping overheard. He wears the scars
from the chains and lashings to this day.
During the year that the chip drifted
about the second mste and three or four
Of the sailors recovered, but being out
Of sight Of land and not understanding
navigation, they were powerless to do
anything with the ship. Finally the
daughter regained her reason, but not
her strength. One day she went for the
second mate and asked him to carry her
ON deck, which he did. She then sent
for her fathers instruments, and BY the
aid Of these and her knowledge Of navi-
CATION abe figured out the location Of the
vessel 6he then took the charts from
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09
Catarrh, Catarrhal Deafness and Hay Fevei

Catarrh, Catarrhal Deafness and Hay Fever:
Sufferers are not generally aware that these
diseases are contagious, or that they are duo
to the presence of living parasites in the lin
ing membrane of tho nose and estachian
tubes. Microscopic research, however, haa
proved this to be fact, and the result is that
asimple remedy has been formulated, where.
by catarrh, catarrhal deafness, and hay
fever are cured in from one to three simple
applications made at home. A pamphlet
explaining this new treatment is sent fre<
on receipt of stamp, by A. II. Dixon d Son,
315 King Street West, Toronto, Canada
Christidn Standard.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

"James, do you know you put three
buttons Cd the plate in church to-day {?
Eyes, I knew what I was about"
"James perhaps you don't know that
I bought those buttons yesterday for my
new dress and paid Sc cents apiece for
Them"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09
QUESTIONS THAT SOME PEOPLE ASK

An Inquisitive Piano-Tuner-"Interv
Ing" Clergyman.
A business man who has recently re-
turned from trip in New England was
entertaining some Of his friends while at
luncheon yesterday. In speaking of the
numeross questions which stranger
has to answer in the country, he said
"A young fellow at breakfast one
morning bowed and said: par
don me, but as I have seen you three
times within week, I feel as If we
ought to know each other. am q pi-
ano tuner, learned my trade in New
York. He then became very chatty,
carrying on q one sided conversation for
some time, for his voice was altogether
too familiar. Three or four nights be-
fore We had been kept awake by this
fend as he entertained crowd Of hotel
loungers on the piazza under our win
dow. His so-called Experiences" were
related with characteristic air Of SELF
consciousness until 'Castanea vulgaris'
was heard from college fellow who had
been an unwilling listener to the SEEM
ingly personal experiences I do not
suppose that many understood the elias
steal allusion, but no ono WAS left in
doubt Of what be meant when after an
other experience be shouted chestnut
"The piano tuner, certain thst was .
commercial traveller was curious to know
what line of goods I carried. After he
had limited in vain q half . dozen
branches Of trade, and had suggested
several other occupations in which I
might be engaged, he finally aaksd with
an air OF great humility.
":Aare you professor Of physisr
His seemingly undue interest," In my
business a6airs I learned later from
Congregational minister, At whose house
We rsmainsd one night was not At al
singular. Il was acustom ofths country
INDUCED IN howsvse, - fvsquantly
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09
A Husbands Protest.

"
The following original document which
is printed rerbatim ct spellatim has been
received by county clerk:
County Clurk Of hum Bolt co, new. :
Dhar Sir i thout would drop few
Lines to you in regard to granting mi
wife Sarah - Bill of diverse am
aposed to her having q. Bill fur i can
prove i always treated mi wife Like a
Lady By all her own relatives and every
Body that nose us ever sence wee have
Bin mared we have bin mared Is years
this month and She has had as mulch to
eat and war as eney other woman
which her husband has to Labor for q
Living I have worked hard fur to make
a living for mi famley and co clerk
Loved mi famley and mi wife as well as
eney man ever Loved a companen But
She Left me in monona co Iowa Last
march and I did not no She wos in
nevady fur a week after She wos gon
She told NEE She wos going to mi
Brothers in missouri If I had NODDED She
wos going out thar in winemuca i would
keep mi children But She told me a
folshood now am opposed to that court
granting her Bill Of Deveorse fur mrs
- has good husben and one that
Loves her and able to make good Liv-
ing for her and our Little children i can
prove this evidence By Lots of witnesses
this is all this time yours Truley from
Leonidus - to county clerk of hum
bolt new.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Buokingham's Dye for the Whiskers pro-
duoes, in ono APPLICATION, apermanent color.
We have used Ayers Ague Cure, and have
found il invaluable in malarial troubles
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09
A Hard Fate

it II indeed, to always remain IN poverty and
obsounty; Be enterprising reader and avoid
this. No matter in what part you arc located,
you should write to Hallett & Co., Portland,
Maine, and receive free, full particulars
at profit ef at least $ to $25 and upwards
daily. Some have earned over $50 in . day.
All Is new. Capital not required. You are
started free. Either sex. All ages. Better
not delay.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Horses that work on dusty highways OF
fields receive much benefit from occasional
washing, even scrubbing with soap, IN opsr.
alton easily and expeditiously performed.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

and Sn ssnd to P TT. op
Kan, for q free sample copy of that un-
rivalled and famous newspaper Tn WEEx-
IL CoMMoNwEALrH. By sending twenty. i've
cents you can have TH1 COlnEoNv1AI1n
mailed to any address for three months on
trial.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

"Buz1s AID SoA1.Ds."-H you arc 20 IN
fortunate a. to injure yourself In this way,
W can suggest q remedy that will soon 70.
lisvs You Of all pain and quickly heal The
wound; it costs but twenty give cents and IL
sold By all druggists. Ask for PK1Hy DAVIS
PAM-KuLKR,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

10 b free from sick-headaohe, b1ho1s.
nees, constipation, ETC., use Oarter's Little
Liver Pills. Strictly vegetable. They gently
stimulate tho liver and tree the stomach
from bile.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Not . Purgative; Carter's Little Liver
Pills; their action is mild, pleasant and
natural.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Tho first theatre in New York VA
opened 183 years ago by Lewis HallanG.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Be merciful to dumb animals. Heal
Ill open sores and cuts with Stewards
Healing Powder, Is and SO cents . box.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

81 Wish could find something that would
cure gals and prevent the hair coming in white,
10 an expression frequently heard. veteris AIRY
Carbolisalvs will always do it Sold By Drug
gists at 30 cents and $1.0.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

1t IL poor acre Of corn that VII Eoe
keep q COW from grass in autumn to grass tn
spring and the COW that will not pay round
profit on the product is too poor to keep.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Our young ftisod. Frank Wasnse,
who has Just graduated from EIiotSs
Budns0 College, Burlington, Iowa, has
secured . fns position in BurlmgtmS.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

The wide spread fame of DR.. Bulls Cough
Syrup il justly won by its own merits, and
tho reputation it has gained has been &C.
cured by its universal nae.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Garden City is working up the subjec
of artesian wells.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Every person is interested in their own
affairs, and If this meets the eye Of any one
who 10 suffering from the effects Of torpid
liver, we will sdmit that he is interested IN
getting we'll. Get bottle Of Pnckiy Ash
Bitters, use it a. directed, and you will a.
ways be glad you read this item.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Miss Clara Barton is going to write an
account of her life and work for Lppin-
colts Magazine.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Meal Dow fixes 1892 as the year for pro.
hibitionists to elect president.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

In mining districts where men have been
burned or bruised by carelessness, Saliva
ton Oil has been used to great advantage.
It is now sold by all druggists at twenty
five cents.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Mrs. Sunderland, Of Washington, be-
cause of the brillianoy Of the precious stones
she wears, beans the title Of tho Diamond
Queen.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Constant change of stock gives you no
opportunity to realize the full value Of any
breed, however good.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

There are few products Of the farm that
have kept 20 near full prices - eggs through
the long period Of depres- On.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Axtell, Marshall county, reports ,
medical spring.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Tho demoorats Of New Jsrsey nominatei
Judge Robsrt & Green Of Union, Ton gov
oIn0I.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

The newest weapon Of war il an electric
sword Death comes from the shock Of il
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Prudent farming mover pinches prepa-
ration Of land for tho seed, because that IN
the outcome il leesened production.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Tho Queen Of Naples, says London
Ts,kk, "ran q horse in the Baden-Badeu
ntoeplochaso.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Sec that there are burrows plowed in
your fields 60 that the water can escape
freely. This applies specially to the wheat
and berry fields.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

Tn habit Of running over boots or shoes coo.
rected with Lyons Patent Heel Etihsnsa.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

That Bearing Down Pain
II cured by Oarter's Iron Pills. At3druaaiets.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

by what at first sight looked like quad
rangular rampant of earthworks, but
which proved, on closer inspection, to be
the remains of an extraordinarily mas
sive wall built of sun-dried bricks. The
space thus bounded was strewn with
ruins. 80.
Such was the aspect Of the place when
surveyed in 1898 by the engineers of
the great French expedition. Mean
while there was war in Egypt, in India,
in Europe, on land, on universal
war, followed, in 1916, by universal
peace. The rich, the learned, the ad-
venturous, the speculative, were once
more free to travel, and the world was
speedily over run by tourists and traders.
The picture market and the antiquity
market, both long dormant, started into
new and vigorous Life. In Egypt the
soil was strewn with treasures which it
was not only profitable but praiseworthy
to rescue from the destructive propensi-
ties of native fellaheen and Turkish
pashas A host Of depredators laid
hands accordingly upon every movable
object within their reach, and the collec-
tions 90 amassed were sold for enormous
sums to crowned leads and wealthy DIR
tuosi. Thus were founded the great
Egyptian galleries of our European
museums.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09

The August days are flying past
And happy is the lover,
Because he knows the season for
Ice cream is almost over
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1886-10-09
The Story Of an Ancient Egyptian City.
Harper's Magazine.

The Story of an Ancient Egyptian City.
Harpers Magazine.
Upon some spot of rising ground
above the level of the annual inundation
few mud huts cluster round q rude
sanctuary. The hut-dwellers multiply;
the village spreads; the sanctuary is en-
larged or rebuilt. As time goes on, the
village becomes city; and the temple,
enriched by successive generations of
kings, governors, and pious donors, be-
comes vast historical aggregate of
chapels, halls. courts, avenues, pylons,
and sacred enclosures. By-and-by,
whe her ravaged by foreign foes or
shastered by some convulsion of nature,
the splendid structure falls into partial
ruin. Hereupon the degenerated
princes of latter age, careless of the
past and eager to raise some memorial
of their own uneventful rule, lay profane
hands upon the monuments of their
great predecessors, cut them up for
building material, and use them in the
construction of debased limitations of
earlier schools. This process, in all
probability, is again and again repeated.
Not merely stones, but statues,
sphinxes, obelisks, are appropriated and
reappropriated, worked and revoked,
till at last there comes time of disrup-
ton and change, when the old religion
is abolished, and the images of the gods
are cast down, ana the very language of
the inscriptions is forgotten. After this,
the sacred places become quarries for
the builders of Coptic churches, Arab
mosques, and the palaces of Turkish
governors. Meanwhile the actual city,
consisting of labyrinthine lanes of mud
built dwellings,, gradually disappears.
The spacious houses of the rich, tho
novels of the poor, crumble, collapse,
and resolve themselves into mounds of
dust and potsherds. Such is the local
history of hundreds of ancient Egyptian
sites, and such is the history of Tanis.
A hundred years ago, the grave of this
dead city was yet inviolate. Then, as
now. the great sand island was heaped
high with desolate piles of reddish
brown rubbish. Then, as now, those
mounds enclosed low, level area of
large extent like the bed of dry lake,
or the crater of an extinct volcano.
The traveller who-once, perchance, in a
decade scaled those crumbling slopes
and looked down into that area, beheld
at his feet an undulating waste enclosed
by what at first sight looked like quad
rangular rampant of earthworks, but
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
FOREIGN GOSSIP.

Italy has three locomotive factories
and three railway repair shops.
The Bavarian Government pur-
poses to allow all it's railway employees
half of Sabbath each week in which to
rost.
Hamlet" was recently performed
in London to a houseful of deaf mutes,
pantomime and the conventional signs
by hands and fingers being the mediums
employed.
A nan in London has been arrested
for Systematically starving his aunt to
death. For years it has been his custom
to lock her in a room every other day
without food.
In Alcssandria, Piedmont, a young
male soprano, a pupil of Maestro Cor
naglia, is d%elighting the people, both in
church and concerts. by a voice which is
said to rival that of Patti.
The japanese are putting their
house in order for the great experiment
of a Parliament elected by the people,
which is to meet in 1890. The system
by which power was centredin the hands
OF a Council of State has been abolished.
London is rejoicing over the pros
poets Of three thousand new and i'm
proved hanson cabs with polite uni
formed drivers, and %sixpenny fares.
There will be wal to the knife between
these cabs and those at present run
ming.
"A number of physicians in Paris
have organized for the purpose of rails
Ing a fund for sesearches to discover a
means of curing and preventing con
sumption. A special effort will be made
to ascertain the utility Of incubation.
"A law enacted in Denmark COM
pels all makers and sellers of adulterat-
ed, imitation and bogus butter to pack
it in elliptical tubs, conspicuously mark
ed margarine" and Furnishes infrac-
tons of the law by a fine of from 200 to
1000 kroners (S54 to $500. The en-
actment was forced by the agricultural
element of the country. despite the OPP
position by the bogus butter people.
There are at Canton eight hundred
temples dedicated to gods and goddesses,
all of them richly adorned with shrines
and images. In the "Templc of
Heaven" at Pekin. the Emperor Of
ficates as high priest. 1t is rich in silk
hangings, gold embroidery. huge paper
lanterns of quaint forms, covered with
all sorts of Chinese characters and gro
tesque idols.
during a recent discussion of the
estimates for the railways of Alsace-
Lorraine, which are owned and worked
by the State, it was mentioned that the
daily work of locomotive drivers varied
from four to five hours on fast trains to
ten hours on freight trains with switch
ing service for a long time. The driv-
ers had every fourth or fifth, or at least
every seventh day for rest. Pointsmen
have . day off every two weeks.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
CONCERNING TILE.
Points Which Should BE Taken Into Con
sideration in Laying Them.

Points Which Should BE Taken Into Con-
sideration in Laying Them.
An extensive manufactures of tile
says that about a year since a farmer
came to him to pay for his tile, and said
that he thought tile drains would last
longer than they do; he said: ..Those
tile | got of you seven years ago did first
rate for three or four years, and then
commenced to give out, and now they
only drain about one-third the distance
at the lower end" L learned that he
put the tile in without having water to
grade, and did not level his ditch. |
advised him to put seven-inch where he
had three-inch, and put them in twice as
deep and grade by water. l think l
would be safe in saying that one-half to
one-thlrd OF all the tile that has been put
IN to the present time will have to be
taken up and laid more perfectly. Not
until within the last few years have tile
been put in any thing like deep enough
and especially that which was put in
hrst; the drains were mostly not graded
"a great many supposed that the force
Of the water wotld keep them washed
out whether it was graded or not: but
after a few years they found that the
three-inch tile, put down one and one
half feet deep across the ten-acre tleSa'
dld not thoroughly drain the whole
1leId. Chicago ISLANDERS.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
BURNED OUT.
Great CONGREGATIONS in Honolulu and In
Hull, Cam, Render Thousands of Persons
Homeless.

SAN Francisco, May 10. = Advices re-
ceived by the steamer Alameda from Hon
olulu give an account Of a disastrous
conflagration which occurred there
April is. The fire started in a
c~ook-honse in the Chinese quarter,
where Cinnamon starting a fire in u
stove carelessly set fire to the walls OF the
building. The fire soon got beyond con-
troll. The fire department. was inadequate
and efforts were directed toward staying
the fires progress by blowing up buildings.
It was not until eight entire squares,
comprising sixty acres OF the most
thickly populated portion OF the Chinese
quarter had been destroyed, chat the fires
advance was staid. About 5000 people,
mostly Chinese, are lett homeless. The
loss is estimated at 81, 800, 900; insurance,
$23O,O0O. Only two lives were lost-a
native woman and an unknown person
whose cls,rred remains were found. The
King visited the scene Of the co%nfagration
and greatly encouraged the men, often as
sisting with his own hands.
HULL. Can, May 1O.-Fire broke out at
an early hour Saturday morning in Alder
mar Landry's bakery, and spreading rap
idly soon destroyed all the houses on Lake
and Duke streets and on Main street as far
as Pontin's stone block at the corner OF
Main and Slide streets, where it was
checked. The area covered by the fire is
about ten acres, and $50 families were
burned out. Loss $3.50, 900.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
made away with himself, and the only

made away with himself, and the only
question is: who will be ncxt??
at is almost impossible to prevent
these self-murders, as the act is usually
committed under sudden powerful i'm
pulse. Everybody's mind and eyes
are, of course, intent on the game,
and so many haggard men get up
from the tables that the sight is too
common to engage the attention of the
ever-present detectives. 1t is but Just,
however, to say that the managers do
everything in their power to prevent
suicides, except closing their doors.
Mechanics and artisans are not per-
mitted to live either in Monaco or
Monte Carlo.
eff an unfortunate PLAYER gets up
from a table and acts wildly-''crazy,'
they call it, for all suicides are by our
tesy esteemed crazy at Monte Carlo
he is hustled off by a couple of stalwart
policemen and put on q train for
Nice. A guard is constantly with him,
his board bill at Nice is paid by the
company, and, if he finally talks rea-
sonably, he is given enough money to
trke him home in tirst-class style.
The management also endeavor to dis
courage dying on the premises by aid
ing destitute gamblers. IT one has lost
heavily and frankly states his condition
OF temporary poverty his case will be
promptly investigated. Should it be
found as narrated, he will be given two
or three hundred dollars to take him
home, or an order for two weeks
board at one of the company's first
class hotels."-N. Y. SUI.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-05-21
Many Barges Wrecked.

PITTSBURGH, Pa, May 1O.-At 5:45 O'Clock
Sunday morning 100000 worth of prop
erty in coal barges was sunk in the Mo-
~nongahela river between dam No. l and
the Point bridge. The cause OF the dis
aster was the sudden rise in the river.
A fuel fat which had broken from it's moor.
lngs came drifting rapidly the swiftly
running stream. Just Iselow the dam it
struck against a fleet OF twelve barrcs.
The entire tow started down the river. Be.
fore the runaways had gone far they en-
countered t~wenty-three other barges. Only
eleven Of the t~hirty-cight barges were
saved.