Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1889-03-09

NOTHING is more demoralizing to man
.,'An 70 lose faith in his fellowa The man
81 faith and honor is not apt to be suspi-
eious Of others. and does not willingly be-
HeVe evii. The lover of scandal and the
ready believer in it are alike deficient in
honor and morality, and are the bans of
weh-organixed society,
LIGHTING GAS with the finger Is feat
yo0oy may perform. Let a person in
his siippers. walk briskly over a wooden
carpet, scnffiing his feet thereon, or stand
upon chair, with its legs upon four tum-
piers to lnsulate it, and be there rubbed up
and down on the body few times with
mum. by second individual, and he viii
nsht his gas by simply placing his finger to
'he tube. 1t is only necessary to take the
precaution not to touch anything, or to be
touched by anybody. during the trial OF the
experiment. The stock of electricity &C.
CURED by the process we have described is
discharged by contact with another object.
One Person must turn on the gas while the
other fires it.
Edmund BURKE's IDEA OF A PERFECT
HIFE.-She is handsome, but it is not q
beauty arising from the features, from
complexion, or from shape. She has all
three in high degree, bat it is not by these
that she touches the hearG-it is all that
sweetness Of temper, benevolence, inno-
cence. and sensibiiity which a face can ex-
press, that forms her beauty. She has a
face that just arouses your attention at
FIRST sight IL grows upon You every mo-
men5, and you wonder it did not more than
raise attention at first Her eyes have
mild light, but they awe when she pleases;
they command, like good man out of
Office, not by authority, but by virtue.
Her stature is not tall, she is not made to
be the admiration of everyone, but the
happiness of one. She has the firmness
that does not exclude delicacy-all the
softness that does not imply weakness.
Her voice is soft, low music, not formed to
rule In public assemblies, but to charm
those who can distinguish company from
a crowd; it has its advantage, you must
come close to hear it, TO describe her
body, describe her mind-one is the tran
script of the other. Her understanding is
not shown in the variety of matter it exerts
itself upon, but the goodness Of the choice
she makes. Her politeness flows rather
from natural disposition to oblige, than
any rules on that object, and therefore
never fails to strike those who understand
good breeding. and those who do not
TIE HONEY BEE.-There are some
things in the history of the honey-bee which
show fidelity and devotion that is really
touching. There is something almost hu-
man in their loyalty to their sovereigns.
Several instances are upon record where
bees watched over and guarded the remains
of their queen for days, licking and caress-
ing her as though they were trying to re-
store her to life. Though food was sup.
piled they refused to eat. and at the end
OF four days every bee was dead.
When queen makes royal progress
through the hive, she is always attended by
body-guard, not particular number Of
bees that are devoted to her person, but
body guard which forms itself at her ap-
proach out Of the subjects through which
she is about to pass but who fall back into
their regular work when she has gone by.
She never lacks the most dutiful and de-
voted attention those about her, whenever
she moves, caress her, offer her honey,
ard cluster around her to keep her warm
if Sc is chilly.
In q swarm loses a queen, they are at
first in deep and violent grief; if a new
queen is immediately given to them, they
refuse to accept her. IF, however twenty.
four hours is allowed TO elapse, they recon
Gle themselves to the idea OF her loss, and
receive substitute with royal honors.
The instinct of the bees denies all our
traditions Of instinct; it adapts itself to
circumstances, overcCmes new and unex-
pected obstacles, benefits by experience,
,.,l, {a,N
casts them aside when the occasion for
their use is gone, in way which is mar
velousiy like reason. 1t is. indeed, difficult
to draw any line between the two qualities
when looked at in minute detail it is only
in its cumulative power, which produces
such different effects, that we can dare to
make the distinction, and then we are at a
loss for definition. II is strange to find
in the insect world, among an order of
beings SO low in the scale of the naturalist,
a faculty so near akin to the divine gift of
reason which is mans browning glory. But
it is just here among the bees and among
the ants that it Is most marvellous and
most perfect.
HoRsE-SEoEs.-How many Of those to
whom a horse shoe is an article about
which they consider no one is qualified to
give them information anything
about the history of this most necessary
and useful protection to the horse. Every
day, we see the flash of the tjering steel,
as the gayly-caparisoned steed Frances
upon the street or highway, or as the gh-
ored trotter dashes by the toll gates; every
day the blacksmith is engaged in shaping
the kissing steel, and fastening it to the
horny hoof; every day the hostler washes
the fetlock- joints, and scrapes the matted
dirt from the frogs; and yet We will VEN
ture the assertion that not one out of
hundred of these knows the history of the
semi-circle of iros, which he daily sees OF
handles.
The first coverings for the feet Of beasts
of burthen consisted of raw cow-hide shoes,