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The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1890-06-06
WESTERN STORMS.
An Asylum Blown Down and
Children Killed and Injured.
village Destroyed and SIX Lives Lost In Ne
braska-AwfuI Powder ExPlO-
sion Caused BY Light
ming.

Dies MONIES, Iowa. June IA terrific
storm visited Western Iowa Monday
night. Rain fell in great quantities
and in places the wind reached the force
of a tornado. while the electric display
was mefenric in its hrilIiancv
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uffering-humility You have set yourself
up against Fate, and Fate sweeps you
along like spray upon the gale, yet you 60
unwilling. In your impatlence you have
flown to learning for refuge, and 1t has COM
pleted your overthrow, tor 1t has induced
YOU to reject as non-eXistent all that you
cannot understand. Because your finite
mind cannot search infnity, because no an
swer has come to all your prayers, because
YOU see misery and cannot read its purpose,
because you suffer and have not found rest,
you have said that there is naught but
chance, and become an atheist, as many
have done before you. Is it not true?"
tGo on" she answered, bowling her head
to her breast, so that the long ripping hair
almost hid her face.
''It seems q little odd" he said with a
short laugh, that 1, with all my imperfec-
tions heaped upon me, should presume to
preach to you-but you will know best how
near or how far am from the truth. So
want TO say this. have lived for 80
years, and seen good deal and tried to
learn from it, and know this. In the long
the opportunity, the world gives US our
due, which generally is not much. So
much for things temporal. If you are fit
to rule, in time you will rule; if you do not,
then be content and acknowledge your
own incapacity. And as for things spirit
ual, am sure of this-tnough of course one
does not like to talk much of these matters
if you only seek for them long enough in
some shape you will find them, though the
shape may not be that which is generally
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recognized by any particular religion. But
to build wall deliberately between oneself
and the unseen, and then complain that the
way is barred, is simply childish"
"And what if ones wall is built, Mr..
Bingham?'
''Most of us have done something in that
line at different times" he answered, "and
found a way round it."
"And if it stretches from horizon to hori-
zon, and is higher than the clouds, what
then?'
Then you must find wings and fly over
it."
"And where can any earthly woman find
those spiritual wings?" she asked, and then
sank her head still deeper on her breast to
cover her confusion. For she remembered
that she had heard of wanderers in the
dusky groves of human passion, yes, even
M8nad wanderers, who had suddenly come
face to face with their own soul; and that
the cruel paths OF earthly love may yet lead
the feet which tread them to the ivory gates
of heaven.
And remembering these beautiful myths,
though she had no experience of love, and
knew little of its wavs, Beatrice grew sud-
denly silent. Nor did Geoffrey give her an
answer, though he need scarcely have feared
to do so.
For were they not discussing purely sb-
stract question?
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-, -.
MS VISIT 70 tne ia5m. ne was IN nign
numor' Inc pig Hau ese9 surpasseu neL
former enolSs, anu tnUt ~ ~ SUI TI;Ln
manner, 70 tne nuInOsr VI 10 inoeeo' hliHs-
beth thereupon Produced tne TWO pounds
ODD shlillngs Tnicn sns h%d coFKscfeWeo
OUT OF tne recalci1l1H1 uIssen'lns Iarner' anu
tne slghI suoeu y Iis - NJ %
WouIo you OelIete ~ nAI. 1ingnsI'
ne sald, IN otno tn1s mIsetaoIy Psio e1oo parish
nave nearly IIoo oWIhs Eom -tVO IN titne. Ii'
ahere oLu ooneS, VII .I OuS go eoS
pen hoch, nc W. 'nneS IeSis .iSue
lis 40. he can pay suu Ie won pay
says he's bapust, anu AN going 70 pay
no parsons oues-tnougn' 10. tne matter ol
that he's notning Ou' an Olu Deer tuO 0l d
neatnen' -.
Why cont you proceed against nlm'
then, MI Granger! r.
proceed, ! nave Proceeoeo. I've got
judgment, ana mean 70 issue e1eGuuon IN !,
ne went on, "orklng nlmseiI up ana snak-
ing his head, as ne spoke tlIi ms thin, Wnlte
nalr ieii aoout nus eyes. ~ nave tne Jaw
OF MIN ana IIe T1nels 100 lou re iaWyer
ana you can neiP ne: 1 Ieh you tnere
spirit ABROAD Wnicn lusL comes 70 tnls-no no
man lsn ! 70 pay ms IaWiuI ueots, e1cePI, OF
course tne PSrson ana 1ne squire. Iney
must pay VI ~ " tne .oIr1; Du' tiI tneIe
law lett ana IL nave II, oeIofe they pl&y
the 1rlsn game on US mere ana ne
brought down MS nst WIN pang upon the
Iaole'
Geonrey Hsteneo Win some amusement
90 tnIs was lhe "eaN oio man sore point
money ne was clearly very strong ABOUT
that-aS strong as Lady Hon0rla' inoeed'
but with more excuse. EllzaDetn also us
bedLTlCe
looked palnea' .,
Don't get angry, fatner, she SAID:
perhaps he Will pay after all. 1t is bad to
take the law II you can manage any other
Way-lt breeds SO much III blood.
Nonsense, Beatrlce, SAID her sister
Sharply. Fatner Is quite rlgnt' Ihere,s s
only one way to deal with them, and that's
to seize their goods. believe you are a
soclaIlst ABOUT properly as you are ABOUT
everything else. tou want 70 pun every.
thing down, from the queen TO the laws OF
marriage, all for the good OF humanity, and
l tell you your IDEAS Will be your ruin.
DEFY custom and 1t Will crush you: You
are running your head against brick wall,
and one day you Will Ind which is the
harder
Beatrice flushed, but answered her sister s
sttaeK' Whleh was all the sharper because 1t
had certain spice OF truth In 1t.
never expressed any such views, Eliza
oeth, SO don see why you should attribute
them to me. only SAID that legal proceed
lngs breed bad blood In parish; and that is
true.
L did not say you expressed them, !"
went on the vigorous Elizabeth; you look
them-they ooze out OF your words like
water from peat bog. Everybody knows
you are radical and atreethinker and every
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arching the back and resting on hands,
elbows, head and feet, so as to avoid fall
the man on top is allowed to press his fore
arm against the under mans neck, but he
must not press his fingers"
"Would not the forearm pressure choke q
man as quick as the knuckles?"
"Yes; but there's nothing to prevent the
under man from rolling over. The side
roll is one Of the ways of escaping from the
bridge. Sebastian Miller is the greatest
roller know.
american wrestlers are cleverer than the
English now" Carkeek continued, as he
rubbed down his big arms. "The greatest
wrestlers to-day are George Stedman, who is
the champion of Cumberland and Westmore-
land style-better known as the 'back-hold'
style-and Tom Bragg, the Cornishman.
Now we have Lewis, Greek George, Miller
and myself, and we have all beaten them at
their own game"
ONE OF THE JAP's FEATs.
"Now," said my chaperon, as we came
away, "you have had an illustration of what
can be done by skilled wrestlers in friendly
bout in the dark. In an encounter in dead
earnest with an assailant they would not be
80 gentle. have known a single wrestler
to floor five men in as many seconds simply
by using ordinary tactics-and they were
tough characters, too. Depend upon it,
they would have stood even poorer chance
in the darkness than in daylight, for while
his science never deserts him, they would
have fought at random. The man who
used up the five rufians was Matsada Sor-
akichi, the little JAP"
G. n. SANDIsoN.
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PRICES IN JAPAN.
A Married Couple Can Begin Housekeeping
fnr 60 &C Thn.n
G. Il. SANDIsoN.

A Married Couple Can Begin Housekeeping q
for $3 Sc There.
An idea of prices in Japan is furnished in
the following sent to the Detroit Free Press
by a correspondent at Yokohama: A pair of
sandals made Of straw cost ~ cents. Three
men with two jinrlkisha drag two persons
and baggage four miles up a steep mountain
road for "a cents. A servant girl for one
months service gets 125 yen, equal to 9S
cents. She is furnished also bath money
and hair-dressing money, about 20 cents. A
new tooth brush, six for cent. -Four boxes
of matches for q Of a cent. Cloth cotton
with pretty tigure-enough for girls
kimono or dress, so yen, equal to 45 cents.
Days board for iinrikisha man and the
laboring class, lodging and two meals, AZ
cents.
The outlay for commencing housekeeping
for furniture, bedding, mats, cooking uten-
sils, table service, such as needed by young
couple OF the laboring class, costs So Sc.
The pay per day for laborers and artisans Is
about as follows: Blacksmith, % to 81 cents;
painters, 18 to % cents; caolies, 10 to %
cents; gardeners, Is to 81 cents; carpenters,
80 to 40 cents. The rent of a neat house,
with pretty gardens, containing one room
of eight mats, one of four mats, one of two
mats, and three rooms of six mats each. be-
sides kitchen, 76O yen, equals So 62 per
month.
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hold" with Carkeek's right arm over his
neck and his left arm under his throat, the
knuckles of both hands being pressed re-
lentlessly on ROBBERS diaphragm, while the
latter vainly strained and struggled to es-
cape from the choking EN- brace.
A second fash disclosed variation of the
same forbidden hold. Carkeek was on his
knees with ROBBERS right arm hugging his
neck and his left encircling the Michigan
mans throat in a vise-like grasp. This is
the hold which Evan Lewis introduced and
which made him feared by all who met him.
Most referees declare it foul, but some are
Iatitudinarian enough to allow wrestlers to
use almost any tactics they please, although
they are distinctly barred by the rules.
'iThis hold" painted Roeber, as the men
paused for breath, sis simply choking a
man to death. When I wrestled with
Lewis he tried it on me twice. broke
away the first time, but couldn't wriggle
out the second trip. We were wrestling
catch-as-catch-can. All the professionals
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MAKING FISH PASTE.
A Curious Process and Strange Food Prod
uct of Japan.

A Curious Process and a Strange Food Prod
uct of Japan.
''I saw:one day." says Yokohama CORE
spondent of the Detroit Free Press, tin q
small shop here, three boys vigorously beat
ing something in a large wooden mortar.
One of the pestles had its upper end inserted
in hole in the ceiling, the other two only
followed the base of the first one as it moved
around the surface of the mortar. 1t was the
first time ever saw three pestles going in
one mortar at once.
Interested in the process, I found they
were beating the flesh of small fish, termed
ianago in Japanese, together with that Of
some species oil shark. This paste, made up
into rolls about inches long by 3 inches in
diameter, has a small piece of sugi wood
fastened on one side. 1t is then baked and
sold as kamaboko. 1t is highly esteemed
and brings about 9 cents a pound. A bet
ter variety is made of shark flesh only.
Another variety of fish paste, called
hampen, is made in similar manner, except
the form, this being square and thin, 6
inches by inch. These forms of fish food
are cooked in various ways and served with
soy or other sauces, and are often partially
baked as breakfast hashed meat is with Us
at home
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THE BOY AND THE HORSESHOE.
A Story Showing How Lazy People Take
the Most Pains.

Story Showing How Lazy People Take
the Most Pains.
A little boy was walking with his father
one day. As they trudged along the father
saw an old horseshoe lying in the road, and
bsde the boy pick it up and take it along.
The lad looked at the shoe carelessly, and
replied that it was not worth carrying,
whereupon the father said nothing more,
but quietly picked it up himself. He pretty
soon sold the old iron for penny at a road
side smithy, and invested the coin in cher
ries.
The day was hot, and presently the man
noticed that his son was beginning to. cast
longing eyes upon the box of cherries, but
did not offer any to his son. He made pre-
tense of eating them, and dropped one to
the ground as if by accident.
The boy picked it up quickly and ate it
with relish. A little further on another
dropped, and this too the lad lost no time in
securing. So, one by one, all the cherries
were dropped and picked up.
"Well," remarked the father, when the
last Que had been eaten, sit did not pay to
pick up that horseshoe perhaps; but if you
had stopped once for that, you wouldn't
have needed to bend 20 times for the
cherTies"
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WEEDS OF SARGOSSA SEA.
They Grow at One End, DecaylnE at the
Other.

They Grow at One End, DecaylnE at the
Other.
Youths Companion.l
In the midst OF the North Atlantic there
is large patch of floating seaweed, which
has kept its place for centuries, with only
slight driftings up and down according to the
changing winds and currents. 1t was crossed
by Columbus on his first voyage and its
position and extent have been known ever
since. 1t occupies an immense eddy between
the equatorial current on the south, and the
Gulf Stream on the north. The name is
from the variety OF seaweed which forms the
''sea," Sargassum baccIferum,-the berry,
bearing sargasso.
= Much diversity of opinion exists as
to the origin of this floating mass.
Humboldt believed it to be de-
tached from rocks at considerable
depth in the latitudes where it floats; others
suppose it to come from the shores of the
northern seas, having been detached from the
rocks by the violence of the winds. Some
again imagine that it comes from the rocky
shores of the Gulfs of Mexico and Florida,
while many believe that it has never had
any other than its present place of abode.
No one has ever seen it attached to the
rocks, nor have roots ever been discovered
belonging to 1t. The lower end of the stem
ALWAYS has a whitish, decayed appearance,
Just like piece of tangle which has been
some time cast on shore, while the extremi-
ties of the branches are universally of q very
fresh and healthy appearance.
Such being the case, we eau scarcely help
believing that these remarkable plants have
existed since the time of their first creation
to the present period as we now ind them,
floating always in this revolving Gulf Stream
and undergoing a perpetual change from
decay at one extremity, and growth at the
other.
Their is nothing unreasonable in this
opinion, as seaweeds are not like land
plants, which derive nourishment from the
spot to which they are attached.
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STOVES FOR THE POCKET.
A Japanese Article That's Quits n Luxury
In Cold Weather.

Japanese Article That's Quite a Luxury
In Cold Weather.
Washington Start
"Why, how warm your hand isP' ex-
claimed young Noodles, upon clasping
hands with his friend Timpkins on + stresE
one day during the recent cold SNAP.
Timpkins grinned.
You haven't your gloves on, either; and
yet, while my gloved hands are like icieles,
yours are as warm as toast. Do you carry
around stoves in your overcoat pockets?"
THAT is precisely what 1 do" replied
Tlmpkins, laughing. ''Your random guess
struck the fact squareIy 1 carry a stove in
each side pocket of my top coat Here is
one OF Them
With this Timpkius drew forth and ex-
h1blted to view curious little tin box about
inches long by in width and 1 inch in
thickness. 1t was slightly curved in shape
and appeared to be covered with some stuff
like glazed calico. When the top was slid
OIL the inside was seen to be made Of tin per-
iorated with great many holes. 1t con-
tanned nothing but a round stick of some
queer looking substance, which was burning
at the ED with a bright redness, but with
out any flame or particle of smoke.
What do you call it?'' demanded
Noodles wonderingly.
1t is japanese stoVe-a device that has
been used in Japan very commonly for
centuries. You see, it is simply a tin bor
with holes in it, covered on the outside with
this calico stuff to help p retain the heat. It
IS really quite hot, you observe, and it viii
remain 20 Tor five hours with the burning Of =
single IRE stick. They are 30 small aud 20
nat that they don't even make ones pocksts
bulge"
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ROEBER AND CARKEEK SHOW HOW.
The Various Holds Shown BY Means Of
Flash-Light and Camera.
MATSADHS BATTLE WITH RUFFIANS
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATCH.I

"For seIf-defense against an assailant who
makes his attack in the dark, there is moth
ing to compare with wrestling"
The speaker was a brawny professor OF the
most exact of athletic sciences.
"But suppose the assailant uses pistol
or knife ?'' suggested.
"I would seize him in such way as to
pinion both hands until he dropped the
weapon. should try to throw him at once.
If unarmed, simple lock would settle the
business; if not, and if he happened to be
unusually ugly, 1 would give him the
strangers hold which would end him in
a twinkGng. There would be very little
fight left in him after being half choked, J,
YOU may believe. That is the advantage of
wrestling in the dark. 1t is the highest
grade of self-defense. The best evidence Of
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PILE DRIVING IN JAPAN.
The Men Make Play OF 1t and Sing Coutinu-
OusIy.


OusIy.
In making the foundation for house in
Japan, according to a Yokohama corre-
spondent of the Detroit Free Press, heavy
upright piece of timber eight inches or so in
diameter, with stone foot, is used to beat
down the earth to more solid condition.
The manner of using this pile-driver, or
rather earth-settler, is curious and novel.
A framework is erected about ten feet above
the ground. supporting planks parallel to
the foundation and wide enough apart to
allow the driver to project up between
them.
On the elevated platform stand about Is
men, each holding rope, one end of which
is attached near the base of the driver, and
at intervals of about 20 seconds, at a given
signal or shout, they all lift together and let
it fall by its own gravity. Meanwhile GER
tain Of the men keep up continuous song,
the rising and falling of the driver being
like bass note OF the drum. The whole
thing seems more like play than work.
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Efde Ron Fro,p tle Brfdoe.
have got the hold now, but they rarely try
THE DOUBLE NELSON.

THE DOUBLE NELSON.
Again the men set to work in the dark
ness. A third fash showed Roeber in the
throes of the ''double-N elson" lock-a neck
breaking, crushing hold from which there
is no escape, unless the victims strength is
greatly superior to that of his opponent.
The "double-Nelson" is used in both
Greco-Roman and catch-as-catch-can wrest-
ling. Carkeek stood Immediately behind
the Hanoverian with his arms under Roe
ber's armpits around the back of his neck
and clasped behind the latter's head, which
was forced forward on his breast. ROBBERS
arms were apparently powerless in their ter
rible hold.
In this hold, which is barred in England
and Canada, but allowed here, although
many judges consider it an unfair one, as
liable to infict serious injury, the fingers
must not be interloeked. Clasping the
fingers is barred "ioul" at all times, for the
double reason that such clasp cannot be
parted and that it enables the OwneE of the
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this is that the leading pugilists all learn

this is that the leading pugilists all learn
wrestling nowadays"
1 had novel ocular demonstration Of the
fact that wrestlers can work as scientifically
in the dark as in the glare of the footlights
yesterday afternoon. With the instantane-
Gus camera and magnesium. light as umpire
and referee, Ernest Roeber, the Greco
Roman champion of New York State, and
Jack Carkeek, the champion catch-as-catch-
can wrestler, stood stripped to the waist in
a darkened parlor on West Twenty-ffth
street. Roeber is a Hanoverian, %
years old and limbed like Hercules.
He weighs 184 pounds, while Carkeek, who
is native of Michigan, 90 years Of age and
somewhat taller than Roeber, weighs 181
pounds. Both men. wore dark trunks
Roeber began wrestling at 15 and has sue
cessively encountered Sebastian Miller, the
''Strong Man of Munich" Sorokichi, the
"Jap;" Stranger. Evan Lewis, Greek
George and score ofothers. Carkeek. who
has been IA years professional, has COM
peted In over 100 matches here and in En-
gland.
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NO HOD CARRIERS IN JAPAN.
They Make the Mortar Into Balls and Toss
Them.

at saw the other day." writes a Yoko-
hama correspondent of the Detroit Free
Press, "three men repairing the roof of a
one-story building by resettipg the heavy
black tiles in mortar. The mortar was
already mixed in pile in the street. One
man was making this up into balls of about
six pounds weight which he tossed up into
the right hand Of man who stood on lad
der about midway between the ground and
the roof, and he in turn tossed it up into the
hand of the man who stood on the roof"
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Ii Puzzled Hsr.

CHOW do you manage to find your way
across the oceanT' said lady to . lea CAP
tain. "Why, by the compass. The needle
always points to the north" Eyes, know.
But what If you wish to 60 south7"
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WHAT THE FLAsHEs pIscLosED.

Sufficient light was admitted to permit Of
posing the camera, after which the room
was again obscured in darkness, and the
men went to work to illustrate the intricate
and dangerous holds, including those that
are forbidden by the rules and claimed as
"foul" At the signal the fash-light re-
vealed Roeber fast in the deadly strangers
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stronger wrist to bend back and even break
the fingers of his rival. The moment such
a clasp is observed it is the duty Of the ref
cree to award the match to the other man on
the 'foul."
DANGER OF NECK-BREAKINe.
The next rift in the darkness showed re-
markable sight Roeber was standing on
his head, bracing himself on his hands,
both feet straight in the air and describing
a curve outward to the floor. Carkeek, on
his knees, had ROBBERS right arm and neck
partly in a "single-Nelson" lock. from
which the latter was breaking away. The
only way to escape from the ''single-Nelson" "
effectively is by bending down low, Jumping
on yonr head and turning a somersault to
the floor. This is called ''the spin" and
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should not be attempted by any man who
has not the strongest kind OF a neck. Other
wise the chances are even that he will be
picked up with a broken neck.
One of the most dangerous of all holds,
"the back heave," was next illustrated by
the athletes in the dark. Carkeek had
grasped Roeber by the right arm and shoul.
der, and with the aid of the ''reverse heave"
"a combination movement of arm and hip
to elevate an opponent, had hoisted him on
his back. When the camera caught the
pair Carkeek was straining to throw Roeber
over his head, but in vain, for the Hanover
ian had secured hold on Carkeek's left leg
with his right foot that effectually stopped
the latter's tactics. A "back heave" at the
hands of a strong wrestler would place his
rival hors de combat in a twinkling and
might disable him.
THE CHOKING PROCESS.
''The most effective hold" said Champion
Carkeek, sis the neck lock. In Greco-
Roman wrestling you are not allowed to
catch the legs or to clasp hands so as to break
fingers, In making the 'bridge'-that is,