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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
Rewarded in Kind.

A{wife who knew the aversion OF
her husband to letter-writing said to
him, as he was about leaving home
for an extended visit to the Dakotas.
'tNow, John, as neither l nor the
children can accompany you, you
must be eyes and ears for us, and drop
US an occasional postal card, telling
US anything of interest you may see
and hear. Don't forget, will you?"
The husband promised and took
his departure. A few days later his
wife received a postal card contain
ing the following message: "Dear
Wife. I am in New York all right.
Yours aff.'
Though somewhat disappointed,
she excused the brevity of the COM
munication on the ground that her
husband was doubtless pressed for
time. Two days later, however: an
other card arrived, bearing the start
ling announcement, "Here I am in
Chicago. Yours ever" Still later
came another: 81 am indeed in Da-
kota at last. Yours, -"
The wife swallowed her disappoint-
ment, and being good at retaliation,
seized her pen and wrote: 'Dear
Husband. The children and I are in
Old Town. Yours, -"
A few days later she wrote again:
ssWe are still in Old Town."
In her next communication she
grew little more enthusiastic. She
wrote: '.Dear Husband. Here we
are in Old Town. Irepeat it, sir.
We are in Old Town, Maine.
'sP. S. We are, indeed"
In due time the husband reached
home, and fearing, perhaps, that his
poor wife was afflicted with some sort
of dementia, fastened to ask the
meaning of her strange messages.
For answer she slipped into his hand
his own three postal cards. "What
is sauce for the goose is sauce for the
gander," she said.
It is to be hoped that John prof1ted
by the lesson.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
Another Serious Outbreak.

SWELL" broke out the exchange
editor. all at once, ''perhaps you can
tell the difference, sir, between a
tunnel and a leave Of absence that
has expired"
'The one is a BORE" retorted the
financial editor, in a tone of loud de-
flance, sand the other gives you
tired feeling. The band will now
play Annie Lau-'"
"Shucks! You're not within a
thousand miles Of it. The difference
iS-'
s'Hold on!" snorted the financial
editor. "a man that can't guess a
cheap little eonundrum like that"
'.How do you know it's a cheap
conundrum?" exclaimed the exchange
editor, excitedly.
Didn't you try to give it away
just now, I'd like to know"
"'Mph! You gave yourself away
trying to-"
''The difference" unused the flnan-
cial editor, ''between a tunnel and
a-and a WHAT"
"a leave of absence that has ex-
PRED"
swell, now. Iput it to you, If that
isn't about the stupidest-hold on!
I've got it. One is out at the end
ings and the other is the end of the
outings"
"Naw!" calculated the exchange
editor, supremely disguised. THE
one is an excavation and the other is
an ex-vacation!"
1t was warm day, and the flnan-
cial editor tainted dead away.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24

but II No accept provisionally the
figures s6a 64a, 600, 600 ~ correct our
wealth per head Of population Is less
than that of the United Kingdom.
Mr.. Giffen reckoned that in the lat
ter country at the date of his COM
putations Q885) the divisible share Of
each person in the national wealth
was 81, $50, whereas about 81, 600
would be the divisible share of each
person in the United States. It
should be further noted that accord
ing to Mr.. Giffen the wealth of the
United Kingdom increased by $3.50
per head in the ten years preceding
1885. while in the decade between
our two last censuses the wealth of our
own country increased at exactly the
same rate.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
Forty-Four Years . Brigand.

Antony Bellacoscia, the most ven
cradle of Corsican bandits, recently
surrendered himself to the law and
declared his intention of retiring
from his diabolical profession. Out
of his seventy-five years forty-four
were devoted to career of brigaEd-
age. during which period he was
twice condemned to death, but dur
ing the lapse of time these sentences
have become invalid, so he will only
be tried for his last minor offense of
robbery. At his surrender much
ceremony was observed, and after she'd
ding few tears, he handed over his
weapons and other accessories of his
trade. With a military guard he
drove around Bastia in state, and is
now treated with the Difference shown
distinguished prisoner.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
Ambition.

That life is poor. one which is
without ambition-which has no OBJ
ject to work for, no height to strive
to reach. a person may be good and
kind-hearte( while willing to live in
idle iRnoranee and let the world 90
on growing In wealth and wisdom
without his taking an active mart and
interest in its onward movements
he may be good, but most certainly
he is dull Of mind and sluggish OF
body. No Individual destitute OF am
bition will make his mark in the
world. He will come and 20. few
will note his coming, and few viii
grieve at hF going. Ambition 1t II
that gives men the energy and the
will and the determination to accom-
plisk great things
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24

4 writer In an exchange bewab
the decay Of mechanical skin IN the
following words:
ssThe decrease of manual skin and
of artistic sense among mechanlcal
workmen results not merely nom
want of such all-rouDd practice a.
they got half q century ago. but nom
q want Of that sort of loving interest
In their work the old-timers used TO
feel, when they could put something
of their individuality into everything
that they made. Nowadays the work
man has simply to work out q design
prepared by some artist whom ne
does not know and never has seen.
The general result may be beautiful
when the different parts are as
sembled, but the workman feels that
he has no personal share in the pro-
duction of its beauty. He has be
come a regulator of a machine: he
simply sharpens TOOLS adjust them.
keeps his machine oiled, and puts into
it the material to be worked upon.
All the precision and nicely Of opera
ton are due to the inanimate rather
than the living tool. What interest
can such work beget? What lofty
ambition can it stimulate? What
workman when the bell rings the
time to quit work feels reluctant to
leave his task. or fingers over it to
bring out some beautiful effect or In
teresting combination that he feels
he must see before he can depart con-
tentedly? II machines were invented
to play billiards, and only by their
use could this king of games be
played, how long would the game. be
a favorite? If vlolins could be per-
formed upon only by automatic me-
chanism, or pictures painted only
by machine-actuated self-charging
brushes, who would be charmed any
longer by art? Neither the artist
nor the dilettante, the artist and the
dilettante would cease to exist. So,
while we have gained much from the
enormous increase in labor-saving
machinery that has characterized the
latter half of the present century, we
have lost what probably will not soon
be restored, the love of work and
pride in work for its own sake, the
love and pride that were the parents
of mechanical skill-skill which, now
they are dead, is itself decaying. The
loss appears inevitable to those who
scan the social horizon philosophically;
it is, however, no less to be regretted
because unavoidable.
''This tendency of labor saving ma
chimes was many years ago pointed
out by Ruskin, who in the light Of
the fulflllment of his prediction,
proved only too true prophet. 1t
is this effect upon the masses, more
than unequal distribution of wealth,
that is separating society in America
| into distinct classes"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
Richest Nation ON Earth,

The provisional estimate q. the
wealth of the United States, issued by
the census Office, suggests comparison
with some statistics compiled by Mr..
Giffen, the English statistician, with
relation to the United Kingdom, says
the New York Sun.
It is, of course, understood that for
1890, as for 1880. the basis of the COM
putatfon made by our census takers
is the value assessed in the several
States for taxation, which, except In
Massachusetts,, is very much below
the true value. In 1880 the census
Office undertook to correct the as
sessed values, which made the wealth
of the United States only SIG, 9O2.-
900, 600, aud substituted the much
larger figures, $43, 642, 600. 600. If the
same correction factor is applied to
the returns from 1890, the true value
of all property represented in the CEN
sus of the United States will be not
1924, 651 900. 600, as reported, but $685.
64S, 900, 900. Even the latter estimate
falls far short of the truth, because
III dUOuU Hall VI UIlC OuICCu Oo0VSS
railways are not included in the prop
erty taken account of by our census
In the absence, however, OF ex-
haustive data, let us for the purpose
of comparison assume that $63, 648,
900, 900 represents the aggregate
wealth of the United States. Now In
1885 MI. Gifien entered into an clab-
crate series of calculations in pur-
suance of which he fixed the wealth
of the United Kingdom at $50. O0O.-
600, 900, all railways and every other
species Of property being included 1t
follows that of the two countries the
United States is the richer by more
than thirteen thousand millions OF
dollars The excess in our favor Is
really much greater. because, as we
have said, the value of the railroads
in about half of our States is not
reck0ned.
As Great Britain is universally &C
knowledged to be richer than any
other European state, we are war
ranted in describing our own people
a the richest In the world. That 10
TO say. our agRregate wealth isgreater
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
Shetland Ponies.

The conventional Shetland pony
the animal represented in picture
books-namely, about 40 to A inches
high, very tight-jointed, and with an
impossible growth of hair all over
him, is just about as bad type of
this famous race as can well be I'M
agined, according to the Popular
Science Monthly. From his build he
is generally short winded and thor
oughly impracticable in his PAGES A
South Mainland specimen, on the
other hand, long and rakish in build
hard grown, as the saying is-and
clean-limbed. will far surpass his COM
panion in staying power. One OF this
hardy breed-in our opinion the ideal
Shetland Pony-has been known to
travel from Sumburgh to Lerwick
and back the same day, with toler-
ably heavy riding weight, say flfty-six
miles altogether Of extremely billy
road. But, minor differences apart,
there are certain characteristics
failing tests in their way with the ex-
perlenced judge - which 60 to the
'!makeup" of a Shetland, as distin-
guished from an Iceland or Farce,
pony-e. g., a certain unmistakable
breadth of build, set of pasterns, and,
more particularly, an apathetic air
which no other breed possesses. Your
''Sheltie" is not quick animal, is in
clined to be sleepy rather than other
wise in his PAGES, and is, as rule,
disposed to do no more than he can
help in the way of exertion, though,
if put to it, he evinces great power
of endurance, and will 60 through an
immense amount of work for his size.
The Iceland variety is altogether in
ferior, shorter-lived, narrower in build,
and generally fallacious, but, with all
this, he is quicker, livelier, and lacks
that air of pensive melancholy which
haunts everv Sheulend pony. Our
advice is to avoid the inferior animal,
however highly recommended. Their
price is, roughly speaking, about half
that of the Shetlander, but the money
is ill-saved. The average life of an
Icelander is about II or ID years,
while the other will live to 25 or
even more.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
Color in the Human Voice.

A novel entertainment was QelQ az
the Drexel Institute, Philadelphia, a
few evenings since, fol- the benefit of
the chlldren's fresh air fund. Prof.
.. S. Holman delivered lecture on
"Some Effects of Light and Sound
Waves" demonstrating with the aid
of an instrument known as the
phoneidoscope the lights and shadows
of musical sounds, assisted by the
vocal talent of Miss NJ. Virginia Peck,
Miss Charlotte Mawson, Miss Kate
Sheain, A. II. darby and Charles
Giraffe. Prof. Holman prefaced his
lecture with the statement that color
exists alone in the eye Of the seer.
After a few experiments in changing
the colors of objects under powerful
light composed of carbonate of soda,
Prof Holman started in to prove,
with the aid Of the phOneidoscope,
that the sound waves produced by the
voice possess motion and color. When
this announcement was made the
audience held it's breath in expecta-
ton.
A sheet similar to that used in
stereopticon entertainments was
stretched across the stage, and what
Prof. Holman termed the mirror,
upon which the effects of the voice
were pictured, was adjusted in the
instrument and magnified UPON the
sheet. In color it was dull, leaden
gray, showing in bold relief upon the
white canvas Then four of the
voices struck up quartet, while Miss
Sheain placed her pretty lips to a
mouthpiece and sang through what
looked very much like speaking
tube. The other end of the tube was
connected with the phoneidoscope,
and her voice, coming in contact with
the mirrors, was transmitted to the
canvas, forming into the most deli
cate shapes Imaginable, at the same
time taking all the variegated tints
of the rainbow. AS her voice rose or
sank in volume the waves rippled
across the surface of the mirror in
the most astonishing manner, while
the audience applauded to the echo.
This was repeated several times.
After the lecture Prof. Holman
explained to a Record reporter the
apparent miracle by saying that the
so-called mirror was merely film
composed of soap suds. The voice,
coming in contact with this surface,
caused it to vibrate. while the varie-
gated colors were formed by the de-
composition of the soap film.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24

AFTER . pan gets old, he begins
TO wonder Il anybody In the world
be0des hins4f tells the truth.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-09-24
'.Afraidl I? What do I care for

s.Afraidl I? What do 1 care FOL
Pierret? Come on"
The little Matchmaker was at his
bench, his magnffying glass in his
right eye, bending over the works Of
watch. Certainly he was not look
ing at anything that was going or
outside OF his shop, yet he saw, very
plainly observed the approaching
group and something very like
smile might have been seen to play
about his lips ashe did SO. He hoped
for customer, and to poor trades
man that must always be a pleasant
feeling, must it not? Oh, doubtless.
But of all possible customers Pierret
hoped for one; and that one was now
at the door.
Locard entered.
Ills that it?" he said contemptu-
ously.
Pierret rose politely. Locard turned
his back upon him-from hauteur EVIL
IDENTIFY. In short he Immediately
agreed to give the twelve pounds, and
threw down five pound note on &C
count, on condition that the clock
should be that same evening installed
in his dining-room at Ills house.
Who did not know Locard's house?
In less than an hour the clock should
be there.
'This evening, friends" cried LO-
card (of course he did not include
Pierret, "we'Il drink to my new piece
of furniture!"
h1,,rCD
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-20

Once upon a time. rs the sage was sea ted in
youn. man with long hair and dropping eyes
and II classca! face. who bore painting un-
der his arm. and was evidently full OF sorrow.
What is thy grief. o YOUTH" kindly in
nuired the old man. as he turned upon him
with benign expression.
20 wise man. ] am An artist-a young and
risinG artist aganst whom the Gfess has con
'ermined to destroy me-. Here is my master
PIECE, See! In tho foreground u maiden
Ills we'll" replied tbs sage. Except that
you have the maiden on the wrong side Of the
COW. The COW was erected by nature TO be
milssd on the h. TlGht,hand side while your
the use OF adopting tho new school II you are
going to, milk COW after the old-school
"fTis true, youth. but what do the critics
They call me an ass, and advise me to die
And have you any objections against dy-
ing ~ T., ,,u,,o,,o,"
Then. o youth. would advise with the
critics. but BIO rs gentle as possible about IT,
Leave thy masterpiece with ME. and after thou
art gone ! will try to turn the COW. and the
maid around and sell tho picture Tor tea
And the gentle artist went forth and pucked
n thorn from rosebush and jahbed and
stabbed and harassed and annoyed his palpi-
dead. And now. as the pattering raindrops
patter on his grave and you want pound Of
The best oolong for thirty,six cents. you get
ia ana IN whc spostsd cow Is b.inE
MIXED by dun-colored maiden alter nature
aud the vId SCHOOL
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t Pts SS n.psg.d as cider s SaSs sess
on the plantations they will make nothing to
ride ten or twenty miles. and at the conclusion
cd one eseeps tSer Stock 81 qaor fail om
the moral Nj Ter the town was not much letter:
guilty Of this vice. but they are e4ualled. nay
surpassed; by many in the city Of New York.
and to carouse and game their night employ
ment. This course is the ru n and destruction
OF many merchants especially those Of tho
younger sort, who carry over with them
stock. whether as factors or on their own ac-
count, spend even to prodgality. till they
In town whore this course Of life is led by
many Miller moralizes. tits no wonder i
hs IL s c.s vices ice IL yHsHs n sr
ing. " to both Of which people here are much
accustomed" He says the people indulge in
manner, as II they prded themselves both as
to tn nv namhG5 AND lntGnson OF 1ns
vies In pe nrse and nI ropmous Kingdom but
thinks 1t might DO done in u province where
the total number Of inhabitants will scarce
computed to DO in London, which gives the
comparative populations of the two cities two
After drunkenness and profanity even worse
What Chaplain Miller wrote 70 his LORD bishop
lished in England q half century ago. Is
scarcely permissible in print in Now York city
alent vice with this premise: That where
men drink to SO high pitch and painper their
debauched palatss with tho rich and most
nourishing .vinnds tho country affords. tits
certain the flesh must grow high and rebel.
ought to obey: nay. not to be contented with
Gut variety. whatsoever obstacle or impede
ment lies in tho way"
This general or perhaps too particular
abatement should have suflircG even for the
Bishop. but Mr.. Miller goes on, to specify. in
stances OF many couples living together
without ever being married in any manner Of
way" then separating. and either in New York
or elsewhere. taking new companions. or even
married are married by justices Of III" Peace =,
which" he innocently declares and ignorantly
predicts. there neither is nor can oe in New
tees. through ignorance or fear. often mar.
ried couples engaged to or married to other
persons. After flashing the laitv. the chaplain
does not spare the clergy. including. he says.
many In New York as 5" in other Provinces Vs.
such as. being OF Vicious life and CONVERSE
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-11-20

improysd, !, You'd d.. yis lid; great Quantities Of
Tho chaplain can scarcely, conceive Of a
more charming place q residence s aha than the n,
ana NEW s9 or fst n
The clear and pure air made the climate nspe-
eially agreeable, to, tho English consultation:
he could not hayo been more enthusiastic in
holding out inducements The m none
hes health uiness. nieasantness s. and an fratiuness
rather to seek tho bettnrinc Of their fortunes
here than elsewhere: SO that II may be hoped
more numerous than ct present they are"
and now won! be s1reri,uous. since either
is not necessary to quote from the ' parsons
converting tho Indians. and for wholly sub
Canadian project it is interesting to note the
comparative populations of the provinces. or
the parson. New England was to fnrnish.out
81 e total OF loo Ameri.9nS.2WW Mo men. With
S% @
Maryland 400 Carolina BOO Virginia lOUO.
and NeW York 'Ry IS 200 I'M men nr;rtsr =,
sons manuscript. combines that pleasure
with the business Of adding n catalogue Of
money only. at tho prisos Affixed 4 Tho list
includes more than 800 rare and valuable
works relating to America. not one OF which
could he bought at from ten to fifty times the
almost ludicrous prices affixed, only Itty
up at any price. Tor example: Smith Capt.
Iohn)-General History Of Virginia. New Eng.
Of the Adycnturerss,, Planters. Nc. mars and
plates. folio, 1852" for 81 los. or say 81!
Hennepin Discovery 81 n vast country
In America. between New France and New
Mexico. plates. including view Of Niagara
saw the Falls! "Syo. I,E,s. for As. 3D. Three
Of, BENJAMIN ,Franklin's pamphlets. or
Tracts" he called thom. printed resroc-
lively In 1850, l7I7, and l7a4: are offered at
IL. til. each. Sir Walter llaeigh's " Dscov-
erie OF the large. rich. and b"wtiful Enlpro Of
Guiana &C.: 80. lMH" is priced at Los: sd;
valuable vol umcs offered ii'ty years ago, ut
!udicrously low price; ns COMPARED with what
days the Brnleys Bnriows. and other Ameri-
can collectors Of early printed work relating
to this country had not begun to. buy .Dt
course. our larger libraries. the Aston, the
Society the Historical. and the Lenox, have
since then bought tho best OF these books. but
ut immensely greater cost.
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ton have played 20 ss vile L.. p sssu and
E FSsSaeis t. gssGn n sHd sss
erai successive chaplains Of the fort.
and sY ahat asserv e Without blame BESIDES
%pfs ad iSne t. ha, ;s tSGsS Gs hsardI
dali" J, i. 70 be feared that this Fart OF tho
New York must be slassed with the more vo;
Connecticnt," w the Roy. Mr.. Peters.
mercial condition OF the, city, and here. as in
the province generally. there was thrift and
prosperity hardly cons2nant with the general
Merchandising in this country is a good
employment; English goods yielding in New
the first cost. and some OF them 300. 300. yea
snmctiines 400 This makes 80 many in the
shops would wonder where there nre SO many
to sell there should be any to buy"
y Indeed. according 70 tho chaplain. New
ros o MGs Snd
fear profit u he imported goods to suit the
country. In the province. the country People.
fat cattle. all kinds OF fruits and vegetables.
INCLUDING AS rs. good cahbnses 9s nsel To- DO
and other domestic products wero very good
peach brandy cloth stuits ami bsHyer has .
to the city. and for other furs. also near w.
were benr. otter. marten,nnd muskrat In tho
city markets there was IA store Of good vcni-
door. u quarter Of venison for ninerence or n
SHILLING" The region round about afforded
other table luxuries there was a great abund-
anco of grapes. which. the purson. who de-