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The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

Some of the rural towns in New En-
gland do not support barber, and hair
cutting is usually done by accommo-
dating neighbors. a writer, on an out
ing, recently fell in with one of these
amateur BARRIERS, and humorously de-
scribos his accommodating ways:
=" Soon | was perched astride of a mo-
lasses hogshead with a meal bag about ray
neck to protect it from tie fall of hair.
might say the possibilities Of fall from
the hogshead were great, as l squirmed
about it to have the light strike my head
right so the cores would be even. He
was no mean barber, for he scorned to re-
ceive any recompense. l wish all BARRIERS
were as charitable.
"After our cutting acquaintance l saw
much OF the barber. One time he was on
the school housa steps cutting a mans
hair; again / saw him hard at work on a
mans head in the middle OF his vegetable
patch. The farmer was leaning against
a bean pole with his hoe in his hand, evil
IDENTIFY making the most of his luxurious
ease. Anywhere and everywhere he hap
pened to catch his man the enterprising
barber would work. l was on the shore
one day watching fisherman at his
salmon nets. Shortly q small skih went
out from a neighboring cove. In it was
the barber who rowed out to where the
fisherman was and was soon cutting his
hair. Belfast Me-, Age.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
A BATH ON WHEELS.
In Paris You Must Send Out and Have
Your Tub Brought to You.

An American familiar with the fact thai
every house or apartment, renting as Low
as 300 per year in the United States, has
its own bath-tub with hot and cold wste1
supply and waste to remove the contents
OF the tub, is amused If not amazed when.
on visit to Paris, he gets an IDEA OF the
custom still prevailing in that metropolis
of luxury and elegant buildings
The large hotels, some very costly man
sions and apartments, and the public
lighthouses have their bathrooms, as is
the custom in the United States, though
the French bathroom is usually much
larger and Is usually elegantly furnished
with rags, lounges and dressing tables.
etc, the idea beng that If one takes q
bath one must lie down and take nap
alter it.
People living in apartments costing as
high as 81 oo0 year, and in the new quar-
ter Of Paris in the neighborhood of the
Champs Elysees, when they wish to battle,
other than take a sponge bath in small
portable tub, either go to the public bath
ing establishments or send to them to
have bath brought to their apartments.
Sunday mornings one gees a strange
looking, two wheeled cart, on which there
is framework built over the wheels.
This framework can hold three bath tubs.
They are made entirely of copper and are
about five feet long, about twenty inches
deep al the end, ana about Gig hteen inches
on the side. The driver OF this vehicle is
perched up high on a small seat in front,
is bare headed and wears a blouse. On
each side of him an iron ring encircles a
copper covered vessel, holding about
three gallons Of hot water, which rests
on little shelf He also carries a supply
Of dry towels and sheets.
The bathing estabiis hments have these
carts, and when patron sends word that
he wants a hot bath at certain hour the
bath is put on the cart, the kettle filled
with hot water, and the cart with its
strange load is rapidly driven to the
building in which the apartment is. The
driver carries the bath tub as an Adiron-
dacll guide carries a canoe, on his head
and Shoulder, from the first to the fifth
floor, as the case may be, and, after
spreading sheet to protect the carpet,
he spreads also a clean sheet inside of the
tub, SO that the bather does not touch the
metal.
Then he carries up the kettle of hot
water which he has brought from the
main establishment. The necessary cold
water he gets on the premises, either on
the same floor with the apartment, or in
the courtyard.
When the bather has had his bath, the
attendant removes the soiled water by
dipping it out, wipes out the tub and
carries it, with his kettles and soiled
towels, downstairs to his cart. The
charge for all this is about sixty cents,
with the usual additional tip to the man.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
PEOPLE.

Hans Won Bulow calls Bismarck the
Beethoven Of politics.
There are nine graduates this year from
the woman,s law class of the University
of New York.
The ashes OF Emma Abbott repose in
an urn in the Pittsburg Crematorium,
where the body of the actress was incin-
Grated.
Senator Stanford contemplates giving
his Mob Hill residence in San Francisco
to the State to be converted into a free
public library.
Mrs. Rose Hartwick Thorpe, who wrote
"Curfew Shall Not Ring Tonight is
living In California and is busy on his
tory OF Oregon.
Jay Gould is on top OF Union Pacific
again. But poor Uncle Samuel is still
underneath, clinging for dear life to his
second mortgage.
DR.. 8. Weir Mitchell, the Philadelphia
specialist and author, is said to be one OF
the foremost living authors on the sub
jeot of snake poisons.
Small sized and medium built men con-
stitute two-thirds OF the present Con-
gross, it is asserted by some one who has
made patient investigation.
1t is a rather curious fact that Glad
stone, Salisbury and Cham berlain each
has a son in Parliament, and not one OF
hem seems to be worth shucks.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

A candle may be lighted with a piece
of ice. A small piece of metallic potas-
stun is laid on the wick and touched
with the ice. when the water Immediately
produces a fame. This is due to the
property of this metal TO oxidize with
exceeding rapidity on contact with
water. This curious experiment is to be
made with great caution. as, if too much
of the potassium is used, an explosion
viii take place.-Boston Globe.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

Near Astoria, Ore, there il a deposit OF
clam shells which covers an area OF over
four acres and which is piled up in some
p'Hces to depth OF more than ten feet.
fhs number of shells in this heap is
SIMPLY incalculable. Thousands of wagon
leads of them have been hauled away to
make roads with, but even that amount IS
hardly noticeable as far as the diminu-
ton of the heap is concerned. This i'm
mense shell heap is one of the few relics
OF the clam eating tribes once inhabiting
that portion of the Pacific coast. Many
OF their rude tools have been found round
about the place, which must have been
the headquarters OF Thousands of those
unknown people for cen turies. The chief
tool used by the clam eaters seems to
have been clam-openers made of whales
teeth. There are from sixteen inches to
two feet of soil on top of these shell beds,
end trees supposed to be 500 years old are
growing upon them.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
LEDGE WAxEM'S POLITICAL PROVERBS

Wimmen that vote ought TO shave.
Boodlin is one of our wust politickle
evils.
Politickle popularity costs heap OF
money.
a fust rate farmer ushuly makes g
mig hty pore statesman.
Mighty few men die fer ther country if
they can git ont of doin It.
Some patriots seem TO think the gov
eminent owes them livin'
Kissin babies durin campane is con-
sidered by some candidates to be sine of
craftsmanship.
When polliticks gifts out into the broad
sunlight, some men that air into it
throws alfred dark shaders.
Thar ought to be good deel more of a
differents than thar is between the solger
that fit and the solger that SUNK.
Polliticks and religion air alike as fur
as the duty of takin up colleckshun is
Observation-Disclosures Free Press.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
CHAFF

Handcuffs might appropriately be called
sad-irons.-Lowell Courier.
If you cannot lick a man be lenient
with his faults.-Texas Siftings.
The course of true love may not run
smooth, but they make good records on
it in Chicago.-Puck.
"lt's easy enough to catch on" as the
fly remarked when he lit on the fly-paper.
Philadelphia Record.
a Great Co." How does your new err
randboy 60, Johnson?" "The long way,
apparently, every time" IN. Y. Truth.
One half the world doesn't know how
the other half lives; but the women are
trying their best to remedy that.-Puck.
$50 you went to sing in the cholr?'
Yes" "What part?" "Well. I went
in as first base, but they changed it to
short stop when they heard my VOICE.
Washington Star.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

Chicago sometimes brags that it has
had the biggest fires in history; but it
seems that Moscow, in 1914, had bigger
one, in which $1,000 buildings were de-
stroyed, valued at s150,0o0,OO0 The loss
in the Chicago fire of October, 1871, was
S125, 600, 600; the buildings destroyed, H.
450. The buildings destroyed by the
great fire of London, 1855, were Is. 200.
valued at S55 100000. The great fire OF
Boston. 1872, destroyed $50, O00, 600, burned
over siIty-five acres and consumed or
ruined 776 bindings. In 1870 COnstanti-
nople had a conhagration Of S24,019, 800
and 500 buildings. n 1851 san Francisco
lost $500 buildings, valued at St7, 1000 600.
In 1872 Hamburg mad fire when con-
sumed / AT Of the finest buildings in the
city. il is hardly to be expected that any
fires hereafter VIII bum more than those
al Moscow and Chicago. - ST. Paul
Pioneer Press.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
Extracts from the Ri'lvilIe Hammer

Extracts from the Bliiylle hammer.
We hear that in Atlanta they arrest a
man for not working, and when he does
get work they arrest him over again for
not making money enough to pay his
taxes. But Atlanta is young yet. After
awhile she viii be as civilized as BillY;lle.
The Billvi1le Aldermen are most too
good for this world. They recently put
long calico dresses on all the naked
angels on the monuments in the cene-
terry, Notwithstanding most of the angels
were boys; and we understand that they
have ordered bat and pair of shoes for
the Roman statue of Henry Grady in our
park.
It's got SO nowadays man has to vote
six times Tor So. To think OF the vote for
a free born American citizen going as low
as 81.
All of our living relations are spending
the season at q summer resort. The dead
ones are also IN the summer resort BUSH
ness-if they've had half show.
The Sons of Temperance of Billvnle
have been arrested on a charge OF drunk
and disorderly. Il was all caused by q
debate on the question: (Which is the
greatest evil-whiskey or beer?"-At-
lanta Constitution.
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-f-f-I-I-I-l-
-l-1-l-l -I-I-I-I-l-I-I-l-l
. You Can't do it Again. >

When the great financial results attained polcyhoder
the Mutual life shown the confused agents
companies they exclam Eyes; but they can't do again.
They willing admit that the dividends paid by the Mu
tual Life Insurance Company of New York all it's earlier
policies the largest paid by company similar
forms of Insurance. but it claimed that the Mutual Life
duplicate its former dividend results policies issued
now. Let
On Policy No. 115,628 issued November z, $780, age
twenty ve for s5oO0 annual premium s994 ordinary life
pan at the end of first twenty the dividend additions
amounted making the insurance value
death claim which is than the prem
ums paid improved at 10 per cent. compound interest
On Policy No. 1874 $685. issued September T. 1871, age
twentysx, for 5000 annual premium s02 ordinary life
plan the dividend additions 1884, the end of the first
twenty years. amounted 81 co. raising the policy &c.
and being s42G75 better than all the premiums paid i'm
proved compound interest per for twenty
years.
Thus it appears from the of The Mutual Life In
Company of New York that the first twenty years
dividends ending in and declared policies issued
and have been favorable those declared in the
first twenty years policies issued in 1843 1t is therefore,
that the future dividends of this
Company policies issued now the distrbu-
ton PLAN will be good those realized in the first twenty
the holders of policies issued the early years of the
Company the old ''reversonary addition pan which
dividends declared five and added the policy
at their insurance value.
Mutual Les dividends have shown grad
ual increase every year.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
THE GRAND LAMA's PALACE.
II Is Reached by FiSs Ladders, ana
Holds Huge idol.


Potala, precipitous in many places
rises within the confines of the QUITE
city of Lhasa in the northwestern quar-
ter. 1t is heaped up in the most fan
tastic style with halls and storied tenn
Piles and monster tombs but, on look
ing up from the foot of these heights
the whole series seems conjoined into
one vast structure, surmounted by five
gold plated rectangular domes of great
size.
The chief erection is the P'o-dang
Marpo, or Red Palace" building
carried up to the height of eleven stories,
and which is assembled from story to
story by means of wooden ladders with
broad but difficult steps This is the
central edifce round which the Others
climb and cluster The lower stories are
built against the sheer face Of the ac-
clivity.
After passing up a steep path avenued
by trees, you arrive at the principal or
eastern doorway of the whole establish
ment. Here, first, is long hall, up
which you may ride on pony back if you
choose. The hall is garnished on either
hand by long rows Of massive prayer
cylinders, which, placed like barrels ON
end on well oiled pivots, can easily be
made to revolve with touch as you
pass along.
Each barrel has within it, wound COM
pactly on the iron axle passing from top
to bottom, innumerable lengths of paper.
on which has been stamped many thou
sands of times the well known formula.
ON Nam Padme Hum, the special
invocation to the Bodhisattwa Chen
raisi, and therefore to the Grand Lama,
who visibly impersonates him. At the
end of the hall are broad stone steps,
which mount to a paved landing where
stands an obelisk You are now again
in the open air, and two long flights of
steps, hemmed in by the outer walls of
other buildings, ascending up the face of
the hill to The ground floor Of the Red
Palace.
Thence the ladder climbing COM
mences. Five long ladders, one after
the other, have to be scaled, passing up
through dark and mysterious vaults
really vestibules to the neighboring
buildings some with weird looking
passages conducting who shall know
whitherH At the top of the fifth ladder
things seem brighter, since now you
enter the more habitable portion of the
palace, comprising suits of rooms, set
above set.
On this floor, in an adjoining apart
ment, are the lower limbs of an ele-
phantine image of Jhampa, the Buddha-
to.come. He is seated on a platform in
this ROOM and his figure is of such
colossal proportions that it passes up
through the floors of the two other
stories above this one. Altogether the
image is said to be about seventy feet
high. When you have reached the third
floor of the upper portion of the palace
You may walk around and gaze upon the
monster head and shoulders of this
gilded Buddha. 49, ..-,
All orthodox visitors on their way up
perform solemn circumambulation
around the legs, the body and the
shoulders respectively, once on each of
the three floors through which the effigy
has been reared.-Murray's Magazine
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

!, A scientist of Chrlstiaua proposes to
4 7rtalize himself by proving the
they of retaining the gold and
~ sea water by electrolytic action
he suggests that channel about sixty
meters wide should be selected for ex-
pertinent. The place should be well
sheltered from sea and wind, and there
should be a current of about four meters
per minute. Across this channel sixty
plates of galvanized iron, each two
meters by three meters, should be fixed
at an angle of eighty degrees with the
stream, and an electric current be sent
through the series to precipitate the
precious metals. Herr Munster, to whom
the credit of this conception is due, has
hit on very fascinating idea.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
Fishing in siam.

In Siam the natives utilize curious
wicker Continuance for fishing in narrow
streams. The device in question is in
the shape of an inverted vase, without a
bottom. While one man devotes his at
tention to driving the waterway, an
olher stands ready to clap the basket
over their heads when they come thick
est. Having thus penned in number
of them, he thrusts his arm into the trap
and pulls them out
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30
OBSERVATIONS.

Clothes do not make the man, yet many
q man owes a good deal to his tailor.
Those who live slowly live long, says a
philosopher. They need to live long to get
any fun.
Fine clothes are more powerfuli in bring
ing some people out to church than love
of religion.
loving wife doesn't have to be told
that her husbands stockings need darn
ing. A kind husband never needs to be
asked for the price of bonnet.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

Briggs-Did you know that Robinson
died suddenly coming over on the train
from Boston the other day.
Griggs-Great heavens, mol What was
the cause of il?
Briggs-He succeeded in opening the
car window and the shock killed him.
Detroit Free Press.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

1t was 1850 Saturday night, and the
lovely vouny heiress Of - COS OOo said tn
her adorer:
Harold, papa looks with favor upon
you-but l think it best to tell you that
that he is firm advocate of Sunday clos
ing"
And Harold reached for his hat.-Chi-
cago Tribune.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

Mrs. Porkchops of Chicago must be
disguised with marriage"
"Why do you think so?"
Because she Is getting a divorce"
"She isn't Disguised with marriage for
ell that"
Nor"
ono, she is getting divorced to get
married again. IN. Y. Press.
The World. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1891-1896, 1892-12-30

al tell You" he said disconsolst eIv,
" women are altogether too business like
Nowadays"
" What's the matte1?''
proposed to the heiress yesterday. -
. DID she accept yous"
ono. She took out her note book.
wrote my name and address in it ana
said she would con slider my application. /"
Washington Star.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-27
Eost stove dealers keep them. Il yc1rs
soes rot, write direct &c manufacturers.
EXCELSIOR MANUFACTURING co.
ST. LOUIS, no.
Two GREAT REMEDIES.

The human citadel IS open TO attacks
from two sources and aside from accidents
these two are the avenues from which all
of the maladies that afflict the race spring.
The first of these are what is known as
the excretorv organs-the lungs, the kid
news and the skin. These suffer from
congestion which takes the form OF colds
Starting from what is called cold the
maladies that result are wide spread rang
ing from a cough to consumption. They
attack all ages and all stations. No one
is free from these troubles. There is,
however, remedy that is assafeguard.
This is REID'S GERMAN COUGH
AND KIDNEY CURE. 1t contains no
poison, and it will heal any form of lung
tiouble or any malady that arises from q
cold. The other class of sdisease arise
from arrangement of the digestive organs
and result in constipation. When the
bowels do not act the stomach soon refuses
to digest the food and we are troubled
with Indigestion and long train of dis
orders that embrace a large range OF Inaka-
dies. THE LAXATIVE GUM DROPS
will correct any difficulty OF this Sorts
They contain nothing deleterious, but are
safe and pleasant. Get them Of any dealer.
REMEDY CO., Peoria, Ill.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-27

HORTON DAY parade served
as escorts, each for its own governor
and orators, and the scenes at the park
were even more diversified than those
of Friday.
Among the structures presented to
the worlds fair management by the
state representatives were those of
Kansas, New York, Ohio and Iowa.
Each building was gay with bunting
and the flags of America, Spain and
Italy as we'll as the state banners
About each great crowds gathered and
for each orator there was liberal ap-
plause. The words of the speakers
could be heard by all their auditors
and as the crowd was not concentrated
in one spot and there were other pleas
ant features, the day was to many fully
as enjoyable, though not as impressive,
as was Friday.
The Kansas state building was dedi-
Gated at noon with interesting exer-
cises and in the presence of large
audience Many visiting Ohioans and
Iowans whose state buildinge were
deS Heated in the afternoon fraternized
with the Kansas people in honor
of the occasion. The main ora
ton was delivered by Chief JUS
tice Horton, of the supreme
court of Kansas, Musical selections
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-27

Won Molkc's famous economy in lam
guage used to inspire bets among the
officers and general stat every year as
the kings birthday came around. as to
the number of words he would employ
in proposing his masters health Some
backed a nine word speech, others put
tfieir money on eight words Moltke's
habit was to say, ITO the health of his
majesty, emperor and king" or. ITO
his imperial majesty's health" In 1884
an oyster breakfast was staked on the
marshaPs not useing more than nine
words. but, because he began with the
word gentlemen" the bet was lost
The late Gen. John Pope, by dating
one of his orders. Headquarters in the
Saddle" prompted the confederate COM
mander. Robert E. Lee, to perpetrate
what was said to be the only joke of his
life. ''What can you expect he is
credited with saying. .'of a general
who puts his headquarters where his
headquarters ought to be2'
The late Gen Hustled, of New York,
left comfortably large slice Of prop
erty behind him, as well as an insur-
aace upon his life OF s1G0, COO
The carpenters union OF San Fran
cisco builds dwellings for members
without charge
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1892-10-27

were rendered by the Topeka Modoc
club and brief addresses were made by
number of prominent Kansans, in
Guiding the following: Lieut.. Gov. A.
j. Felt, State Superintendent George
W. Winans, Secretary of Agriculture
Martin Mohler, Attorney -GeDeral j. n.
Ives and lady commissioners, Mrs. Lewis
Hanback, and Mrs. Robert 3. Mitchell.
The Kansas building is 13S feet long
and 134 feet wide; has 1914 square
feet of floor space on the first floor,
9,S76 on the secondhand cost about
$4,000. The center of the building is
rooted by an elliptical glass dome.
eighty by forty feet in diameter and
ffty-eight feet high. The rear arm Of
the building is especially designed to
accommodate the natural history col
lection of the state university and is
rooted with glass. Entrance to the
building is through a sixteen foot arch
into a vestibule twenty-three by
thirteen feet The center of the front
part of the first aud second floors is de-
signed for use as u club house and the
center of the building for the state
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