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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

TIE crowd which will be in attend
ance at the dedication Of the worlds
fair at Chicago it is expected will be an
immense one. The manufacturers build
ing is large enough to hold two hundred
thousand people without any trouble.
1t viii b impossible, however, to put
that many In during the dedicstory
services. No man can make his voice
heard to more than twenty-five thou
sand people at ono time, and SO not
more than that number will be admitted
to the building. On the day of the dedi-
cation no charge will be made for en-
trance to the park. On the other two
days an admission fee of fifty cents will
be charged. The date Of the dedication
IL fixed by joint resolution Of congress
for October 81, and President Harrison
has accordingly officially announced
that date.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

Am0k10a0 H1olkx0
No one sixty years ago anticipated
crossing the Atlantic inside of six days,
or sixty miles an hour by rail, or Of tele-
graphing around the globe. yet these
have long since been successfully
accomplished. But little was then
known of electricity or of its power Of
transmitting messages and not until
many years after messages were trans
mitted did anyone anticipate the run
ming of cars through our cities by its
wondrous power.
At our 1875 centennial at Philadelphia
an electric light was exhibited as
curiosity, and now nearly all of our
cities are so lighted, and Mr.. Edison
has given the world the incandescent
light for the interior of our dwellings,
and buildings. The storage battery Is
now being 50 perfected that we may
reasonably look for its being employed
to convey passenger cars over our COM
mon railroad tracks. and even to be
used In place of the steam engine for
freight trains The public are more
credulous now than sixty years ago.
Aerial navigation is no doubt an &C.
complishment of the future.
Electric light and heat Is no doubt an
accomplishment for not only lighting but
warming our homes, and to be produced
by small windmill on our roofs, which
may run a dynamo and produce these
elements and store them in our attics,
to be used at pleasure and at q nominal
cost Of production. All Of the so-called
lost arts are to be restored, Damascus
steel being among the most useful of
them all Then comes tempered cop
per.
And now, according to tho Scientific
American, our sculpturing Is approach
ing the Grecians. We have had our
Powers in the Greek Slave" and in
sculptured heads are nearing the
ancients. In painting we appear to
be behind Raphael and Michael Angelo
and many others Of the old masters.
In architecture we are as yet mere
imitators in structure, except in bridge
architecture. Ancient architecture
never spanned Niagara or built e Brook
Ign bridge.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05


A misguided person recently. who
vas DESTROYS Of being cheerful and
seeking something that would raise his
spirits. and who had, perhaps, in his
soul . hankering after beauty, said that
he could not find in any bookshop or
newsstand q novel or short story of re-
cent date that was not unpleasant in
subject, and did not either end in de-
spair or degradation. Even in the rail-
way trains the same discouraging and
altogether dyspeptic papulum was Of
fered to him; the train seemed to be run
by Schopenhauer. Every day shoal
OF fiction is issued, writes Charles Dud-
ley Warner in Harper's Magazine, and
1t is nearly all Of this character. All
the young writer's catch this note. We
cannot deny their sincerity. They do
not yet know by experience that 1t Is
not a cheerful world they have fallen
into. but their attitude to life Is that
of sadness, investigating sadness aided
by microscope. The duty is laid upon
them Of studying life as it really is, Of
exposing its weakness and imperfection,
its evil and its ugliness. This study is
usually made without hope. And tho
study being always downwards, it
comes to be felt that one cannot be al
together sincere without being sad and
too often coarse.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05
A Terrible Pest,

The terror Of blackberry pickers
south of Mason and Dixon's line is the
cheagre, popularity pronounced Gig
ger" Probably no one has ever seen .
cheagre save under a microscope, and
certainly he is usually invisible to his
victims, but he can inflict more discom-
fort than the mosquito, or than any
one Of q dozen noxious insects twice his
size The cheagre comes like a thief in
the night No one is conscious of his
coming, and often his presence is not
detected for hours after his arrival, but
in due time he makes himself known.
The victim is seized with an intolerable
itching In q dozen spots at once, and
scratching affords only temporary re-
lief Pimples rise over the itching
spots, and are soon scraped raw by the
cheagre's tortured victim. Meanwhile
the invisible enemy keeps on burrow-
ing, and the itching continues often for
days together. When it ceases, the
victim has the unpleasant conscious
ness that all is over probably because
the cheagre has died somewhere be-
meath the pimple.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

AN ingenious citizen of Buffalo has
invented and is now Offering to the
railroad companies ''trainrobber safe
guard calculated to put a stop hereafter
to train robberies by rufdans of the
Jesse James stamp" 'The ruffians, T"
he says, "are met at the threshold Of
their robbery by streams of scalding
water that enwrap and surround them
on every side, binding and throwing
them into such confusion that they are
put to rout instanter, demoralized and
roasted, while the train load of passen-
gers whiz triumphantly on, jeering at
their discontinue" The safeguard con-
sists of hot-water pipes surrounding tho
tank and by valves either engineer or
fireman can put the deadly apparatus
into execution and scatter steam and
hot water promiscuously.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

KANSAS Is now the only silk-produc-
ing state in the union. Some of the
other states grow cocoons, but Kansas
alone unwinds the fiber. The govern
ment stations at Philadelphia and
Washington, having received no appro-
priation from congress, have closed for
the present, whereas the Kansas flature
at Peabody received from the state leg
islature last year an appropriation Of
s7,aooLjust enough to keep 1t going.
Silk, like tea culture, appears to be Pc
tering out In the United States.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

MoRNNesDE PARK, New York, has In
its curiosities species Of cactus, appar.
emily native and voluntary. It grown
In great abundance on the wall Of al
most perpendicular rock opposite One
Hundred and Sixteenth street, clinging
tenaciously to every coigne Of vantage
offered by the irregularities of the rock.
The conditions presented by the rocks
at that point seem admirably suited to
the cactus, for the soil Is thin and dry
and the face Of the rocks being turned
directly toward the morning sun tho
temperature for many hours Is almost
tropical
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05
American independence.

The genuine American woman fears
neither kings nor queens, as one proved
recently while visiting Wurtemburg.
The king of that country, like the
kaiser, is q very Indifferent whip, and
while entering the Stuttgart schloss
nearly drove over Lady who was cross
ing the road She, however, with the
sangfroid characteristic Of the daugh-
ters of the west, promptly seized the
horses heads, and told the king in pref
ty strong terms what she thought of
his conduct. The young lady was I'M
aware that she was giving the length
Of her tongue to king until the next
day, when she received letter from
one of his majesty's chamberlains beg
ging her acceptance of the royal photo
graph as souvenir Of his clumsineas
and her escape.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

SxTY-Two thousand pounds OF opium
came through the custom house into
this country in 1891. It is estimated
that over one hundred thousand pounds
came In without paying duty. OF thia
amount leB than . third WA known IA
b used in . legitimate w.v IN meai.
che end the artA
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

An electric switchboard, . recent in
vention, has been introduced in New
York city which it is thought will do
away entirel y with the hello" girl at
the central Office. The new invention
does not require different telephone
instrument from those now in use. It
Is merely an automatic attachment
which does away with an operator in
the central Office to connect the wire Of
one subscriber to that of another.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05
NOTICE-TIMBER CULTURE.
Land ofioe st Ws-Keeney, Kansaa -,
October s 1904 No. ~

LAND omce q Wa-Aeeney, kAnsS, ~. ,,,,.
October 8, 1904 No' ASASs'
Complaint having been entered ut this of,oe bv
Fred D. Street against Mary Mccarthy for failure
to comply with law as to Timber Culture entry No.
457S. dated March Is, 1854, upon the west half of
northeast quarter, and east half Of northwest
quarter section q, township Is, south, range %,
west, In Trego county, Kansas, with q view to the
cancellation Of said entry contestant alleging that
the said Mary Mccarthy wholly failed durin9 and
since the seventh year of said entry to pillow or Gull
vate any part of said land to cause the came to
be done. And wholly failed during and since the
seventh Of said entry TO plant or replant sny
part OF said land with trees seeds cuttings or to
cause the came to be done. That there are les
failures existed ct the beginning Of the seventh year
and etu continue; the said parties hereby sum-
moned to appear at this once On the 10Th day OF
November. 1872, at . O'Clock q m. to respond ana
furnish testimony concerning eaid alleged failure.
LEB 4ono1. Register.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

THERE were two weddings amid un-
usual surroundings in Colorado few
days ago. The second was an attempt
to 60 one better on the first for novelty
and romance, and it would not be sur,
prising If third should occur soon to
cap the climax. The first couple were
married on the summit of Pixies Peak,
the idea, maybe, being to get as near.
heaven as possible in the blssful event,
and, perhaps, to display an srdor Of
love that the climate above the snow
line could not chill. The second couple
were married in the weird and beauti-,
full bridal chamber Of the Cave Of tho
Winds at Manitou. The wedding party
Of the romantic pair, comprising the
parson and number of friends, was
driven to Williams canyon and climbed
the rocky trail into the cave where tho
ceremony was performed
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

A FREAK In animal life that is to do
the country this summer is q cross be-
tween horse and buffalo, alleged to
have been captured by band of cow
boyA The creature has the head, ears,
nose, shoulders, Launches and legs of
the horse, and the eyes, coat, tail aud
boots Of tho buffalo.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05
Combating Crime.

For many years past Lavish appropria-
lions and vast expenditures have been
made for the purpose of suppresslng
crime and eliminating pauperism, but
It seems that inadequate methods have
been pursued, as proof exists that crime
and pauperism are steadily increasing.
In regard to this Prof. E. 8. Morse,
writing in Popular Science Monthly,
offers the following weighty sugges-
ton:
I'm combating crime the line Of effort
should be along those paths indicated
by nature. 1t is curious commentary
on mans intelligence that, while e1-
ercising the selective function on his
domestic stock by careful feeding,
proper housing, and judicious crossing,
apd for his plants selecting the best
seed, etc., while ruthlessly destroying
the noxious weeds, yet when he
comes to his own kind he fancies
that different laws operate with him,
or, swsyed by sentiment, looks for
different methods to cope with crime.
He exterminates the noxious weed,
kills his vicious dog, puts under re-
straint the maniac until cured, no
definite terms of Punishment will do in
these cases, yet he formulates laws In
which there Is apportioned . definite
number of days or years for definite
odenses against society,"
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

THE galloway at the Deer Park
group Of mines near Descanso, Cal,
was broken In singular manner re-
Gently. It was single span of 4,4so.
feet The tension is twenty tons, and
the loads are 12o-pound sacks Of ora
from the mines on the mountain side
to the mills below. Just after an extra
hard shake In the series Of earth
quakes there 1t parted 1t Is supposed
that the vibrations, coming from each
end Of the line. met in the center and
caused Q break.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

A SODA water fountain which works
ON the nickel-in-the slot plan has been
invented; the customer helps himself.
but cannot get more than dSs eeatt
worth st . tina .~...--.e
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

ACCORDING to the rules Of tho New
York mercantile exchange, eggs. to
pass Is new laid, cannot lose under the
test more than ten eggs TO . case OF
thirty dozen or twelve eggs to . case OF
thirty-six dozen.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

ACCORDING to custom house returns
there was collected at San Franchise
during the Last year the sum Of $7so, ood
on importations Of opium alone. "A
twelve dollars pound, the present taz~
H. the importation must have reachea
dxty-two thousand poundA Fur til
snogmous amount the Chimes 81 ~
eountzy ass laEyely ssapouafb3A 49,
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

Women are eligible under the school
laws of Louisiana to Office. They can
be parish superintendents Of education
and members Of the city and parish
school boards. There arc few of those
places which have any salaries attached
to them, city and parish superintend-
ents being tho only ones; but whatever
may be their honors or emoluments,
women are now lawfully eligible to al
or any Of them.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

A YNAL settlement Is said to have
been reached between the governments
Of the United States and Chill as to tia
indemnity to be paid by the latter ON
account Of the assault upon the crew OF
the United States ship Baltimore. The
sum Of seventy-ave thousand dollafs II
to be distributed among the families Of
tho two men who lost their lives and to
the surviving members of the crew who
were wounded The adjustment OF tids
AFFAIR Is one Of the most notable IA.
umphs Of American diplomacy.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

ACCORDING to recent reports there
have been agents soliciting funds in
New York In behalf Of . socialist
colony to be founded in Paraguay,
South America, which = to b sehSup'
porting when established, - AL Ne
members win - ssQuhsd 70 wosk -
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

TIE largest American nag ever made
will float from the top Of very lofty
liberty pole" In front Of the admins
tration building at the worlds fair.
Upon request the state Of Warrington
win furnish this big flagstaff Is well
% two or three others Of the largest
that are required by the exposition.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

Old readers now grown to manhood
who in boyhood days perused with de-
light the romances of William T. Adams
and got many pleasant views of life
through ''OHver Optic" will be glad to
know that the Boston schoolmaster Is
entertaining the present generation and
hopeful Of charming the next He has
written altogether more than q hun
dred books for boys and il now busy 1t
work with another. Mr.. Adams Il
seventy, but well enough preserved to
last for thirty years to come.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

AMoHa the terrible cslamities Of the
month of July are the destruction of
the island of Sangir, one of the Philip
pine group, together with population
Of twelve thousand, by . volcanic dis
turbance, and the havoc wrought by
the eruption Of Mount Etna, in Sicily.
Reports say that thousands Of Cstanian
peasants have been compelled to
abandon their homes by the advance of
vast streams Of lava A repetition Of
the experience Of PompeM and Hercu-
lsneum is feared by scientists.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

q
To-day there are. according to ofcln1
statistics, some 1000 miles OF axhhcaAA
waterways In the United States. and
through, these and the natural inland
waterways pass in single year Ia
900. 900 tons Of freight. In tho Older
portion of the country the canals have
ceased to have their relative Importance
and some Of them are In way to he
abandoned. The Erie and Champlain
canals in New York state, which .
score of years ago were the subject mat
ter of the most excited political strug1
giles, now attract little attention, and
so acute q business man as Gov. Flower
has announced that he is not sure that
they repay the expenditure made upon
them But in the west, says Harper's
Weekly, the st. Mary's Falls canal. the
famous $780," and the waterways con-
Meeting the Great Lakes in this country
and in Canada, are of the highest inns
portance, and the scheme for securing
not less than twenty feet Of water be-'
tween Duluth and Buffalo or New York
Is one that Is being steadily pressed by
men who never own that they arc
beaten, and seldom have been. That,
with the Nicaragua canal, would cause
the current of the worlds commerce to
flow from the heart of the far west to
the remotest shores of the Orient moro
safely and swiftly than the ships Of the
Phoenicians reached the Ultima Thula.i
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

PILES! PnRs!! P1LEsl!!
Try Beggs' famous German Salve. 1,
relieves at once. Sold and warranted b,
Jones & Gibson. 5-21 Tyr
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1892-11-05

church yard.
"The Pride of the Village" relates the
story of q faithless lover, the broken
hearted girl, her decline, and her lovers
return just in time to witness her death.
We must remember that these sketches
were written about sixty years ago.
English girls of that time were quite
different from the American girl of
today. II q lover is false now, the
maiden does not due of broken heart,
she finds another lover who does just as
we'll a. the first one did.
The sketches which are dearest to
Americans are those which treat of
American subjects. "Trip Van Wrinkle"
and sThe Legend Of Sleepy Hollow"
The sosne Of the latter is laid at Sleepy
Hollow about three miles distant from
larry Town New York. This is q quiet
sequested spot, under the witching
influence OF several departed spirits,
chief among which are an old Indian
chief, who held his pow vows here be-
fore Hendrick Hudson sailed up the
river, and a figure on horseback without
p head which rides about the country at
and has been seen at different times.
The sohoolmaster of the place reioiced
In the name of Ichabod Crane. I quote
the deception OF him entire. He was
tail but exceedingly lank. with narrow
shoulders, long arms and legs, hands that
The Portland daily press., 1892-04-14

A fine looking horse attached to pair
Of thills and piece o. whifletree,
dashed dow. Market street yesterday
about $50 O'Clock. In front of the post
office on Middle street he was brought to
standsill by the gallant conduct of Mr..
J. T. McDonough and taken to Sawyer
stable. The team had started from the
hill with three painters on board, Mr..
David Drinkwater driving. The horse
was colt. Just in front of the cathe-
dral on Cumberland street the wagon
broke down and the three men were
thrown out Mr.. Drinkwater's back was
hurt, tone of the other men had an ankle
sprained and the third was badly bruised.
The wagon was smashed to finders.
Awoman crossing the street was near
ly knocked over by the runaway. The
colt fell several times, but strange to say
he only received little scrach on the
knee.
The Portland daily press., 1892-04-14
Breaking and Entering.

Some boys broke into shed on Deake's
wharf recently and stole some crockery
belonging to Mr.. Charles E. Warwick,
which was stored there. The police
found the crockery at the home of boy
named Price on York street. The
Price boy said another boy named Web
Der told him and companion they
could have all the crockery they wanted.
Weber has skipped. Price is held.
The crockery was much of it very val
liable, some of the old blue ware being
considered especially choice. The boys
had acted most riotously, wantonly
breaking good deal of the china, and
relics brought from abroad years ago.
Deputies McCallum and Chase investi-
gated the affair with Officers Hanson and
Thrasher, and not only found the
stuff at the Price house, but more at an
other house on Varnum street. Officers
Stevens and Moore arrested Price and his
companion, whose name we do not give,
as the officers think he didn't take any OF
the goods, although he saw the others
take them.
The Portland daily press., 1892-04-14
For additional Local News SCI
Fifth Page.
BRIEF JoTTINes.

The special sale of the Woman's Elk.
change will continue for another week.
tt was bright, clear and warmer yester
day. but the wind was quite strong from
the north.
The annual supper Of the Portland
Yacht Club will be held April Goth at the
club house.
The children's temperance meeting and
entertainment viii be held at the Cos
pei Mission this evening at 7.45 o'clock.
All are invited.
Minneola Council, D. of p, of Knight
vile, will be the guests of Winona Coun-
Gil Of this city tonight. There will be an
entertainment and feast Of corn and ven
ison.
The fifth in the series of parliamentary
lessons by the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Union will be given in Baxter
hall, Friday the 18th, at p. m. All are
sordiallp invited.
A gentleman was standing at his open
window, in Deering, one cloudy night
recently, when he noticed continual
rustling of the dry leaves that covered
his garden. 1t was as If few large
drops Of rain were falling. Examina-
ton showed the garden covered with an
gle worms.
The Portland daily press., 1892-04-14
PERSONAL.

Franklin Simmons. the sculptor, is in
town for few days.
Mrs. J. w. Waterhouse and Miss Pa
thence Waterhouse, have returned from
Europe and are staying at the Sherwood.
John @. Twitchell and Horace E. Sher-
man joined Kara Temple, Mobiles of the
Mystic Shrine, at Lewiston, Tuesday
night.
Miss Lizzie NJ. Brown, the favorite So
prano of Portland, is engaged to sing at
a concert to be given in Hayerhill, Mass,
on April 81.
/ Mr.. Thomas Ryan, the longtime man
ager of the Boston Mendelssohn Quin-
tette Club of Boston, and the clarinet vir-
tuoso, was in the city yesterday, on the
way to his summer residence at Orr's
Island
The Portland daily press., 1892-04-14

The experience of gentleman in this
city may serve as a warning to other
householders whose Sebago water fau-
Gets have been in use for many years. In
his case the faucet bothered greatly, at
one time running free, at another exas-
peratingly slow, and he finally decided
to remove it. From the faucet, which
had been in position perhaps dozen
years, he took three teaspoonfuls of
verdigris-a most poisonous substance.
He remarked to his wife that the stom-
ach troubles from which both had COM
planned had good apparent cause in this
dangerous accumulation through which
all the water they had long used had
strained.