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Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Tipped the Archduke.

1t is not often nowadays that per-
sonage born in the purple has an op-
portunity Of earning an 'thonest
penny" by rend ering service to his
fellow-man Of low degree. Royalty is
so carefully hedged about, if not pre-
cisely by divinity at least by authori-
tative and repellant humanity, that
it seldom comes into personal contact
with the horny-handed sons of toll
AS a rule, however, when it does the
results are interesting. A case in
point well worthy of record, has re-
Gently occurred in Austria The hero
Of the story was the Archduke
Joseph, who has himself related it in
the following words: II was stroll
ing about the park at Alesuth few
days ago, reading Father Kneipp's
book on the water cure, when all of a
sudden l was startled out of my re-
iections by piercing cry uttered be-
hind me by some person apparently
in great pain. Turning round, I
caught sight of an old peasant jump
ing up and down on the edge of the
path. AS soon as he saw that I was
looking at him he implored me ia
most piteous tones to chase his hen
out of the rhododendron bushes, into
which she had strayed from his keep
ing. 1T will be a bad job for me, , he
exclaimed, If the head gardener sees
hern I stopped down and remained
on the watch for few seconds unJll
I was enabled to seize hold of the Of
Tending fowl, which I forthwith
handed over to it's owner. In proof
Of his gratitude the old man put
twenty-kreutzer piece into my hand,
begging me not to mention the mat
ter to the head gardner" 1t would
be interesting to learn whether or not
his imperial highness kept the coin
bestowed upon him by the poor old
man, in absolute ignorance Of his ex-
alted rank. The fve-penny piece,
duly pierced and suspended to his
watch chain, might aptly serve to re-
mind reflective archduke of the only
job for which, in all probability, he
ever received payment at the hands
Of social inferior.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
The TEXANS Gun-

spent the winter of 1857 in south
ern and western Texas" said Thomas
w. Lowry, in the corridors of the
Laclede. 81 carried with me a 22-
caliber seyen-shot revolver. I was
! not looking for trouble, but considered
myself 'well-heeled' should trouble
find me. stopped one night at a
hotel in Victoria. 1 had fired away
my box of cartridges practicing at
a mark, and stepped over to gen.
eral store to procure another.
1.-THE proprietor had never heard
of 22-caliber gun, and asked to see
it. I produced my terror and he
nearly had a 1T BE you taking that
thing around through Texas?' he
queried. wy, you might pump a
hat full o. them bullets into Texans
hide, and he'd slash you with bowie
knife an forgit about you in a week.
That night my room was directly over
the bar.
"About midnight a regular fusilade
opened. Two or three bullets came
tearing through the floor, but the
mattress / lay upon was a thick one,
and, like Bre'r Rabbit, l !is lay low
and say nufin'. When I went down
in the morning the bar room was a
regular slaughter pen. Two dead
men lay in the middle of the floor,
while on a cot in a corner was an
other terribly slashed with a bowie
knife. expected that he would die
before night, but he insisted that he
was only scratched that he would
be we'll in few weeks. And, sure
enough, met him two months Ia or
punching cattle in West Texas. l
kept very civil tongue in my head,
and found no occasion to use pistol.
But those were the days when If
man did need gun he needed it al
mighty bad.-St Louis Globe Demo-
cr9f,
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Utilizing Niagara.

The eyes Of mechanical engineers
the world over are attracted to Mag
ara Falls. where an attempt is max
ing on a large scale to utilize the
enormous water-power Of the great
cataract for manufacturing and SINH
lar purposes.
The President of the Mechanical
Science Section of the British Asso-
ciaJion at Edinburgh, in his opening
address, mentioned some interesting
facts about this enterprise.
If the whole energy which the Nj
agara River develops in falling from
the level of Lake Erie to the level of
Lake Ontario could be utilized, it
would supply seven-million horse
power. which, Mr.. Unwin says, sis
more than double the total steam and
water power at present employed in
manufacturing industry in the
United States
If the present plans are successful
ly carried out, only about one hun
dred thousand horsepower out of the
seven million will be utilized, but
that will be very great addition to
the effective energy Of the world Of
work.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14

He left the roorc, and Miss Eliza
heard his footsteps down the stairs,
down the gravel walk, and down the
road, till they died away in silence.
Then she fell down upon her knees,
and clasped her desecrated household
gods to her ample bosom, murmuring
broken thanks.
X
Half an hour later, and half mile
down the road, two girls were together
in an upper room. One, who was
small and fair, was sitting on the
floor, both feet curled under her, her
chin between her hands and her ell
bows on ner knees-an attitude show
ing enthusiastic interest. The other,
who was tall and had fine eyes. stood
before the glass. Her hair was good
deal tumbled, and her hands were
dirty; she was busy rubbing burnt
cork of her cheeks and eyebrows.
''Do you really think, Polly, she
will let you do it now?" asked the
little one.
Pauline turned about.
PPM sure of it," she said. sse-
Then, as the last traces of burnt
cork disappeared, she leaned toward
the glass
Sand it's all the doin' of this
angelic creature" she laughed. .-Har-
ward Advocate.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
GEM.
Worth Preserving.

Anything which has once mad
claims to admiration or respect in a
country place is slow to lose them, at
least in the eyes of the old inhabi-
tants.
A gentleman who had bought an
abandoned farm on the outskirts Of a
small New Hampshire town, found a
dilapidatei 'tcarryall" in the barn.
whose best days were evidently so far
in the past that he considered it
quite worthless.
II might as well have this shah
by old concern chopped up for kind
ling wood" he remarked to the old
town carpenter, who had come out
to the farm with him to look the barn
and house over with view to re-
shingling them. '1t's too disgrace
full to have on the premises"
"Wbat be you sayin'?" demanded
the old carpenter, turning a shocked
face upon the reckless speaker "If
you amt got no use fer that shabby
old consarn. as you name it, I sh'd
be pleased to fetch it home with me
when / 60. Why, 1 can recall when
that kerryall was allus the fust ker-
ridge at funeral! It was borrered
fur an wide by the families o. the
deceased parties don't calc'late to
hev that kerridge chopped up fer
kindlin's II word o. mine can pre-
vent itin
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Left for tho Youngest.

Every one must accept with such
cheerfulness as he can the advance of
age, for the most kindly meant as
surance that the years are lightly
carried does not diminish their actual
number. One of the most ingenious
and graceful attentions ever paid to
a venerable man came from valet
to Cardinal Fleury, in the last cent
ury. The Cardinal, who was 90 years
old, had said IN a somewhat melan-
choly mood to his valet Barjac, that
he was too old, that death must
have forgotten him, but that within
few days surely he should make the
solemn journey into eternity.
A few days later there was feSUi-
val. and Barjac invited fourteen
guests to dine with the Cardinal.
When the cake was put on the din
ner-table, the Cardinal said sadly, re-
ferring to the custom of the day.
1.-The youngest person here must cut
it. With my ninety years, l can only
claim the honors due the oldest Of the
company"
DoOs SlIO llo l1SllO uduu ACISh-
bor, Princess Monttarey, 81 was born
January Is, 1861, and so am two
years older than your eminence.
"And l." said the Marquis de Fla
vacourt, who sat at the Cardinals
left, 'must own to nineJy-four
years"
And so the members of the COM
pany went on telling their ages, all
more than the years of the Cardinal,
until he exclaimed:
SIS it possible that am the young
est one present, that am to cut the
cake?"
'Of course, of course" urged his
delighted guests.
''Is it chance or a plot?" asked the
old man. just then he caught sight
OF Barjac's smiling face, and under
stood his old servants kind strata
Opm
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
century Old.

The corner stone of the white
house was laid on Oct. 13, 1872 2
little less than 900 years after the
discovery of America by Columbus
The commissioners had on the eprevl-
GUS March IA advertised for plans for
a presidents house, and on July 10
they held a meeting In Georgetown
and examined the plans that had
been submitted. As it is part OF To-
cal history now they accepted the
plan of James Hoban, Dublin ar
chitect, who had made designs for
the house, framed, it is said, on the
model of the mansion of the Duke OK
Leinster, at Duolin, the palace Of
royalty in Ireland. The stone, says
the Globe-Democrat, was in part
quarried at Aqua creek and brought
to new wharf, built for the purpose,
near the foot of Seventeenth street.
but obstinate David Burns, as Wash
ington called him, refused to allow
the wagons to pass over his ground
in carrying the stone to the site or
the white house. He abused Mr.. Ho-
ban roundly, and il the city hall had
been built and the present legal fash
ions then prevailed he would nave
got out an injunction; but it Is doubt
full if there was then a judge nearer
than Upper Marlboro or Annapolis,
so, despite Burns opposition, the
stone was carried through his place
and the white'hOuse rose. No MEM
orial of the ceremonial of laying the
corner stone has been discovered 1t
is certain that the Virginia free ma
sons, who had in 179l laid one cor
ner stone in the District Of Columbia,
and who, in 1893, assisted in laying
the corner stone of the capitol, did
not participate in laying the corner
stone of the white house. 1t was
probably laid by Maryland masons.
The building began to rise, however,
and in eight years was ready for oc-
cupancy. The donations Of Mary
land, s72, 900, and of Virginia, $780,
900, assisted to pay for it, and in April,
1900. four months after Washington's
death, congress appropriated $15, 900
to pay for its furniture. Thencefor-
ward it became the chief mansion in
the nation.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Can water Run uphtna

| In an article published in the Com
panion some time ago it was stated
that since the source of the Missis-
slppi River is about three miles nearer
to the center Of the earth than its
mouth is, therefore the water of the
river runs uphill The statement
produced wrong impression, which
1t is desirable to correct 1t is true
| that the waters of the Mississippi, in
flowing toward the equator, gradually
recede from the center Of the earth,
because the earth is not sphere, but
a spheroid fiattening toward the
poles. But this recession cannot be
accurately described as Glowing
uphill" because that would imply
that the water disobeys the law Of
gravitation.
The direction of gravity is always
at right angel to the surface of still
water, and If the earth were COM
pletely covered with water, that sur
face would be not in the form Of a
sphere, but Of spheroid, having
substantially the same shape as that
Of the solid surface Of the earth
taken as whole.
This Is the form assumed by the
surface of the oceans, which is called
surface of equilibrium, because,
without some disturbing influence,
the water has no tendency to flow in
any direction, and plumb line hangs
perpendicular to it at every point
But owing to the fiattening of the
earth toward the poles, the plumb
line does not point toward the true
center Of the earth anywhere except
at the poles and along the equator.
Ii follows from these facts that if
the Mississippi Valley did not slope
toward the South below the level
which an ocean covering that valley,
and having its northern edge at the
source Of the river, would assume,
then the river would be in equilibrium
from source to mouth, and would not
flow at all.
In fact, as the article referred to
stated, the valley does slope, so that
while it's lower end ought to ae about
three and half miles farther from
the earth's center than it's upper end
is in order to correspond with the
general form Of the planet, yet in
truth it is only about three miles
farther from the center This half
mile OF difference represents the true
chill" down swhich, not up which,
the Mississippi flows.
The source of misapprehensiOn in
this case seems to lie in the overlook
ing Of the fact that the oceans, hav-
ing mobile surface which cannot
be permanently deformed by local
causes. measure the true level Ct the
globe, while the continents are sim
ply elevations thrust up above that
level. It is the direction Of the
plumb line, and not ofthe earth, that !
determines the level OF the water aD1d
the course of it's flow. EEE./
On the other hand. it must 16ot be
forgotten that centrifugal force"
plays part In producing the present
surface Of equilibrium of the earth,
and that II the rotation of the globe
should cease, there would be a change
in the direction of the plumb line,
and then the waters of the Gulf of
Mexico might overflow the valley Of
the Mississippi. i.-Youth's Companion.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Medicine Taken by Dial Time.

Mrs John Rose Magruder, a daugn-
ter Of the late Henry D. Cooke, the
banker, has made her home for the
last ten years in Mexico, where her
husband has mining interests Dur
ing the greater portion of the time
she is the only woman in camp, and
on this account as well as in order
to be of aid in case of illness, she has
acquired considerable knowledge of
medicine. A clever device adopted
to show the ignorant native women
when certain powders or pills should
be administered was to make a little
sketch Of the country in that imme-
date vicinity and mark of on the
mountainside the different stages of
the sun from early morning to even
ing at which the medicine was to be
administered. Washington.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Rather Too juicy.

"You be a leetle grain keerful
when you're tryin' t. put your best
foot for'ad that you don't put it too
fur for'ad, an lose your balance" re-
marked Mr.. Cyrus Bemis to his son
Abe, who had just returned from a
days fishing.
What d'you mean, father?" in
quired Abe. who did not always
fathom the meaning Of his fathers
metaphors, but had learned by ex-
perience that they always had a mean
ing.
WELL" drawfed Mr.. Bemis, with
a slow smile, "I've got no doubts but
what you think you seen trout as
large as them you mention, but if you
Was t. tell it for a fact that sech sized
trout was playin' round IN Emmon's
brook t. any o. tn old f1shin' hands
here, 'twouldn't astonish me a mite
if you was t. hear somebody say,
'Jeems Busby's blackberries.
"What would be tn sense o. their
sayin' that?" asked Abe, in an injured
tone.
WELL" responded his father,
"Jeems Busby didn't never calc'late
t lie; he was well-meanin', but he
was possessed, seems 'sif, t. tell ire
menjous stories, an git ahead of
everybody else. An once a man firm
over Hayvllle way was here vis'tin'
cousin o. his for a spell, an he re-
marked to a mess of US down t. the
store one night what terrible juicy
blackberries they had over t. his
place.
'Jeems, he stood it long as he
could, an at last he spoke up good
an he says, 4 reckon we've got tn
juiciest bIackberries t. our farm that
ever was seen.. measured 'em for
m wife last year, when she set out t.
make jam Of 'em, an there was three
pints o. juice to quart o. berrles"
"Well, I calc'late you could we
heard 'em haw-haw up here t the
house, If so be you'd been alive!
'Twan't no use for Jeems t. try t. say
how that he'd never been extry good
at 'rithmetic,' an so on, an that
what he meant was'-when they
come & explain his mistake to him.
'.Folks won't ever forgit It, them
that was knowin' to it; an IL any
body sh'd take a notion t. say. That
boy O. Cyrus Beemis's kind o. minds
me o. Jeems Busby an them extry
juicy blackberries o. his, why, you'd
find it WANT any great advantage to
ye. / sh'd advise you, as a parent,
t. count your words a leetle more
keerful!"
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
The Celebration OF Birds.

DR.. Sanermann publishes some in
teresting remarks about artificial col
oration of birds. Canaries, he says,
when fed with cayenne pepper, gradu-
ally change their color, passing from
yellow to red. Cayenne pepper con.
tains a tiDctorial substance, an irrita
tive principle and an oil When the
last two substances are extracted by
sleeping in alcohol, pepper loses its
coloring properties, but an addition
OF olive oil restores them. From this
fact the conclusion Is drawn that the
oily principle of pepper is the neces-
sary vehicle Of color. Experiments
made with white hens gave similar
results. These hens have also the
quality of being able to indicate
changes of temperature by a marked
change of plumage. The yolk Of
their eggs is bright red. Public
Opinion.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Very Close.

In an academy in a country town
not long ago a class of boys was un-
dergoing an examination in natural
history. The instructor was testing
the pupils knowledge of the various
races or families of animals.
"You may tell me, Jones'" he said,
"the name of the animal which
stands as the type and representa-.
tive Of the canine race"
All these long words hopelessly
puzzled Jones. who stood silent.
Come" said the teacher: 'surely
you know that"
Jones fdgeted, but said nothing.
"Ha! What animal, now, is more
closely attached to man than any
other?"
Jones face cleaned with intelli-
gence. He had not been swimming
in the mill-pond on summer nights
ever since his fourth year for nothing.
"BloOd- -SuckerSw he shouted.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
ATablecloth Worth Having.

The American woman who is the
proud posSessor Of a silk petticoat
covered with embroidered autographs
will hide her diminished head when
she reads about Mrs Eduard Sacher's
tablecloth. Mrs. Sacher is the wife
of well-known Vienna restaurants
eur, and her tablecloth is coyered
with the SIGNATURES Of distinguished
guests who have dined in the Sacher
rooms ArchdukeS Princes Of for
eign houses, men and women of the
Austrian nobility, artists, writer's,
and musicians are represented. The
autographs were originally written in
pencil and afterward embroidered by
Nine. Sacher. 1t is said that no one
has ever refused to sign his name.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Forests and Raln.

The disappearance of the forests
along the rivers Of Russia has, il is
claimed, caused change Of climate
in that country resulting in last
years drought To counteract this
the government has devised method
of snow storage, long banks being
made upon the plains against which
the snow drifts 1t is said that the
accumulatIons made in this way melt
slowly. and are absorbed by the
ground to greater advantage than the
natural covering on the rest of the
soil
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
WHAT SHE SAID ABOUT 1T.

Lyrics to 1nez and Jane,
Dolores and Ethel and May;
Senoritas distant as Spain,
And damsels just over the wsyI
It 10 not that I'm jealous, not that,
OF either Dolores or Jane,
OF some girl in an opposite fat,
Or in one Of hie castles in Spain.
But 1t is that, salable prose
Put aside for this proftless strain,
sit the day darning his hose,
And no sings Of Dolores and Jane.
free
To "spurn for the pretty the plain"
Should the teamwork fall wholly on me
While he scars with Dolores and Jane?
I am neither Dolores nor Jane,
But to tighten a little my life,
Might the Poet not spare me strain
Although / am only his wifei
Century,
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14
Badly Hurt

Mrs Wade was in one respect a
s'tormentorsome', woman to live
with, as her husband expressed it.
She had ''no imagination, he said,
.swould ask the queerest questions
At the supper table Mr. Wade men,
toned a tragic circumstance that he
had read that day In the newspaper.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14

A passenger on a transatlantic steam
er had fallen overheard in nid-ocean,
and had never been seen again.
"Was he drowned?" asked Mrs.
Wade.
'Oh no; Of course not" said Mr..
Wade. '.But he sprained his ankle,
/ believe"
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14

DINER-Walter, I've got a bone
stuck In my throat Waiter-That's
all right, sir. We don't charge any
think extra for bones taken away
from the table.
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14

SOUND is said to travel over 700
miles an hour, vet we have known the
sound Of cat yawping on the back
fence to remain right in one spot for
five maddening hourA
Western Kansas world., 1893-01-14

The sculptor isn't the kind of q
man that cuts no figure in the world.
Milford chronicle., 1893-08-04

Miss EDNA Barker has returned from {
, visit to Ocean Grove and Philadelphia.
: ]. H. Humes has beeA visiting in At
Z lautic City and Philadelphia.
1 c. W. Kern and family are spending
, few days at Slaughter Beach.
Miss Mary satterheld, Of Greensbor-
ough Nd, Is the guest of DR.. and Mrs.
]. G. Emerson.
Mr.. aud Mrs. R. H. Monroe, of Phila-
delphia are visiting Mr.. and Mrs. Curtis
S. Vineyard near town.
Mr. and Mrs c. c. Mills and two chill
dren, Of Philadelphia, are visiting rela-
tives and friends in town.
Rev Robt Watt returned on wednes.
day evening from a visit to New York
and vicinity.
Orlie Blair, OF New Britain, Conn, is
visiting friends in Milford.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Williams, of Phila-
delphia, are visiting Mrs. n. H. Davis.
Misses Emma and Minnie Davis are
visiting their brother, Walter, at Clayton,
Del.
Mr. Alfred Truit, of Philadelphia, is
the guest of Capt E V. HENDERSON.
Miss Clara Williams is visiting in Sails
bury, Nd.
Charles D. Abbott has been confined
to his home on account of sickness dur I
ing the past week.
w. W. Dougherty, the photographer,
is confined to his room at the National .
Hotel by sickness.
Miss Lille Maranville is spending a
week with Miss Lily Jacobs, at Bridge
vile, Del.
H. c. Rudmann, of Philadelphia, is
spending the present week with Robert
L. Hallett
Miss Emma c. Halletti is expected home
to-day from an extended visit to the
Worlds Fair and Niles, Michigan.
Mr.. Edward Bauuister, wife aud son,
of Philadelphia, are The guests Of Mrs.
William Gray.
Mrs. Francis Bulleu aud grandson, of
Philadelphia, are visiting Mrs. Sarah
Hudson.
Miss Lulu Matthews, of Baltimore, is c
the guest of Mrs. Charles Humphreys. S
@AN WAAA ANAAAtAAA AAAAA liz AAAAANAAN ~ ~
tember.
Mrs DR.. Gillespie, of Philadelphia, Mrs I
Katie George, of Wilmington Miss Lea c
Iones,of Georgetown, Mr.. Jos. Martin t
and Eugene, Small of Baltimore, are a
guests Of Mrs. Col. Small, at Lincoln.
Joseph E. Holland has sold his retail b
business to Prettyman Bros, and in fu- il
ure he will con6ne himself strictly to c
lis large and growing wholesale business. i
J. B. Hickman, formerly of this town, 81
low of Beth hIehem, Pa is visiting his fC
lister, Mrs. P. P. Richards, in this town, h
IS is also Miss Laura Hickman,o of Phila-
lelphia. They will spend a month i'll ,
own, at Slaughter Beach aud Rehoboth. 81 81
Mrs Frank Kramlich and two children
rrived home on Tuesday evening from m
Helena, Montana, where they have been b'
isitiug friends and relatives for two
months past Mrs. Kramlich was very 81
1uch fadgued from the long journey u
ome as it required FIVE days to make n +,
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