Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1893-09-02

saddles are patterned after the one men.
toned in the street of Cairo.
You look down onto the vehicles from
the gallery and note the gaudy trap
pings of those from Brazil, Sicily, Tdr-
key, etc., and you say ''well Barnum
must have gotten his patterns for his
show wagons from the Worlds fair.
The Madeira vehicles are odd. Did
you know that they use no wheels there
on conveyances? Well, never knew it,
and when made that remark to an old
soldier, who at one time was stationed
there, he smiled and asked quizzically,
care you surprised that you have learn
ed something's"
Well, was not surprised by that fact
alone, but that was a noteworthy fact
that l should have thought teacher of
geography would have found out. 1t is
so easy to forget what we simply read,
so many facts do not impress themselves
on ones mind, but when you see these
things of which you have read then the
mind never loses the idea. The hills
here as the soldiers explained are very
smooth and queer conveyance between
a palanquin and sleigh is used by the
higher class, sleds by the lower and all
are drawn by cattle. The use of cattle
entirely for draft was impressed when
l was looking for the brakes to put on if
the horse should start to trot down hill,
when the soldier suggested that an cox
trot" was something of an anomaly, not
likely to oe met with, but then you see
we don't farm with cattle.
Mrs. French Sheldon's exhibit here is
worth a great deal of time and study.
Here is a woman to admire. She is
original Almost any one can do things
that have been done. We can all follow
where some one else leads, but she does
not need leader. She has here her
tent with it's entire furniture which she
used in her trip through Africa. She
was her own physician and her belt con-
tanning her pitfalls of medicine is rather
a unique departure from the regulation
"pill-bags." Her palanquin stands by
the door of the tent and is furnished
with rain curtains and everything that
an ingenious woman would need in tray
cling for her genius will suggest way
to supply her needs. There are skins
for floor coverings from beasts that were
brought down by her own rifle and by
herself.
How did they market tobacco in
colonial times? They packed it in
hogshead, fastened a tongue to it some
thing after clod-crusher fashion and
hitched their cattle to it, and as the cat
tie walked the cask revolved, and here
is one of the casks they used.
One wonders where all these old
things came from, who preserved them.
Here is also threshing machine made
and worked in 1912.
AMONG THE RAILROADS.
The Northern Pacific must have spent
a great deal of money in it's exhibit
here for road that was so soon to 90
into the hands of a receiver, and it is
work too that makes one think OF the
resources of the states through which
the road passes, rather than the road
itself. A train of cars are beautifully
decorated with grains, fruits and stuffed
birds and animals, typical of the coun-
try through which this road passes. One
can not help wondering whether the
states thus represented and advertised
the good done them by the
road and will they come forward as they
should and help it out of its embarrass-
ment. Why so, of course not, because
isn't the railroad capitalist and
shouldn't it fail, and be wiped out of ex-
istence, of course it should, shouts the
alliance orator, and the presence of that
same railroad near his land enabled him
to mortgage his farm for 81 900 more
than he otherwise could have done.
Standing by the old De Witt Clinton
engine was an old gentleman who had
ridden behind it when it made its trip
on the Mohawk & Hudson River road in
1884.
Mr.. Holmes kindly gave some inter-
esting facts regarding the first road in
York state which connected Albany and
and on which the engine
run. They had not the system of brakes
that we enjoy, and when they went
down steep grade load of stone as
ballast went up. The 'engine was an
old looking machine truly with the bar
rel of wood on its tender, and the
coaches were small and looked much
like the unprogressive English coaches.
The Pennsylvania Railroad company
has wonderful fine exhibit, because it
contains so many curious things. New
Yorks canal system is shown by large
relief map. Among the curious things
are vehicles from Madeira, Sicily, Wal
boots, dog sleds, stuffed mules
and carts from Mexico.
Four relief pictures on the walls rep