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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16

He leaned backward to make a more
vigorous dash at me, and as he struck
forward the mouth partially opened,
and two tiny streams of venom shot
from his fangs as from syringe, one
of them catching me on the face Just
beneath the eye. Had it gone q little
higher up 1 should have been blinded
for months, and perhaps had my sight
permanently injured.
"This unexpected attack made me
hasten the capture; so, getting his neck
pressed down to the ground with the
stick, 1 soon had him grasped in my
hand Just behind the head in such a
way that he couldn't possibly turn TO
bite me-which he made every effort 10
do for some minutes afterward. TAX
ing him home with much satisfaction
1 made him thereafter my fellow
lodger While living in his cage l OBJ
served him many times squirt the
venom from his fangs against the glass
of it's front. Thenceforth my doubts
about splitting snakes were removed
The cobra is also remarkable for its
habit of raising almost the entire body
upright before striking. When anger
ed that part of its body behind the
neck swells in a very alarming manner.
This is caused by the upper ribs, from
the head downward for five or six inch
es or more, spreading themselves out
laterally. The cobra's poison fangs
project beyond the lower lip when it
strikes, so that it can injure fatally
without biting.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
BY Tradition and Tsaee.

1t is rather a good thing, on the
whole, to be a ''reg'lar royal queen
Victoria's perquisites are valuable and
numerous. Among the most curious
is her right to every whale or sturgeon
captured on the coast of the United
Kingdom and brought to land. Both
of these perquisiteS date back to the
days of the Norman kings, and it ap-
pears that in the case of the whale the
monsters were divided between the
sovereign and his conSort, the queen
taking the head in order that her ward
robes might be repleniShed with the
whalebone needed for the stiffening of
her royal garments. Every year a
number of magnificent cashmere
shawls are despatched to her from the
kingdom of Cashmere. Every tailor
holding a patent of ''purveyor to her
majesty" if he conforms to ancient
tradition and usage, should present her
with a silver needle each year. An
other class of royal purveyors is called
upon to present to her annually a ia
bIecloth, while from other sources again
she is entitled to an annual contribution
of currycombs, fire tongs, scarlet ho-
siery, nightcaps, knives lances and
crossbows. These are onTy a few of
the perquisites to which the queen IA
entitled by tradition and usage.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
STOCK AND FARM.

Cedar Vale Commercial: Horses are
poorer property just now than silver
mines. At the sale of A W. Ahrberg,
on the Stampfey farm, near Leeds, not
a single bid even could be gotten on
any one of head of horses offered.
About so head of cattle and as many
head of stock hogs were sold. Fifteen
head of short horn yearlings sold for
SO, while four coming yearling heifers
brought $3.50 each. The shoats sold
at prices ranging from 1925 to $3.50.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
KANSAS CHURCH AFFAIRS.

From Buriingame: Rev. A. W. Law
renee. pastor of the Presbyterian church
is dead He died of pneumonia He
had been sick only about week and
had not been considered dangerously i'll
Mr.. Lawrence was we'll known in Pres
byterian circles, having been delegate
to the general assembly which tried
Prof. Briggs last summer. Hs has lived
in Burlingame during the Fast eight
years with the exception of two years in
Nebraska.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
Poor Rusiness Instinct.

Irate Landlady-I want you to take
back that folding bed you sold me, and
1 want my money back. One of my
boarders smothered to death in it and
he owed me a weeks board.
Furniture Dealer-Madame, you have
no business sense. If you were in the
habit of making your boarders pay
month in advance you would have been
away ahead-Cincinnat Tribune.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
The Boston Lady.

'Shall 1 clean the snow off, madam %
asked the little boy of Boston lady.
NO" she replied, severely, you'd far
better go to school and learn that it is
the pavement and not the snow that is
to be cleaned off."-Harper's Bazaar.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16
NEGRO HEADDRESSES.
Mud Ornaments Popular Fad Among
the Africans.

The African puts ornaments in his
hair as we more civilized mortals do,
but his taste is different. For where
we decorate with gold and sf<.. ~ cins
and combs he proudly uses little ., lis
and disks of clay, hanging to the end
of his braided locks or long braided
beard. Sometimes he plasters q great
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16

recoil. The only operation that re-
quires any expenditure of force is the
actual loading of the gun, and that is
reduced to a minimum.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-03-16

about two pounds to the gallon Of saline
substances.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
JUST TEN YEARS
Since a Remarkable Happening.
An Interesting Interview with u from'
neut Commercial Traveller.

The newsgatherer on his daily search Tor
items of interest often comes across happen
ings of more than passing note. ~ wasuuT-
ing q recent conversation with MI. a. n.
Cransby, the well known cominerclal traV-
eller, with the Cochran Lumber
q wonderful case. Mr.. Cransby Is well
known in Memphis and surrounding coun-
try, and now resides at l5S Kerr street. -,
i.Just ten years ago." said he, my wife
noticed a small lump in her breast. She
thought nothing OF 1t, but IL ihcreaSea IN
skin, and commenced 10 discharge. She
was put under treatment OF the best physi-
clans, but they very soon found that they
could do her no good, and simply prescribed
autiseptics TO keep the place clean. Botn
her grandmother and aunt, by the way, had
died with cancer, and when apprised Of this
fact, the doctors told me that they would
not attempt to save her; that she was in
durable. Although the cancer had by this
time become deep seated, and her health
very low, | had one Of the most noted spe-
~cialists of New York to treat her. After
treating her awhile, this doctor admitted
that the case was hopeless and further
treatment useless. 1t is difficult to imagine
how respondent we all became, knowing
that she must die, and unable to give her
any relief. had spent over five hundred
dollars with the best medical skill to be had,
and felt that there was no further hope.
lone day / happened 70 read an advertise
ment of S. S. s., recommendingtha that remedy
for cancer, and in view OF the failure OF the
most eminent physicians in the country, l
confess l had little faith left in any human
agency. However, | purchased a bottle OF
IS. S. s., and to my delight, it seemed to ben
eft her; after she had taken q couple Of
bottles, the cancer began TO heal, and aston
ishing as it nay seem, a few bottles more
cured her entirely. You can probably bet
ter understand how remarkable this cure
was, when | explain that the cancer had
eaten two holes in the breast two inches
deep. These healed up entirely, and al
though ten years have elapsed, not q sign OF
the disease has ever returned, and we are
assured Of the permanence Of the cure,
which we at first doubted.
II certainly regard 3. s. &. as the most
wonderful remedy in the world, and it is
truly q God-send TO those afflicted with this
terrible disease. Yes sir" he concluded,
"you may be sure that ! shall always be
grateful to that remedy, for without it my
home would now be desolate and my chill
dren motherless. "-Memphis, Tenn, Com
ulSyclII.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
Flying Lizards OF Java.

We left Amberawa in a carriage at 8 a.
m, and after a pretty drive arrived at
Temanogoeng at noon. The road was
billy, and for the steep ascents the
ponies were replaced by bullocks. 1t
was on the trees that border this road
that we saw for the first and only time
the curious little animals known as
flying lizards Draco volens). which are
only found in these regions. and whose
strange appearance is supposed to have
been the origin OF the dragon of the
medieval eastern imagination.
The reptile is like an ordinary lizard,
but is provided with folds of extensible
skin, which are spread out by the long
ribs, and enable the animal to glide
through the air from tree to tree in
pursuit of the insects on which it preys.
When lying prone on the notified sur
face OF a bough it is an excellent ex-
ample of protective resemblance as
1T is most difficult TO be seen unless it
moves.-Blackwood's Magazine.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
HOW MADE $1,000

By not sowing Salzer's seeds! That Is
what a jolly farmer said as he entered
our sanctum. How is that? Why,
saws he, Salzer's seeds not only grow
but they produce enormously. Had I
planted a few acres more of his oats,
wheat, corn, potatoes, grass and clover
seeds, / would have had to double the
capacity of my barns; that would have
cost me 81, 200. 1t is a fact that if you
want big, rousing farm, grass and vege-
table crops, you must sow Salzer's seeds.
IF YOU WILL CUT THIS OUT AND SEND IT
with &c postage to the John A. Salzer
Seed company, La Crosse, Wis, you will
get free a sample of GRASS AND CLOVER
MIXTURE and their plant and seed
catalogue. lKl
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31

THERE is more Catarrh in this section of
the country than all other diseases put TO-
gether, and until the last few years was sup
posed TO be incurable. For a great many
years doctors pronounced it a local disease,
and prescribed local remedies, and by con-
stantly failing TO cure with local treatment,
pronounced itincurable. Science has proven
catarrh to be a constitutional disease and
therefore requires constitutional treatment.
Halls Catarrh Cure, manufactured by f. j.
Cheney q Co, Toledo, Ohio, is the only con-
stitutional cure on the market. 1t is taken
internally in doses from 10 drops TO a tea
spoonful. 1t acts directly on the blood and
mucous surfaces Of the system. They offer
one hundred dollars for any case il fails to
cure. Send for circulars and testimonials.
Address, F. j. CHENEY q Co, Toledo, o..
sF"Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halls Family Pills, - cents.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
THE TRIUMPH OF JAPAN.
Inner National Life the Dependence OF the
Nation.

In the fortunes of the present war
the world behcids-if it will look deeper
than to what satisfies shallow critics
the immense significance of leading ma
tional ideas. We have suddenly found
ourselves gazing upon a prodigious col
lision between powers founded on Con-
fucianism and Buddhism respectively
since behind the disgraceful defeat of
the troops and ships of Picking are the
u~nspirituality, narrowness and selfish
ness of the old agnostic's philosophy,
while behind the successes of Japan
are the glad and lofty tenets of a mod
flied Buddhistic metaphysic, which has
mingled with Shintoism to breed rev.
erence for the past, to inculcate and to
produce patriotism, loyalty, fearless
ness of death, with happiness in life,
and above all self-respect. 1t is this
last quality, writes Sir Edwin Arnold
in C~hautauquan, which is the central
characteristic of the Japanese men and
women, and round about which grow up
what those who do not love the gentle
and gallant race called vanity" and
many other foibles and faults. Self
respect, which Buddhism teaches to
every one, and which Confucius never
taught. makes the Japanese as a ma
ton keep their personal honor-except
perhaps in business affairs-as clean as
they keep their bodies; and has helped
to give them the placid and polite life,
full of grace. of charm, and of refine
ment, which contrasts SO strongly with
the dirty, ill-regulated, struggling,
atheistic existence of the average
Chinese. Self-respect-mizukara ON.
onzuru has also largely given them
their brilliant victories of this year;
that temper of high manhood which
Confucianism has taken away. by it's
cold and changeless disbeliefs, from
the otherwise capable, clever and in
defatigable Cinnamon.
In a word, the picture passing before
our eyes of unbroken success on one
side and helpless feeblencss and fail
ure or the other-which was numeri-
cally the stronger-is a lesson for the
west as well as the beginning Of a new
era in the east. 1t teaches, trumpet
tongued, how nations depend upon the
inner national life, as the individual
does upon his personal vitality.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
Fastest Time Ever Made from Chicago to
Jacksonville. Fla.

The Monon Roate H., N. A. II c.. R'y) has
placed in effect the fastest schedule ever
made between Chicago and Jacksonville,
Fla. Train leaves Chicago ut 1892 p. m, ar
irving at Jacksonville, Fla. at 9 IS a. m. the
second morning, making direct connection
at that point with the morning departures
Of all diyerging lines, and arrives at Interior
and Southern Florida Points by Daylight;
st. Augustine and Palatka before noon;
Ocala, OAndo, Sanford, Winter Park. Bar
tow and Tampa early in the afternoon Titus
vile and Rockledge before supper, and Lake
Worth before bedtime. The trains are YES
tibuled, Pintsch lighted and steam heated,
with the finest Dining and Sleeping Car
Service in the world.
For further information regarding Rates,
Pamphlets and Through Sleeping Car
Tickets, address FRANK J. REED, q. z. A,
Chicago.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
A COMMENTED FELLOW.

] jest can't tell
How the corn'll sell;
But / still keep the crops a%-growin';
/ Jest can't know
How the windn blow,
II we have warm weather,
Orhail, or snow:
Jest can't tell
So / Jest lay low,
An the old world keeps a-goin'i
] Jest can't say
II the hives will pay:
But the roses-they keep b.owin'
And the bees-they buzz
Like they knowed what wuzl
An still make honey.
Chats the way they doesD
] jest can't say
So go my way,
An the old world keeps a-goin'.
] Jest take all
From the spring to fall,
Like IL comes-with the Lords bestowin';
II there's bread to eat,
1t Is powerful sweet!
An / amt less thankful
When I'm short on meat!
Ijest take all,
Till the rolls complete.
An the old world keeps a goin'i
IF. L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
"In running away for dear life

"In running away for dear life
these are Ben's own words, and not a
pun Of the author-''in his mad rush,
and in the Pickering light Of coming
night in the forest, he jumped clean
out over the cliff and planted himself
to the heart on a length of dry limb
standing straight up from the pine
trunk. And here l found him"
"Dead?" asked Charley.
"Why, yes" answered Ben, dead
as a last years corpse.
81 began to skin him and cut the
meat up rough so it would not spoil,
till we could come and get it. While
thus employed, l heard a shot fred
quite close to where | was. I gave a
halloo; and who do you think an
swered? Why my chum, Nick, who
was making his way back to camp by q
short cut, and had just fired at a
partridge. He was just about as
hungry as I was. So we just turned to
and cooked a high pile of moose
steaks. After slowing as much of
this as was good for us, we had a loud
smoke and a sleep the rest OF the morn
ing.
After dinner, by taking a straight
road that Nick knew Of, we reached
our head-camp just at dark. Here,
over our evening pipe, we had a mutual
jaw about our moose hunt.
Nick was not SO fortunate as to
find his moose on a pine limb. nor did
he even see him once during the days
run.
but tell me. Ben said he, after l
had told him my story and the night /
had passed, why did you walk around
the tree all night?'
why l answered. 'to keep from
freezing; l had no Matches
:"You had your gun, hadn't you?'
"'Why, darn it, yes, but l never
thought of that way to make a fire.
Nick / said, Il wish you would take
me outside the camp and kick me
good But he would not. and only
laid back and laughed. IN. Y. Ledger.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
A CiCADA CITY.
Curious Huts Built by the sev~enteen-YeaP
Iocusts.

The temperance of the seventeen
year ~locusts, or cicadas, during the
past summer, "a accompanied in some
localities by a very singular phenom-
enon. 1t is we'll known that these
wonderful insects, after lying for. sew
enteen years in the earth, issue at the
end of that period, in the form of
pup@, from long burrows in the
ground. Ordinarily these burrows end
at the surface of the ground. and the
pups, after crawling out of them, I'M
dergo their transformation into winged
insects But occasionally the cicada,
before issuing from its burrow, con-
structs an extension of it above tho
surface Of the ground. like q little hut,
and when its period of transformation
is at hand the insect breaks open the
top, or roof, of it's mud hut, and
energies into the sunshine.
Heretofore but few specimens Of
these huts have been described by nat
~uralists, but last spring great numbers
Of them appeared in some places, and
the question has arisen, Why were they
constructed? Mr.. Benjamin Lander
discovered an immense city of such
nuts on South Mountain, near Nyack-
on-the-Hudson, and he thinks he
knows why the insects built them.
These huts were from one to four
inches in height, and some of the more
symmetrical of them, being composed
of clay stained with red oxide of iron,
were beautiful objects. They were
scattered by thousands over an area Of
about sixty acres, and in some spots
were crowded close together, ten or
even twenty appearing on a single
square foot Of ground. The popula-
ton of this strange city was, of course,
enormous.
As to the explanation of the building
OF the cicada city, according to Mr..
Lander it vas due to the
heat which prevailed in the month Of
April. The heat penetrated the earth
and stirred the pup@, which lay there
awaiting their final change, to prema-
ture activity. They then assembled to
the surface of the ground, and while
yet awaiting transformation, added
the huts as extensions to their burrows
for protection from the heat.
Other persons have thought that the
huts might be intended to protect the
burrows from the inflow of water, but
the city just described was situated on
high, dry ground. In favor of the ex-
PLANTATION of Mr.. Lander are the facts
that the soil where the huts existed
was thin, and much of the ground had
been covered with woods and under
growth recently burned off. This
stripping of the soil of its covering en-
abled the heat of the sun to penetrate
1t the more readily, and thus t. reach
the pupa hidden in their burrows
Youths Companion.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
Her lntentions uonoran,e-

Miss Bird-What do you think Of the
of hat Miss Rich, who is talk
ing 20 Sir Verc de Cashnecd?
Miss Snapp-Why, 1 think she is do
ing her best TO be a lady!-Puck.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31

LADY 10 her husbandl-"I am growing
so fat that Lam beginning to feel quite
alarmed about it. l AVE just discovered
that 1 weigh two hundred and forty
pounds" 1.-Two hundred and forty pounds!
And where did you get weighed?n the
butchers scales" "Oh, then, calm your
self. You weigh exactly half.r-Le Figaro.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
No Doubt Of II.

Those men seem well connected"
said Mullins, as he looked at an officer
and prisoner h~andcuffed together, on
their way to the courtroom Truth.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31

Mrs. MCBRIDE-"John, dear, why are
some grocers called green grOcers2" MI.
McBridc-''To distinguish them from cash
grocers, darling. Vogue.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31
He Would He Missed-

The JUDGE hope l shall not see
you here again.
Prisoner (whoi is arrested weekly)-Not
see me? Why yer amt goin' to resign
yer position, are ye?-Truth.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31

"Ou, I am awfully worried. I walk in
my Sleep Il only wish ] could do it. If
| could I'd still have my job on the police
force. "-Atlauta Constitution.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31

-Breeches reaching to the midcalf
are mentioned us parts of the Roman
uniform Ii. C.. 67.
The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1895-01-31

One history of costumes gives 1,s47
different styles Of head-dresscs for
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-12-13
DrcENnrR Z. 1sns

1t good rule clear three ouhs OF the "ust
good articles which shop keeper will and sell but like
all other rules 1t has exception View" got o the except
ions in temporary quarters on Fo ,icct.
have been in the Monday last noticed
the goods that's what you and YOU probably bought
left home. The exception to the rule is what
would win the student of three the
today ard he says entire establishment is an
exception the rule which governs such lines o business in
Honolulu. And Why
Because goods personally selected oucd from
the Europe and the United States Where else
in Honolulu will find such OF genuine cut
glass as show And Dorfngcrs that Everyone has
heard of Dornges because it the best made in America
The latest patterns will be found with nothing Old all what
nappes Celery Trays Vinegar and Oil Tobasco sauce
bottles Mustard cups Cologne Bottles and everything else for
the table o. for the cabinet
word about the "ju good part OF this sermon on
know what ROYAL Worcester isl You know also that is
the grade pottery the world What would
good Royal Mind have stacks and stacks
of the genuine article but this is something The Royal
good far appearances and Will deceive
almost anyone This line is made up OF principally but
odd the oldest fancy would wish Tor
ROYAL Clarence will be here because the price about hal
have the Cups and Bon Bon Plates CAKE
Plates all imaginable shapesyou know what tha
meauSl
The goods sale at the temporary quarters suitable o
holiday the general stock will not be unpacked unit
the store the Holt Block King street ready 10
occupancy happens you will have opportunity
to inspect stock OF goods such as you never saw before
Honolulu the best arranged store outside Chicago JUS
now we holiday trade The goods here and
prices marked them very plain figures Compare ther
charged other places You will find the odds in our favor
The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-12-13

BACK in the States the writer ell
joyed the acquaintance Of legal
light noted for erudition, command
Of language and the length of his
arguments. On one occasion, after
speaking three full days for a client,
on the morning of the fourth day,
in response to an inquiry from the
court, this attorney replied that he
was at that time but in the pre-
face of his argument. :" This little
recollection must be admitted to be
pretty fair in its way, but is hereby
called in, redeemed, retired and
laid on the shelf. Why? In a
murder trial in New York quite
recently an expert alienist called
by the defense was about to be
asked hypothetical question that
covered thirty-six typewriter
pages and would take an hour and
a half to read, but the judge would
not permit the witness to answer
it. Still, even as reduced, the
question was an hour long, and
the bored witness admitted that he
did not hear the whole of it.