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plugged her with a bullet; she thrashed
her claws, but we got the other and took
him aboard for a pet.
We'll, we got to sea, and the kitten
seemed to take to sea life first-rate.
Everyone petted him, and the mate
wouldn't allow anyone to tease him;
so, as he didn't get any fresh meat, he
didn't get savage. He had good time
and made friends all around, and as he
got bigger would chase round decks
just as common cat does when it feels
good.
Zone moonlight night he took a run
from the quarter clean forward and up
the riggin' half way to the fore-top;
then he couldn't get down, and yowled
so pitiful like that one of us went up
and got him. He thought that was
great fun, and did it again, and kept on
doing it; but we couldn't be bothered
going after him every time. So one
night the mate says: Let him stay
there and get down himself So we
let him stay the whole watch, yowlin'
all the time, but no one paid any atten-
ton to him. Bimeby, Ion bout eight
bells, he stopped yowlin'. and made up
his mind to try it himself, so he hitched
and scrambled and managed to get
down all right. Then he walked aft,
kinder dignifed like. We thought he
was sore on us for neglectin' him so,
but he wasn't; he was only proud of
what he'd done, and little stuck on
hjmself-but then, he was young.
I,xy
seemed to think it over, then he took
mother run forward and up the shrouds.
lie came down right away and walked
aft; and then he tried it again. That
seemed to satisfy him that he could
do it all right, and he gave it up for that
night, hut he carried his tail straighter
up in the air after that.
He learned an awful lot, that cat.
He noticed everything, and bimeby
got to wonderin' what made the skipper
and the mates look at the compass
and then swear at the man at the wheel.
He larned to do that, too. He'd Jump
up on the binn acle and reach his neck
over SOS he could see the compass:
then he'd make faces at the man at the
wheel and growl 1t was all in fun.
though, he never meant nothin' by it.
We called him quartermaster for that.
'One evenin' it looked mighty squat
" over to the eastward, and the old man
ordered everything taken in down to
~the main to gallan' sal. We cleaned IN
and started aloft to tie the canvas up
QuartermaSter was feelin' specially
good that night, and had been racin
up and Down the fore riggin' seemed
to know he belonged to the mates
watch, and wouldn't go near the MAR
or mizzen-so when we passed him il
the riggin' we tried to coax him Will
as. lie ca-ae along and got into tbs
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HUMOROUS

-s'Do you notice any change IN Jun
lev ?''asked the tall man. NO, don't,
snapped the other man, sourly. He
was Dumley's tailor.-Rockland Trlb-
une.
-He-'I wonder you're not AFRAID OF
going to Nice after those terrible earth
uuakes." She-"O, surely those things
are always confined to the poorer quar-
ters of the town."-Punch.
Mrs. Ayebee-''NTen are such funny
things When Ayebee asked me to be
his he was the most disconsolate man
imaginable" Mrs. CedeG-'I can well
believe that. Boston Transcript.
- want an additional clause put
on the anti-smoke ordinance, said Gas
well. ..Go on replied Dukane. Il
want every cigarette smoker to be COM
PEELED to consume his own smoke -
Pittsburgh Telegraph.
-She-s'You don't care for my kisses
any more" He-''The idea! Before
we were married I used to expect
dozen or so in payment for box of
candy, and now deem only one of them
sufficient payment for a new dress. -
indianapolis Journal.
Are you going to call on our new
neighbor, Mrs. L. ?' Il think not. The
fact is. met her yesterday, and she
evidently does not belong to the best So
Getty How do you know?" BE
cause she has such pleasant manners"
N. Y. Tribune.
-Informers stand slim chance in
Georgia. Here is a unique paragraph
from a rural newspaper: ANY person
driving over this bridge faster than a
walk shall, if white man, be fined five
dollar, and if a negro receive 25 lashes-
half the penalty TO be bestowed on the
mer.''-Atlanta Constitution.
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A New Philosopher.

~Confound it, remarked Mr.. Braz
Zfe, of Brooklyn the other morning, as
he stood on his front-door step and
held his hand up to catch the sprinkle
of the rain, will / have to go back up
three flights of stairs and get my UNI
bre1la? Confound it, why are people
so careless? ] looked out of my will
dow before,I came down having an
idea that it was umbrella weather, but
everybody on the street was without
an umbrella, So. of course, L thought
there wasn't any need for me to bring
mine along. Now I've got to go back
after it. Confound it, why don't peo-
pie who come out first in the morning
hRing their umbrellas when it looks
Ike rain? I'm glad to see them hust-
ling along now for shelter, and / hope
they'll get soaked before they find 1T.
IF they'd taken little thought before
starting out, they'd be al right now.
and L wouldn't have to go back up those
stairs after my umbrella" and Mr..
Bnazzle, with obturgations on his Eel
low citizens, went back upstairs.-N- 4.
Sun.
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upon the balcony. The veranda is of
very good size, 7x16 feet. The bath
room is 6x7 feet and the pantry 5x9
The Mushroom, off the grand hall, is
a neat and handy addition. A coat
closet is shown off the vestibule; the
vestibule is 5X5 feet and the Mushroom
5X5 feet. The china closet has a slide
opening into the kitchen pantry. A
rear stairway and stairway to the
basement lead from the kitchen. Two
sinks are shown, one in the pantry and
one in the corner of the kitchen. 4
side entrance leads to the dining-room
from the yard. The two freplaces, III
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top all right; but the top mast riggin'
was new to him, and he yowled as
though aslzin' us to wait. Course we
couldn't wait, but went on up; and
Quartermaster thought it over. He
didn't know the way-she was wire
rugged aloft; he had to hunt around
for the running riggin' that he could
dig his claws into. But he got up to
'gallan' yard bout the time we'd fin
ished with the royal and came down to
it, and sat down in the sings to watch
US. He seemed to know just what we
were doin', and when we got done he
come down with US.
''After that, every time he'd see Us
goin' aloft on the fore he'd go long.
too, and KNOWN the way now, he'd
always beat us up, and we'd find him
sittin' in the sings of the to- gallant
yard, waitin' for us. But he'd never GO
above that yard: he'd no use for the
royal at all, and if he found the to- gall
lam sal wasn't clewed up to be furled
when he got up, we'd always meet him
comm down, loollin' kinder sheepish
like. Bimeby he got so he knew the
ropes a bit, and could tell if we were
Chewing up the royal or the top gallan'
sal; or else he understood the mates
orders, for he didn't make no mora
mistakes like that.
''After he'd watched Us tie up the
to- gallan' sal few times, he took
the notion O. helpin' us. He'd brace
himself and dig his claws into tho
sail, and hang on to what we'd pulled
up. Course he couldn't hold much OF
the sail in his grip, but he did his best,
and he seemed so proud of it, too; we'd
always pat him on the head and encour-
age him all we could.
Zone time four of us and quarter
master had rolled up the to- gallan'
sal, and were comm down. The
crowd below had tied a reef in tho
topsail and were bowsin' it up, and we
all jumped on the haulin' part O tho
halliards and rode down with it.
"Quartermaster was puzzled, and
didn't know just what to do himself;
but finally he made up his mind to ridd
down the halliards, too; SO he jumped
onto the rope. It was great fun for
him; but he waited too long, and the
top sail was up before Quartermaster
got down, and it left him hangin' on
to that single rope, way out from all
the other ropes-and it was mighty
| hard work for him to scramble down
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ment : feet in the clear. The sinks are
of white porcelain
Plastering is to be two-coat work,
painting three-coat work. All glass is
double-thiek American. The doors are
2 feet inches by feet and IA inches
thick; front and vestibule doors feet 1
inches by feet and 1s4 inches thick.
Floor boards for veranda are to have the
Joints loaded. Main stairs are to be of
red oak quarter-sawed. Cedar
shingles are to be placed on roof; round
butt shingles are to used for gables
There will be composition carving for
apex of the gables and for frieze on
the circular bay; and on veranda frieze
as shown ON elevation. The chimneys
will be of red brick, capped with stone.
Siding is 3-ineh face Tapped q inch
Cutters. down-spouts, flashing, Chin
ney drips and scuttles are to be Of gall
vanized iron. The roof over the bay of
parlor is to be of I-X-L tin, extra heavy.
The attic viii have a single floor. The
laundry. coal bins, furnace room and
store room are in the basement. The
house is piped for gas and furnace.
4 GEORGE A. W. kINTZ>
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COUNTRY scHooL-TEAcHERs.
They Earn About as Much as Cobblers or
DresSmakerS.

They Earn About as Much as CObblers or
Dressmakers.
In the country, whether in the east
or west, north or south, the compen-
cation to school-teachers is so small
that it seems wonderful that those who
receive these salaries can live on them.
These salaries range from 500 year
to 5000 year. The average for a
school year of about seven months is
S31S.36 for men and S262.92 for women.
The duties of a country school-teacher
usually includes cleaning the school
house and building fires. These duties
are not always considered hardships by
the persons who take such posts, as the
women in all save exceptional cases
have been accustomed to such work at
home, and the men find it easy enough
to get pupils to do the work in ex-
change for favors in school. In the
country schools of the United States
there are three times as many women
as men, the percentage being little
greater than in the cities.
Most country schools have only one
teacher, and that teacher is required to
instruct children of all ages and in all
branches up to grammar and algebra.
The amount of either grammar or
algebra dispensed in these schools is
quite inconsiderable, as these are
branches of knowledge not in demand.
For what these country teachers do,
as the schools are at present estab-
iished, it is likely that they are quite
adequately paid. a village school
master will earn as much in the year as
the cobbler; the schoolmistress will
make as much in the year as the dress
maker. They do not belong, as gen
eral thing, to a class better educated
than the cobbler or dressmal<er, and
they do not work any harder. Those
Of them who have thought about their
calling, and who have ever been moved
to feel that great responsibilities de-
volved upon them, have realized that
the conditions were such that they
could do next to nothing, and usually
they have given over any efforts to Sc
cure change in school administration.
Forum
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TOLD IN A FORECASTLE.
How a Wildcat Became a Pet and
Turned Sailor.
Helped Navigate the Vesse1-Climbed the
Rigging, Learned the Ropes and AS
sisted in Reefng the Sails
His Singular Fate.
ICoPYRIGHT, 1896. ]

"'Minds me-" said old Johnson, from
Ehis bunk-we had just turned in after
chasing the shippers cat out of the fore
,castle-"of wildcat was shipmates
with in an English bark. A tom wild
cat twas; he'd go aloft an help stow the
fore-t' gallans'l.'
''Thot's a lie!" grunted Pat from the
bunk beneath.
The old man reached his head out and
peered down on his offending critic.
Hostilities were imminent, but various
cries of Shut up, Pat" ''Let the old
man alone" go on, Johnson" and
others of like nature from the other
hunks silenced Pat and placated John
son.
Yes resumed he, cts fact; that
cat 'ud go aloft with us. He knew his
W ork on yard, too, better'n some men
I've been with since;" and at this direct
thrust at Pat, who had passed an ear
match, he chuckled audibly, while Pat,
as though in silent protest at such
claims of superior seamanship in a cat,
rolled over on his side to go to sleep.
One or two of us threw out some hints
In the way of questions as to the name
or the bark and the color and size of the
cat, knowing by experience that di-
rect call for a yarn would be ignored.
The old man filled and lighted his
PIPE, and then, kicking his bedding up
over his knees, settled back and reeled
off the following:
YES" he began, ''the cat was won
der; we got him out on the Californian
coast long before Frisco was thought
Of We ran short of water and put into
q little bay, let go the mid-hook, and the
mate took some of US and some casks
ashore to try and find some. We found
4 creek of good water close by, and on
our way back to the boat for the casks
we ran ag'in mother wildcat with two
Kittens. She snarled and spit at US, and
was just bout to jump when the mate
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
Driuking water at Sea.

The Italian bat%eship Christoforo
Colombo has a curious arrangement
for furnishing her seamen with drink
ing water Experience proved that
drinking large quantities of cold water
after violent exercise, especially while
cruising, In the tropics, caused many
deaths. The water tanks on the battle
ships were designed to prevent such
indiscretion The water tanks on the
vessel are connecs&d with ianumerable
little rubber hoses and on the end of
each hose is a small rubber nipple.
WaaneEer any seaman wants drinking
water he must turn a stop cock szd
then suck it through the. hose and ElI,-
pie. 1t is slow work, but it has been
found that It preserves many valuable
lives.-ChieagO Chronicle.
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parlor and dining-roOm, will be of red
oak with tile facing and tile hearth
The wood finish on first floor will be
of Georgia pine, second floor of white
pine, oil finished. The hall and dining
room will have a finished floor of red
oak. All floors throughout the house
are to be double. The outside will be
sheathed with flooring, tar paper be-
tween floors, and felt paper between
sheathing and siding. Studding 2xt
inches; joist 2x10 inches; rafters 2x6
inches; plates 2x1O inches; beams 8x10
inches.
Bubble stone will be used for the
foundation wall, which is to be IS
inches thick.
The first story will be 10 feet in the
clear; second story 9 feet 6 inches; base
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
HOW PLANTS BREATHE.
They Are Provided with 3 Regular and
Complete respiratory System.

They Are Provided with 3 Regular and
Complete Respiratory System.
All plants, from the humblest way
side weed to the most stately tree. are
provided with lungs" and regular
respiratory system. If leaf be eN-
amined while under the glass of a
powerful microscope it will appear al
most like a.piece of lace work, the en-
tire surface being punctured with thou
sands of minute openings. These open
ings may properly be said to be mouths.
They are technically known as stom-
alta. but they serve in the capacity of
mouth, and it is through their we'll
guarded lips that all the air passes
inc the tube that is provided by an all
wise Providence for the purpose of
airing the blood (sap) of the plant or
tree in question. Strictly speaking, the
leaves themselves are the lungs of the
plant, and the air comes in direct con-
tact with the sap and aerates it as
soon as it passes through the minute
mouth or opening in the surface of the
leaf. The botanists say that these
openings (stomata) are so well guard
ed with tiny bristles that it is absolute
ly impossible to force a drop of liquid
(water, spirits or anything of that
sort) through the lips. This is certain
ly wonderful. when we consider that
they are in fact continually opening
and closing. in fact performing the act
of inspiration and expiration.
Wagner says that 1.-The average apple
tree of five years growth inhales and
exhales as much air in a given length
of time as does full-grown man.
ST. Louis Republic.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
STOLEN froan the Exyptians..

George Ebers, the Egyptologiss, has
discovered that many of the queer
medical recipes found in old English
and German hooks come from the an
cient Egyptians. They were not
known to the Greeks, but were spread
from Salerno, the great medical school
of the middle ages, 10 which they must
have come through Coptie and Arabic
tranSlations.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
USING POWDERED COAL.
New Process Effects Saving in the Fuel
Bill of Factories.

Bill of Factories.
Engineering contains description
of process which has lately teen
brought out by Carl Wegener for util
izing powdered coal. The coal, which
has been ground TO pass through 60
mesh screen, is fed into hopper which
is located in front of the furnace. At
the bottom of the hopper is grating,
which can be agitated from $50 to- $50
times to- the minute, according to the
rapidity of feed desired. The coal dust
falls through the CRATE into the bend
of an air supply pipe, which enters
the furnace at the top of the furnace
door. AS it falls into this pipe it is
met by the induced draught and carried
into the surface. The interior of the
furnace IS lined with friedrich for a
length Of 10 to II feet, and has in
addition two friedrich bridges. There
is no CRATE and there are no fire doors,
so called the combustion being
watched through peep holes. A test
was recently made in Berlin of a Cor
nish boiler, fired first by hand and
again by the same coal in a powdered
condition The results show that the
cry powdered coal eVaporaUed from
and at 212 degrees 9.12 pounds of water
per pound of dry coal, as against Gas
pounds for solid coal, fed by hand stok-
ing. 1t was claimed that the poor con-
dition of the CRATE is responsible for
the very low results in the latter case
The trial, however, shows good econ
omy for the Wegener system. The
grinding costs about ten per cent. of
the value of the coal.
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The Ohio,s Bed.

A prominent geologist who has been
looking into the formation of the bed
of the Ohio river ~ miles below Pitts
burgh says the old river bed iss30O feet
above the present water leveR and he
Snds theze stones of Canadian granite,
whose nearest home now Is on the
Cana ian side of Lake Ontario. In,
the glacial gravel he came across a.
rough arrowhead which he attributes
to the glacial period, perhaps 100000
VI mrs 0go=ChiraCo News
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Sound and Electricity.

\ curious circumstance illustrating
the difference in speed between sound,
which travels through the air, and
electricity, through wire as its guide
and conductor. occurred in Cali
fornia. A certain powder works
blew uTs in a town while a rail
way telegraph operator was telegraph
ing to- another in a neighboring town.
At the instant of the occurrence he
telegraphed the news to the operator,
who. &c, seconds af8erward. heard the
report CT the explosion He knew 1T
had occarred by wire just one minEae
before ne heard she report SoEad
travels at about she rate Of 1, LAO feet
per second, while electricity accom-
plished 10000 miles in the same short
Teriod of time
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He wanted to B. .PrsDared.

Johnny Father, Cont you think I
had better drop all nay Studies at school
excepting arithmetic
Father Certainly not, my boy. What
would you do that for?
"Why, heard mother say that you
would be horrible example for me
some day, and I thought I'd better get
posted up!"-Detroit Free Press.
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11
An Attempt.

Mrs. Brown-How would you define
'A1act?'
Mrs Jones-I should say tact is the
sbility to make your husband believe
that he is having his own way.-Puck.
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BUILDING AND SCIENCE.
ART IN ARCHITECTURE.
Plans of q Very Pretty Twenty-Four Hum
dred Dollar House.


Written for This Paper.1
This very attractive home contains
nine rooms, has stone foundation and
can be erected for s., 400.
The size of the parlor is 14x1s feet;
library, 10x10 feet; grand hall, 10x20
feet; dining-room, 12x13 feet; kitch-
en-, II feet inches by II feet inches;
family-room, 12X14 feet; chambers.
10, 9 by 10 feet 6 inches, 12x13 and
feet inches by II feet.
One end of the parlor is in a circular
form, and the family room over the
parlor has very nice feature in the
shape OF a bay window opening out
Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-04-11

Edith-I'm in quandary.
Isabel-How is that?
tom promises to stop drinking if (
marry him and Jack threatens to beSin
If l don't! '-Tit-BitS.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-01
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

Advices from Havana state that the
steamer Bermuda succeeded in landing
on Cuban soil the arms and ammu-
milton she carried. Gen. Garcia and
the men with him are now with the
insurgents.
A terrible explosion of fire damp
rtook place in a mine at Brunnerton,
New Zealand. Five persons were killed
outright and go more are entombed in
the mine.
The Spanish government is negotia-
ting for new loan of e4O,OOO,OOO in
Paris and London and offers lien on
the tobacco monopoly as security.
The resignation of M. Berthelot'
French minister of foreign affairs, has
been accepted and NJ. Bourgeois, prime
minister and minister of the interior,
has been appointed to the position.
The Volusia, an American steamship
bound for New York from Kingston,
Jamaica, has been abandoned at sea in
a sinking condition. Capt. Higgins
and the crew landed at Hamilton, Ber.
muda.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-01
Electric Bitters.

This remedy is becoming so we'll
known and so popular as to need no
special mention. All who have used
Electric Bitters sing the same song of
purer medicine does not ex
list and it is guaranteed to do all that
is claimed. Electric Bitters will cure
all diseases of the liver and kidneys,
will remove pimples, boils, salt rheum
and other affections caused bv impure
blood.-Will drive malaria from the
system and prevent as well as cure all
malarial tcvers.-For cure of headache,
constipation and indigestion try Elec-
trio Bitters.-- Entire satisfaction guar
anteed, or money refunded Price sc
cents and $1.00 per bottle at w. F. Near
& Co.'s drug store.
The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1896-04-01
Two Lives Saued

Mrs. Phoebe Thomas, Of Junction
City, H., was told by her doctors she
had consumption and that there was
no hope for her, bnt two bottles of DR..
Kings New Discovery completely cured
her and she says it saved her life. Mr..
Thos. Eggers, l30 Florida ST., San Fran.
cieco, suffered from dreadful cold ,
approaching consumption, tried with
out result everything else, then nou- hit
one bottle OF DR.. Kings New Discov-
cry and in Two weeks WAS cured. He
is naturally thankful. IL is such re-
suits, OF which these are san ples, that
prove the wonderful efficacy of this
medicine in coughs ana colds. Free
trial bottles at W. f. Near & Co.'S drug
store. Regular size soc. and 81. 8