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Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1896-08-08
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

School directors in the district OF
I'uverne, Ia, have ordered a cyclone
cave dug at each of the schoolhouses in
the district.
1t is said that there are only two
words in the English language that con-
tain all the vowels in their order. They
are ''abstemious" and ''facetious."
The archbishop of London esti-
mates the contribution of churchmen
to religious objects during the last 25
years as amounting to about S40O,OOO,
OcO. Over sos, oO0, 900 has been spent
on elementary education.
Some idea of the amazing growth
of our universities is furnished by the
statement that nearly 1900 students
have presented themselves for this
years examination for admission to
Yale alone; the prosperity of Yale is no
exception to the general rule.
Prince NilIita, of Montenegro, has
sanctioned the building of Roman
Catholic church at Cettinje, and will
himself supply the greater part of the
money needed. The church will be for
about $50 Albanians, Turks and Aus
TRANS who reside in the town, as no
Montenegrin is a Catholic.
The Presbyterian church has made
wonderful progress in every Christian
country in the world during the cen
fury that is nearly gone. The United
States 100 years ago Presbyterianism
held the eighth place among the evan
gelical denominations. To-day it is the
fourth largest body in this country.
Father Mortara, a regular canon of
St. Augustine, who has just been APP
pointed to the charge of the Hospice of
the Great ST. Bernard, is said to be the
Edgar Mortara whose kidnapping in 1853
by the archbishop of Bologna set all
Europe in a ferment. The child of jew
ish parents, he was alleged to have been
baptized by maid servant. and the
Church of Rome claimed him. Neither
Lord John Russell, nor the archbishop
of Canterbury, nor Sir Moses Monte
fore, who went to Italy for the pur-
pose. succeeded in obtaining his re-
lease.
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AN ILLUSION.

DO you know that the sight of your face,
Though I see you each of the seven,
Can transfigure tie commOneSt place
| Into something that seems to be Heaven
DO you know that the sound of your voice,
when YOU utter brief salutation,
bids the stars of the morning rejoice
| AS they did at the dawn of creation!
do you know that the clasp of your hand.
| In a purely conventional greeting,
Makes this earth f. mysterious land
/ Where the fairies are holding meeting
DO you know that the ways you pass by,
, When the stream of the traffic is flowing,
Are like the ladders which lead to the sky.
I Whereon angels are coming and going?
DO you know that your yea or your nay
( Lays it's clasp on my soul like a letter!
Whilst regarding myself 1 can say
r That 1 know that ought to know better.
| e. 7. Fowler, in London Sun
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WONDERS OF BIRD MIGRATION.
Some Fly During the Day and ssthers ut
Night.

The manner of travel differs greatly
among the birds. Nearly everybod:
has seen or heard the focks of wild
geese passing over in the night, MAX
ing tremendous leaps, so to. speaI-,
across the country on their way south
That the shore birds bound to Pats-
gonia travel in like fashion has already
been told. Probably the great ma jority
of birds travel south in great focf>S
at tremendous height from the earth
They are thus able in pleasant weat hcr
at least to see the landscape and SO d.
rect their way unvaryingly. In storms
and fogs they lose their way, become
confused, plunge about among the tree
tops, fly through the streets of cities
and dash themselves to death against
the windows of lighthouses. To my
rsrind this gathering of timid birds like
tine thrush-birds that live the SUM
uIeF through close to the ground and
are never seen 100 feet above the soil
the gathering, i say, of birds like these
in great ffOcks that go careening high
in air for vast distances over the laIT
by might is the greatest marvel of nj
grafton 1t seems a matter of course
that swallows should do so; for theyause.
tireIeSs-
ON the other hand there are birds
tilat are seem by gay IN "A ceaSeleSS toe
of migration ''They pass 1eisurely
from tree to tree cleaning they CO."
says one observer writing on the char
lacteristics of warblers. 1t is worth not
ing that the birds who migrate in this,
fashion are peculiar in their habits
workers-they never waste any time in
play. The robins, the orioles. the bobo-
links make a picnic excursion of their
annual flight, but the plodders of thu
| fcathered race must needs carry their
knitting to camp meeting. 1t has been
/ supposed that the birds who migrate
by night do to escape the attacks;
of predatory birds. but these ploddin;s-
migrants are quite subject to- att
lacks amy Besides, on the clear
nights when the night flyers go thew
are certainly subject to attacks from
owls. There are so many things we do
/ not know about the habits of birds
/ that it seems worth while to call alter
ltion to points that may be disputed
lin the hope that some who seek knowf-
l. edge out OF pure love of it may turn
| their attention to this most interesting
| part of life in nature--Colette Smiley
Il in Chautaqi13uan-
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Photographing Thought.

Thought has been photographed by
DIR. Baraduc, a Roumanian; at leas.
that is ', hat he tells the Paris Academic
de Medicine, backing up his assertion
by many photographs. These are said
to be rather cloudy. though a few are
distinct, representing persons and
things. The method employed is for
the person whose thought is to be
photographed to enter a dark room,
place his hand on a Photographic plate.
and think intently on the object to be
reproduced. DIR. Baraduc asserts that
it is possible to produce a Photographic
image at a great distance. and instances
the case of DIR. Istrate and Mr. Hasdeu.
DIR. Istrate, before going to Campina,
$50 miles from Bucharest, told his
friend, Mr.. Hasdeu, that he would ap-
pear on one of his Photographic plates
in Bucharest. On a specified night Mr..
Hasdeu went to bed at Bucharest with
a Photographic plate at his feet and an
other at his head, while Dr. Istrate went
to bed at Campina, willing with all dis
might that mis- image should appear on
his friends plate Persons who have
seeen the plate say that there is on it a
luminous spot in the middle of which a
! mans pl Ollie ian be made OUT Chicago
Inter Ocean.
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ST. PETERS EVE.
Pope Leo Goes Pray at the Tomb of
the Chief Apostle.

the Ch1o1 apostle.
From time immemorial the well con-
tanning the marble staircase which
leads down to the tomb of ST. Peter
has been called the Confession" The
word, 1 believe, is properly applied to
the altar-rail, from the ancient prac-
tice of repeating there the General Con-
fession Immediately after receiving the
communion, a custom now somewhat
modified But 1 may be wrong in Civ
ing this derivation Indeed, mar
hle baIustrade follows the horseshoe
shape of the WELL and upon it are placed
95 gilded lamps, which burn perpetual
ly- There is said to be no special sig
nificance in the number. and they pro-
duce very little effect by daylight
But on the eve of ST. Peters day, and
perhaps at some other seasons, the pope
has been known to come down to the
church by the secret staircase leading
into the Chapel of the Sacrament, to
pray at the apostles tomb. On such
occasions few great candlesticks with
wax torches are placed on the floor OF
the church, two and two, between the
chapel ard the confession, The pope,
attended only by few chamberlains
and noble guards, and dressed in the
customary white cassock, passes swift
ly along in the dim light and descends
the steps of the gilded gate beneath the
high altar. marble pope kneels there
too, Plus VI, of the Braschi family,
his stone draperies less white than
Pope Leo's cassock, his marble face
scarcely whittier than the living pontiffs
ala baster features.
Those are sights which few are priv
LEGGED to see. There is sort of cen.
tralization of mystery, if one may
couple such words, in the private pill
grimage of the head of the church to
the tomb of the chief apostle, by night,
or the eve of the day which tradition
has kept as the anniversary of ST. Pc
ter's martyrdom from the earliest
times. The whole Catholic world, if it
might. would follow Leo NH. down
those marble steps, and 2O0,0OO,OOO
voices would repeat the prayer he says
alone.
Many and solemn scenes have been
acted out by night in the vast gloom of
the enormous church. and if events do
not actually leave an essence of them
selves in places, as some have believed,
yet the knowledge that they have hap
pened where stand and recall them
has mysterious power to thrill the
heart--Martin Crawford, in Century
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HUMOROUS.

-@Wbe1, I'm man" began Bobbie.
~What will you do?" asked his mother.
I'll name my boy after pepper, ana
myi how I'll spank him!"-Harper's
Bazaar.
what would you say" she asked
her dearest friend, ''if 1 told you was
engaged to the count?'' I'm sure
don't know replied the dearest friend
absent-mindedly, because / never did
think much of his taste."-Chicago
Post.
Observation-Disclosures" she said,
will you do something that is for your
own good? ~ '.What is it ?'' 81 want you
TO give up smoking. You are simply
running your health and my lace cur
tains.' Star
-WraggIes-.'well, Adam was lucky
man." Barker-''In what particular
way?' Wraggles-"He didn't have to
prance around the garden like a blamed
idiot holding Eve on hundred-dollar
bike.'-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Young Medical Student Ito charity
patient)-"LI think you must have a
"a some kind of IA fever; but our
class has only gone as far convuls-
ions. I'll come in again in a week, when
we get to fevers.'-Tit-Bfts.
That's a curious typographical
error" said Mrs. Partridge. THE titis
of this new book is printed The Viking
Age" '.Well. why not2" asked Part
ridge. what ought it to be?'' Why
Biking, oughtn't it?"-Tit-Bits-
-Tramp-'.Want your grass cut,
mum?" Lady-'.No; no one cuts their
grass at this time of year. Tramp
well, I'll contrack for next year"
Lady-''Mercy! 1 may be dead by that
time" Tramp-'I'n contraek to see
that your grave is kept greeR-'-N- v
Herald
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ct DO NOT KNOW HOW TO THANK
YOU" SHE SAID.

permitted to play. Anthony sat down
and listened for the remainder of the
lesson hour. At first his heart sank
within him; he could not so much as
dream of being able to play like that.
Then gradually the music came over
him with all its power. He wondered
how so slight form, so thin and ethe-
realized u face, should have for its soul
SO much strength and mastery. Di-
rectly he forgot to think about this. and
by the time Leon had finished he knew
what he should do. The shy boy hardly
understood him when he told him that
he had an old violin of good quality, to
the of which he was welcome for
the rest of the term; but Anthony him
self played better that afternoon than he
had for weeks.
Anthony did not enter the contest for
the prize. His father would be disap-
pointed, he knew; but he had not the
heart to bring his fumbling with the
bow into comparison with Icons mas
tory of his instrument. Roy laughed at
him, and even upbraided him little for
lending his violin; but ,Roy's laughter
and upbraiding were alike harmless.
But after the concert, when the prize
| had been awarded, Icons mother came
to him without an introduction.
L DO not Know now TO thank you,
| she said. and her voice was not so steady
it might have been, Leon has writ
ten me about you. Your giving him
| the violin was more to him than the
| prize
Afterward, when they had gone to his
room together, Anthony told his father
why he had not played and with whose
| instrument it was that Leon had won.
| Ills father seemed to be thinking OF
| other things, only nodding his head
slowly to show that he was listening.
| Then at the conclusion he spoke as
from a distance, his eyes looking into a
time of which Anthony knew not
| 'Your uncle used to play that sams
| j antasia on the old violin years ago.
when we were boys together. 1 can see
him dropping his head over the strings
| now He used to inger over that
| Adagio until it seemed the melting tones
were angel voices calling; and even tho
Andante's pain of human longing bare
iy seemed to bring him back to earth.
1T is no wonder that your friend played
| well tonight"
Anthony was not thinking now of the
possibility of having to meet his father
displeasure--N.Y Y. Independent
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INFLUENCE OF GLASS ON WINE
A Singular and Almost Incredible Story
AbOut Bottles.

A Singular and Almost Incredible Story
About Bottles.
Probably 80 persons out of every Gt'0,
taken ~ random, would ridicuIe the
idea that the quality of the glass of
which a bottle may be made can have
any influence on the taste or keeping
qualities of lis contents. And yet that
it does do so we have the best of evil
dence. We are not abiding to the in
fuence OF light shining through TASKS
and its action on the substance con-
tanned, but the direct chemical reaction
occurring within the glass and the ma
teriaI within the flask.
Very recently the following case oc-
CURED in France: \ wealthy retired
merchant bought lot of very costly
and rake wine in casks, samples of the
wine from each cask being given him by
the wine merchant The wine was de-
1ivered, and The new owner proceeded to
have it raeked off and bottled. Some
time afterwards some of the wine was
brought to the table, and on tasting it
the host detected strange, unpleasant
taste, which was also noticed by the
guests. y fresh bottle was found to be
similarly affected and bottle after bot
tie was opened with the same result.
An examination of the stock in the cell
of the recent purchase was spoiled. A
suit was brought ag:Iinst the wine mer-
chant, who declared that he had deliv-
cred the article exactly according to the
samples furnished On examining
these latter they were found in excel
lent condition.
1t is unnecessary to go IN TO details, but
during the course of the action of the
law some of the bottles were produced
in court when it was found that the
glass had become opaque The bottles
were handed over to n chemist, along
with one of the lot purchased for bot
Ting the wine, which had never been
used. This is what the chemist found
| in the glass of the unused bottle: Silicic
| acid 52-4, potash ana soda "A, lime 32 L,
argillaceous matter. iron, etc, Ill. In
| the examination of the bottles that had
| been used, while the silicic acid and
| argillaceous material remained con-
| slant. or nearly SO, tine lime. potash and
soda were very mucn diminished, and it
was made evident that they had passed
into the solution, forming compounds
with the acid ingredients of the wine
| decomposing the latter and rendering
| it unfit to drink--NationalD Druggist
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A View Method of TranspDrtation Used In
Australasia.

Australasia
There seems to be no limit to the in
genuity bestowed upon the devising of
means for accomplishing the transport
of the pcrishable produce of distant
chimes to the English market. A new
method, described in tfse Australasian,
is that of packing butter in box made
of six sheets of ordinary glass, all the
edges being covered over with gummed
paper. The glass box is enveloped in
a layer of plaster of Paris, quarter of
am inch thick, and this is covered with
specially prepared paper. The plaster
hefng bad conductor of heat, the tenn
perature inside the IDeFme tically sealed
receptacle remains constant, being I'M
affected by external changes. The cost
OF packing is about Id per pound. But
ter packed in the way described AT.
Melbourne has been sent across the
sea to South Africa, and when the
case was opened at Kimberley, 700 miles
from Cape Town, the butter was found
to be as sound as when it left the fac
tory in Victoria. Cases are now made
to hold as much rs two cvvt. of butt
ter, and 40 hands, mostly boys and
girls, are occupied in making the
glass receptacfes and covering uhem
with plaster. The top, or lid- how
ever, is put on by simple mechanical
arrangement, and is removed by the
purchaser equally easily. A saving
| of So per cent on freight and packins
/ is claimed in comparison with the essst
of frozen butter carried in the usual
way.-Scientific American.
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hold! the gods are as wise in the mattc
as am Here comes the good fortune
that is our portion
~But even with that lucky chance to
help you, you will still have to work
hard If you do not, am sure 20 beat
you"
You forget that you can't play any,"
said Roy, lightly; and the boys laughed
before drawing out the chessboard, to
forget their musical incapacities in ex-
ercising their brains over the intricate
maneuvers of knights and queens and
bishops.
That night Anthony could not escape
the remembrance that he had another
violin which he was not using, stored
away in the little closet adjoining his
sleeping-room. There was no reason at
all why he should not let Leon have i.
until after the concert, save that by SO
doing he would be increasing his rivals
chance for the prize. Leon could not
afford to get new violin, he knew that
well enough; and of w hat use would the
old one be with hole punched in its
! back? OF course Leon deserved the
prize, just as Roy of ight had the honor
| of being captain of the ball club. Still
it was none of his affair if he broke his
violin. 1t was not thing for which
ne Should make PREPARATION; ana why
should he trouble himself a bout one who
had always repulsed his llindnesses, or
at least had never invited them? He
would be quite sure of the prize himself
if-but Anthony could never bring him
self to think of his being a party to
Icons failure. The old violin in his
closet seemed to send out lament be-
cause the music in its heart had been so
long unvoiced. He could fancy that the
spirits of those who in long-gone days
had played upon it were waiting to yvhis-
per in its moving tones the joys and
sorrows of a vanished time. And then
but Anthony would not think about it
any more. He turned his thoughts res
| olutely to the next days Virgil reading.
a topic Stimulating his fancy lightly
| that he soon forgot it all in sleep.
1t was three days later when Anthony
went into Prof. Mandcl's room be-
fore the latter had finished the lesson he
was giving Leon. Both teacher and
pupil were aggravated by the dull tones
of the cracked violin; and at last Mandcl
handed Leon his own instrument, upon
which no pupil had ever before been
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Wonderful suns.

Astronomers are not yet allIagreed as
TO the causes of the variations of colbE
and brillianey which are exhibited hE
pheus, in tine northern sky. there is a
star named Delta Cephei, which in tire
course Of about three days. alternately
gains and loses large partrof it's light
The speetroseope has proved that DELTA
Cephei consists of two staFs revolving
around one another in a very elliptinal
orbit, although they never get far
enough apart to be separately visible
from the earth. Even when viewed with
q telescope their light is blended. into
a single STAR disk, although if we oesald
GO near eaongh to them we shoulfH and
that they are, in realifry, millions of
miles apart When brightest, the united
light of the twin stars is two or three
times greater than WI hen faintes5. One
of the explanations pseently offered by
astroHomers to account for these
changes is that one Gf the starsseompos-
ing Delta Cephei las a very 5hick at
mospheric veil. consisting Of clouds of
condensed metallic vapors, and than
when the stars daaw near cine another e
in their orbital motion the increase ~
heat dissipates the obscurang veil, sef
permits the star TO which 1T belongs. TO
shine with spsfador THAI 1t cannotoh-
tain when its rays are interrupted M its
lieve that the inhabited worlds could ex-
ist in the neighborhoo9 of such pair
of suns that--Yonnfa>s Companion.
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get the prize; there were three other
competitors besides Anthony himself;
but the chances were all in Icons favor.
Anthony jumped up and strobe about
his room angrily, as he thought Of the
foolish persistence with which Leon
kept to himself and to his violin, fore
going the pleasures of the other boys
and living only in his music. Why
could he not be interested in the other
things that appeal to the right-minded
boy in general? How could one have
any chance at all with boy who didn't
care for football or baseball or any
other outdoor sport? 1t was so I'M
natural in a lad in his 18th year that
his fellow students at the academy had
given up trying to understand him,
and had for him only that feeling of
1rrita ton that all of us have when we
come into close contact with a thing
altogether anomalous and beyond our
EathOming. When he first saw him at
prayers Anthony had conceived a liking
for him; but as all his attempts at
friendliness with him were one by one
Enet coldly or repulsed. that early feel
ing had grown into something that
was not dislike. but had yet all it's
bitterness.
Anthony began again the oft-repeated
PIOSeSS VI 1OOf<lnS over HIS MUSIC. HOG
yet decided as to which among his solos
The should play at the great concert.
While again balancing in his mind the
merits of two compositions between
which his decision wavered, there was a
knock at the door: and, in answer to
his shouted invitation to come in. Roy
W1ilsit opened the door and pobed his
head in before entering.
Perhaps I can stand it if you're only
looking at the music and not playing"
he said, he pushed the door wider
and came in. Anthony tossed the music
over on the table with Just show of
-7seSaton in his manner. 81 am tired
enough of It to be glad you've come.
What's the use in trying for that lniser-
able prize when we all know that Leon
will get it? 1 don't call it fair show
for the rest of us. We have somethin e
else to do. and can't be practicing all
tbe time. as he is
have you?''
NO unless you mean that old story
about his singing it to Sleep
Roy laughed, not at the story. but at
the startled questioning on Anthony s
-face-
Il am afraid that he will cry it to
sleep tonight, and himself. too. This
afternoon he broke a hole in the back
of it, and you can hardly call it a violin
any longer. He wants to give up enter
ing the contest. but Mandel won't hear
of it. The rest q us have good violins
and it will be fault if some one OF
US does not get the prize"
after all. that's hardly fair" sale
anthony. sudden sympathy for hi.
rival springing to life in his heart
- =
with him." said Roy; 1.-The disadvan
tages have all been ours so far. but nov
he's getting his share. That's all Their,
Is to it"
~And what have been our disadvan
sages?" said Anthony. with guilt,
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rhe ANGEL of the War.

The Cuban patriots met with great
loss in the death of their Joan of Arc
The soldiers of Gomez and Maceo called
her 1.-The angel of the war" Her name
was Angela de la Guerra She was as
beautiful as she was brave Around
their campfires they speak of her in
whispers now, and with tears For IN
a lonely grave among the hills she loved
SO well, a grave dug with the machetes
of her fellow soldiers, lies her fair
young form, wrapped in the flag of free
dom for which she fell, with IL Spanish
bullets in her bosom.-Chicago Inter
Ocean.
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Water from Said Rock.

A most Interesting fact has been dis-
covered by a Swedish scientist. 1t is
that water can be found by boring into
granite and other crystalline rocks to
a depth of 100 TO 700 feet. A well was
sunk in the Island of AlSzo, eff the Swed-
ish coast, not long ago. and at a depth
of 10 feet fresh water was tapped, pro-
viding an apparently iney-aaustible sup
ply.-Chicago Tribune.